The sailing-around-the-world (and similar) market is obviously miniscule. The isolated communities probably tend to be on the less affluent part of the world, so it doesn't seem to justify a 100x expansion.
You are confidently incorrect. https://ethw.org/Nixie_Tubes
What suspicious link? The person is in their AI-powered page that google provides with pre-cooked suggested prompts. If the user clicks one of those and triggers the security explait, is that what you are calling…
I often embarrass my daughter when she has some new friend over. If the topic comes up, I give a demonstration. I'm 62 and I've never tried to get a tan and work indoors, and I haven't had a serious sunburn in close to…
My mistake -- what I wrote was from memory so I got the bit wrong about the multiplier ROM. I must have confused that detail with the design of the Wang 2200 computer, which had double precision BCD float math and did…
Northstar made an S-100 card which did FP math, using BCD arithmetic. It had a ucode ROM and a 4b (single digit) ALU, and a few small RAMs to hold the digits. If I remember correctly you could program it to select how…
Recent Climate Town video on the move to trucks and SUVs: https://youtu.be/JPm4de6-eTg?si=Eu1y3uQIeCGnkR_2 If you don't know Rollie Williams, Climate Town videos are informative but suffused with a lot of humor to…
Ages ago, my girlfriend at the time worked for a company that routinely got SIBR (small business innovation research) grants. Such grants made up part of her total workload. The crazy thing was that if she worked for 10…
No kidding. When I zoom in on a few square miles around my house and ask to see restaurants, it shows only a few of them even though there is plenty of space -- it isn't like it has to prune some to make it readable. I…
I just did. I had been using FUTO voice, but I see that FUTO keyboard also supports voice input, so I'm not sure if I should delete FUTO voice as being redundant now.
Thanks for your thoughts. I use FUTO voice usually, but there are situations where typing out a short message is better -- eg, in a restaurant or doctor's office or someplace where voice input might bother other people.…
I've been using Graphene on my Pixel 7a for about a year and I'm happy I made the switch. For sure it is a bit rougher than using Google's OS, but not enough to make me regret it. The main things I miss are (1) when I'm…
How is this ethical? The ethics section of the summary simply asserts it was OK, but I don't see how this being done in a private practice excuses them from normal strictures. They say this wasn't an experimental…
You must be talking wet weight. 5g of dry mushrooms is about 50mg of psilocybin, which has been referred to as a "heroic dose" for decades.
Do you think that all the alarm had any effect on the blocking of the rule change? Is the right time to complain about a possible change is after it has been decided?
What frequency did it it cycle at? Any idea how many instructions per second it could process?
electricity is a major cost. that 1.5B/mo is part for renting the hardware, part paying the lease on the building, and a significant part (I have no idea what %) is paying for the electricity.
You should take this as a data point where your gut intuition has failed you. It is really condescending to dismiss their choice as motivated by vanity rather than assuming that other people might have done their…
I used to work with a brilliant and humble guy. He got accepted to MIT at 14, but his parents made him go to community college for a year to give him a little more time to mature. He then went to MIT and graduated after…
I've read a number of consciousness books and this idea that the brain is inpainting the blind spot. I know Dennett in his "Consciousness Explained" book of 30+ years ago did his best to debunk that idea. The problem…
I got into computers in 1978 when I started high school and they had two Wang 2200 computers, each with a whopping 8KB of RAM. Although I was 14 I asked my parents for a subscription to Byte. Every so often I'd get an…
I did this in 1985 on SOROC terminals we had in my first job out of college. However, it depended on the dip switch settings that were under a little door on top of the keyboard.
People often think they have mic-dropped utilitarianism by saying things like, "Oh, so if two people get a lot of joy by beating up a third person, that is ethical because it is overall net positive?" A few things wrong…
I know nothing about the drama, but treating "utilitarianism" as if it is one thing or that a particular person or group's position is identical to utilitarianism seems ironic in the context. It is like claiming all…
I started playing electric bass in college, around 1984. I too used the record and lifting the needle technique. The only reason I'm commenting is that early on I learned a LOT of Police songs. Why? Because (1) the…
The sailing-around-the-world (and similar) market is obviously miniscule. The isolated communities probably tend to be on the less affluent part of the world, so it doesn't seem to justify a 100x expansion.
