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boscillator

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About boscillator

C++ engineer with experience in machine learning and aerospace. Blog: https://buchanan.one

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    Comment #49186404

    I believe that their are no multi-GNSS receivers certified for aviation, so Galileo, GLONASS and BeiDou are out.

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    Comment #49186034

    > You can't make investors have a hard on for a ramp that doesn't connect to the cloud. Someone more inclined toward fraud than me should figure out how to make a cloud connected r…

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    Comment #49026961

    > Suppose I want to work in a single place for all my contexts, both personal and professional. This has always been my problem with adopting Emacs or Obsidian or any other app tha…

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    Comment #48896256

    Oops, thanks. Stupid dyslexia. Yah, the government has a big problem with trying to do big upgrades when a ship-of-theseus would work. I suspect this can be traced all the way up t…

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    Comment #48895430

    Even here, it can be hard to know what to cut. OCX kept getting funding because running a GPS ground segment is in the government's purview, and sometimes you need to update legacy…

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    Comment #48848139

    The real answer here is that configuring HTTPS clients to trust a self-signed cert (or signed by an internal CA) shouldn't be as difficult as it is. I find it extremely annoying th…

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    Comment #48687389

    > detailed information about specific retractions is usually confidential and can only be shared with the relevant authors. Good luck sharing that information with Max Planck. It's…

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    Comment #48644579

    > the right fix is not "handle every malformed case." ... [LLMs] will still attempt to handle now impossible errors. This is the number one code smell from LLMs and I don't know wh…

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    Comment #48598291

    Mostly unrelated, but what is going on with the "I specifically approve section ... of the terms and conditions" when you sign in without an account. Is this a new requirement some…

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    Comment #48475633

    > A bad design with a good presentation is doomed eventually. A good design with a bad presentation is doomed immediately. - Akin's 20th law of spacecraft design I always really en…

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    Comment #48446830

    Huh, I've been to plenty of places were you could order it for an up charge and it came in it's own little bottle.

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    Comment #48345689

    Tomas Pynchon has much to say about this in The Crying of Lot 49.

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    Comment #47913685

    They show up as the #2 ad spot when you search "register a domain" and most people don't know any better.

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    Comment #46770454

    It will be fascinating to see the facts of this case, but if it is proven their algorithms are discriminatory, even by accident, I hope workday is held accountable. Making sure you…

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    Comment #46619731

    https://buchanan.one

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    Comment #46571062

    No, I'm not super certain, but I believe most solvers are trained to be game theory optimal (GTO), which means they assume every other player is also playing GTO. This means there …

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    Comment #46289609

    I wouldn't be so sure that writing those toolboxes is cheap. You need an aerospace engineer to write the aero toolbox, or you are going to miss subtleties. I assume you need a biol…

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    Comment #46279795

    It doesn't seem to be the example here, but I know that X.transpose() does not work if X is a (3,) and not a (3,1), which is the common way to present vectors in numpy. MATLAB forc…

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    Comment #46279677

    Interesting... I wrote a similar post about MATLAB's syntax a while ago, and I still think MATLAB is one of the best calculators on the market. RunMat is an interesting idea, but a…

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    Comment #45723109

    Yah, it is very strange to equivocate using AI as a spell checker and a whole AI written article. Being charitable, they meant asking the AI re-write your whole post, rather than j…

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