kmacleod

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by kmacleod 6d ago
The mass of unneeded cars will be at the periphery. The equivalent of taxi stands will have needed cars within reasonable distance. Back in the PRT days we simply planned to store 1-2 vehicles in-station waiting for walk-ups, and if a dr
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by kmacleod 8d ago
I work in software deployment for large orgs. I use this technique to optimize. "How can I provision or deploy this with one package install, and launch instance." Typically take multi-page or multi-step deployments down to ful
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by kmacleod 1mo ago
I discovered this recently as I tested an old idea I had to allow a dynamic language to use a C++-like vtable instead of an inline cache (like Objective-C or JavaScript does). It turns out modern CPUs predict an inline cache hit/miss
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by kmacleod 1mo ago
Atom kinda does. Atom is a paged format, so a publisher can publish their entire history in their Atom feed and only the most recent page gets redownloaded to see new entries as they are added.
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by kmacleod 2mo ago
Possibly very much like Usenet. In the 80s there was a distributed "Slack-like" (for lack of a better description) distributed BBS network called Citadel (still some sites around now Internet based). I wrote a UUCP clone and UseN
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by kmacleod 7mo ago
Small nit, as a legal vehicle, the constitution allows itself to be entirely replaced.
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by kmacleod 7mo ago
If your editor has a wiki mode (like Emacs' org mode) then maybe nothing. If not, then Obsidian is your browser and your editor is your editor. For example, git syncing between Android and desktop isn't working well for me, so I
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by kmacleod 8mo ago
I've created and managed five distributions for two companies. I've found RPM to have slightly easier tooling across the whole stack, from developers building individual RPMs/specs up through building and managing 1000s of R
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by kmacleod 10mo ago
My Tesla FSD v14 will wait for any pedestrian stepping or approaching stepping into the road.
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by kmacleod 1y ago
As a district, aren't you also able to work with Google to enable research and educate modes in addition to the "give me the answer" modes?
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by kmacleod 1y ago
The technologies I’d like to see tracked include post-scarcity economics, resource-based distribution, and needs-based allocation systems.
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by kmacleod 1y ago
Not sure where you're getting your information from. My FSD (v13.2) has driven unmapped roads, including gravel roads, hills, narrow roads, and switchbacks, in the backwoods of Tennessee. From watching the display, it clearly identifi
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by kmacleod 1y ago
I'm building a community site DevOptimize.org: The Art of Packaging[0] for this type of content. Would be glad to host with an interested editor(s). Near-term roadmap includes wiki editing, currently in git. [0] https://de
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by kmacleod 1y ago
The Free Software Foundation (FSF), as the author of the GPL and LGPL licenses, maintains that any software running in the same process space qualifies as "linked" under the terms of these licenses. This includes dynamic and stati
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by kmacleod 1y ago
If it helps any, at two companies I was responsible for ensuring that all FOSS was made available to customers in an easily re-buildable, re-imageable way alongside our proprietary binaries.
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by kmacleod 1y ago
Permissibly licensed software does not require you to provide sources or the changes to it. Copyleft licenses require the source, including changes, to be provided. The original purpose of copyleft is roughly the "right to repair"
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by kmacleod 1y ago
Red Hat, SUSE, Canonical, and myself, among many, "sell" GPL software that are used by others as part of their proprietary products. Each of those, and the customers, are required to make the source they received (not their own pr
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by kmacleod 1y ago
I may be misunderstanding, but I'm not sure I want a "remote desktop" where every process runs on the remote. I want the original promise of X, where I choose where apps run and they are displayed locally: • Run CAD circuit l
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by kmacleod 1y ago
https://DevOptimize.org - The Art of Packaging There isn't a site that collects all packaging practices and how-tos in one organized collection. Now there is. RPM, Deb, IaC, Chocolatey, optimizing packages, build tools, re
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by kmacleod 1y ago
Using the turn signal will nudge it to change lanes.
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by kmacleod 1y ago
Just a data point, no argument: My 2025 Tesla stops for road work flaggers spinning their signs from "Slow" to "Stop". This issue here, correctly, is that it should come to a stop for 1) a bus flashing red, 2) with or wi
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by kmacleod 1y ago
Just for currency: I can't hop in the back of my 2025 Tesla while FSD drives. It has an interior camera now. It complains if I'm looking outside my window too long.
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by kmacleod 1y ago
I'd prefer a blame-free NTSB investigation. It was a fault. Find the root cause, fix it, carry on. You're correct, they can still ground a fleet, but there doesn't also need to be a prosecution.
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by kmacleod 1y ago
Not really. The rise in autonomous production is going to match a rise in autonomous repair and maintenance.
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by kmacleod 1y ago
The packaging model of distribution is ubiquitous. Every distribution does the same thing just using different control files and tools. The differentiation between distributions is all in their packaging policies and platform decisions.
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by kmacleod 1y ago
How do you get yours to drive into a parking lot and park correctly? My HW4/v13.2.8 gets indecisive and ignores lines when getting to a destination. I always have to disengage before I can use parking mode.
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by kmacleod 1y ago
We implemented a low-power wireless sensing device on a microcontroller using asynchronous coroutines in C to replace eight state machines. It was a dream. Every operation process was clearly "linear" in readability while overla
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by kmacleod 2y ago
Voyage from Yesteryear (1982), James P. Hogan is my favorite. Essentially, yes, the robots can do better once shown but people create because it's enjoyable and, where desired, robots produce copies or maintain. The robots in this ca
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by kmacleod 2y ago
When I did the pre-2020 deep-dive I found the studies to be uniformly about the mechanics of the mask (hole size and particle size) and therefore the conclusions uniform on that front. It was only after 2020 that any studies were done on ef
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by kmacleod 2y ago
While true for the most part on spending, the deficit arises because we lack a rule requiring revenue to match spending, and we can't agree on what constitutes a fair balance of responsibility for that revenue.

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