mojosam

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by mojosam 6mo ago
> Once the codebase has become fully agentic, i.e., only agents fundamentally understand it What exactly do we mean this? Because it is obviously common for human coders to tackle learning how an unfamiliar and complex codebase works so
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by mojosam 8mo ago
This is classic Quanta Magazine sensationalism. Here's what the study actually said: As cells in epithelial tissue get crowded, their membranes start to allow more sodium ions to enter, which makes the cell more electrically positive (
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by mojosam 8mo ago
> I don’t believe genetics ever claimed to provide a theory of why eyes grow where eyes grow. That’s the whole point of developmental biology, to show how features of the human body form and develop based on gene expression, the timing o
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The "Discombobulator": Unpacking the Physics of the Weapon That Captured Maduro(medium.com)
16 points by mojosam 8mo ago|12 comments
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by mojosam 9mo ago
> That "why" is almost missing from the public conversation. People jump straight to hardware and hand-wave the business case, as if the economics are self-evident. They aren't. But then he never answers that fundamental q
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by mojosam 10mo ago
> Someone with a subscription logs into the site, then archives it. That’s not the case. I don’t have a NYT subscription, I just Googled for an old obscure article from 1989 on pork bellies I thought would be unlikely for archive.today t
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by mojosam 11mo ago
> So can someone who owns a modern car please help me understand why you would buy a car that has the mere capability to be remotely shut off? That’s not what is going on here. These cars are not being intentionally shut down remotely. I
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by mojosam 2y ago
Yeah, I just searched for “driver_register”, a call that would show upin a large number of Linux drivers in the open source Linux kernel, not to mention other public-facing repos, and it only returned two results, neither from the mainline
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by mojosam 2y ago
It sounds like most commenters here have never had a rosin tater. When I was kid, a very popular, upscale restaurant called Planters Back Porch in seafood mecca Murrells Inlet, SC specialized in rosin taters. They were very good, enough for
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by mojosam 2y ago
it sounds like the authors are suggesting that additional energy usage caused by stress can, in isolation from other causes, be a mechanism for disease. But that doesn’t make much sense: - our metabolisms are adaptable, so why wouldn’t
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by mojosam 2y ago
A lot of people don’t remember that Intel was a huge early ARM licensee. If you were building a smart mobile device 25 years ago, you were probably seriously considering the Intel StongARM SoC. They then followed up on this with the more ad
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by mojosam 2y ago
The oroduct description in the FAQ is entirely based on what it doesn’t or can’t do, but doesn’t say anything about what it will be able to do, except run an off-the-shelf window manager on an off-the-shelf OS. Are any apps going to be avai
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by mojosam 3y ago
I don't see how that's an apt analogy. Geocentrism put the Earth at the center of the universe, around which the rest of the universe rotated. But saying life on Earth originated on Earth does not in any way put the Earth at the c
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by mojosam 3y ago
I think there’s a better example, but whether it applies it depends on one of two major divisions of C code: that designed to run on systems with a MMU (as typically used for Linux and other large OSes) — where virtual memory makes dynamic
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by mojosam 3y ago
Isn’t #17 the same as #1 and #7 combined?
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by mojosam 3y ago
The claim is that metformin greatly reduces viral load. If your long COVID is caused by the virus continuing to linger on 8n some tissues, as there is evidence might be the case for s9me patience, then it might. But if your long COVID is ca
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by mojosam 3y ago
Some degree of “human authorship” is a requirement for copyright. I don’t see how weights generated by training an AI would be protected.
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by mojosam 4y ago
So does that mean if the driver accidentally leaves their phone in your Tesla — which is something that’s easy to do accidentally — it stays unlocked and anyone can drive off with it?
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by mojosam 4y ago
In addition to bad use of statistics, this article really buries the lead, making the identification of solutions difficult. US pedestrian deaths steadily declined over 20 years from 2.6 per 100K in 1990 to 1.4 per 100K in 2010 -- a 46% dec
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by mojosam 4y ago
I don’t know if this will help, but I can tell you what helped me. Quite a few years ago, I stopped working as an employee and started working as a freelancer/consultant. I get that that’s probably not an option in your case, but let m
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by mojosam 5y ago
I don’t think the Russians are going to care about a felony conviction. The major security holes in embedded devices that are part of our critical infrastructure are national security threats. Despite Putin’s bluster about nuclear weapons,
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by mojosam 5y ago
I taught myself to code on TRS-80 Mod 1 at my high school. I had seen a friend write a three line basic program that moved a dot onscreen, and about six months later told my math teacher I wanted to try drawing a circle using the formula we
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by mojosam 5y ago
Not really, because it lacks core features that made MacPaint amazing and Atkinson a genius, being able to: draw rectangles, ovals, and rounded rechts with patterned fills in real time; draw filled polys and arbitrary regions; lasso arbitra