mwattsun

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by mwattsun 2y ago
I'm a retired computer programmer so this is spur of the moment, but it occurred to me reading this thread that I'd like to help anyone using AI in the sobriety and recovery community on a volunteer basis. I've been using Cla
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by mwattsun 2y ago
I used a program called Monkey extensively in 1986 while performing final testing of Microsoft Works for the Macintosh to shake out the last bugs in the program. I found a quite a few bugs that would probably never occur in real life, but i
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by mwattsun 3y ago
Good to know. Thanks for the info.
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by mwattsun 3y ago
They're doing that outside the city limits, in Live Oak for example, but inside the city limits, the Beach Flats is the only place I can think of until recently, when they started building downtown Santa Cruz. As unsightly as the downt
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by mwattsun 3y ago
But where? Therein lies the rub. Would you go up the North Coast? There's plenty of farmland there. Would you go into the forest, requiring felling a lot of trees? Please don't say you want to build out Lighthouse Field.
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by mwattsun 3y ago
I'm not aware of any such plan. The plan was always to preserve open space such as Lighthouse Field and the green belt around Santa Cruz. I'm grateful for both of those. Property values would have risen even if they had built on L
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by mwattsun 3y ago
I feel a certain kind of sadness about it. There's not a word for the loss of your home town in English that I'm aware of, but there's a song that comes close to it. Pretenders - My City Was Gone https://www.youtub
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by mwattsun 3y ago
You forgot to mention that UCSC sits on a huge tract of land that they refuse to build student housing on for reasons I can't fathom.
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by mwattsun 3y ago
I'm 66, born and raised in Santa Cruz with family there and it's bizarre when your sleepy surf town turns into the hottest real estate market in California, which might make it the hottest market in the world, and none of your chi
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by mwattsun 3y ago
There's probably millions of tons of unused copper wire formerly used for telephone land lines nailed to poles unused. I wonder when we're going to start taking that down instead of despoiling natural wonders like the proposed Peb
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by mwattsun 3y ago
Microsoft doesn't have to send an employee to represent them on the board. They could ask Bill Gates.
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by mwattsun 3y ago
This one goes deeper into the thinking of Ilya Sutskever which I thought was interesting
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by mwattsun 3y ago
https://archive.is/fwynq
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A Man Who Tried to Overthrow Sam Altman(theatlantic.com)
12 points by mwattsun 3y ago|4 comments
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by mwattsun 3y ago
It's also the title of the best album by The Police https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Q73LMKKxbc&list=PL6vwnon3sI...
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by mwattsun 3y ago
I served on a US Nuclear submarine and my wife at the time served at a deguassing station demagnetizing submarines. I understood the purpose at the time was to remove any magnetism the sub might have so it wouldn't trigger magnetic min
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by mwattsun 3y ago
This is great. I really like the lead track on his Salad Days album, which is all good with a nice laid back vibe. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HQqXllXpfQ
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by mwattsun 3y ago
William Gibson gets credit for it, but he tells people he retweeted it from one of his followers according to the story I read. You're welcome.
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by mwattsun 3y ago
Great! Have a good day.
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by mwattsun 3y ago
I agree. Sometimes getting away from certain people can be beneficial. As William Gibson said "Before you diagnose yourself with depression or low self-esteem, first make sure that you are not, in fact, just surrounded by assholes.&quo
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by mwattsun 3y ago
Congrats on surviving. Your comment reminded me that I was suicidal on some of the trips so figured I'd see if I could get killed by putting myself into some very dangerous situations. I either had a guardian angel or it's not as
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by mwattsun 3y ago
I've taken about 40 solo road trips around North America, about 120,000 miles from Fairbanks, Alaska to San Felipe, Mexico to Key West, Florida to Nova Scotia, Canada and everyplace in between. All 50 states and most Canadian provinces
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by mwattsun 3y ago
I spent months underwater on a submarine and we used mostly red lights in the sleeping quarters and the control room. I don't know the theory, but I figured red lights don't produce the momentary blindness of looking at a white li
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by mwattsun 3y ago
I was in the U.S. Navy in the 80's. I never felt afraid, but I'm an engineer and trusted the engineering
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by mwattsun 3y ago
Most of my submarine buddies described living on a submarine underwater for months at a time as a nightmare or, at best, a terrible inconvenience, but my experience was exactly like this Spanish cave dweller's. Of course, it's hel
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by mwattsun 3y ago
I think they are supposed to delete them by law, but they could ignore that. Assuming they do delete them, it seems to me they miss a few that show up as the DBs around the world sync up
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by mwattsun 3y ago
I deleted 12 years of Facebook posts after downloading a backup one by one. This was before they had multiple deletes. It took me a few weeks so I did it when I was bored. What's funny is that you can't actually delete everything,
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by mwattsun 3y ago
https://archive.is/sfdQL A conversation with Nick Bostrom, a philosopher at Oxford, who has spent decades preparing for the day artificial intelligence is capable of anything the human brain can do.
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by mwattsun 3y ago
We all thought it was forever war with The Soviet Union too. I know I did riding around on a submarine with nukes targeted at Russian cities. The USSR at the time looked a lot more powerful than Russia does now.
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by mwattsun 3y ago
The Navy is looking for "builders" for it's next generation of submarines U.S. NAVY | UNITED STATES MARINES | COMMERCIAL | BUILDSUBMARINES.COM | NAVY'S 'NEXT-GEN' SUBMARINES https://www.youtube.com&#

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