daxfohl

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811.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Still, as much as possible before the party is over.
812.
by daxfohl 4y ago
My pessimistic self feels like the short-term effect is that it sets a deadline by which oil companies know they have to extract and sell all the existing oil on the planet, and a doubling down on increased emissions now because fusion will
813.
by daxfohl 4y ago
> The sliver of sky observed is about the size of the queen’s eye “on a pound coin held at arm’s length,” So it can be seen by the naked eye? Granted, not at full resolution, but still, I'd have guessed several orders of magnitude s
814.
by daxfohl 4y ago
I still have my SAW machine from Microsoft (quit, not laid off) and nobody has ever given me any indication what to do with it.
815.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Sadly this sounds like a more interesting conversation partner than myself or any of my friends.
816.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Weren't NFTs supposed to solve this?
817.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Ask again but replace with "one old robot" and "two young robots"
818.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Can't wait for AI patent trolls, GDPR and DMCA takedowns.
819.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Most comments say it's simulated. I think it's not even that. IIUC there's a theoretical setup to create a wormhole in AdS/CFT. It requires ~infinite qubits. They found a way of making a similarly-shaped output function
820.
by daxfohl 4y ago
I created a 11-dimensional array on my laptop, thus proving string theory.
821.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Answered in the Q&A section of https://inqnet.caltech.edu/wormhole2022/ . The answer is a bit garbled, and all I can infer is "we simulated it classically first and then did it on a quantum computer so that we
822.
by daxfohl 4y ago
15 qubits should be easy to simulate. I'm confused what the actual experiment showed that simulation wouldn't.
823.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Nvm, that rule only applies to point charges, not rigid objects. So for this, the whole problem is hard.
824.
by daxfohl 4y ago
IIRC there was a rule from E and M class saying it's impossible to contain something using static charges alone. So presumably you'd need some high frequency sensors and feedback mechanism just to keep it stable. But I guess once
825.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Layoffs are happening across the industry anyway. This means more work per person, and the increased competition for jobs means negotiating power for wages will go down. So this is all happening regardless, just in a less dramatic fashion.
826.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Drank a ton the night before, hung over and bloodshot as all hell the day of, but apparently did well enough. Did this four nights in a row back when I was binge interviewing five years ago. Of course I was marginally alcoholic back then to
827.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Sounds like `Opa!`, which was a language plus a meteor-like framework. The language itself was really nice with some interesting type-level features, but the built-in framework was the selling point. But all that ultimately got in the way f
828.
by daxfohl 4y ago
What does it mean, that it's replacing set theory? Is it more fundamental than set theory, in the sense that the latter can be defined in terms of it? Or is it different from set theory entirely, meaning different math comes from each?
829.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Frank Herbert said roughly the same thing about writing Dune (from Wikipedia) > I don't worry about inspiration or anything like that.... later, coming back and reading what I have produced, I am unable to detect the difference betw
830.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Plenty of people prognosticating a crash every year since 2009 but it never came. Most of us expected a long term crash in 2020 but it was a quick rebound. This year seemed like something was off but maybe just temporary due to supply chain
831.
by daxfohl 4y ago
It says they laid off much of the recruiting team, so nobody is left to remove the listings.
832.
by daxfohl 4y ago
My guess is most people don't want to say yes to _everything_ on a survey because it's equivalent to not answering. So it's unsurprising that this would come out low when lumped in with academics. When asked straight up about
833.
by daxfohl 4y ago
The way a survey question is phrased can dramatically affect the responses. Without references, I assume some cherry picking and loaded phrasing here.
834.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Because how easy it is to move to / stay in a higher class is highly dependent on race? https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/03/19/upshot/race-c...
835.
by daxfohl 4y ago
I keep thinking something about spotting squirrels climbing trees
836.
by daxfohl 4y ago
I also use weawow ... with darksky as the provider. The other providers (at least the free ones) seem far less accurate (for Seattle anyway). I've started using willyweather for higher-fidelity UV data, and its forecasts (from NOAA) se
837.
by daxfohl 4y ago
I worked in Azure for four years in a couple different teams. I didn't see a single line of F# code while I was there. I don't think they have any plan beyond supporting it as somebody's side project. Edit: I forgot about ht
838.
by daxfohl 4y ago
As others have said, F# addresses these issues. The main complaint I have with F# is when using other dotnet libraries you end up having to deal with things like nulls again, which can make the F# feel more cumbersome than it should be. I s
839.
by daxfohl 4y ago
Curious if there is a difference between those who are lean and wiry, and those who are just skinny.
840.
by daxfohl 4y ago
This, but also I like to at least have a Hello World console app (or API server or web page or database reader or whatever the bare minimum is) that I can play around with and know that I can create something from scratch and not be entirel

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