mikewarot.bsky.social
Grumpy old man still holding onto his fascination with all the things that we can do and see with technology.
Oh... and I take photos
Oh... and I'm inventing BitGrid
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That was good.
I expect the cost of computing to drop by 99% in terms of energy and $$ in the next decade, that should help.
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I somehow missed the fact it was a prank and was very confused for a long while
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Without context, I'll assume the ice cream machine at McDonald's was actually working today?
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Yeah, but it's not a GPS Disciplined Rubidium Oscillator.... ;-)
When does the Cesium Fountain Atomic Clock show up? ;-)
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Wondering what the context is here.
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Ok... time to find out what the heck that is...
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oh... and predictive power... that's VERY important, and fairly easy to test in retrospect
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I left off "Doubt" because you said one thing, and that would make 2.
Falsifiability is another thing
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"mapper" type thinking (as in mapper/packer)
We mappers acquire a new bit of knowledge, then test it against all the edges of our existing map, looking for interesting new connections, or inconsistencies... it takes a few days to end up at either "AHA" or "OH... I wonder if"
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A Marchant calculator was good enough for the Manhattan Project, it should be good enough for you.
www.vintagecalculators.com/html/marchan...
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Also, don't expect it to spell, as it's never seen ASCII or even Unicode as an input... just tokens.
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So, in claiming to be Monkesque, I see a close relation to the idea of a "Mapper" in the mapper/packer paradigm.
I myself am a mapper. New ideas get tried against all the other ones in the background.... it might take a day or two, but eventually some new "ah ha" or "hmmm" will pop out
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It's horrible... but a rough trip through OpenOffice, and I got this
warot.com/ai_chats/A%2...
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Hmmm... looks like you have to have a GitHub account to see it... that sucks, sorry about that.
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I use ... and - wayyyy too much, but it does make for a good signature... like this
--Mike--
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You're just a kid... ;-)
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We had a lot of fun taking the couples quiz... thanks for the suggestion!
She's Amy, and I'm Sheldon from the Big Bang Theory
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I'm least like Thor... which makes sense to me.
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Yeah, but how many of the bots that follow him will show up here? ;-)
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I'm the one who wants to avoid using more than a few watts to power ChatGPT with better computer architecture
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It's become obvious to me that I want to run my own BBS.... in this post modem world, but I don't know what that actually would look like. Emulating a Hayes modem to access an old school BBS seems just ... wrong ... to me.
Any suggestions?
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Meanwhile Trump has to cough up $40,000,000 for the tariff on it. ;-)
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There's an Epson Perfection V800 at the Dallas Library... so he should be able to do this effectively for free, as near as I can tell.
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My local library has a film scanner I can use for that type of thing, and it seems yours does as well
dallaslibrary2.org/creativespac...
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Real window glass isn't going to be warped that much (look at the reflection in the first photo)
Also, the surface texture looks like fiberglass reinforced plastic instead of actually flat painted/worn wood.
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Here in Indiana, a constitutional carry state, it's likely at least 4 or 5 of those 100 men are armed... and can just Shoot the Guerrilla dead from a safe distance.
Also, why wouldn't we just kill it with a car?
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They clearly don't understand economies of scale, and the shrinking of the hobby as us old farts age out.
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Too late, he's already destroyed the idea that US Treasuries are a safe asset.
It's all down hill from here as most people move on without the USA.
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Hmmmm..what i really need to know is the static and dynamic power of a 4LUT and latch.
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Oh well, here I sit outside the EU so I can't really participate . 8(
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Actually, this is pretty much on the mark.
Have you heard about mappers/packers?
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Link to the article below btw, plus a couple other examples. Others can be found by searching for "de-arrest tactics"
bsky.app/profile/clim...
www.fox13news.com/news/police-...
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I'm trying to find public facing specifications, so far I've found the specifications of a "bps_info" ATSC 3.0 packet on pages 11-15 of this pdf
www.nab.org/bps/BPS_ATSC...
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Wow, a GPS antenna that can survive a direct lightning strike, or sit on the top of an AM broadcast antenna, without grief.
Amazing.
They could probably do a weather station too.
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We really, REALLY need a land based backup to GPS, let's hope it all works out.