ncarlson

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Ask HN: Has anyone else been unemployed for over two years?
459 points by ncarlson 1y ago|565 comments
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by ncarlson 1y ago
I’m definitely interested. I’d be down for profit sharing as well. I’ve been unemployed for some time now, so I have time to commit towards development. ncarlson.dev@gmail.com
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by ncarlson 1y ago
> How the higher level thought is occurring continues to be a mystery. This is an emergent behavior that wasn’t predicted prior to the first breakthroughs which were intended for translation, not for this type of higher level reasoning.
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by ncarlson 1y ago
VMWare had half of its employees laid off in the past two year. Hock Tan cornered the market, taking over VMWare and its competitor, Citrix. Was this caused by Sec 174, or was it just another predatory acquisition?
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by ncarlson 1y ago
There's a LOT of pushback against the idea that AI is not magic. Imagine if there was a narrative that said, "[compilers|kernels|web browsers] are magic. Even though we have the source code, we don't really know what's
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by ncarlson 1y ago
A lot of things are magic when you don't understand the underlying principles of operation.
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by ncarlson 1y ago
> AI we don’t have a model. So, some engineers just stumbled upon LLMs and said, "Holy smokes, we've created something impressive, but we really can't explain how this stuff works!" We built these things. Piece by pie
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by ncarlson 2y ago
What is "the ACJ decision from last session"? For that matter, what is ACJ?
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New and Improved Features in Mathematica 14.0(reference.wolfram.com)
1 points by ncarlson 3y ago|1 comments
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by ncarlson 9y ago
Hey zbuf, if you go to any of Cleanfeed's blog posts, the FAQ and Contact links in the footer are broken.
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by ncarlson 10y ago
The headphone jack was putting the additional risk on your device to be crushed. Can you expand on this? I'm assuming the force required to collapse the 3.5mm cavity would be incredibly high. Jacks themselves were good spot
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by ncarlson 10y ago
These Ask HN's can really be a crap shoot. Ask HN: When did the terms Front-End, Back-End, and Full-Stack become prevalent? 1 point by ncarlson 2 hours ago | past | web | discuss Ask HN: How can I self-publish talks like Inf
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Ask HN: When did the terms Front-End, Back-End, and Full-Stack become prevalent?
2 points by ncarlson 10y ago|1 comments
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by ncarlson 10y ago
The sensor is the same size though.
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by ncarlson 10y ago
The extent of the risk depends on the sensor and board assembly. But removing the CFA is not unthinkable[1]. [1] https://stargazerslounge.com/topic/210686-moon-with-de-bayer...
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by ncarlson 10y ago
If you live in the US, you can walk into any GameStop and buy used PS3Eye cameras for $8.99 + tax. They are an absolute steal.
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by ncarlson 10y ago
The IoT camera module market seems to be underserved. Here's my feature wishlist: * A monochrome sensor option * Better sensor documentation. Where are the quantum efficiency graphs? * Larger sensors. * Less emphasis on megapixels, mor
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by ncarlson 14y ago
It's amazing how similar Javascript and Lua are. For example, the following three statements are equivalent: > JS: { x : 2 + 3, y : 9 }["x"] * (11 + 23) > Lua: ({ x = 2 + 3, y = 9 })["x"] * (11 + 23) > Lua: ({ x
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by ncarlson 14y ago
> If you're doing it and you're not happy, know that you can fix it. How?
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Ask HN: How can I self-publish talks like InfoQ? (Software question)
1 points by ncarlson 14y ago|0 comments
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by ncarlson 14y ago
I don't understand the parent's disdain. Your post definitely was worth sharing. Thank you.
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by ncarlson 14y ago
The reward is a successful project. Would you chip in $50 bucks to help someone build some interesting widget that otherwise wouldn't get built?
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by ncarlson 14y ago
We did it! We fucking did it! (Humanity, that is)
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by ncarlson 14y ago
> "Scary crypto stuff"? So you don't understand how PKI works and you're trying to use distributed source control? Is this an honest question, or are you alluding to the idea that someone who doesn't understand PKI should not use distri
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by ncarlson 14y ago
Most cross-platform libraries are written in C. Consider the multitude of C libraries that are available in Python or Ruby.
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by ncarlson 14y ago
These questions cover language-specific keywords of a specific programming paradigm.
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Ask HN: How do I prevent repetitive strain injury (RSI)?
1 points by ncarlson 15y ago|0 comments
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by ncarlson 15y ago
I see what you're saying. Yeah, one certainly needs to be careful with those sort of high-level abstractions. I remember when I first started learning WPF, I ran into the exact problem you described. I had a data grid bound to an sqlite dat
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by ncarlson 15y ago
I can't endorse KnockoutJS because I've never used it. However, I'd like to address the two points you made. > 1. It's magic box coding (as in I put these simple commands in and the environment just handles it for me and I have little i
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by ncarlson 15y ago
> Meanwhile, many early-adopting merchants find that the burst in customers immediately disappears, and since they can’t perpetually discount 75%, those merchants stop using Groupon. This is the crux of the argument, and no sources are

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