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peter_d_sherman
18,479karma·5,712submissions·September 16, 2014
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Programmer, Student Of Law, Entrepreneur & Comedy Writer.
Open Source, Open Hardware, Transparency & Free Speech enthusiast.
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"The true knowledge consists of knowing that one knows nothing..."
- Socrates
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>"The biggest upside is that Alpine is small. The base installation is about 5 MB! Thanks to that, our development/installation tool pmbootstrap is able to abstract everything in chroots …
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>"The most popular use of Fourier uncertainty principles is as a description of the natural tradeoff between the stability and measurability of a system" Related: https://…
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Observation: The more broad understanding here is that in computer programming there is a difference between a symbol and a referent ( https://open.maricopa.edu/com110/chapter&…
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My takeaways: >"Out-of-band management, sometimes also called lights-out management, identifies a capability that is almost unheard of in clients. A separate, smaller management computer allow…
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I'm probably going to generate a whole lot of bot replies for my response to this, but "here we go": The claims of this article are roughly as follows: >""We created a new …
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>"The number φ, generally known as the Golden Ratio [Phi], is simply the smallest of the Golden Numbers . The number π [Pi], the ratio of the circumference to the diameter of a circle, is rel…
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If I ever needed to explain to someone who is in management, that is, who is a businessperson and not a tech person why their data might not be safe, why their allegedly "private" chats and …
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Related: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stark_effect https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeeman_effect Anode ray aka "positive ray" aka "canal ray&q…
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>"Software engineers like optimizing things. It’s easy to nerd snipe them with something that looks like a well defined optimization problem with a few variables and is actually a big complica…
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>"Each chiplet has its own communications component – a NOC (network on chip) – that speeds up communication between chiplets. “We start at 4000 gigabytes per second per square millimeter, and…
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An excerpt from the video description: >"The world's first internet country and digital passport are in development now, and no one is talking about it. Here's what you need to know …
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Related: https://www.nightfallcrew.com/07/09/2016/photo-gallery-updat... …
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An interesting concept... load an OS from an OS image file over the network... If that's the case, then OS'es which do not use any local storage devices, and instead mount remote filesystems…
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The tool to visualize 4D rotations is here: https://qri.org/demo/4d_wave_control.html Observation: This might have future potential applications in visualizing such things as sub…
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Automatic Differentiation is about leveraging AI (i.e., LLM's, ChatGPT, etc.) to write computer programs in non-AI conventional programming languages (i.e., C, C++, Assembler, Pascal, Go, Pytho…
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You could be right! When I think about it, Today's science first has to be able to show methods for slowing down, stopping, reversing (and speeding up, if slowing down can be accomplishd) plain o…
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>"Time Of Flight Sensors Recently the cost of these Time Of flight Sensors (TOF) have plummeted and have made a new type of Theremin possible. The TOF sensors are small lasers combined with a …
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Also, in the same space, that is, "Comparison site for Domain Registrars" there apparently also exists the following: https://tld-list.com/ Not sure if the two sites are r…