doubloon

26 ms·

271.
by doubloon 3y ago
don't forget Silkwood. now i know a lot of people are not convinced by her story, but the fact remains that even without her story, the nuclear energy industry in Oklahoma was a complete shit show, they were spreading nuclear waste on
272.
by doubloon 3y ago
Also If you do this for the Square Roots of the integers you can see every integer root is special and has it's own kind of shape. And the Squares are also very interesting in that they have no shape in this viewpoint. Just a dot. So y
273.
by doubloon 3y ago
i would rather have one source of fragile success (crates.io) than millions of points of constant failure. (Cmake, ninja, automake, etc etc) dynamic linked libraries are a way to save tiny amounts of RAM and disk space while wasting million
274.
by doubloon 3y ago
well it requires nvidia so maybe its not actually portable.
275.
by doubloon 3y ago
after i gave up on arguing about its own existence and sentience and morality, i settled on the following a) explain some esoteric jargon laden word salad to me like i'm 5 (for example, what is the order of an element of a Group, plea
276.
by doubloon 3y ago
what is interesting to me is that we call imaginary integer numbers "Gaussian Integers", but we call the quaternion integer numbers "Hurwitz Quaternions" instead of "Hurwitz Integers".
277.
by doubloon 3y ago
"Ignore thousands of years of legal precedent for innkeepers, real estate, zoning, nuisance, liability, insurance.."
278.
by doubloon 3y ago
this is why i disagree with mcherm. we live in an anti-intellectual age where people seek to destroy information. Aaron Swartz and Alexandra Elbakyan are treated like criminals, while billionaires who abuse the legal system to silence criti
279.
by doubloon 3y ago
b2b software is not easy to use, open source replaces a lot of back end stuff that doesnt work
280.
by doubloon 3y ago
The Verge: “Omegle gained a reputation as a breeding ground for sexual abuse of minors, leading to a prominent lawsuit “ Take any physical space that developed this reputation, it would also have been shut down by lawsuits.
281.
by doubloon 3y ago
So many times it is some small team working on a unknown disregarded project, from fallout to the mac intel transition, that a company is saved by. The best companies surely must know this and knowing it, allow these tiny disregarded proj
282.
by doubloon 3y ago
thats pretty awesome
283.
by doubloon 3y ago
"why use big word when small word do trick" - Kevin Malone
284.
by doubloon 3y ago
so much of our mathematical theories are based on the idea that we have objects which are certainly of one type or another. what would happen to type theory if, say, the type of an object has a probability attached to it?
285.
by doubloon 3y ago
in high school we had a mock jury of sacco and vanzetti and everyone voted them guilty so they could leave early. i was the only one against it.
286.
by doubloon 3y ago
does it works with xlsm? (excel macro enabled?)
287.
by doubloon 3y ago
well technically the word "math" is just greek for "learning" and foundation is something you build a building on top of. https://www.etymonline.com/word/mathematics https://www.etymonlin
288.
by doubloon 3y ago
i heard these new fangled jibjabs don't even have audible POST beeps.
289.
by doubloon 3y ago
" . . . The new version - it's not there to fix bugs. That's not the reason we come up with a new version. " - Bill Gates http://www.cantrip.org/nobugs.html
290.
by doubloon 3y ago
in 30 years we have gone from the idea that your computer could accidentally brick your monitor, to the idea that your monitor could accidentally brick your computer. https://trixter.oldskool.org/2006/02/02/c
291.
by doubloon 3y ago
i made a small robot with realtime video, spent many hours on all these acronyms and webRTC stuff, wound up using simple jmuxer and python websockify. everything else was so complicated i could never figure it out. there is just so much jar
292.
by doubloon 3y ago
nice link this is as close as possible to i will ever get to understanding how the older generation feels about cars from the 1950s. it's not even so much about the tech it's about the memories i have from being young, and the pro
293.
by doubloon 3y ago
universal basic income?
294.
by doubloon 3y ago
thanks.... can it be measured? is there a unit of insight where you can graph it and watch it go down?
295.
by doubloon 3y ago
agree. arithmetic in computer languages do not have a theoretical basis that matches the theory of arithmetic in standard algebra. for example, if a = 0.3 b=0.4 and c=5 as f32 in rust, then the following "well known results" from
296.
by doubloon 3y ago
and then were was the Record Store.
297.
by doubloon 3y ago
it was more than just cheating. It was Thurston becoming the establishment, all of the supposed Gen-X values falling into ashes.
298.
by doubloon 3y ago
In my opinion, until you have spent a lot of time debugging C/C++/assembly issues (memory corruption, null pointer crashes, segfaults, build system problems, exception inception, etc), Rust would probably seem like a total waste
299.
by doubloon 3y ago
Assuming your reputation doesn't matter.
300.
by doubloon 3y ago
what is "insight collapse"? that is very interesting concept to me.

More ›