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tejtm

1,874 karma · joined July 1, 2015

CS, Math, Science, Machinist/Metalworker, Amateur Telescope maker, HAM, accidental biologist through work.
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tejtm··on Lion-man
Ahh the good old Nacirema

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nacirema

tejtm··on Evade Reddit account tracking, keep old.reddit.com layout while logged out
@dang this functionality deserves a second chance bump (no affiliation and have not vetted code)
tejtm··on Government sponsored study on alcohol doesn't stand up to scrutiny
Except the part where where alcohol metabolizes into aldehyde species which cause double strand DNA breaks faster than we can repair them and we get moderate cancers ... but other than that it is great (ignoring the behavioral aberrations).
tejtm··on Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
A step further "novel" life (hence still simpler) made from the same raw materials as existing life would look exactly like decomposing existing life and be routinely scavenged for material.
tejtm··on A shell colon does nothing. Use it anyway
python you say?

Pray tell which one of the myriad is the true one?

And do not worry, no one would be rash enough to bring in external dependencies it is just too darn inconvenient.

I should probably drink my coffee before posting, be less grumpy.

tejtm··on Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds
I stand corrected and will now go RTFM

edit: thats great... addressed in the first paragraph.

tejtm··on Heavy TV watching associated with smaller brain structures, study finds
probably not as much as doing anything non sedentary
tejtm··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
Thanks, not to disagree but it may be best to use plain language as I do not know what a neoliberal is to me never mind what it means to you.

I do know liberal is used as a derisive term by the people we (US) are being led by which leads me to cognitive dissonance parsing your statement.

tejtm··on Is this the end of the once-mighty GoPro?
It is not as though other countries could not choose do the same.

It seem to me that China choosing to subsidize industry it is not so different than the US choosing to subsidize Roads, Autos and OIL.

In both cases it does seem to work splendidly as intended.

Other than political inertia (or economic reasons far beyond my ability to fathom) there is nothing to stop the US from following suit.

I accept "free market" is a term of art probably from before global trade reality and could be narrowly redefined to mean whatever one wants (or wanted when it was coined) but in my ignorance I see it simply as free to choose actions and responses.

But I am far far away from opinions I am qualified to hold, think I will shut up now.

tejtm··on First atmosphere found on Earth-like planet in habitable zone of distant star
an ort cloud of eye peices comes to mind
tejtm··on The Little Book of Reinforcement Learning
The Little Schemer, The Little Typer, The Little Reasoner, The Little Proover The Little MLer ...

It has been going on for a while in Lispy land

tejtm··on The Age of Personalized Hardware Is Coming
anything but be owned by you
tejtm··on My Students Can't Read
If an employer really valued the credential, they would supply it.
tejtm··on Larry Ellison: "Citizens will be on their best behavior because we’re recording"
the classic

    "Do not fall into the trap of anthropomorphizing Larry Ellison. You need to think of Larry Ellison the way you think of a lawnmower. You don’t anthropomorphize your lawnmower, the lawnmower just mows the lawn - you stick your hand in there and it’ll chop it off, the end. You don’t think "oh, the lawnmower hates me" – lawnmower doesn’t give a shit about you, lawnmower can’t hate you. Don’t anthropomorphize the lawnmower. Don’t fall into that trap about Oracle."
— Bryan Cantrill

at about 34-39 minutes in:

[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zRN7XLCRhc&t=2308s]

tejtm··on Why Janet? (2023)
We absolutely order more likely / preferred options before other options. Codifying that as a short circuit optimization is a feature.
tejtm··on Wi-Wi is wireless time sync at 1 nanosecond
approximately, with assumptions.

Assuming ISM band in the US.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISM_radio_band

tejtm··on Your phone is about to stop being yours
Benny.
tejtm··on Can You Find the Comet?
Exposure time (in digital imaging) is directly related to sensor well saturation.

It does not mater how much water you pour into a full bucket.

tejtm··on College instructor turns to typewriters to curb AI-written work
arms race....

oh look there is a llm trained on key loggers to spew slop at your personally predicted error rate; bonus if it identifies to USB as keyboard.

tejtm··on Uncharted island soon to appear on nautical charts
With ice off they may rebound (up) nigh perceptibly
tejtm··on Maine is about to become the first state to ban major new data centers
that would translate to three townees for janitors the rest would be durn furiners from away *

* further down east than Lewiston but, there was a time I was the damm foreigner from the big city.

tejtm··on iNaturalist
birdnet pi or go run the model locally with an option to push observations back to Cornell

https://www.birdweather.com/birdnetpi

https://github.com/tphakala/birdnet-go

tejtm··on Android Developer Verification
valid.

n.b. "you" were not considered in my statement save as an agent.

tejtm··on Android Developer Verification
Please call it what it is and always has been:

   I.N.S.T.A.L.L.I.N.G   S.O.F.T.W.A.R.E
"side load" is like "jay walking' seeks to stigmatize humans being human.
tejtm··on purl: a curl-esque CLI for making HTTP requests that require payment

  purl: persistent uniform resource locator  (at least since 1995)
[] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_uniform_resource_lo...
tejtm··on Willingness to look stupid
Over half a century later it still rings clear as a bell ...

    He who writes on bathroom walls
    rolls their shit in little balls.

    He who reads these lines of whit
    eats these little balls of shit.
tejtm··on Raspberry Pi Pico as AM Radio Transmitter

  "A rose by any other name would smell as sweet"  -- Bill
tejtm··on Will vibe coding end like the maker movement?
plugging Osh Park as a non overseas PCB alternative (no affiliation)

[0] https://oshpark.com/

tejtm··on Raspberry Pi Pico 2 at 873.5MHz with 3.05V Core Abuse
As we become acclimated to non deterministic responses from computers it may not even matter if some of that comes from the hardware.

Eventually it will be seen as a feature.

tejtm··on A flawed paper in management science has been cited more than 6k times
It has been a viable strategy at least since Taylor 1911
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