daynthelife

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by daynthelife 3y ago
Return of the Obra Dinn is also an amazing game with entirely 1-bit rendering. https://store.steampowered.com/app/653530/Return_of_the_Obra...
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by daynthelife 3y ago
All too prescient: https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...
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One parody I expected to see, but didn’t, is the notion that instead of modifying the predicates on the “greatest possible X”, we can instead modify the word greatest. For instance, suppose I define a custom quality “Quux”. An object is mor
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by daynthelife 3y ago
> It's like if all we remembered about Newton was alchemy. It’s ironic you say this. Like Freud, and unlike Newton, alchemists did not use scientific methodology. Also like Freud, alchemists get an unfair treatment by modern society
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by daynthelife 3y ago
My issue with one based indexing is more philosophical in nature. I truly believe to the core of my being that zero is the first number, and that indexing from one is simply wrong. The evidence leading me to this conclusion is that I have y
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by daynthelife 3y ago
> The world population is on track to peak at a level only marginally higher than the current population. What makes you assume that trajectory will continue if the average lifespan suddenly increases 3-5x?
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by daynthelife 3y ago
If it weren’t for the one based indexing, I would use Julia for almost all my math research. Overall it is a very well designed language, and a ton of things just work. But I can’t for the life of me understand how any language designer sig
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by daynthelife 3y ago
This is probably a controversial opinion, but I think we should be careful what we wish for. Death is a necessary part of life. Without it, society will stagnate, overpopulation will become even more rampant, resources will become more scar
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by daynthelife 3y ago
There are some contexts in which division by zero is defined in a meaningful way. The most common such situation is the real projective line or its complex analogue, the Riemann sphere [0]. We’ll focus on the latter, since it has a richer
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by daynthelife 3y ago
Is there a reason not to just install Linux (and dual boot into windows if you need it for some things)? I suppose if it’s a work laptop they might not be too pleased with this.
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by daynthelife 3y ago
Yes, but not by directly asking it.
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`awk` users hate this one simple trick!
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Not an original source, but the Wikipedia page [0] gives a good introduction. A contact manifold is then just a manifold equipped with a contact structure. A more in-depth discussion can be found in many differential topology texts, e.g. pa
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by daynthelife 3y ago
Better than all other major browsers != good Since the only real competition is chromium, safari, and edge, the bar is astoundingly low.
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by daynthelife 3y ago
Do you have any advice for working around the 10,000 token rate limit when using aider? It seems to be a huge limiting reagent, as it makes it pretty much impossible to use on large files.
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by daynthelife 3y ago
Conversely, there’s a running joke that you’re in big trouble if Terry Tao takes too much of an interest in your topic of study, since he will inevitably solve all but the hardest problems in the field.
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by daynthelife 3y ago
The sci-fi plot I’ve wanted to write combines this with the idea of a non-orientable universe. A space shuttle goes off in search of habitable planets and happens upon a planet that looks exactly like earth, but with the continents reversed
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by daynthelife 3y ago
On a related note, starting from a circular orbit, it takes 1/(2sqrt(2) - 3) ~ 5.83 times more energy to throw an object to the center of a gravity well than it does to throw it out of orbit. It doesn’t matter how close your initial
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by daynthelife 3y ago
The original email [0] actually describes it better than Wikipedia imo. [0] https://seclists.org/bugtraq/1998/Dec/79
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The “<A” notation indicates that the head of the Turing machine is positioned at the rightmost point to the left of the “<“, and is in state A. [0] For instance, the notation `0^\inf 1^3 <B 0^2 1 0^\inf` is equivalent to `0^\inf 1
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by daynthelife 3y ago
That question is implicitly suggesting that the universe was created. If that turns out not to be the case, then not even an omniscient being could answer it correctly. It would be equivalent to asking “describe the true process by which
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by daynthelife 3y ago
Analytic number theory has seen a fair number of such conjectures. The first that comes to mind is the Pólya conjecture [0]. The conjecture stated that for any positive integer N > 2, there are at least as many positive integers less tha
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by daynthelife 3y ago
The issue with sets is that they don’t capture the notion of multiplicity. One would like to say sqrt(0) = {0,0}, but {0,0} is just equal to {0} as a set. The CxC/~ formalism captures the possibility of multiplicity as well as the fact
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by daynthelife 3y ago
The codomain should not be Z×Z — firstly, the square root is usually not an integer, but more importantly, there is not a canonical ordering of the pairs you get, especially if we allow negative/complex inputs. The map we really wan