btilly

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811.
by btilly 2y ago
His view is not just that they are not practical to compute at scale. (They actually are practical to compute. Just not with the formula. Use row reduction instead.) His view is that they are presented as an arbitrary piece of magic that pe
812.
by btilly 2y ago
Given the many organizational failures that Boeing has had in recent years leading to safety problems ( cough Dreamliner cough ), I'm quite sure that Boeing's engineers have no way to put their feet down. Afterwards one might co
813.
by btilly 2y ago
When I said helps, I didn't say by how much...
814.
by btilly 2y ago
Yes. When I've talked to ex-Microsoft people, they have ways to hook up an external debugger to the halted machine and walk through it. But the necessary tooling only exists at Microsoft.
815.
by btilly 2y ago
A lead suit helps. Of course you'd want it to be something like a light year thick. That may be impractical. Plus there are minor structural problems, such as how to stop it from spontaneously collapsing into a black hole.
816.
by btilly 2y ago
Let me check what came out in court. https://redmondmag.com/articles/2014/04/28/court-nixes-novel... The case brought to light an Oct. 3, 1994 memo from then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates, who indicated that
817.
by btilly 2y ago
Yes. Defender was legitimately better than the alternatives. In fact no AV at all was better - which is something that I learned from Google's Project Zero.
818.
by btilly 2y ago
You work deals for early access to your OS, and work to make your OS backwards compatible. Nobody wants to try to be selling consumer software that is optimized for the out of date and unsupported version of the OS.
819.
by btilly 2y ago
Sorry, who is being revisionist here? The use of platform specific code was a performance necessity at the time, everyone did it. Part of the promise of Windows 95 was that it could run your Windows 3.1 programs. They bent over backwards fo
820.
by btilly 2y ago
You could, and in fact this is what Microsoft wanted to do. The EU said that they couldn't. And the reason why not is simple. Anything that Microsoft thinks is a good thing to add to the API, they'll add for themselves. When the n
821.
by btilly 2y ago
Right. It's magic. But once you have the machine... ----- Fundamental Theorem of Algebra: Every nonconstant polynomial over the complex numbers has a complex root. Proof: Suppose that p(z) is a polynomial over the complex numbers with
822.
by btilly 2y ago
In complex analysis, all differentiable (in a region) functions are infinitely differentiable, and are the same as their Taylor series. Real analysis is a zoo of weird exceptions. Including 1/e^(-1/x^2) away from 0, 0 at 0. Its Ma
823.
by btilly 2y ago
The immediate problem isn't the authenticity of the speaker, it is the perceived authenticity of the speaker. Thanks to overuse, speakers who use those particular phrases won't get perceived as authentic. Which means that they w
824.
by btilly 2y ago
I can go one step farther with https://mort.coffee/home/considered-harmful-essays/ . That one was previous discussed on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9744916 .
825.
by btilly 2y ago
If you want to launch another process, might as well launch ps. The challenge here is how to get ps in an environment where the command won't run. And in that case, awk won't run either. As for why it might happen, well just save
826.
by btilly 2y ago
The power of git bisect is the best argument that I've seen for using git rebase. When you rebase, you get a much cleaner commit history. Which makes it much easier for git bisect to work and find the correct commit. I still lean agai
827.
by btilly 2y ago
The reason why OSM doesn't have it and Google does isn't because Google crowdsources it. It is because Google is straightforward to work with for the companies who provide that data, and OSM is impossible. Yes, there are companies
828.
by btilly 2y ago
It is kind of the central point of that idea? As Erin explains in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oYfhTC9lIQ , the question is how much context the speaker can assume that the listener has. In a low context culture, the spe
829.
by btilly 2y ago
What you think the book is, and what it actually is, are very different. It is not about stereotypes for judging someone from another culture. It is about how to think about other cultures so that we won't fail in stereotypical ways wh
830.
by btilly 2y ago
All models are simplifications. High versus low context is only one of many dimensions in its model.
831.
by btilly 2y ago
That is because the USA is low context while China is high context. For more about this and related topics, read https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00IHGVQ9I/ref=tmm_kin_swatch... .
832.
by btilly 2y ago
You may not be interested in politics, but politics is interested in you. Once science has become broadly accepted as an arbiter of truth, political action groups of all kinds will become interested in controlling science. This can happen
833.
by btilly 2y ago
What Title do you think has been granted by having a particular property right tied to a particular piece of property?
834.
by btilly 2y ago
You may trust the nation's top lawyers more than Congress. But in recent decades those lawyers have been picked for ideological purity in a process that distills what is bad about our political process. As a result I now trust Congress
835.
by btilly 2y ago
I do, thanks for the correction. Asbestos gets into our lungs, winds up poking us, and does a lot of damage on the way out. If it ever gets out. Some fibers can get stuck for years. It's entirely mechanical. Any strong enough fiber of
836.
by btilly 2y ago
The two main problems are how to manufacture them at scale, and how durable they are. A thin outer layer on your clothing tends to get fairly rough treatment. Think about sitting down, then scooting your butt back. How much force was that?
837.
by btilly 2y ago
I am concerned about all kinds of nanowires. If they are sufficiently strong, they should be able to damage your lungs in the exact same way that asbestos does. Not through a chemical reaction, but a mechanical process that damages cells. T
838.
by btilly 2y ago
The lower cost of a function call versus any microservice network call is a good performance advantage of a monolith. Monoliths also make refactoring code a lot easier. While in theory I agree about the spaghetti issue, in practice I haven&
839.
by btilly 2y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9562212 has a 2015 discussion of the same topic, with many good comments.
840.
by btilly 2y ago
Example, NYT reporting on the tech industry. I wish I was making that up. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33473275

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