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So it says that not ALL points are on that single line. But it doesn't stipulate that THREE points can't be on the line---the theorem is about proving that you can find one that do…

In the interconnected, online world, you can do more damage without root access "they can read my email, take my money, and impersonate me to my friends, but at least they can't in…

The clocks need precise oscillations to measure time: the mechanical clocks used pendulums and springs; the maser clocks used precise microwave cavities; the atomic clocks that are…

From the wikipedia article: Site preparation began in February, 2024;[12] the prefabricated restroom was placed by a crane in March;[2] and installation was completed on April 22, …

From googling, didn't actually use them https://eelbattery.myshopify.com/products/original-grade-a-e...

Thank you, great info. You have great suppliers though: I can get close on batteries (I see four for $355, so $88 instead of your $70) but for panels the best I can get is $220 ins…

I don't doubt that you can have a low marginal cost, but you still have to invest money to get this system installed. You dismissed my argument as 'vague and hand-wavy', so please …

They say $0.01/kWh is the target price, to be reached after some decades. Don't get me wrong, I am excited about solar power but careful about the economics: the capital cost of so…

in sqlite you can do it with FILTER: $ sqlite :memory: create table t (product,revenue, year); insert into t values ('a',10,2020),('b',14,2020),('c',24,2020),('a',20,2021),('b',24,…

Good insight, but if you discount the visual elements (tabs, buttons, etc), you're limiting TUI to CLI, and I think that's unwarranted. The value proposition of both TUI and GUI is…

The compilers used to be unreliable too, e.g. at higher optimizations and such. People worked on them and they got better. I think LLMs will get better, as well.

Any competent computer engineer can design a much better ISA than RISC-V. Hello, my fellow bitter old man! I have to respectfully disagree, though. Firstly, RISC-V was actually des…

A lot of computer users are domain experts in something like chemistry or physics or material science. Computing to them is just a tool in their field, e.g. simulating molecular dy…

Greg mentions discipline and vision as determinants of successful software, which is correct but I think he misses another aspect of vision: the ability to attract and crystallize …

Great example, and a lost opportunity in the interview---they should have asked "What are the requirements that would invalidate this answer? and what would you design if the requi…

The alcoholic knows the bad outcomes, and chooses to ignore them. The hapless Android user does not understand the negative consequences of sideloading. I think this makes for a su…

Well, power envelope IS the limit in many applications; anyone can build a LOBOS (Lots Of Boxes On Shelves) supercomputer, but data bandwidth and power will limit its usefullness a…

Literate programming is not about programming in natural languages: it's about integrating code (i.e. the formal description in some DSL) with the meta-code such as comments, backg…

I guess it would be a consumption-based tax. The usual argument against it is that it's regressive: the poorer people spend higher percentage of their income on consumption, and th…

also: gpg --gen-random --armor 1 20 or: pwgen

FWIW whisper.cpp with the default model works at 6x realtime transcription speed on my four-core ~2.4GHz laptop, and doesn't really stress CPU or memory. This is for batch transcri…

There's graph-easy, which generates ascii by default but can also do box chars, and even SVG and png, as well as generating graphviz and other output. It is not WYSIWIG---you feed …

When they run on the deterministic hardware, yes. When they run on some large, parallel, varying-unpredictable-load-dependent-latency hardware, no.

> nowadays they have the problem new hires have been educated in UNIX like OSes and Web. So, in other words, the kids grow up learning and using Linux, right?

Connections are the only one that can't be solved by either a regexp grep against /usr/share/dict/words or an LLM query. I was actually surprised how poorly LLMs fared against it--…