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New comment by justinjlynn in "Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor"

justinjlynn — Mon, 08 Jul 2024 04:30:08 +0000

At Intel, nobody pays the grad student proportionally for their massive contribution to the bottom line.

New comment by justinjlynn in "EasyOS: An experimental Linux distribution"

justinjlynn — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 22:08:32 +0000

Yeah, people - in general - tend to do this with anything novel, sadly - especially novel design. See what Steve Balmer said about the iPhone for a commercial example. For Engineering examples, well, see the controversy around anything by Poettering (Systemd, PulseAudio, etc., etc.).

New comment by justinjlynn in "Here comes the Muybridge camera moment but for text"

justinjlynn — Mon, 03 Jun 2024 12:50:42 +0000

Are you certain that you're not playing with words to arrive at a predetermined conclusion? What is this "I" to which you're referring and how can you demonstrate that "I" does not or cannot exist within systems such as these? Further, if you are to find something which qualifies as an "I" elsewhere, what makes that elsewhere fundamentally different and therefore capable of supporting and being an "I" and is that elsewhere such simply by definition or in and of itself? Further, if the language usage is indistinguishable from the language usage of an "I", is the difference of source meaningful? If so, why?

New comment by justinjlynn in "SATO: Stable Text-to-Motion Framework"

justinjlynn — Sat, 04 May 2024 04:45:16 +0000

I use AI systems to keep up with AI research. The telescoping has begun... and we're still near the bottom of the (super?)exponential curve.

New comment by justinjlynn in "'HR is not your friend': why frustrated workers are hiring reps of their own"

justinjlynn — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 23:05:14 +0000

Indeed, it's _you_ who are the human "resource" HR is managing.

New comment by justinjlynn in "Amazon ditches 'just walk out' checkouts at its grocery stores"

justinjlynn — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 00:24:55 +0000

Pratchett really got technology, imo. Sometimes it really is high energy magic, but most of the time it's just labourers you can't see being exploited. I especially enjoyed the line "money dangled is far more effective than money given" or something like that... it's true.

New comment by justinjlynn in "Game of Life, simulating itself, infinitely zoomable"

justinjlynn — Sun, 24 Mar 2024 18:25:35 +0000

Scale-free infinity.

New comment by justinjlynn in "Releasing my tools under the MIT License was probably a mistake (2023)"

justinjlynn — Mon, 19 Feb 2024 07:24:35 +0000

The statement "(A)GPL" probably should've been written "GPL/AGPL"... apologies for the miscommunication.

New comment by justinjlynn in "Releasing my tools under the MIT License was probably a mistake (2023)"

justinjlynn — Sat, 17 Feb 2024 22:21:00 +0000

Yes. The (A)GPL is there for a good reason (in part, this one - ensuring one's work and other's work on it remains free and open source and commercial freeloaders can't get a free ride), and trademark law ensures you retain control of your software's brand. MIT and BSD... well, look where they come from - they're not designed with those purposes in mind. If you care about an aspect of a licensing solution, use a license designed and fit for purpose - just as you'd use a library designed and fit for purpose.

New comment by justinjlynn in "Man who shoveled new channel into Lake Michigan convicted"

justinjlynn — Mon, 12 Feb 2024 03:20:37 +0000

Boils down to: if they want to make an example out of you, they will find some way to do so.

New comment by justinjlynn in "Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare"

justinjlynn — Tue, 16 Jan 2024 00:56:30 +0000

Lobby to socialise or externalise all the costs. Work to privatise only the profits. Typical mode of operation.

New comment by justinjlynn in "Autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare"

justinjlynn — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 04:19:44 +0000

(it's not a basket case because it's nationalised, it's nationalised because it's a basket case - thank the automotive industry - and it's a national security asset)

New comment by justinjlynn in "United finds loose bolts on plug doors during 737 Max 9 inspections"

justinjlynn — Tue, 09 Jan 2024 11:33:22 +0000

Insufficient and negligent quality control systems design permits a single point of failure in manufacturing process specifically designed and funded to prevent such things - calling into question the trustworthiness of the manufacturing process compliance for the entire product line.

New comment by justinjlynn in "What I learned using private LLMs to write an undergraduate history essay"

justinjlynn — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 12:35:51 +0000

Journalists with articles and Politicians with laws... yep.

New comment by justinjlynn in "K&R C compiler obtained from Research Unix v5, v6 and v7"

justinjlynn — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 10:22:50 +0000

IIRC In git, the earliest possible commit date/timestamp is the Unix epoch. Interestingly enough, for this application (the .gitignore file) I'd imagine the offset from the epoch is set to zero. This would result in the commit timestamp you're seeing.

New comment by justinjlynn in "Apollo 11 vs. USB-C Chargers (2020)"

justinjlynn — Wed, 27 Dec 2023 07:21:56 +0000

What's wrong with that? They are. We can always make the finer distinction of "Von Neumann architecture inspired digital electronic computer" if you wish to exclude the examples you've given. After all, anything which transforms a particular input to a particular output in a consistent fashion could be considered a computer which implements a particular function. I would say - don't confuse the word's meaning with the object's function and simply choose a context in which a word refers to a particular meaning, adapt to others contexts and translate, and simply deal with the fact that there is no firm division between computer and not-computer out in the word somewhere apart from people and their context-rich communications. If the context in which you're operating with an interlocutor is clear enough for you to jump to a correction of usage ... simply don't; beyond verifying your translation is correct, of course. As you're already doing this - likely without realising it - by taking care in doing so consciously you're likely to find your communications more efficient, congenial, and illuminating than they otherwise would be.

New comment by justinjlynn in "Apple has seemingly found a way to block Beeper Mini"

justinjlynn — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 10:00:09 +0000

Apple rarely delivers on promises that involve allowing people out of their walled garden.

Remember that, for the longest time, just disconnecting your phone number from iMessage was... very much not easily done or guaranteed to work at all.

"Switch to Mac? If you did, good luck ever switching back."

New comment by justinjlynn in "HashiCorp Vault forked into OpenBAO"

justinjlynn — Sat, 09 Dec 2023 06:45:12 +0000

The beginning?

New comment by justinjlynn in "Show HN: Beeper Mini – iMessage client for Android"

justinjlynn — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 02:33:19 +0000

The massive prevalence of physical junk mail would refute your argument that even a significant per message cost would dissuade abuse.

New comment by justinjlynn in "Lockheed is now tracking phones and walkie-talkies from space"

justinjlynn — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 09:10:38 +0000

Yes. The employment of which is also euphemistically known as a "kinetic military action".