RagnarD

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by RagnarD 3y ago
Yes. Good thoughts but bottom line, it's trying to shoehorn something completely different into a form that makes it appear sophisticated. I think it just undercuts science. The periodic table is formed by important features of reality
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by RagnarD 3y ago
A nitpick is this statement: "The massive difference in weight between a rocket full of fuel and an empty one means that a reusable rocket can’t hover if it can’t throttle down to a very small fraction of its original thrust, which in
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by RagnarD 3y ago
This is an unusually rare, worthwhile piece. It's rare for somebody to be both very grounded, with a personal history of hands-on practical competence, yet simultaneously abstracting his experience to a high philosophic level.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I developed several iPhone apps. While I didn't run into something as serious as this, I have a hard time seeing how any company could invest serious money into developing an app that Apple - in its sole judgement - can capriciously re
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Hmm. I quickly made up an example of a logical fallacy and asked GPT-4 about it. Seemed to do a pretty good job, to me. > All apples are red. All apples are fruit. My car is red, therefore my car is a fruit. Find the logical error -----
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by RagnarD 3y ago
From what I've gathered from reading over the years, this is actually potent and a dangerous game for the participants. Specifically, it can lead to personal bonds that aren't actually warranted by any good reason. Some may assume
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I'd like to see Visual Studio able to use Fossil for its source control management rather than only really supporting Git. I suppose Microsoft owning Github is a major factor there, but it would be nice if there was at least an extensi
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Not to be unkind but simply factual: the author is clearly not a great developer. e.g.: "At one point, we wanted a command that would print a hundred random lines from a dictionary file. I thought about the problem for a few minutes, a
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by RagnarD 3y ago
What if a candidate notes that web hits can come from all parts of the planet and every timezone and therefore "same day" for a particular end user does NOT overlap with the "same day" of the log files and thus immediate
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by RagnarD 3y ago
You certainly wouldn't want salt on any circuit boards. Liquid would be extremely conductive, and dried salt crystals wouldn't be great either. Might be like glitter.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
One is fewer than 30. Did he have any? How was he making money at all?
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by RagnarD 3y ago
It's unfortunate that I only now found about this site, now that it's shut down.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Quote from one highly unconventional modern philosopher: Most men spend their days struggling to evade three questions, the answers to which underlie man's every thought, feeling and action, whether he is consciously aware of it or not
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by RagnarD 3y ago
To elaborate, I've written a number of compilers in years past. I highly recommend it as an exercise in learning about parsing, code emission, etc. Anything that gets a developer closer to understanding that process, rather than a myst
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Playing chess is easy. Playing good chess - not so much. Playing world class chess - good luck.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Are account balances stolen along the way? How do people get their funds out?
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by RagnarD 3y ago
For a mere $37,500, including renewals.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
"You’re basis for truth often relies on authority of your source." No. This is such a common logical error that it has an old name: Argumentum ad Verecundiam (often shortened to Verecundiam, or Appeal to Authority in English.) Say
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by RagnarD 3y ago
In my experience, one of the devil details is continuously keeping such a database updated. Without a set of common standards among the various governments, they can capriciously change URLs, formatting, and other details that may make it s
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I wonder if using this makes the most sense from a "security by obscurity" standpoint. It doesn't seem likely that blackhats would spend a lot of time hacking into such a marginally used OS.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I’ve been paying for Kagi for a couple of months so far and I’m pretty happy with it. No ads, not just the usual expected sites, and easy ability to up rank, down rank, or even block sites for future searches.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I'm a little surprised that the professor didn't demonstrate how the e^(i x) = cos(x) + i sin(x) identity can be used to quickly and intuitively show a more specific famous equation: e^(i pi) = -1 You only have to see that cos(pi)
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I wonder if those who routinely get pissed about the ongoing replacement of JavaScript with high level languages compiled into WebAssembly understand that this sentiment originates precisely from the fact that JavaScript code is typically (
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by RagnarD 3y ago
I continue to be delighted by indications that real high level languages compiling to Webassembly are supplanting the godforsaken nightmare of JavaScript. I think anyone focusing solely on JS is overdue for looking at those languages and ge
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by RagnarD 3y ago
This underscores the problem with GPT-4 currently. It apparently can't do what any legitimate programmer can do: look at code and simulate operations in their head. Of course programs need to be run on actual hardware with real program
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by RagnarD 3y ago
What "Patron Saints" section? Where?
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by RagnarD 3y ago
It's a grave mistake to take any single individual's assessment too seriously.
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Function follows form. No animal's shape is arbitrary. It's the result of eons of evolution and generally results in morphology quite unlike inanimate objects. When we see a sculpture of something alive - at least a representation
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Really? Let's see a natural rock formation precisely in the shape of a human being or other animal. There are of course natural rocks capturing living forms: fossils. And a huge number of them are completely obviously from ancient life
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by RagnarD 3y ago
Hmm, maybe those who could afford the extreme expense of living there got tired of contending with uncontrolled violent crime and a really (literally) shitty environment? It's not as though people with money have their pick of the enti

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