oldandtired

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by oldandtired 2y ago
I have watched this dispute for many decades and the reality is that there is ebb and flow in the lifecycle of such things. The biggest problem is that people do not have sound memories of what has happened in the past. The Great Barrier Re
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by oldandtired 2y ago
Certainly. My middle son was looking at buying a property in a near by town. He asked me to come an look at it. We had the actual shire plans for the blocks and while looking at the property lines, we measured the actual fence to fence widt
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by oldandtired 2y ago
This scenario happens far more often than most people realise, putting up a building on the wrong plot of land. If you are not going to do your due diligence then you will suffer the consequences. If you build on the wrong plot, the only pe
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by oldandtired 2y ago
I didn't think my play on words would cause such controversy about acceleration and jerk. Mayhaps I should not be making "Dad jokes" here.
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by oldandtired 2y ago
Here in Victoria (Australia), we commonly see road signs stating that "speed kills" whereas the reality is that it is the jerk that kills.
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by oldandtired 2y ago
One of the basic causes for slowness is how the underlying language implementation does procedure calls. Decades ago, I looked at how Microsoft handled procedure calls and returns of data. I found the same problem elsewhere. The problem was
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by oldandtired 2y ago
Far too many people (including AI researchers themselves) fail to see that all LLMs are actually simple machines. Extremely simple machines that are only mechanically following a relatively simple programming path. Now before anyone gets to
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by oldandtired 2y ago
For the duration of their incarceration, why is there an expectation that those incarcerated have a right to vote anyway. Of course there are people who are in prison who shouldn't be and there are those not in prison who should be (in
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by oldandtired 2y ago
Over 40 years, I have seen many "programmers" who should never been in the business. Some of these were marketed as "guru" programmers. I suppose such idiotic systems like ChatGPT and its ilk could replace some of these.
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by oldandtired 2y ago
Doesn't support Linux though or any of the unixes. Looks good though.
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by oldandtired 2y ago
Your third option is never good. Not cowering before bullies, even if you have been beaten up works wonders. So does ignoring the tom fools. Their goal to intimidate and make you fearful has failed at this point and it becomes far more prob
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by oldandtired 2y ago
Private school has a different kind of bully.
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by oldandtired 2y ago
Says it all.
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by oldandtired 2y ago
If you want pristine sand beaches then expect major change over time. Looking at areas where there is little change over time, certain coastal structures are in plain sight. But as many have already noted, the sea erodes all coastlines. How
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by oldandtired 3y ago
As I wrote above: > The reality is that it is based on a very distorted view of relational algebra as in it is based on tables, which are not relations but bags of records. It allows nulls to represents all sorts of information and the n
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by oldandtired 3y ago
I was quite disappointed in this person's consideration of the problem of SQL and relational databases. The following extracts from the discussion highlight some interesting misunderstandings: > The mathematical foundation of SQL is
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by oldandtired 3y ago
The problem is not the query planner per se. There is a much more subtle problem and it is related to how you have created the query in the join structure. For many queries, the order in which you specify the joins doesn't really matte
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by oldandtired 3y ago
One problem with your explanation is that the muon and the tau (and the pion as a decay product of the tau) all decay into electrons, neutrinos and photons, which would suggest that neither muon or tau are fundamental. This would put the fu
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by oldandtired 3y ago
After about 15 minutes, the neutron has changed into another proton and electron, so bar now has a bigger party on its hands.
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by oldandtired 3y ago
The first thing to point out here is that the > the speed of light is not > 299,798,452 m/s It is quite inaccurate to say this. The correct way to phrase this is that the speed of light is 1/sqrt(permeability * permittivity)
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by oldandtired 3y ago
Emergent behaviour can occur, not a problem. But if you study such systems, I think you will find that the emergent behaviour is based on the programming involved and is not "beyond the programming". When it comes to intelligence,
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by oldandtired 3y ago
The images generated are based on two things: 1). the code within the systems 2). the data entered into the system. Those images are the result of how the data is processed by the code. Even if you put in a random number generator, the code
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by oldandtired 3y ago
Using protective gear (as in the kinds used in American football) is more detrimental to player safety than not using it. This was discussed back 40 or so years ago. It allows you to hit harder and as a consequence bringing to play far more
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by oldandtired 3y ago
You make the following comment regarding artificial stupidity systems (AI) > since it knows how to correctly apply exist concepts to previously unexplored areas and yet these systems know nothing at all. Far too many people (including th
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by oldandtired 3y ago
My two brass razoo's worth. Like any technology, if you use relational databases incorrectly then you will have problems. Unfortunately, over the decades I have seen so many abuses when using relational databases that one has to wonder
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by oldandtired 3y ago
Nothing says "hack me" more than "tamper proof". Let's see how long it takes before this technology is defeated.
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by oldandtired 3y ago
The funny thing about this article is: 1). It starts with [Science Tells US] and here see the first stupidity. Science doesn't tell us anything. It is the practitioners of scientific investigation who are telling us something based on
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by oldandtired 3y ago
There are all sorts of reasons for using any language and there are just as many reasons for not using that language. But the problem is not the terseness or the relevant clarity of any language or its ability to compile to fast code. It is
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by oldandtired 3y ago
If you look at any sort of political activism, there tends to be a tendency for the promulgation of dogma. Now not every activist does this and you will find that these kinds of people tend to be willing to discuss and defend their position
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by oldandtired 3y ago
I have some questions for you to think about: You have said above that : > My content is mine Okay. So how do you define your content? If you write something, you are using an alphabet that others have over a long period of developed. Yo

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