Ma8ee

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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Because it's not an experimental result. There are two disparate experimental results, one about superpositions and one about gravity. There's no experimental result about gravity being or not being in superpositions. What will ha
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
It used to be that there was some experimental result or other phenomena that required explanation which lead to a theoretical model that could be tested. That worked very well. Now there’s some theoretical considerations that leads to a th
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I just briefly looked into what Jonathan Oppenheim is working on, and I’d say he’s part of the problem. More speculative work that might or might not be testable in a distant future.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
First, I didn't say that I thought everything already was discovered, but that the fundamental physics community doesn’t discover new things. That is due to how physics research is practiced today and has nothing to do with how much th
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I think the prize in 2022 was a nice prize, but it could still be considering just tidying the corners. In the end it just proved that things really work as most of us has thought it worked for decades.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Could you give me some examples of areas of fundamental physics that are vital and have done some significant discoveries lately? I genuinely would like to know, because I really can't think of any.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I think this is the Royal Academy of Sciences way to admit that Physics as a research subject has ground to a halt. String theory suffocated theoretical high energy physics for nearly half a century with nothing to show for it, and a lot of
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
It depends on what you mean by “good enough”. Most developers today aren’t particularly passionate about it, and certainly not obsessed, but the demand for them is high enough so they still are “good enough” to have relatively cushy jobs.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Maybe there's a joke here that I'm not aware of, but my question was mostly why they think dairy is necessary. I do believe that potatoes isn't enough, but you don't need dairy products.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Why do you think so?
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Which isn’t relevant to the discussion in the example.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
> it’s not illegal to “hack” your own car I'm certain some car company will sue you if they get to know that you did.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
They don’t have to cover every single aspect, only those that are relevant to the discussion. The analogy with water in tubes for electricity is not an oversimplification when you explain relationships between voltage and current in a resis
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
No, not all analogies of physics are oversimplifications, only those that leave out parts that are essential to the discussion. If you leave out the properties that are special about entangled systems from the analogy, it can't shed an
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Your analogy with the apples is an oversimplification of what is going on that misses an important aspect of the system: the measurements aren't independent. The type of measurement you do effect the result of the measurement your frie
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I guess it is just a typo, but Songs from a Room is from 1969. For me his first three albums: Songs of Leonard Cohen, Songs from a Room, and Songs of Love and Hate made a kind of trilogy. I've always loved these ones, while his other a
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
And sometimes security or IT just play it excessively, and never allow anything just to make sure they can't be blamed for anything: "No, you can't improve the situation with the Linux servers that hasn't been updated si
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
It all depends. If you buy $500 worth of clothes that will last some years, or you fly transatlantic to meet some relatives every few years or make an trip important for your personal or professional development, I’m fine with both. If you
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
The quality of the clothes is irrelevant. The problem is the idea that you need to wear this week’s fashion. If the clothes you bought last week are made to last or not doesn’t matter if you won’t wear them again either way. Good quality cl
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Because a lot is produced and thrown away after one use or two because it’s so cheap. Most things that people spend money on doesn’t waste as much resources and produce as much garbage.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
True, but actually reading a book about the language to understand the philosophy behind it and its trade offs speeds up the process enormously.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Not at all. Yak shaving is getting caught up in all the surrounding, sometimes supporting tasks, so you never get to the main task. Yak shaving is spending time finding the ultimate editor, choosing between syntax highlighters and schemes,
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Yes, but your comment gave the impression that you could create quality software without testing. No one is going to interpret your comment as a call for replacing automated tests with manual tests, but many might read it as “testing in its
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I’d say, as beneficial. But as you say, not as straightforward. One if the reasons functional programming is popular is because it makes it easier to test, but it’s not that other code needs less testing.
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
My point is that there isn't a tradeoff between getting "real work" done or writing tests. Either you write tests, or you spend the even more time mitigating the consequences of not writing tests. You can't save time by
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
> There are no tests there, but for the non-tech types who created these monsters, spending time on writing a test suite has a very real cost - there's less time to do the actual job they were hired for! Not spending time on writing
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
You need tests for all part of the functionality you care about. I write tests for making sure that what is persisted is what we get back. Just the other day I found a bug due to our database didn't care about the timezone offset for o
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
Of course there were tests, just not automated tests! In better run organisations they had test protocols, that is, long lists of tests that had to be run by manual testers before any new version could be released. Your manager had to mak
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
And this is what a lot of developers do: copying superficial patterns without understanding. It used to be junior (and not so junior) programmers using unnecessarily complex design patterns without understanding what problems they were abou
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by Ma8ee 2y ago
I’ve been balding since I was 23 and trimmed my head for about 2 decades now. I can’t grow a decent beard for the life of it, but my eyebrows need regular trimming, so I am considering letting them grow for a magnificent comb over.

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