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by aeonik 1y ago
It's not my fault the universe is built on a hell of abstractions, I just model it. You ignore the reality of nature at your own peril. Besides, you can just use computers automate the wrangling of this hell. It's what they are go
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by aeonik 1y ago
I have some design ideas for a diy system, how much money/time are you willing to spend for experimentation? What counts as cheap to you? I'm thinking about automating something a long these lines: https://youtu.be&#x2F
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by aeonik 1y ago
Not OP but I'm in the same market, 3d printing and desktop CNC for me.
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by aeonik 2y ago
The easiest language I’ve used for async is Clojure—mostly because the language is immutable by default and ~99% of the code is referentially transparent. That doesn’t magically solve async, but it removes an entire class of headaches by nu
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by aeonik 2y ago
You're right to flag the distinction between symbols and substance, but I think you're misapplying it here. I'm not conflating symbolic systems with the physical substrate: they're obviously different levels of abstracti
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by aeonik 2y ago
All of that is rooted in physics though. Lnowledge and creativity absolutely are physical things. It's clear from brain injury studies that there are very localized and specific functions to this creativity. Drugs also clearly have a v
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by aeonik 2y ago
Everything is made out of just Protons, Neutrons, Electrons, along with some fields that allow interaction. (and Muons, Neutrinos, and a few others) Everything that is physical is nothing but remixes and recombinations of a very small set o
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by aeonik 2y ago
Hmm, My comment wasn't a prediction, it's just an observation on my personal experience. I find the opportunity for improvement exciting, and I'm optimistic for the future. Like, statistically most software I've seen wri
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by aeonik 2y ago
Software could be much, much cheaper if libraries were easier to use, and data formats and protocols were more open. So much code I have written and worked with is either CRUD or compatibility layers for un/under-documented formats. It
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by aeonik 2y ago
I talk to ChatGPT about some controversial things, and it's pretty good at nuance and devils advocate if you ask for it. It's more echo chamber, if you don't, or rather extreme principle of charity, which might be a good thin
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by aeonik 2y ago
Both of these things would technically be fraud I would think. Definitely hard to prosecute due to subjectivity though.
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by aeonik 2y ago
The Bruijn language is a really cool language that takes some of theae ideas to the extreme and fundamentals. Variables aren't named, they are beta reduced and referred to by abstraction level. https://text.marvinborner.de&#
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by aeonik 2y ago
This is true, but there are escape hatches to this, so it's not a true paradox. A few examples: If we could get a glass that melts at a lower temperature and is more impact resistant, we'd be halfway there. Also, if we could easil
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by aeonik 2y ago
You might be able the say the user could "plug in" the new functionality. Or it allows them to "install" a new "application"?
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by aeonik 2y ago
I thought this how she got started. She started making the videos for her own son who was having delayed development. It's pretty wild to be how young babies can start signing compared to speech development.
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by aeonik 2y ago
Just saying, I'd think about buying their desktop gear if Linux could take advantage of all the hardware.
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by aeonik 2y ago
One thing that I found out recently that blew my mind, is according to gravity calculations, neutron stars bend light almost as much as black holes, but because they still emit light from their surface, this means you would be able to see b
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by aeonik 2y ago
Your comment doesn't make any sense to me. A single kid sucks more time than you have in a regular day. You are sleep deprived, and in survival mode for the first part. If you have a lot of kids, after a certain age, the older ones can
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by aeonik 2y ago
I think it could be, but there is a lack of good prediction libraries that support accelerated versions of the GA types.
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by aeonik 2y ago
I agree that we should teach the quantum basis of things earlier. I just think a lot of people don't know it, and we don't have a good curriculum for kids to start with. We'd also need to revamp some of the math, chemistry, a
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by aeonik 2y ago
I'm not sure exactly what your imagining, but there are two principles that are related to your idea. 1. Particles are indistinguishable from each other. It's a very deep principle, i.e. a lot of stuff relies on this being true. 2
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by aeonik 2y ago
What? Not an a whole order of magnitude. I thought most orderants were around 0.5 to 1nm in diameter.
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by aeonik 2y ago
RMS is when you start using GNU/Linux and GNU Emacs. Then your left pinky falls off. RSI is related but more general stress injuries, that can happen anywhere.
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by aeonik 2y ago
I fell off a countertop and got a concussion when I was 2.5, it's a very vivid and painful memory. I also moved to a different state when I was 5. I have a very clear delineation of before and after the age of 5, and I have hundreds of
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by aeonik 2y ago
You could always do what I did, get your employer to pay for the Masters, still work full time. No debt, no opportunity cost. Wish one would let me do the same with a PhD.
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by aeonik 2y ago
Yeah, and Facebook is the least of your concerns. Defcon talk about the security of death certificates, and what happens to your life if you are targeted by this attack. https://youtu.be/9FdHq3WfJgs?si=gZ0f0ZmWSKlmCd1j
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by aeonik 2y ago
They really aren't shy about massive breaking changes. I'm still upset about Google Reader. https://killedbygoogle.com/
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by aeonik 2y ago
I am aware, but I wanted to illustrate the higher level idea of architecture issue vs memory issue. To keep it concise, I had take some liberties. If you have more time than me, please feel free to reproduce Log4J more accurately in Rust.
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by aeonik 2y ago
You can do the same thing in Rust as Log4J. I haven't tested this code, and definitely don't do this. This code is intended to lets attackers run any shell command by sending JSON with a "debug_command" field - similar t
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by aeonik 2y ago
The name didn't help, but the biggest issue was when I first encountered the format it was very difficult for me to find software that could play it. It's been a while, but IIRC Windows Media player and Realplayer didn't like

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