Rayhem

19 ms·

91.
by Rayhem 4y ago
Curious. Cats with multiple owners/friends are notorious for finding ways to get fed repeatedly.
92.
by Rayhem 4y ago
> Specialization is for insects, and engineers without ADHD. Specialization is not just for insects if you want to do things like go to the moon or formulate a polio vaccine. It is the unfortunate nature of tough problems that they req
93.
by Rayhem 4y ago
I'm also quite fond of the "forced shutdown days" idea. Shutdown the entire place the week of Christmas and the 4th of July (or whatever holidays, except a skeleton crew to handle emergencies and compensate them with time els
94.
by Rayhem 4y ago
This feels like an over-the-top microoptimization with very little data behind it. By the same reasoning, you're also preferentially giving benefits to people who are willing to be seen face-to-face which could counter a slight asshole
95.
by Rayhem 4y ago
Adaptive vents, too. Why cool the whole house when I'm going to be in two rooms for the majority of the (hot) afternoon before opening the window to the bedroom in the evening?
96.
by Rayhem 4y ago
> Looking back, I was pretty much not where I should have been at age 18 either. I offer no conclusion and intend no oblique subtext, but is it not equally valid to suggest that, historically, we have expected too much of eighteen year o
97.
by Rayhem 4y ago
The elderly also have wisdom to offer. The baby only has potential wisdom. Of course, if you're trading on potential, the baby could potentially grow up to be a serial killer. Or the elderly could potentially be mute.
98.
by Rayhem 4y ago
The point of the trolley problem isn't to answer the trolley problem (either globally in the framework of moral absolutism or locally in the framework of "what do you personally value?"). The point of the trolley problem is t
99.
by Rayhem 4y ago
> Some problems, rather specific ones, such as prime factoring. This is absolutely how we understand the technology now , but I think it's worth noting that computing luminaries also thought "640Kb of memory was more than enou
100.
by Rayhem 4y ago
> It’s obvious that the relationship is not as simple as one input, one output. Yes. It's easy to say "if we assume everything is linear...". Justifying that assumption and demonstrating that it's valid is another,
101.
by Rayhem 4y ago
I wholly agree with you and your commentary here is one of the most profound things I've read about software engineering in a long time. But, to play devil's advocate, > I'm guessing it's just because that is the co
102.
by Rayhem 4y ago
Fool's chocolate.
103.
by Rayhem 4y ago
Job != research. Many people see a PhD as an indicator of "really smart person" (good for jobs!...maybe...until you have too many of them and they get bored or act like divas), but it's more an indicator of an ability to do i
104.
by Rayhem 4y ago
Yes, precisely. Indexing and counting are different operations.
105.
by Rayhem 4y ago
This is an interesting point, though, respectfully, I do still think it's ad homenim. Internet arguments being what they are I don't much care, but I offer my reasoning here to better understand your point. OP did not engage wit
106.
by Rayhem 4y ago
Notice how you're ad homenim-ing the structure of the argument and not the argument itself? I do not at all see how putting quotes around that word invalidates the argument. I did so because mathematical literature doesn't refer t
107.
by Rayhem 4y ago
> ...there is a correctness benefit over C/C++ for a disciplined programmer. Businesses want cheap programmers, not disciplined programmers. It's a great utopia if everyone just follows the best practices and does it perfectly
108.
by Rayhem 4y ago
> Because starting with 0 is neither math nor array indexing in general. It very, very much is. Polynomials all start at a zero "index", as does just about every expansion I can think of (Fourier, Bessel, Legendre, Chebyshev, S
109.
by Rayhem 4y ago
There are many reasons the "-by-1" doesn't make sense. * If a vector is an n-by-1 array (a "matrix"), why not an n-by-1-by-1-by-1-by-1? * What is a row vector in something like a function space? Is sin(t) a row or c
110.
by Rayhem 5y ago
Eigen has one of if not the best linear algebra APIs I've ever seen. In particular, vectors are column vectors by default and you never need to touch row vectors (if I can editorialize, row vectors shouldn't exist at all), and vec
111.
by Rayhem 5y ago
> All of the things you listed are extremely privileged... The vast majority of people, even in the tech industry, do not have these privileges. This is so deliberately myopic as to make me question whether your argument is in good faith
112.
by Rayhem 5y ago
> the option for not having the official COVID green pass app here in Italy is to find an authorized place that will print you a green pass on paper, and it's hard to find one, let alone schedule everything and get there without a
113.
by Rayhem 5y ago
> Anything custom made for the gov MUST BE FOSS as money is from the people, so people MUST own it. I tend to think the same way/hold the same ideologies, but is this really "true"? Something like, say, a tank is also prod
114.
by Rayhem 5y ago
> When did virtue signaling become a bad thing? I'll offer no commentary on whether "Sunshine Protection Act" is virtue signaling, but I think virtue signaling is less "talking about having done virtuous things"
115.
by Rayhem 5y ago
> Also I wonder if there's an intensive thermodynamic property that actually says how much thermal energy is in the system, since temperature apparently won't do it? Thermodynamic beta[1] does exactly that. If we consider tempe
116.
by Rayhem 5y ago
Lasers do this. The essential idea is that an incoming photon (of some specified energy E) knocks a bit of energy (specifically also E) out of an excited particle which leaves as another photon. To make this happen, you need more particles
117.
by Rayhem 5y ago
Basically. Instead of a and b, let's just look at L(ow) and H(igh) energy states. If I have the ground state, L L L L there's only one way to arrange the system: everything in the low state, and the entropy is log(1) = 0.
118.
by Rayhem 5y ago
Trivially, simpler is not always better. A bike is simpler than a car, but it is not at all what I want if I have to go to the hospital.
119.
by Rayhem 5y ago
Has session had a proper security audit anywhere?
120.
by Rayhem 5y ago
> Hm ... I'm not sure if I fully agree or not to be honest... The comments here seem to agree, but I'm not sure, either. I think there's merit to simplifying the structure like this, but, at the risk of projecting my own b

More ›