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   by crdrost 4y ago

   So my actual favorite first example is to do this with Fibonacci numbers as a linear recurrence relation, but that's not really a "physical" interpretation. Let me give you my favorite physical one: The essence of special rel
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   by crdrost 4y ago

   “Check out this big artificial lake and this church that was moved on train tracks once” (Goes to investigate) There's a frickin wizard tower next door, you're burying the lede! https://en.mapy.cz/zakladni?moje-map
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   by crdrost 4y ago

   These aren't subs, they are ships. I would imagine the plane circled overhead at a low altitude several times, tried to get their attention, kept going away and seeing if they would follow, kept going back when they didn't. And pe
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   by crdrost 4y ago

   Square rigs do not sail directly downwind, at least not if they have multiple masts. You always sail at an angle and tack the yards appropriately. Otherwise the foremast’s sails would luff. Square masts can sail upwind, it's not as eff
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   by crdrost 4y ago

   It is interesting that the source article from Chaitin it seems to regard its own title as mere wordplay, it does not want to get into the Morpheus Question “What is real? How do you define real?”... But the response seems to take it ve
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   by crdrost 4y ago

   You don't need to discriminate to do it, as mentioned in comments below about continued fractions. In brief, π can be represented as a stream of integers, [ 3, 7, 15, 1, 292, 1, 1, 1, 2, 1, 3, 1, 14, 2,
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   by crdrost 4y ago

   1. Available on Windows without WSL, possibly the biggest time saver for those affected 2. Auto ignores .gitignore files, so does not search node_modules or build/ etc., huge noise reduction there. 3. -t/-T gates on file extension
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   by crdrost 4y ago

   Except this is Stripe we're talking about, so it should read “Neglect: Maybe if we starve the customer to death they'll stop bugging us.” They are the “food”, the connection to incoming nutrition in the form of revenue.
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   by crdrost 4y ago

   A 2012 tweet said, “for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change” and clarifies in a comment “Glad you found it helpful. Sometimes when the work is hard it signals that we're doin
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    I don't know that I'd use the term abuse, but the basic idea is that there are things called odds ratios (Bayes' theorem looks especially convenient with them!) as distinct from things called probabilities... The distinction
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    He/she is saying something slightly different, not “I like that I can do this by feel without percentages” but rather “I like how, by a quick glance at this percentage, I know something about how that will feel in the bowl.” 60% hydrat
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    It grows in every way, because it grows in no way. Does a dog have the Buddha nature?
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    There were a bunch of answers, but this is the one that is the most handy in my toolkit. Linear growth of A on B: For every new B, k new As emerge, for some k (could be and often is fractional). Quadratic growth of A on B: A grows appro
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    It is an extremely counterintuitive result, I agree. The basics are that your standard grocery store plastic bag is made of a very very small amount of plastic, and thus a very very small amount of oil went into it. The environmental costs
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    This is an interesting take. One does need to draw a distinction between “what everybody writes” (copilot generates) and “what has to be written” (this code is the ‘useless’ stuff bemoaned by the parent comment). Obviously everybody writes
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    So I don't necessarily want to get too far into this because this is HN and religious discussion kind of doesn't belong here... But let me say very briefly that if someone calls themselves a Christian but mocks you for not having
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    So my nerdiness is a very particular niche and a book about certain conference on Episcopalian growing pains called Shaping Our Future happened to fit into it, like nobody I show this book to seems to find it interesting but me, haha. But
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    So like I don't appreciate this sort of thread normally, I feel like it pollutes our contexts. (Though I confess on some occasions saying to myself something like “this is going to get downvoted to hell, but I have the karma to afford
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    Sorry that I'm not seeing this until 8 days later, haha. What I will say is that this particular question is a sort of meta-question. So the underlying question is "Why is there something rather than nothing?" and the basic s
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    Thanks for this link!
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    I find that this doesn't shed too much light for the way I think. Since I don't have a blog let me use this comment as one: If you want a significantly simpler way to "understand transducers", first meditate on this Type
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    Yeah I had to skim through it as well. I think the author probably has written something that has passed peer review, but has either written so many such things that he has gotten sick of terseness and getting to the point, or so few things
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    I agree, and I love the metaphor too, but you have to admit that something about the metaphor isn’t reaching peoples’ brains the way a good metaphor does. A good litmus test here is to ask someone, “what if I told you that technical debt wa
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    It is in the history of the programming language Smalltalk, that it was meant to usher in a new era of computing. This era would be built on several basic principles. The first one is that you would have no real separation between source co
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    Marx talks about this a bit in Das Capital ... You would think that the automation of an industry improves working conditions inside of it, in practice the opposite has usually been true: fewer people work longer hours in ever-more-tedious
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    This is also where automated code quality checks can shine. You can say something like, if it's more than 5 or 10 lines we expect a ticket ID, otherwise we don't. See DeGrandis’s “Making Work Visible,” the hazard of “link to a tic
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    I like this, but it violates one of my norms, haha. Stories can last for a while, but long-lived feature branches have to be kept in sync with the main branch, otherwise they develop nasty merge conflicts and you are not deploying continuou
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    Ugh sorry for weird autocorrect errors, I had to abandon for a mealtime haha... I was going to add that there are also mechanisms outside the language, for instance that you might just detect if you can do something by catching the exceptio
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    Yeah I would tend to agree! I think there is freedom to do something like semver where you have breaking.nonbreaking.bugfix, which might be less “strong”... But in a world with time travel you tend to get surprised by rollbacks which is why
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    by crdrost 4y ago

    It's not really a curse. Your brain has a region which is devoted to speech/language, and that region tends to only track one thing at a time. This is why the first advice in active listening tutoring—and related fields like marri