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by bsder 2y ago
> Hell, go watch Youtube Chemists who have Phds fail to reproduce old papers. Were those papers fraudulent? No, science is just difficult and failure prone. Agreed. Lab technique is a thing. There is a reason for the dark joke that in
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by bsder 2y ago
VSCode garnered such a significant market share that supporting VSCode almost immediately becomes your #1 editor (see Rust surveys: 2016-3%, 2017-30%, 2018-45%, 2020-54%, 2023-62%--note: VSCode was only released in 2016!). Since the LSP was
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by bsder 2y ago
"Not broken" trumps both simple and easy. Syntax highlighting on the open source editors was a pile of regex fail before VSCode came along and forced everybody into the LSP.
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by bsder 2y ago
> Still, can't think of a reason I'd back into a space in a parking lot. Safety. Several organizations that have automotive fleets recommend it for that. Pulling in backwards is safer because everybody can see everybody while
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by bsder 2y ago
Yeah, but have you seen the Tesla repair parts prices? Buying a used car presupposes the ability to service it.
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by bsder 2y ago
> MS is under no obligation to provide an OSS editor, but playing tricks after luring people in is not nice. Microsoft is partly to blame, but people have been warning about this over and over and over ad nauseam and people still choose
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by bsder 2y ago
1) Because Apple never had any volumes even remotely large enough to move the needle. The Commodore 64 moved way more units than anything Apple ever did until the iPod and the PC dwarfed even the stuff Commodore did. Apple doesn't e
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by bsder 2y ago
> it makes such a low amount of sense that you're inevitably going to get your students extremely confused if they are paying any attention at all. Normally because you encounter this with the Bernoulli experiment about blowing over
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by bsder 2y ago
The breakpoint was molecular biology around 1986 with the introduction of PCR. Once that happened, biology went from being alchemy to being science. I loathed biology as taught prior to that. Once I got a molecular biology course, I tho
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by bsder 2y ago
Pick a metric. Fourier is probably better in general . With respect to machine learning, probably the fact that Fourier is bounded and gives coherent (if completely random) results even very far from the interval of interest. However, thi
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by bsder 2y ago
Yeah, I thought the whole point of a polynomial approximation was that it is really only useful for the first couple of powers (quick and cheap) or because you have a particular process that you know a priori has a particular form (non-co
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by bsder 2y ago
> I just don't understand the bear case at all. I'm a nobody and I'm still willing to buy a $1500 gpu, and that GPU still can't do what the cloud does. Agreed, and for all the "price crash" I still can'
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by bsder 2y ago
This is because the correct answer is rarely the politically palatable answer.
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by bsder 2y ago
Pipelining is also nice until you have to use it for everything because you can't do alternatives (like default function arguments) properly. Rust chains everything because of this. It's often unpleasant (see: all the Rust GU
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by bsder 2y ago
Is the PGO data not a static file which is then fed into the compiler? That still gives you a deterministic compiler, no?
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by bsder 2y ago
So, for debugging, we're already in the REPL--which means an interactive environment and the very significant amount of overhead baggage that goes with that (heap allocation, garbage collection, tty, interactive prompt, overhead of mac
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by bsder 2y ago
> The zig community treats 'zig build' as "the compile step", ergo what "the compiler" gets ultimately is decided "at compile, er, zig build time". What the compiler gets, i.e., what zig build gene
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by bsder 2y ago
I'm going to make you defend that statement that they are "useful". I would counter than macros are "powerful". However, "macros" are a disaster to debug in every language that they appear. "comptim
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by bsder 2y ago
> The zig community bewilders me at times with their love for lashing themselves. The sort of discussions which new sort of self-harm they'd love to enforce on everybody is borderline disturbing. Personally, I find the idea that a
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by bsder 2y ago
> But for desktop use there are crazy good options these days Citation, please? Really, I'd love to know what those options are. I know of nothing that works particularly well on desktop on more than one OS. For all its faults, Ele
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by bsder 2y ago
I'm pretty sure this is what you want: "Collective Electrodynamics: Quantum Foundations of Electromagnetism" https://www.amazon.com/Collective-Electrodynamics-Quantum-Fo...
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by bsder 2y ago
> Look at HN, people hate the electron stuff. There is just a shortage of competent programmers. The problem is that, to first order, the web is the only thing that exists. To second order, the web and Windows are the only things that e
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by bsder 2y ago
> So, what did they do right, or what went right for them, that enabled them to make it? Desktop publishing. The Macintosh/LaserWriter cash cow absolutely dominated desktop publishing for a very, very, very long time. This gave Ap
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by bsder 2y ago
Quote of TFA: > I asked the Shepherd how a login goes from being captured to being shown on the Wall of Sheep. Their reply doomed our fun: “I’d type it in.” Oh no. That’s not good. “Isn’t it automatic?”, I asked. The Shepherd paused to r
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by bsder 2y ago
Agreed. The IBM PC wave was going to sweep the 1980s 8-bit computers aside no matter what they did. However, Tandy was the only one that could have survived as they had PC compatibles that were actually better than the original PC computer
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by bsder 2y ago
> It's pay. It's always pay. Indeed. I attended an injection molding conference and one of the panel discussions was about the poor state of hiring and retention. I stayed expecting to hear the standard complaints about the fa
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by bsder 2y ago
Not offhand, but it was an article talking about how they use background radiation to estimate cellular lifetimes.
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by bsder 2y ago
Fat cells only turn over about 20% per year. You basically need to maintain a reduced weight for 5 years before the fat cells "forget" the higher weight. If you come off it before that 5 years are up, yeah, you are probably expec
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by bsder 2y ago
Yeah, frozen is pretty good and quite often better nutritionally as it is more ripe than the "fresh" stuff since it doesn't have to be cosmetically appealing or to stay "fresh" while going on the trip through the co
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by bsder 2y ago
When the hell are we going to get an Austin or San Antonio Microcenter?

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