osullivj

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by osullivj 9d ago
Everything you say should be true on any level playing field. Not in the British public sector where shambolic incompetence is the norm.
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by osullivj 22d ago
Lovely bit of writing. I enjoyed being drawn in, and the dawning realisation that it is fiction. Aaron as a malign archetype was great too; techie Widmerpool even! One note of mild criticism: the narrator seems entirely passive, with none o
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by osullivj 2mo ago
This! So long as OP is under 40.
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by osullivj 3mo ago
I agree with you on Brexit, austerity. But you can always find an expert briefing in yr direction cf Walters, Lawsom, Thatcher
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by osullivj 3mo ago
This comment is wild :) In Europe we send our best athletes into athletics, not sport. Athletics is track and field, which reduces to speed, strength and endurance. Sport - football, cricket, tennis - is about technical mastery first, and o
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by osullivj 3mo ago
Richard Gabriel: Worse is Better
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by osullivj 3mo ago
Sounds like desk strat RAD work is moving to LLM gen code at JS. My recentish experience of that kind of work has been Athena at JPMC and Quartz at BoA; both Python with functional style via DAG or pixie with py ui framework to match. Which
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by osullivj 4mo ago
So, to summarise, consistency is the virtue of a narrow mind?
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by osullivj 4mo ago
Catholic Social Teaching: 19th C origins. An alternate base to Marxism for social justice.
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by osullivj 5mo ago
Yep, "enterprise" sales will kill ya. And when you do "close" you then get beaten up by "vendor mgmt". And when you finally get the invoice in, it's the finance dept and 90 day terms.
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by osullivj 5mo ago
Is C++ the most heavily documented programming language? If so, these docs could form the most detailed description of a subset of possible software ontologies for Von Neumann architectures. By possible software ontologies, I mean the debat
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by osullivj 6mo ago
Strongly agree from an Emscripten C++ wasm pov: it's key to minimise emscripten::val roundtrips. Caches must be designed for rectilinear data geometry, and SharedArrayBuffers are the way for bulk data. But only JS allows us to express
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by osullivj 6mo ago
Jupiter Ace: a ZX80 with a Forth ROM. Inspired me to port an 8080 FIG Forth listing to the Camputers Lynx back in 83.
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by osullivj 7mo ago
Are they finding the numbers least likely to be used on lottery tickets?
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by osullivj 7mo ago
By "procession", do you allude to the filioque clause? Agreed on difficulty of translation as I follow Quine so think a language as a whole is the unit of meaning as opposed to any specific granular element.
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by osullivj 7mo ago
No mention of Imperial College's psychedelic programme and it's recent findings re neuroplasticity.
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by osullivj 7mo ago
Flat plane or cross plane? Cross plane cranks necessitate an asymmetric firing order, which produces the wonderful burble from US V8s. Flat plane is more common in Europe - think Ferrari - and has a symmetric firing order that produces a to
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by osullivj 7mo ago
Yep; nothing genuinely new since Xerox Alto in 73. Mouse, GUI, TCP/IP, Smalltalk 72.
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by osullivj 7mo ago
Allusive and romantic. My view is to see data as geometry, not poetry. Rectilinear data is cache friendly.
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by osullivj 8mo ago
Love the Freak Brothers references; two US counter cultures that do cross pollinate. Z80MC RAM & ROM seem v generous compared to the ZX81 I used to cut my asm teeth, wobbly RAM pack and all...
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by osullivj 8mo ago
In the 19th Century British Foreign Office the Napoleon Technique was called "masterly inactivity". For instance "the Russians are threating Afghanistan, so we must move troops up to the NW Frontier". No! Not every actio
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by osullivj 8mo ago
Also useful for cache locality, a more recent trend. But I guess that's just another slighlty diff case of tight mem; this time in the cache rather than RAM generally.
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by osullivj 9mo ago
Neat summary of Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Riding!
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by osullivj 10mo ago
Also UK style outsourcing eg Capita, Serco and recently Tata Consultancy Services fubaring JLRs infra.
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by osullivj 11mo ago
Sounds positively monastic, in the best way. Your magnum opus rendered as glorious coding codex is surely preordained. I'm reminded off Cyril Connolly's Pram in the Hallway. We are all prisoners of our brain chemistry.
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by osullivj 11mo ago
Cf GBP exit from the ERM inc Soros
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by osullivj 11mo ago
I saw that demoed at Notts Micro Computing Club in the early 80s. IIRC a Microwriter was used to drive input for an Acorn Electron.
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by osullivj 1y ago
Yes, completely agree. LLMs instantiate Searle's Chinese Room argument; symbols alone have no meaning. And yes, I buy the Kripkenstein argument. The meaning is the use, and intersubjectivity is key. My fear is that the humans who shoul
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by osullivj 1y ago
I'm guessing Swiss Bank/UBS as a mate used to trade there and had a NeXT workstation and loved Wingz. Later I heard they were doing server side pricing work on Apple servers. I stand corrected; thanks!
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by osullivj 1y ago
dbase II offered similar capabilities on 8 bit CPM workstation in the early 80s.

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