petersumskas

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by petersumskas 5d ago
In Australia there is a scale model of the Solar System where the sun is the main dome of Siding Springs observatory and the planets are on billboards at scale size and distance. Pluto is several hundred kilometres away (and the size of a t
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by petersumskas 5d ago
Current me if I’m wrong but I think that was a calculation based on a specific velocity at some fraction of C. Whereas a constant 1g acceleration would far exceed that fraction and thus shorten the time significantly.
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by petersumskas 28d ago
Chris Newman fan? You should have lead with “What is it now?”
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by petersumskas 1mo ago
Discreamination FTFY
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by petersumskas 4mo ago
There are only two hard problems in computer programming: 1. Naming things 2. Cache invalidation 3. off-by-one errors
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by petersumskas 5mo ago
> Markdown files are slightly annoying to read/preview Maybe I’ve missed the intentions of markdown, but the ability to easily read the plain text version has always been the killer feature. Rendering as html is a nice bonus. I unde
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by petersumskas 6mo ago
Keep going! The idea has merit. But it is US centric. I tried the example with my local post code and of course it didn’t work as I’m not in the US.
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by petersumskas 7mo ago
> You can now spin up five agents to implement five different versions of the thing you're building and simply pick the best one. Or you end up with five different mediocre solutions where the best parts are randomly distributed amo
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by petersumskas 7mo ago
The described SDLC is a recipe for rigorously and predictably building the wrong thing. Does anyone actually work like this? Have they ever? At the least it misses all the feedback loops between the stages. Even the actual waterfall model i
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by petersumskas 7mo ago
AI is like electricity. It may be the “product” you think you are selling. But it isn’t the product people are buying. People are buying what these things facilitate (lights, tvs, air conditioning, etc in the case of electricity) I think th
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by petersumskas 9mo ago
Yes! I have a similar reaction. I often think of Jack Vance’s “Eyes of the Overworld”. They hid the reality of a decaying world behind a fabulous facade.
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by petersumskas 9mo ago
Interesting read. Given what was covered and tradition notwithstanding, I think “Trump Class” (apart from being an oxymoron) is a perfect designation: - oversized - completely lacking in style - not technically capable for the role it finds
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by petersumskas 9mo ago
As you are in Australia you might get somewhere if you lodge a complaint with Consumer Affairs https://www.accc.gov.au/ And there are also separate bodies for each state.
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by petersumskas 9mo ago
It’s because their thoughts are Roman while they are always Russian to Finnish things. Kenya believe it! Anyway, I’m done here. Abyssinia.
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by petersumskas 11mo ago
Douglas Crockford addressed this many years ago: write your human readable config with comments and run it through a pre-processor to strip them out before handing the config to a JSON parser. Seems like almost no one picked up on the idea.
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by petersumskas 1y ago
When I visited Tokyo one of the highlights for me was the sound of Takadanobaba station playing the theme from Astro Boy.
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by petersumskas 1y ago
From reading the comments you would think this article was actually about cars.
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by petersumskas 2y ago
I love the punchline: the computer eventually worked out that the sofa could never have gotten into that spot in the first place. Adams always brought me joy!
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by petersumskas 2y ago
I skimmed the article hoping for a reference to Adams or Dirk Gently.
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by petersumskas 2y ago
Australia is about the same except around the ceiling we call it a cornice.
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by petersumskas 2y ago
When you realise the song is about vampires there’s no way this ever goes back on any “worst song” list.
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by petersumskas 2y ago
This is from the “honest reviews are unethical” whinger.
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by petersumskas 3y ago
s/refactor/rewrite/
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by petersumskas 3y ago
Finally! So that’s where mine went! … been looking for it for ages!
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by petersumskas 3y ago
The Las Vegas sphere is pretty large. I’m not sure how it compares to the dome at Siding Springs but in sure that would be a very large scale model. https://www.visitnsw.com/destinations/country-nsw/warrumbung...
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by petersumskas 3y ago
I have tinnitus. I had brain surgery to remove an acoustic schwannoma. The doctor said that I would lose all hearing in the ear due to the unavoidable damage to the acoustic nerve. Well, at least that will get rid of the tinnitus, I thought
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by petersumskas 3y ago
I was impressed by SoundHound’s ability to correctly identify even my rather ordinary singing. I’ve assumed Shazam must simply be better. Never had a need to find out. Now I know!
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by petersumskas 5y ago
My take: Most people think that a job interview is about a company evaluating a potential hire when it really goes both ways and the company is also being evaluated. To the interviewer: Now, how would you answer that same question?
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by petersumskas 6y ago
Hofstadter?