Certhas

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811.
by Certhas 7y ago
Maybe because the link is highly misleading. The linked email is not very offensive, and was not the reason for the ban, apparently. The EMails that were, were removed from the list.
812.
by Certhas 7y ago
> co-opt open source for political aims Are they though? I just clicked on the first links on the ESD website linked elsewhere and landed here: https://firstdonoharm.dev This is based entirely on the UN Charter of Human Right
813.
by Certhas 7y ago
It is illegal to take them? Or are you merely referring to the fact that it's illegal to sell them?
814.
by Certhas 7y ago
And why would energy be the limiting factor? Maybe the limiting factor will be accidental entanglement with the environment of your quantum computer, and you want to cool your system waaay down to avoid thermals interfering with your finely
815.
by Certhas 7y ago
I think my comment contains speculation that is labelled as such, and historical observations. What assumptions do you mean?
816.
by Certhas 7y ago
This is simple linear thinking and a lack of imagination. As well as empirically wrong. Population expansion in humans ended because our culture adapted to the end of child mortality. Actually the massive expansion we saw and see was becaus
817.
by Certhas 7y ago
The question is, why do you assume that advanced civilization would maintain 10^18 animal bodies to carry around brains? That's ridiculously inefficient. It's also unclear why you would expect an advanced civilization to be built
818.
by Certhas 7y ago
Collaborative editing of large, complex documents involving dozens of domain experts. The collaborative features of GSuite are best in industry, some other features are so - so. I know what expert Excel users can do with it, and it's t
819.
by Certhas 7y ago
Not the person you are replying to, but: I don't think anyone set out to create an intentionally racist map. But the effect can still be racist. If it's based on data-sources and concepts that have a Europe and Europe descendent f
820.
by Certhas 7y ago
Signal is on route to add contact/data recovery: https://www.signal.org/blog/secure-value-recovery/ ... they also cite this as a bottleneck for adding non-phone identifiers. It seems like they are putting the
821.
by Certhas 7y ago
FUD. The statement that we need drastic changes is not dependent on the details of the projection and is not based on it. Further, climate models have correctly predicted the heating we have already caused. We have known the rough level of
822.
by Certhas 7y ago
I started out with Pascal. Compilation was such a non-event... Subjectively entire programs compiled faster than a line of Julia takes today. Then again, if I remember correctly Pascal the language was written with ease of compiling in mind
823.
by Certhas 7y ago
But why would you remember a right hand or left hand rule? bivectors don't require you to. x ^ y = x y - y x^T is the generator of the rotation that rotates a vector in the direction y into the direction of x. There is absolutely nothi
824.
by Certhas 7y ago
I disagree, but then I used bivectors extensively in the geometric part of my mathematical research (back when) so I would. ;) y^2 = 1 is because it's a unit vector. The fact that bivectors are the correct way to view rotations is evid
825.
by Certhas 7y ago
That's not correct. Mathematically as they describe the same thing they have to be translatable into each other. But one is a natural mathematical definition, the other exploits a completely unintuitive incidental mathematical isomorph
826.
by Certhas 7y ago
Julia actually just includes a dedicated function for this case (mod1), and that covers the vast majority of places where 0 base is easier. In my cases of numerical code 1 based indexing causes fewer ±1 than 0 based indexing. (Nitpick: In m
827.
by Certhas 7y ago
This is silly. Different domains have different needs. If you think of arrays as pointer + offset calculation, and your only for loop has an explicit index increment in it, then starting at 0 is natural. If you are a systems programmer then
828.
by Certhas 7y ago
In your first paragraph you say that Brooks was right in his prediction. In your second you say you agree with the author that "open-source libraries and online forums, automated testing, and garbage collection" were the biggest g
829.
by Certhas 7y ago
Politics isn't medicine. Banning one technology might well make banning the broader practice easier (or harder). At the very least it creates precedent: This is a reason we ban technologies for. The notion that we must spurn incomplete
830.
by Certhas 7y ago
Arxiv hosting costs were posted elsewhere and are minimal. Less than the 30$ per published article that DA requires on top. From memory: <10$ per year per published article. So we have roughly 1660$ unaccounted for for IEEE. PRX costs 40
831.
by Certhas 7y ago
But it's really not disingenuous. They simply don't provide value for money. They are, in economic terms, rentiers. Arxiv isn't all of the cost, but the arxiv costs are order of magnitude accurate, that's what Gowers sho
832.
by Certhas 7y ago
I was quoting the number for submitted articles from Gowers blog, your number is accepted. Also, proofreading at publishers basically doesn't happen any more. And even if it would, it certainly doesn't account for the difference i
833.
by Certhas 7y ago
We don't need to speculate how much it costs to run a world class journal. The cost above arxiv is 15$ per Submission: https://gowers.wordpress.com/2016/03/01/discrete-analysis-la... IEEE charges 1700$+
834.
by Certhas 7y ago
7ct of that is power generation. The rest is taxes and other things. Nuclear does massively reduce the French CO2 Footprint. And French taxpayers will pay for storing the waste forever.
835.
by Certhas 7y ago
Have you tried reading the papers from the period? for the rest, enroll in a physics course and try to not fall into the conceptual traps that even many that have studied and taught physics have fallen into. Nothing is hidden, but it does t
836.
by Certhas 7y ago
So yeah, your agenda is not to learn or discuss but to push falsified fringe theories, that were exhaustively discussed until the eighties, when better data ruled them out...
837.
by Certhas 7y ago
Maybe a better way to phrase it would have been moving over the rubber/space? Or through the rubber/space? It really is motion relative to the underlying manifold though. Let's say there was such a thing as a gravitational so
838.
by Certhas 7y ago
What's your point? Do you want me to explain the basics of GR and Cosmology, including the vast amounts of evidence we have for everything in HN comments? Do you think you are pointing out subtle errors in reasoning that none of the te
839.
by Certhas 7y ago
Yes, any two bound objects will do so, irrespective of their mass or anything else.
840.
by Certhas 7y ago
It's not, but it might take more work than reading a few HN comments.

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