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Even doodling on the margin can be distracting. Or doing little tricks with the pencil. But these don't distract the verbal part of the brain as much perhaps.

Tbh the same applies to a lot of subjects if you discuss them with a sufficiently good LLM. (Socratic method)

LLM is fundamentally not prone to the Socratic method. Socratic method requires both parts to learn something while the discourse. LLM will forget some shit often.


This is when you hire someone with autism and give them a direct report.

Their inability at social cues will cut right through.

Works every time.


I'm sorry this got dinged.

It's pithy, but correct.

Source: I'm "on the spectrum." This often resulted in me being the skunk at the rationalization picnic, because I didn't realize the boss wanted me to rubberstamp a bad design.


With digital signals and ECC, the cable need only be "good enough" to get perfect data transfer through the system.

Correct. But especially if you're using long cables a cable with more "headroom" in the eye diagram will perform more reliable than one that is just at the edge of breakup.

For home use that doesn't matter usually, but I for example run events where I need the cable to work also after 10 people stepped on it and then this can become a significant thing.

Not in terms of quality, but reliability.


His link made very clear the issues of jitter and flickering.

These two statements aren't mutually exclusive. The link is looking at the analog signal through an oscilloscope. The person you replied to is pointing out that after decoding and applying error correction, you can still end up with the same digital signal output. So the eye diagram charts are useful for detecting the quality of the cable, but as long as the quality is past a certain threshold, it does not matter.

And that threshold is "baked in" to the eye mask pattern you load into the tester. If the eye stays out of the masked areas, it passes, if it goes into the masked areas it fails. Oscilloscopes capable of eye diagram testing can trigger on failure, so if it passes an eye test it'll reconstruct correctly with proper timing.

https://youtu.be/Gq-l07XmQVc

Just needs a bit of "4be2be4be2be", we can do that!


High prices and maximum rent extraction is the plan. Same plan as the Tories and everyone else who gets close to power.

It's a bit like software pricing, the marginal cost of production is low. You often see massively different prices charged to different types of customer.

I used to support an application used by about half a dozen businesses. They all knew each other, that's how I got their business.

Two of them were paying significantly more for their support than the others. That's because those two had their phone numbers set to ring even when my phone is in quiet mode. Just for the privilege of being able to wake me whenever you want, and get my attention even when I'm in the middle of a hike, you're paying substantially more.


It's always going to be easier to live underground or under the sea, and you don't see anyone doing that.

Or Antarctica too.

Like, pretty much any of those place has

0) Air at not a near vacuum

1) Liquid water

2) not a lot of radiation

3) appropriate gravity

Why would you want to even live on Mars? You have to essentially live in a very small pressure bunker at some rad-safe depth. Doing so for a little while would be fun and exciting, sure. Homesteading that life? Every one of your kids would opt to leave (if possible) the second they got a chance.


Well, I seem to recall hearing about this city called "Rapture" under the sea, and it didn't work out very well at all. Would you kindly read up on it?

To be fair many of Rapture's problems were extremely avoidable, except possibly by libertarian idealists.

"To get to our habitat, you take a commercial flight to Bali, then a two-hour trip by boat" just does not have the same ring as "it's a six month trip in a space ship, but in a couple decades it might be as fast as 30 days". Being far away from everything is a major part of the appeal

If it's possible to call me back to the SF office for a client meeting the day after tomorrow I'm not going


Won't somebody think of the disgruntled misanthropes?

Work expands to fill the available time. This applies to CPU time just as it does to project management.

"Collapse" isn't within the statistical distribution though, so you'd still to apply judgement in any case. I suppose it's a word with many definitions.

> "Collapse" isn't within the statistical distribution though

Uh? Maybe you could explain what you mean by this a bit more.


1. It's not a rigorously defined term.

2. "System collapse" would be unexplored territory, so how would statistical analysis be able to infer when it occurs?


1. Not really. If the crash rates we're seeing under the Trump administration are higher than any similar length period in the last ~10 years, we should start to worry.

2. See above.


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