crispyambulance

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by crispyambulance 5mo ago
> ...sneaker company that pivoted to data centers set the 'weird' bar pretty high... "Weird" is the wrong word for Allbirds. "Fraud" is far more fitting. They obviously have no intention running an AI-datace
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by crispyambulance 5mo ago
I think USB-C is certainly a step in the right direction. The remaining problem is the lack of CLEAR, easy to understand markings on the cable that indicate whether it’s intended as power delivery cable or as a 10Gbps data cable or as a thu
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by crispyambulance 5mo ago
Apparently, you can use it in RPN mode!
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by crispyambulance 5mo ago
RIP. He was an amazing human. I worked for a time at JCVI when it was in Rockville, shortly after he had left Celera Genomics. He led a team that did something which was considered intractably difficult-- sequencing whole genomes. Then he d
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
It's "complex enough" to be notable for it's complexity and thus a good example for considering the character and economics of complex machinery. It's kind of pointless to fret about whether it's "the most
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
When practitioners say "PCR" they don't (usually) just mean amplifying DNA for use as part of the input to another process. What they usually mean is PCR with chemistry that selectively amplifies some specific sequence of DNA
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
That font, and how it's integrated with the math looks amazing. Katex for the math?
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
The OP just told us all what it was about. You don't know any more or less than I do. I simply am skeptical of their smug take on it.
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
None of us knows the exact situation but the fact that the person said his documentation was "complete, correct, and relatively terse" is a red-flag. It seems to me like smug over-confidence. If the document really was so clear an
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
> I'm not saying that readability can't be a consideration when making documentation. I am saying that if you discard accuracy in the process, you've fucked up quite badly. You're right to elevate accuracy to a high l
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
> The documentation was complete, correct, and relatively terse. Less than a page. No, that's YOUR IMPRESSION of your own writing. There are many reasons why others might not find what you wrote sufficient to understand it.
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
Spherical harmonics are basically a fourier series. They're a complete orthonormal set of basis functions for functions for the unit sphere. Whereas the fourier series from calc 101 is a complete orthonormal set of basis functions on t
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
Tools, done right, are a joy to use and allow you to be expressive and precise while also saving you labor. Good tools promote mastery and creative inquiry. Git is NOT that. Git is something you use to get stuff done, until it becomes an ir
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
I am convinced that the vast majority of professionals simply don't bother to remember and, ESPECIALLY WITH GIT, just look stuff up every single time the workflow deviates from their daily usage. At this point perhaps a million person-
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
Simple question that doesn't seem to be addressed by "speed tests". Does 25Gbps matter? I mean, it's not like your online services are going to be "faster", right? Is Netflix or any other web endpoint that norm
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
I no like. It sort of reminds me of when palm-pilots (circa late-90's early 2000's) used short-hand gestures for stylus-writing characters. For a short while people's handwriting on white-boards looked really bizarre. Except
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
I do, sport, like everybody else.
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
I got some too. Obviously the principles behind quantum computing are perfectly sound. It's just those pesky engineering obstacles. One of the companies around today or in the near future will be the one who makes it work at a practica
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by crispyambulance 6mo ago
I think the VC/investor community needs to take A LOT of blame here. They've created an insane rush to financialize everything to moon at the drop of a hat. I mean, even Andresson-Horowitz was taking NFT's seriously as though
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by crispyambulance 7mo ago
I use a scheme variant in an optics simulation product. It's actually very pleasing to work with. I wish there was more stuff like this. Lispy programming languages and CAD seems like a natural fit. That said, python is preferable for
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by crispyambulance 7mo ago
I love it too. It's a really positive aspect of AI. And it's NOT because it "takes jobs away from developers". In this case, there was NO (professional/career) developer and NO software product focused on what this
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by crispyambulance 7mo ago
There's a difference between "posturing" for show and actually "preparing for war". They're wise to the fact that "the Stable Genius" isn't going to try anything violent with Denmark/Greenla
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by crispyambulance 7mo ago
> Like all things that irk overly technical people it [AI-written copy] will be completely missed by the masses... I find the opposite is true. AI-written copy is an instant turn-off to non-tech folks but many tech-focused people tolerat
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by crispyambulance 8mo ago
They almost certainly did not. They likely just hired a cheap contractor to get their service up, and went with it when "it worked". The contractor (who was certainly incompetent) probably looked at a bunch of nightmarishly comple
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by crispyambulance 8mo ago
I accept that AI-mediated productivity might not be what we expect to be. But really, are CEO's the best people to assess productivity? What do they _actually_ use to measure it? Annual reviews? GTFO. Perhaps more importantly, it'
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by crispyambulance 8mo ago
The practice of using a physical notebook, IMHO, is steadily fading into quaint retro irrelevance for most people in most roles. I have seen absolutely meticulous lab notebooks before. Each page numbered and dated, cut-outs of graphs taped
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by crispyambulance 8mo ago
>> Let the physicists build the damn thing and future society will be better off for sure. > Absolutely not. And what do YOU mean, "absolutely not"? You have no more say in what happens than anyone else unless you're
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by crispyambulance 9mo ago
> I have ADHD. I think. Pretty sure. You might be right, but until you get a professional diagnosis you can't really be sure. Hacker-news will disagree but it is impossible to be objective about your own mental health. The good news
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by crispyambulance 9mo ago
Given that HHS is now run by a nutcase, it’s surprisingly not a completely insane dietary recommendation. I think a sensible person would do OK following those general guidelines. That said, if you don’t like it, disregard it. No one is for
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by crispyambulance 9mo ago
I’ve used hardware store “mold kits” where you tack some tape onto a surface and then send it to a service that will analyze it for you. My understanding is that these services simply look at the tape through a microscope, or apply it to a

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