williamDafoe

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by williamDafoe 11d ago
1. Head tube should aligned with the fork. GPT-5.6 Luna is particularly terrible here. 2. Bikes are almost always depicted going rightwards so you can see the drivetrain. 4 failures in this. 3. Only ~7 of the 23 models achieved a diamo
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by williamDafoe 2mo ago
The jump from TPS-L2/WM-1 to WM-2 was ENORMOUS. Like, WM-2 was TINY - 75% the size of TPS-L2/WM-1. They were almost done before they got started! I know I got one Xmas 1981 and it was stolen in 1984 but now I have 3x.
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by williamDafoe 4mo ago
Ask us about the 27 phone calls and TEN DAY DELAY AS WE REACHED OUT TO FIVE CLINICS to get a mohs surgery scheduled for my son, 23, in the bay area, with diagnosed and biopsied melanoma. The USA medical system is really fucked up. Finally
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by williamDafoe 4mo ago
Unemployment and CPI : The most false statistics on the planet. Instead, look at employment population ratio 25-54, and core inflation. That will FREE YOUR MIND.
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by williamDafoe 4mo ago
So many times in my career I have seen a problem that could be handled with two lines of code and a table lookup being handled with 40 lines of code and a switch statement. So the guy writing the 40 lines of codes switch statement would ge
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by williamDafoe 4mo ago
IBM system/360 OS had more than 50,000 bugs which could not be fixed because fixing any single bug would introduce two new bugs. I fear that a lot of AI software systems will reach the same crapware state as IBM system/360 very v
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by williamDafoe 5mo ago
Only on a nonstop. Spirit dumps passengers all the time on vonnections.
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by williamDafoe 5mo ago
Spirit was run by orangutans who screwed anyone with a connecting flight half the time. EOT.
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by williamDafoe 5mo ago
What a foolish mistake! On Our maiden voyage aboard spirit, they dumped us halfway home, in las vegas. No compensation, no meal voucher, no overnight accomodation - they just DUMPED US (along with 30 other connecting passengers). Spirit se
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by williamDafoe 6mo ago
These non disparagement contracts are typical in silicon valley. Databricks offered me a tiny amount of money and expected me to sign when they fired me on a whim after my stock grant quadrupled in 9 months. There was no warning and no re
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by williamDafoe 9mo ago
Then you wouldn't have 3G cellular. Or 4G. Or 5G cellular. It costs tens of millions of dollars to drive around san diego in those vans taking traces of a new cellular system design and discovering improvements so that the standard
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by williamDafoe 9mo ago
My wife is obsessed with a woman in Scandinavia who makes videos glorifying cottage life in the wilderness in Scandinavia ... I guess this is similar ...
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by williamDafoe 10mo ago
An air conditioned barn with space for 100,000 cattle!
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by williamDafoe 10mo ago
Don't go ANYWHERE near a macbook pro 2019. Piece of garbage. I had to set mine to 100% fans and it went from 100% to 0% battery in 70 mins when I was streaming a meeting PLUGGED IN WITH A 90W CHARGER! The next time I buy Intel is NE
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by williamDafoe 10mo ago
I'm had 15 months of daily usage (8+ hours per day) of an Asus S16 and it's been pretty great. I haven't been lugging it around very much - mostly just using the 10 cores at my desk to run minikube and WSL and Windows and al
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by williamDafoe 10mo ago
If it's not a new color, or a new switch between stainless, aluminum, or titanium, Apple seems unable to manage their tech stack.
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by williamDafoe 10mo ago
I have an original line printer printout of 1970s "Adventure" (translated from Fortran into C for UIUC's CAC PDP-11/70 running UNIX v7.) Adventure is the father of Zork. Zork is a clone of Adventure.
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by williamDafoe 10mo ago
Google X is a complete failure. Maybe they had fei-fei on staff for a short while but most of her work was done elsewhere.
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by williamDafoe 10mo ago
The minimum cost of capital just to run fusion experiments is probably $100m. And the power bills are probably almost as high as the ones from OpenAI, which is to say, they are the highest power bills in the history of mankind ...
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by williamDafoe 11mo ago
I have a feeling the author compressed 8 million copies of Moby Dick with LZW compression using a huge token cache, then printed the binary results in a 1000-page book. Each successive copy would become smaller and smaller.
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
So to summarize - Fyne is a (? cross-platform ?) library for GUI apps, and you believe it's more productive than existing libraries, so you wanted a native window manager because ... exactly why? what exactly is the savings or advanta
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
If you only understood how White Hot and Stone Cold a research field can be! Five years ago crypto was white hot and today it's almost Stone Cold! People get intoxicated with the money beams that get blasted at people in the white h
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
When last I looked there were three physics faculty in the United States for every two PhD students. That's because there just aren't any industry jobs for physics PhDs. Assuming a 40-year career, that means one job every 13 yea
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
The oversupply has extended from phds down to bachelor's degrees. With 37% of Americans getting bachelor's degrees it doesn't mean anything anymore and is wasteful overtraining. I'm no Trumper but somebody has to stop
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
This is 100% true but by the early 1990s computer science Phds were ALSO in the shitter because of all the 1990 layoffs and the total shutdown of industrial basic research and so every industry CS PhD was trying to get a professorship job s
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
Just FYI Google runs their data centers at 85 degrees F (about 30 degrees C). I think Google probably knows more about how to run Intel CPUs for longest life and lowest cost per CPU cycle. After all they are the #5 computer maker on earth
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
"Stronghold" is a joke phrase, is it not? Intel had ZERO progress in integrated graphics from 2013-2020. ZERO. That's the reason why "it works so well" - because they NEVER improved the performance or architectur
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
A badly optimized CPU will take excessive amounts of power. The "failure in choosing cooling solutions" excuse is just the pot calling the kettle black.
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
The 7000 series of CPUs is NOT known for running cool, unlike the AMD 5000 series (which are basically server CPUs repurposed for desktop usage). In the 7000 series, AMD decided to just increase the power of each CPU and that's where
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by williamDafoe 1y ago
Multics : everything is a memory segment, just get out your soldering iron and wirecutters to begin porting Multics to your hardware today! IBM: everything is a record type, we have 320 different modules to help you deal with all 320 system

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