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New comment by dadadad100 in "A Typology of Canadianisms"

dadadad100 — Thu, 10 Jul 2025 16:55:29 +0000

And Quebec has it’s own English. I spent a few years working in Montreal and soon learned about “passing the vacuum” and “closing the light”. There are so many bilingual folks that concepts and word orders flow back and forth. I had an interesting discussion with a bilingual anglophone about how in English elsewhere it’s called a “pacifier” and not a “souce”

New comment by dadadad100 in "Japan's IC cards are weird and wonderful"

dadadad100 — Sat, 17 May 2025 12:09:14 +0000

I believe it is the case that US (at least) iPhones work as IC cards in Japan

Source - I’m sitting in Kyoto right now having travelled all over Tokyo and then on to Kyoto using only my phone to interact with Japan Rail. Verified with two 16Es and a 12. In fact we were able to add the Suica cards to our phones and charge them fromApplePay while still stateside. That let us skip the Welcome Suica line at Haneda and go straight to the monorail. Highly recommended

New comment by dadadad100 in "Reverse geocoding is hard"

dadadad100 — Sun, 27 Apr 2025 16:33:55 +0000

This problem seems to also exist for services like uber. Their solution seems easier, drop a pin on a map. Perhaps working so hard to find a textual description is missing the simpler solution.

New comment by dadadad100 in "Turing-Drawings"

dadadad100 — Sun, 20 Apr 2025 16:36:50 +0000

You are kidding, right? [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halting_problem

New comment by dadadad100 in "Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit"

dadadad100 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 20:47:39 +0000

Ah, but isn’t that the problem here - asking an LLM for facts without requesting a search is like asking a PhD to answer a question “off the top of your head”. For pop culture questions the PhD likely brings little value.

New comment by dadadad100 in "Recent AI model progress feels mostly like bullshit"

dadadad100 — Sun, 06 Apr 2025 20:02:50 +0000

If we were to survey 100 PhDs how many would know correctly that Paul Newman had an alcohol problem.

New comment by dadadad100 in "AI tools are spotting errors in research papers"

dadadad100 — Sat, 08 Mar 2025 23:01:23 +0000

Much like scanning tools looking for CVEs. There are thousands of devs right this moment chasing alleged vulns. It is early days for all of these tools. Giving papers a look over is an unqualified good as it is for code. I like the approach of keeping it private until the researcher can respond.

New comment by dadadad100 in "Why it's so hard to build a jet engine"

dadadad100 — Sun, 02 Mar 2025 14:18:54 +0000

Thunderbirds are go!

New comment by dadadad100 in "Common mistakes in architecture diagrams (2020)"

dadadad100 — Mon, 10 Feb 2025 18:00:29 +0000

There is some interesting new working the C4 space at https://likec4.dev/

This is a less prescriptive model than structurizr but keeps the goals of C4

New comment by dadadad100 in "America desperately needs more air traffic controllers"

dadadad100 — Tue, 04 Feb 2025 23:19:38 +0000

Take a fly on an airliner in MS flight simulator sometime or watch any of the YouTubers that show this stuff. CitationMax is a good one. The screens tell the flight plan, altitudes, traffic, weather, terrain and more. The audio part is, as mentioned above, extremely efficient and shared. The audio is used for clearances from one step to another ( very loosely speaking) This improves everyone’s situational awareness. This may have been an issue at DCA where the commercial flight was on VHF and the chopper was on UHF.

If a plane loses comms there are well defined procedures and everyone knows exactly what that plane will do as they proceed to their destination.

New comment by dadadad100 in "What's OAuth2, anyway?"

dadadad100 — Wed, 29 Jan 2025 01:41:14 +0000

Very good presentation but I do miss any mention of the audience claim. This claim is underrated in my opinion at least. It allows the token to climb access to an api or server or whatever that can be used by gateways to do a high level authorization. Then the scopes can be used at the resource server to govern lower level authorization.

New comment by dadadad100 in "Starship Flight 7"

dadadad100 — Fri, 17 Jan 2025 23:03:08 +0000

The ATC is up on YouTube - I heard it on the vatsim channel. ATC would not let pilots transit the designated danger airspace without declaring an emergency. So they did.

New comment by dadadad100 in "Everything Is Just Functions: Insights from SICP and David Beazley"

dadadad100 — Sun, 17 Nov 2024 23:07:18 +0000

Everything is a rule (Pega)

New comment by dadadad100 in "Alonzo Church: Architect of computer intelligence"

dadadad100 — Tue, 05 Nov 2024 19:31:59 +0000

Ahh the perils of the installed base. It brings to mind the use of tab in make files.

> And then a few weeks later I had a user population of about a dozen, most of them friends, and I didn't want to screw up my embedded base. The rest, sadly, is history.[1]

[1] http://catb.org/%7Eesr/writings/taoup/html/ch15s04.html

New comment by dadadad100 in "The inventor of the automatic rice cooker"

dadadad100 — Sun, 03 Nov 2024 19:15:38 +0000

I was surprised at the rice cooker section at Yodobashi Camera in Tokyo Akaba that they were serving samples of cooked rice from each of the many, many models they sell. My American senses failed to detect any difference. And yes, that was only one of the multitude of surprises in that wonderland of a store.

New comment by dadadad100 in "Using an 8K TV as a Monitor"

dadadad100 — Tue, 29 Oct 2024 19:57:16 +0000

My Samsung ultra wide has side by side mode with two input cables. Screen sharing (and Windows) thinks it’s two monitors but I can stretch windows all the way across both if I want to since it is an extended set

New comment by dadadad100 in "Starlink offering free internet access for 30 days for Hurricane Helene victims"

dadadad100 — Thu, 03 Oct 2024 20:51:57 +0000

Cell service is down. Wi-Fi calling/ text/ email may be the only thing working in many cases

New comment by dadadad100 in "FDA Authorizes First Over-the-Counter Hearing Aid Software"

dadadad100 — Fri, 13 Sep 2024 12:30:37 +0000

I think I’m the target market. Old enough that my hearing requires some help, but still working in tech from home. The hearing aids I’ve looked at - I have a prescription - have Bluetooth for listening but no microphone for talking. I use my AirPods for teams calls all day long. Switching back and forth to a hearing aid seems too much trouble so I haven’t taken that step. I will get these new AirPods the day the feature ships. I may need two pairs to deal with the battery life but it’s still cheap.

New comment by dadadad100 in "Breaking transatlantic sailing record by more than a day (2016)"

dadadad100 — Thu, 04 Jul 2024 14:05:43 +0000

One sailor that I enjoy watching is Patrick Laine[1]. The back catalog has a lot of coastal single-handing (coast of France mostly). Then he started circling the Atlantic.

[1] http://www.youtube.com/@patricklaine6958

Edit: official channel URL

New comment by dadadad100 in "I found a 55 year old bug in the first Lunar Lander game"

dadadad100 — Fri, 14 Jun 2024 15:57:18 +0000

A long time ago, in a book whose title I don’t remember, a character said, “but engine parts are more expensive than brake parts”. That has always stuck with me, even as I glide to a stop with almost no braking.