aleph_minus_one

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by aleph_minus_one 1mo ago
> while pathological liars like Musk and Altman are glossed over. You seem to live in a bubble where these people are worshipped ... :-(
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by aleph_minus_one 1mo ago
> Nothing in your comment makes me want to go learn more theory, and I would argue that it's nonsense to anyone who is not a mathematician. You are free to ignore mathematics that is not completely trivial. I prefer (and would rath
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by aleph_minus_one 1mo ago
I don't think she is untalented as a researcher in physics. Where she did not have talent at (and which is why she became a science YouTuber) is in "playing the career game" in physics research. Being a great researcher in so
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by aleph_minus_one 1mo ago
If you just want to do some stupid computations: sure. But this is not what mathematics is centrally about. The central point is the kind of thinking about the respective topics (and understanding it) which these more abstract definitions e
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by aleph_minus_one 1mo ago
> mathematicians or physicists fall into this category of knowing a lot about many thing . Sabine videos for example . she knows everything it seems Sabine Hossenfelder, for obvious reasons, knows quite a bit about physics, though on som
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by aleph_minus_one 1mo ago
> Is there’s something more to that? Yes: this is about building the quotient field (field of fractions) [1] for some integral domain, or more generally, building the localization ([2], [3]) of a commutative ring with respect to some giv
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by aleph_minus_one 1mo ago
> They are increasingly pulling away from the idea that they should mentor people to do better. Two considerations on this: 1. In the USA, it is common to switch jobs often (in opposite to, for example, Germany). So, in the US-American s
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by aleph_minus_one 1mo ago
> If you had actually thought through what you were doing, it was a few min to fill it all out. ... for people who are native speakers of English.
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by aleph_minus_one 1mo ago
> Just had a thought, what if you made new contributors write a human-authored essay on why they’re submitting a patch, and then check it against Pangram? The problem is writing such an essay takes magnitudes more of an effort for peopl
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by aleph_minus_one 1mo ago
> Is there any "western" values coalition? I would claim (both by living in Germany and the posted diagram) that for each of these values, most share this value, but not everybody. The problem is that for each value, the stak
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by aleph_minus_one 1mo ago
> Treating coding as the therapeutic reward for other things (typically tolerating bureaucracy) and then indulging obsessions about it absolutely is unhealthy. > And I've seen exactly this across multiple large and small organiza
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by aleph_minus_one 1mo ago
> If you see a person without legs, do you tell him he is a piece of shit because he can't run? So why harass autistic people? If you have not yet realized it, here is a black pill for you: most people are deeply manipulative and
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by aleph_minus_one 1mo ago
> Before cloud you had to hire a dedicated server and you were looking at $1000/month (in say 2000). Rather: perhaps 50-100 USD per month got and still gets you a quite good server to start your project. If you were looking for bar
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Every time a company has spent resources doing this, a competitor innovated on the software and made the custom hardware irrelevant. This often happened, though not always. An important counterexample are 3D graphics cards, which bas
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> I broadly agree with your thrust but I'm going to assume you're a bot. Who would benefit from such a perspective as yours? Not ReptileMan: Depending on the country and social environment that you live in, such opinions of &qu
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> will have to place a human behind the keyboard with the authority [...] to change the data from incorrect to correct. Whether such a person has such a permission in the system or whether the permission system of the software can actual
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> That being a slow process is not a software engineering issue, but an organizational issue. Business software is work processes that has been turned into code.
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> I'm trying to think of a single metric by which the EU hasn't been a massive success. - Number pages of lunatic regulations - Money gone into the EU - Not a metric, but fitting very different philosophies of how to handle the
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> If CEOs were legally required to regularly use their own products as an ordinary customer, the world would be a better place. This is like the argument "developers should use the software that they write" (dogfooding). Let m
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Nah, it should either become one, or dissolve, but this half baked shit definitely isn’t it. Since the current situation is shit, and one EU national state will be shit, too, this only leaves one option. :-) So let's dissolve the
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
My experience is rather that the typical software developer is ultra-cautious, and will always leave some loophole open in the workflows of the software in case something unexpected occurs that could not be foreseen, in particular consideri
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> America does it with 50 states And Germany has 16 federal states.
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> People here are always complaining about the EU as if it's a single state, even though it's very clearly in the process of becoming one. Rather: if you look at what the EU is doing, it is rather a huge advertisement that th
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Okay, so what I’m taking away and remembering here is that if I wrote software for programmers/“power users”, I should dogfood as much as possible, right? :-) Lessons that you should be taking away are rather: - Every tool that
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> There are a lot of devs who don't really like what they develope so don't spend any time dogfooding it. Note that in my comment I wrote nothing about dogfooding - for a very good reason: It is well-known that dogfooding lead
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Software written by people that don't use the software themselves. It has happened to me so many times, I come across a piece of software with weird bugs or interactions that would be immediately fixed if the developer just spends
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> (Another thing to keep in mind is that the systems of the time generally could not drive the kinds of resolutions and framerates that make those CRTs shine in some of today's comparisons. At the time the difference in quality in p
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Is there another game like Syndicate or Lemmings out there? Concerning Lemmings: Gemini listed the following games that are at least similar in spirit: - Humanity (2023) - Zombie Night Terror (2016) - Spirits (2011) - Craftlings (2026)
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
> Even Syndicate has a spiritual successor made by former syndicate devs For those who are asking: this successor is Satellite Reign: > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satellite_Reign
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by aleph_minus_one 2mo ago
Did you seriously believe that governments play fair? :-)

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