You are confidently incorrect. https://ethw.org/Nixie_Tubes
What suspicious link? The person is in their AI-powered page that google provides with pre-cooked suggested prompts. If the user clicks one of those and triggers the security explait, is that what you are calling…
I often embarrass my daughter when she has some new friend over. If the topic comes up, I give a demonstration. I'm 62 and I've never tried to get a tan and work indoors, and I haven't had a serious sunburn in close to…
My mistake -- what I wrote was from memory so I got the bit wrong about the multiplier ROM. I must have confused that detail with the design of the Wang 2200 computer, which had double precision BCD float math and did…
Northstar made an S-100 card which did FP math, using BCD arithmetic. It had a ucode ROM and a 4b (single digit) ALU, and a few small RAMs to hold the digits. If I remember correctly you could program it to select how…
Recent Climate Town video on the move to trucks and SUVs: https://youtu.be/JPm4de6-eTg?si=Eu1y3uQIeCGnkR_2 If you don't know Rollie Williams, Climate Town videos are informative but suffused with a lot of humor to…
Ages ago, my girlfriend at the time worked for a company that routinely got SIBR (small business innovation research) grants. Such grants made up part of her total workload. The crazy thing was that if she worked for 10…
No kidding. When I zoom in on a few square miles around my house and ask to see restaurants, it shows only a few of them even though there is plenty of space -- it isn't like it has to prune some to make it readable. I…
I just did. I had been using FUTO voice, but I see that FUTO keyboard also supports voice input, so I'm not sure if I should delete FUTO voice as being redundant now.
Thanks for your thoughts. I use FUTO voice usually, but there are situations where typing out a short message is better -- eg, in a restaurant or doctor's office or someplace where voice input might bother other people.…
I've been using Graphene on my Pixel 7a for about a year and I'm happy I made the switch. For sure it is a bit rougher than using Google's OS, but not enough to make me regret it. The main things I miss are (1) when I'm…
How is this ethical? The ethics section of the summary simply asserts it was OK, but I don't see how this being done in a private practice excuses them from normal strictures. They say this wasn't an experimental…
You must be talking wet weight. 5g of dry mushrooms is about 50mg of psilocybin, which has been referred to as a "heroic dose" for decades.
Do you think that all the alarm had any effect on the blocking of the rule change? Is the right time to complain about a possible change is after it has been decided?
What frequency did it it cycle at? Any idea how many instructions per second it could process?
electricity is a major cost. that 1.5B/mo is part for renting the hardware, part paying the lease on the building, and a significant part (I have no idea what %) is paying for the electricity.
You should take this as a data point where your gut intuition has failed you. It is really condescending to dismiss their choice as motivated by vanity rather than assuming that other people might have done their…
I used to work with a brilliant and humble guy. He got accepted to MIT at 14, but his parents made him go to community college for a year to give him a little more time to mature. He then went to MIT and graduated after…
I've read a number of consciousness books and this idea that the brain is inpainting the blind spot. I know Dennett in his "Consciousness Explained" book of 30+ years ago did his best to debunk that idea. The problem…
I got into computers in 1978 when I started high school and they had two Wang 2200 computers, each with a whopping 8KB of RAM. Although I was 14 I asked my parents for a subscription to Byte. Every so often I'd get an…
I did this in 1985 on SOROC terminals we had in my first job out of college. However, it depended on the dip switch settings that were under a little door on top of the keyboard.
People often think they have mic-dropped utilitarianism by saying things like, "Oh, so if two people get a lot of joy by beating up a third person, that is ethical because it is overall net positive?" A few things wrong…
I know nothing about the drama, but treating "utilitarianism" as if it is one thing or that a particular person or group's position is identical to utilitarianism seems ironic in the context. It is like claiming all…
I started playing electric bass in college, around 1984. I too used the record and lifting the needle technique. The only reason I'm commenting is that early on I learned a LOT of Police songs. Why? Because (1) the…