"Learning how to learn" is by far the most important lesson anyone can obtain. That's not just for AI/software/tech, but for anything.
Readit Newsfghorow commented on AWS CEO says using AI to replace junior staff is 'Dumbest thing I've ever heard' theregister.com/2025/08/2... · Posted by u/JustExAWS
fghorow commented on It's a DE9, not a DB9 (but we know what you mean) news.sparkfun.com/14298... · Posted by u/jgrahamc
The 1.44 MB diskette is my canonical "dear God what happened"-named thing.
The traditional diskette is 1440 KiB. I.e., base-2, today named "kibibyte" though in that day that word didn't exist yet & it was just a kilobyte and the base 2 inferred from context. Clearly, someone didn't infer, and moved the decimal, so that 1.44 "MB" is 1.44 * 1000 * 1024 bytes. The actual capacity is thus either 1.41 MiB or 1.47 MB.
Back in the day -- when used for a disk drive -- we used to call 1000 * 1024 bytes a "marketing megabyte" and 1024*1024 bytes a "megabyte". YMMV.
For those worried about tiny COPs from these gizmos, trawling through the actual paper -- as well as the PR from JHU APL -- in this HN post [1] shows claims of COPs of ~15 for Delta Ts of 1.3°C.
A compressor based cooler gets a COP of about 4 in the real world. I'm pretty sure this is an apples to oranges comparison to an expert (I am not one of those) but a factor of 3+ increase in COP is fairly noteworthy -- if it holds up.
The author is probably too young to have experienced the crap of XML based interface. Like XUL and co.
But with another stack, I miss how good and easy it was to do great interfaces with Delphi in the good old time!
Ummm, errr. Jon Udell[1] was a columnist for Byte (RIP) magazine. He has been around a looooooong time.
fghorow commented on Overthinking GIS (2024) scottsexton.co/post/overt... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
If you will permit me one cautionary point, given that the deadly Texas flash floods just happened.
The geomorphic reason that there is flat land next to a river is because it is the flood plane. That kind of land looks tempting, but can be deadly. Obviously, GIS analysis could add some kind of distance metric from a river to a usability score, but the analyst needs to know about the problem first.
Just a bit of "ground truthing" from a professional geoscientist.
s/flood plane/floodplain/
(Sorry for the typo.)
fghorow commented on Overthinking GIS (2024) scottsexton.co/post/overt... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
If you will permit me one cautionary point, given that the deadly Texas flash floods just happened.
The geomorphic reason that there is flat land next to a river is because it is the flood plane. That kind of land looks tempting, but can be deadly. Obviously, GIS analysis could add some kind of distance metric from a river to a usability score, but the analyst needs to know about the problem first.
Just a bit of "ground truthing" from a professional geoscientist.
fghorow commented on Why is every successful tech founder an Ivy League graduate · Posted by u/moneyhungry
This is correct. Tech founders have famously never dropped out of school.
Not to mention attended hippie-dippie colleges in Oregon...
I'd assume quakes transform much more energy into tsunami waves than meteorite hit does.
That is not correct.
Earthquakes' energy doesn't all go to displacing water and hence generating tsunamis. An ocean impact is significantly more efficient at transferring energy into tsunamis.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/B97804...
fghorow commented on A marriage proposal spoken in office jargon mcsweeneys.net/articles/a... · Posted by u/ohjeez
I use to say "colleagues". That should be ok I hope.
I used to work as a scientist in a large research org. I once had the director of HR address an email to us as "Colleagues".
Talk about cringe.
(Colleagues in my world connote someone who might be considered as a research collaborator. Definitely NOT HR bureaucrats.)