jhayward

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by jhayward 3mo ago
I'm not a copyright lawyer, but it seems pretty clear to me you can't wash a license using an LLM. [US jurisdiction]: Anything in the result written by the LLM can not be copyright by anyone. Anything in the result written by a hu
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by jhayward 3mo ago
> While the intent is not to call for competing proposals, we believe that now is a good time to discuss and propose alternative proposals as well. If I were a contributor I would read such language as saying "we have no respect for
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by jhayward 5mo ago
Well, there is a long tradition of "testing" developer candidates by asking them to exhibit skills in tasks that they never, ever, do in their work. Like whiteboard coding. It doesn't have a great success record. I personall
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by jhayward 8mo ago
It's not uncommon for older aerial photos to be single-pixel lines that the film is moved past. The motion of the film is correlated with the motion across the ground, so you can reconstruct a 2nd axis from the exposure. There's
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by jhayward 9mo ago
I don't know, I go back and forth a bit. The thing that makes me skeptical is this: where is the training data that contains the experiences and thought processes that senior developers, architects, and engineering managers go through
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by jhayward 1y ago
Did you ever test drive the Drafts app? It is remarkably easy to build customized workflows, both editing and document processing, and is built to be glue between different document/message apps.
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by jhayward 1y ago
I don't think your conclusion of "hitting the wall on intelligence" is warranted. It makes more sense to believe that scaling has hit the wall on available text data to train on, and that to continue scaling, along with whate
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by jhayward 1y ago
That answer has 4 upvotes. A much more electrically literate answer above it, with 35 upvotes, explains in detail that it is a real thing.
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by jhayward 1y ago
I don't recall any groups using Vignette at AOL during that time. It may be that one of the acquisitions used it prior to being acquired, but again, I never heard about it.
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by jhayward 1y ago
For many years every web page at CNN and all web email at AOL was hosted by AOLserver and coded in TCL. It was not a mess.
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by jhayward 2y ago
Two reasons it matters: 1) Discoverability 2) "System structure mirrors organization". I.E., it's an indicator of a fragmented and disorganized structure that's not likely to produce cohesive product results.
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by jhayward 2y ago
As someone who's spouse is currently in their 3rd year of rehabilitation after TMJ (tempo-mandibular joint) reconstruction, let me warn you against any kind of chewing activity that involves either high direct pressures (ice, hard th
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by jhayward 2y ago
I was like that for several decades but after I retired I got better. I'm fairly certain that, at least in my case, it was a form of hypervigilance and based in anxiety. I'm less anxious these days and hope to live longer as a re
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by jhayward 2y ago
Not a mainstream view. Python 3 is a hugely successful language and implementation, and almost no one regrets that it exists aside from a few noisy holdouts, and people who never liked any Python anywhere at any time.
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by jhayward 2y ago
I've never heard any seismologist holding a responsible office blaming the Ridgecrest quake on any man-made cause. The links posted do not support that claim either. Do you have any information which directly supports this?
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by jhayward 2y ago
Because it costs too much to keep them running safely.
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by jhayward 2y ago
To be specific, it's even more basic than that. For 10Base-5 and all the coax ethernets, it was "if there's more energy on the wire than you are transmitting, a collision is present".
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by jhayward 2y ago
RTO is actually energy positive from a heating/cooling point of view (i.e., excluding transportation). People set their home HVAC to "away" to reduce use, and the central HVAC systems found in commercial buildings are far mo
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by jhayward 2y ago
Austin Energy does Tiered Usage billing, not time-of-use, for residential customers.
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by jhayward 2y ago
Your local fire department will want to very closely inspect your explosive materials handling and safety procedures. Think about what big banks of lead-acid batteries have to do, and google the pictures of battery rooms with their roof bl
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by jhayward 2y ago
Seasonal energy storage is the last thing that needs to be addressed in the storage hierarchy. There are very high-value targets starting on very low time frames.
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by jhayward 2y ago
In Olympic track and field at least two cameras, mounted on opposite sides of the finish line, are required to be used. So the judges had available for their use both perspectives.
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by jhayward 2y ago
> how do they ensure the lines are drawn on the frame exactly at the finish line? They don't. The horizontal axis is time. The red lines mark the time each runner's torso was counted as crossing the finish line.
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by jhayward 2y ago
> Preprocessor felonies are felonies, but when you stick to a small handful of agreed-upon felonies, you can actually reap the benefits There's a saying, "Only commit one crime at a time". Knowing when to cheat is a fairl
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by jhayward 2y ago
This is likely the fastest and cheapest option. Pennies per page. Double- or triple- assign them when they show signs of large differences between expected grammar, word choice, or spelling patterns.
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by jhayward 2y ago
Now you are conflating a GMD with an EMP, which isn't anything like accurate. A GMD is a long-duration event that creates movement in the Earth's magnetic field, which induces low-frequency ground currents (literally: current flow
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by jhayward 2y ago
Saying that we could make transformers 100 years ago is not the same as saying we would use 100 year old transformer tech. It simply points out that there is a scale of technology, and we can use whatever point is appropriate. Manufacture
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by jhayward 2y ago
There are some misunderstandings in the above. 1) AGPS is not local positioning. It is a "speed-up" assist from cellular networks to provide the Almanac (e.g., satellite orbit info) quicker than a GPS receiver can get it from the
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by jhayward 2y ago
The transformer lead time issue is to some extent FUD. The lead times are large because there is enough financial incentive in having transformers last for 40 years that they on the extreme end of the spectrum of possible engineering and m
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by jhayward 2y ago
The `rich` module for Python is remarkably complete and lets you code at a very high level - even has CSS. Rich's sibling, Textual[1] is designed for building TUIs. [1] https://github.com/Textualize/textual

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