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by bmitc 2y ago
It seems like a pretty expensive assumption that landing the rocket is enough. Relaunching the rocket, which requires inspection and validation procedures and technology, is just as important as landing it.
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by bmitc 2y ago
> One is that landing back on the launchpad lets them refuel and relaunch immediately. How do they structurally, electrically, etc. checkout the rocket after landing?
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by bmitc 2y ago
> WebSocket is fairly inefficient protocol In what way? > This is adding complexity without additional benefit I'm not sure that's a given. For example, WebSockets actually implement a message protocol. You have gauarantees
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by bmitc 2y ago
Yes, I know that WebSockets layer over TCP/IP. But that both misses the point and is part of the point. The reason that I ask is that WebSockets seem to almost always be used in the context of web applications. TCP/IP still seems
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by bmitc 2y ago
Unrelated to this article, are there any reasons to use TCP/IP over WebSockets? The latter is such a clean, message-based interface that I don't see a reason to use TCP/IP.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Yep, that's my feeling everyday. I would have liked to have seen Patrick Warburton cast in that role, though. For example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PaghIdSJKvQ
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by bmitc 2y ago
While their stuff is brilliant at times, I don't actively seek it out because it leaves me pretty depressed and anxious. The parodies are almost indistinguishable from real events these days.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Why not just ask him? > The rest allegedly fell victim to the E-Mail deletion policy at OpenAI. I have never worked in a place that deleted emails. And OpenAI is not even that big or old. I suppose I am not surprised.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Apple is probably the world's best marketing and logistics company. They're a consumer electronics company second. I don't even like the taste of their marketing, but there is no doubt that they have been able to create this
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by bmitc 2y ago
And maybe they shouldn't be actively given tax breaks .
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by bmitc 2y ago
F# is much easier to teach and learn than C#.
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by bmitc 2y ago
> Dem messaging on economic policy was nonexistent. In what way do you think the Republicans care about the economy? How should the Democrats communicate better that the Republicans tank the economy with every presidency only to be recov
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by bmitc 2y ago
This is an extremely bizarre take. People just re-elected someone who tried to overthrow the government and is a complete know-nothing. It's well reported that he doesn't actually do anything during his presidency until he acts on
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by bmitc 2y ago
Are others violating this law having such an outsized influence on U.S. politics? Here, you have an illegal immigrant who has built multiple companies on the backs of billions of dollars of taxpayer money and uses it to spread misinformatio
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by bmitc 2y ago
That's my exact experience with GitHub Copilot. Even boilerplate stuff it sucks at as well. I have no idea why its autocomplete is so bad when it has access to my code, the function signatures, types, etc. It gets stuff wrong all the t
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by bmitc 2y ago
Physicists are in general the worst science "journalists" as they often think they know everything outside of their domain and confidently comment on such. Meanwhile, physics is actually the easiest science in a sense due to its
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by bmitc 2y ago
It really makes me wonder how and why Microsoft and Google can't create a cross-platform GUI ecosystem that lasts. Like, they both will have multiple operating systems and platforms such as web and mobile in use at their company and no
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by bmitc 2y ago
Isn't it pretty well documented that he made several decisions that turned out to not pan out and then were nearly immediately reversed by the current CEO that turned out to be massive successes? That doesn't scream "underrat
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by bmitc 2y ago
> Neil deGrasse Tyson, Sabine Hossenfelder, Brian Greene None of those three "cover" any topics. They push their own topics and agenda, which can often be fringe or counterculture and highly personal pet preferences or topics.
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by bmitc 2y ago
That's true. Haha! There's another option and that's setting up an Erlang node in the other language. The Erlang term format is relatively straightforward. But I'm honestly not sure of the benefit of a node versus just u
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by bmitc 2y ago
That's a paper thin argument. Convenience is not an anti-depressant. Additionally, all of those things had pre-Internet versions that were just fine and in some cases were even superior. And none of them existing now necessary necessit
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by bmitc 2y ago
It's also important to point out ports, because as you mention, NIFs are a way to integrate external code. But as someone else points out, NIFs can crash the entire BEAM VM. Ports are a safer way to integrate external code because they
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by bmitc 2y ago
Why does everyone always like to compare every company to Amazon? Those companies are never like Amazon, which is one of the most entrenched companies ever.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Fine with me. I've even considered turning off Copilot completely because I use it less and less.
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by bmitc 2y ago
Ignoring this C++ proposal, especially because C and C++ seem like a complete nightmare when it comes to this stuff, I've almost gotten into the habit of treating a "byte" as a conceptual concept. Many serial protocols will o
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by bmitc 2y ago
Regarding Davies' book, what are the first four miracles that the title is referencing?
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by bmitc 2y ago
Applying a smooth structure to a manifold to make it a smooth manifold is like a patching process that makes it look like a Eucliden space. Most of calculus and undergraduate math, engineering, and physics takes place in Euclidean space R^n
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by bmitc 2y ago
There's a section here about phenomena in 4 dimensions: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/4-manifold One of the most surprising is that all smooth manifolds of dimension not equal to four only have a finite number of
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by bmitc 2y ago
Actually, the most counterintuitive is 4-dimensional space. It is rather mathematically unique, often exhibiting properties no other dimension does.
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by bmitc 2y ago
I have always felt that somehow Linux and proponents of it default to every decision it made being right and everything else, namely Windows, being wrong. I honestly feel Linux is orders of magnitude more complex. It is much easier, in my e

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