acomjean

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formerly at Umass, EMCON, IBM, Northeastern, jarg, Raytheon and Powerhouse Dynamics, (Perrimon lab) Harvard medical school, now programmer at Boston University.
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Comment · 8 days ago
Or use an out of date library.

In our somewhat “developer assisted” AI development it planned to use a library. We looked the library up and the GitHub page indicated it was “no longer maintained use other library Z”. When told AI agreed and compared the original to the new library (helpful), but it seemed to heavily weight GitHub stars more than active development.

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Comment · 16 days ago
I had my car at a dealer. It was there so I asked for an estimate on a muffler fix. $7000. To be fair they also recommended trying the repair place down the street for that one.
Comment · 27 days ago
Offered to be paid with stock, took the cash. As someone who’s first startup is no long in business, and having cash in hand is appealing..

But yeah..

“well for a short time I was an employee of Apple Computer, employee number 12 and one day I helped move materials out of this garage. At the time Steve Jobs said that the company was short of loot so he offered to pay me in company shares, but I held out for the money - my mother still reminds me of that incident.”

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Comment · 29 days ago
Yamaha is another maker of various things:

Maker of electronic keyboards, outboard motors, jetskis, motorcycles, pianos, drums and guitars.

The logo appears to be 3 tuning forks.

Comment · 1 month ago
It was very useful for me finding a locksmith and junk remover. But i looked in the local threads.

But I noticed Reddit now showing me an ad for a site that seems to indicate it scrapes Reddit for local contractor reviews..

Comment · 1 month ago
I wonder if we need better programming abstractions/ languages that can make programming easier for people.

It seems like a lot of the programming is cookie cutter type stuff (where these ai programs shine) and should be easier.

They can be amazing, but promoting “make a pac man game” seems like an exercise in which model has the best training code that was Pac-Man.

Comment · 1 month ago
My neighbor had a EV.

It was always an issue, but he ended up moving to a more surban place. If you drove to work daily and they had charging it wouldn’t be an issue. Rapid charging isn’t that quick.

Though at my old office they started limiting time at the chargers. The city has recently started having public chargers.

One of the selling point of electric is you always start out with a full ish charge.

I’m on my bike on most days I commute. I like it better. Except in the winter where the lack of plowing of these separated bike lanes forced me onto public transit, which I don’t love. My car (2010 element) is gas but I only fill every 3 or so weeks.

Comment · 1 month ago
It should be. There are lots of good ideas of modifying copyrights so that its not the automatic 70 year after life of author (or what every it is now).

>unfathomable number of games that were released

One of the problems is that there are too many and hard to find curate to separate the good from the meh.

Comment · 1 month ago
Lisp is why I started using emacs and its parens matching features.
Comment · 1 month ago
Also city dwellers with street parking and it’s hard charge, so a pure EV is a bad fit.

Hybrids with their good mileage although complex are a good fit for those.

Comment · 1 month ago

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