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What ChatGPT does to your brain (YouTube)(youtube.com)
1 points by todd8 6mo ago|1 comments
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Uswds: The United States Web Design System – U.S. Web Design System (Uswds)(designsystem.digital.gov)
1 points by todd8 7mo ago|0 comments
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by todd8 9mo ago
Beware of Bacillus Cereus: https://rightasrain.uwmedicine.org/body/food/leftover-rice-b...
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by todd8 10mo ago
I'm running the latest MacOS right now on a modest m4 Mini and it doesn't seem slow to me at all. I use Windows for gaming and Linux for several of my machines as well and I don't "feel" like MacOS is slow. In any c
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by todd8 1y ago
My first college girlfriend made me realize that I wasn't a fast thinker. In person our conversations didn't seem problematic to me, but on the phone she would respond too quickly to what I was saying. I wouldn't be able to g
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by todd8 1y ago
When I went to college, practically every student arrived with a slide rule. I bought mine when I was 14 years old. (I still have it, a Picket model N4-ES https://www.sliderule.ca/pickett.htm ) We all learned to use them in
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Zerostash is a deduplicated, encrypted file store with versioning(github.com)
2 points by todd8 2y ago|0 comments
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by todd8 2y ago
Time for hexadecimal.
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by todd8 2y ago
Rhino horns are not made of ivory.
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by todd8 2y ago
Humans too can be committed to beliefs that are not true. I have friend that believes in and regularly consults her "clairvoyant". I wonder if our AI assistants in the future will be vulnerable to suspicions or popular fantasies a
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by todd8 3y ago
There have been decades of work on file name completion put into Emacs, nothing I’ve seen comes close. Currently I’m using add on packages vertigo, orderless, marginalia, consult, embark, and corfu to handle completion. These packages all
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by todd8 3y ago
This isn’t obvious to me. It doesn’t have to simulate itself in real time. It may not be able to simulate itself simulating itself. There may be proof of this using a diagonalization proof. Consider programs that are quines, programs are ab
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by todd8 3y ago
Is there a reason for me to pick up Fleet if I already use JetBrains other IDEs?
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JetBrains Fleet: The Next-Generation IDE by JetBrains(jetbrains.com)
3 points by todd8 3y ago|4 comments
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by todd8 3y ago
I've taught hundreds of people programming. For one year, at my first real job, I was tasked with teaching the programmers within a big company Pascal. All of them were already professional programmers using Fortran, COBOL, or assembly
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by todd8 3y ago
These must be the masses of the Mars rovers, the weights would be measured in newtons (or pounds in the USA) and would differ between mars and earth.
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by todd8 3y ago
In grad school, many years ago, I would plug the drain and let the tub fill while I showered. I would pull the plug and let the tub drain once the water had cooled. This way my bathroom would warm up a bit. I suppose this might have saved a
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by todd8 3y ago
BASIC was almost my first programming language. Ten years before anybody had a home computer (1967), I decided that I would write a program. I was just a kid and I came across a keypunch machine in a small room at my high school. After read
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Apple Is Suspending Sales of Its Newest Watches(cnet.com)
4 points by todd8 3y ago|0 comments
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A New Silicon Valley Manifesto(theconversation.com)
3 points by todd8 3y ago|0 comments
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by todd8 3y ago
I'm sure it was possible to punch the compiled executable as an option, but I was a student during most of my keypunching days so the cards would be read by a card reader the computer would compile the FORTRAN and then execute the prog
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by todd8 3y ago
I lugged around my favorite boxes of programs on cards for years, I even had big, full sized tapes, see [1], containing more programs I had written. [1] http://www.columbia.edu/cu/computinghistory/tapes.html
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by todd8 3y ago
I still have fond memories of working on the 029 keypunch machines, the keys made such a satisfying sound. I also remember the rooms where thousands of chads from punching the cards collected and had a certain smell and the bright overhead
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by todd8 3y ago
I started programming around 1967-1968. In my high school, there was an old keypunch machine used for school administration purposes. I had a friend that was able to submit any program I keypunched to the school district's IBM computer
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by todd8 3y ago
I've wondered about this, but I don't trust myself to figure out the answer. Even though I have a background in math and I've done some cryptography related work, I know enough about the crypto space to know that I don't
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by todd8 3y ago
Thank you, the paper you cite makes clear claims: that the environmental (climate change, air pollution, etc.) impact should be priced into the cost of petroleum based fuels. The paper states that 92% of the subsidies to the oil & gas i
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by todd8 3y ago
One of the interesting things that I discovered while working on some legal papers with a lawyer were that legal documents don't have copyright protection. Lawyers regularly copy and paste from other lawyers work. I suppose, that since
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by todd8 3y ago
How precisely? The taxes on profits from oil & gas related businesses are complex, but I honestly (as a computer scientist unrelated to oil & gas businesses) don't understand the claims that we subsidize oil & gas productio
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by todd8 3y ago
I understand that modern type systems can do anything (that can be computed) since they are Turing complete. So are Java generics and C++ templates and Lisp’s macro systems, but I don’t want these things. I’ve written a number of Turing mac
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by todd8 3y ago
I personally don't know how best to interpret lots of research from the medical community. However, I do believe that the meta-analysis based Cochrane reviews[1] are the most reliable reviews of medical intervention for non-experts (an

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