StableAlkyne

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by StableAlkyne 6mo ago
Biggest life changer for me has been: git clone --depth 1 --branch $SomeReleaseTag $SomeRepoURL If you only want to build something, it only downloads what you need to build it. I've probably saved a few terabytes at this point!
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by StableAlkyne 6mo ago
Glad I'm not the only one! I love these kinds of games; played the heck out of Turing Complete and Zachtronics' Engineer of the People... But I'd never heard of 3 state logic until today. Really threw me for a loop! I'm
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by StableAlkyne 6mo ago
> but that's an implementation detail That sounds familiar... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/39980323/are-dictionarie...
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by StableAlkyne 7mo ago
Interesting, had no idea they used to make proper lab equipment
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by StableAlkyne 7mo ago
They sort of still do! It's just HP and HPE split up. HPE took all the nice enterprise stuff, plus the supercomputing business (they own Cray). HP took the consumer stuff, and proceeded to milk as much as they could.
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by StableAlkyne 7mo ago
I've noticed it's field dependent. Some fields don't really feel much need to publish in a real journal. Others (at least in chemistry) will accept it, but it raises concern if a paper is only available as a preprint.
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by StableAlkyne 7mo ago
Every field and every publisher has this issue though. I've read papers in the chemical literature that were clearly thinly veiled case studies for whatever instrument or software the authors were selling. Hell, I've read papers t
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by StableAlkyne 7mo ago
Short of developing psychic abilities, how would you then address the discoverability problem without relying on a third party? Forums, search engines, social media, and link aggregators are all third parties with their own ranking. Nobody
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by StableAlkyne 7mo ago
> And they feel they are entitled to this without ads for some reason And others feel they are entitled to passive income by hastily throwing together IP they did not create and do not own, apparently. Everything has to be a side hustle
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by StableAlkyne 7mo ago
What's with the purism? It's just a term used to differentiate one way of making a UI from another. Who cares about what is practical when you're just trying to give a thing a name. Even in your example, it's pretty cle
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by StableAlkyne 7mo ago
Being a few months behind schedule is forgivable for human space flight. If a SpaceX Falcon blows up on the pad, that's one thing. It's expensive but they accept that risk to move faster. At least they gain knowledge of what faile
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by StableAlkyne 7mo ago
> a metaverse that no one wanted That's the thing though, there is interest in "metaverse" style programs. VRChat, the biggest one, got 80k concurrent users last month (all time peak) according to SteamDB. Seems low, but
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by StableAlkyne 7mo ago
> LLMs are basically Stack Overflow on steroids That, and I've never had to beg an LLM for an answer, or waste 5 minutes of my life typing up a paragraph to pre-empt the XY Problem Problem. Also never had it close my question as a d
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by StableAlkyne 8mo ago
Related, I was talking to a computational chemist at a conference a few years ago. Their work was mostly at the intersection of ML and material science. An interesting concept they mentioned was this idea of "injected serendipity"
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by StableAlkyne 8mo ago
Awful news to hear. May its limitless frontiers rest in peace.
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by StableAlkyne 8mo ago
How do these compare to something like Tesseract? I remember that one clearing the scoreboard for many years, and usually it's the one I grab for OCR needs due to its reputation.
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by StableAlkyne 8mo ago
> Web sites are the new banner ads and headings like that are the new `<blink>`. It's been like this since the Dotcom era Or did you forget that you can do anything at zombo.com? It appears to be rather slow today, but here&#x
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by StableAlkyne 9mo ago
The most annoying ones are those which discuss loosely the methodology but then fail to publish the weights or any real algorithms. It's like buying a piece of furniture from IKEA, except you just get an Allen key, a hint at what parts
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by StableAlkyne 9mo ago
Those undergrads still need to be advised and they use lab resources. If you're a tenure-track academic, your livelihood is much safer from having them try new ideas (that you will be the corresponding author on, increasing your presti
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by StableAlkyne 9mo ago
> I'd love to see future reporting that instead of saying "Research finds amazing chemical x which does y" you see "Researcher reproduces amazing results for chemical x which does y. First discovered by z". Most
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by StableAlkyne 9mo ago
There's also the communications aspect: SO was/is a great site for getting information if (and only if) you properly phrase your question. Oftentimes, if you had an X/Y problem, you would quickly get corrected. God help you i
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by StableAlkyne 9mo ago
> Hard to trust it if it isn't fully OSS It's an emulated PDP-11, could you elaborate on the threat model here? I get that companies are being gross about logging everything online, but come on. It's okay to have fun. Who
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by StableAlkyne 10mo ago
It's less the fact that someone owns JS's trademark, and more that it's specifically Oracle (they got it when they bought Sun). Oracle is an incredibly litigious company. Their awful reputation in this respect means that the
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by StableAlkyne 10mo ago
I think what the GP was referring to was the "new" owner of Sears, who reorganized the company into dozens of independent business units in the early 2010s (IT, HR, apparel, electronics, etc). Not departments, either; full-on inte
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by StableAlkyne 10mo ago
Do you have a source for this? I don't see any indication from a quick Google other than this thread as the second result. The license at: https://github.com/juce-framework/JUCE/blob/master/LICENSE.m
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by StableAlkyne 11mo ago
It boggles the mind that they built a "low code" interface to designing websites, with the express purpose of making it easy to use... ..and then used Excel formulas of all things as the basis for its scripting language. It&#x27
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by StableAlkyne 11mo ago
It's crazy how much RAM has inflated in the last month. I checked the price history of a few DDR5 kits and most have tripled since September .
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by StableAlkyne 11mo ago
There's legitimately interesting research in using it to accelerate certain calculations. For example, usually you see a few talks at chemistry conferences on how it's gotten marginally faster at (very basic) electronic structure
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by StableAlkyne 11mo ago
That's where I'm at with these. I don't personally care if a product includes AI, it's the pushiness of it that's annoying. That, and the inordinate amount of effort being devoted to it. It's just hilarious at
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by StableAlkyne 11mo ago
Probably because just easier to catch a predatory fish than a land predator Throw a line in the pond, whatever bites will bite. Clean it and you've got dinner. Versus with hunting, historically (and even now) if you miss your shot or d

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