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by gaze 5y ago
Yeah. I think that's right. The power figures really are impressive. Perhaps the right point of comparison is the MSP430, as is done in this article http://www.greenarraychips.com/home/documents/greg/WP00
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by gaze 5y ago
I recently went back over this chip because I really want to love it. They overhauled the software so now there's no colorforth. I'm not sure that the newer software is easier to use, though! That said, the hard pill to swallow is
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by gaze 5y ago
The thing is that KVL and KCL hold, and KVL and KCL hold for both electrons and water. You just have to not think too deeply about what motivates the electrons to move. Current is indeed the mean velocity of carriers through some area, and
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by gaze 5y ago
Absolutely not. You can't just throw out axioms and expect people to catch on. The utility of analogies is that you can anchor an idea in something people are familiar with.
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by gaze 5y ago
Transformers can be represented by paddle wheels and gearboxes and such. They come free with inductance (inertia.) The pedagogical failure of this analogy is how it suggests that the energy is stored in the potential and kinetic energy of t
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by gaze 5y ago
This isn’t what we strived for. It’s what we compromised upon
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by gaze 5y ago
The piece is kinda whiney and comes off like "get off my lawn!" and doesn't really add much beyond the myriad of other complaints. Thing is that I don't really think that many people love developing this way, it's j
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by gaze 5y ago
I have the same response to this as I do to every other lisp article. It’s cool, but how have you personally leveraged this advantage that everyone talks about? What big lisp project has the author contributed to, such that they have enough
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Ask HN: Reducing the maintenance surface area of hosting a small internal app
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by gaze 5y ago
Imagine putting this on your resume.
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by gaze 5y ago
“Fuck you, pay me” is the only appropriate response.
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by gaze 5y ago
I still use haskell and like it. It has a nice incremental development style, a tiny bit like lisp, where you can grow a program step by step in the repl, guided by the types. It’s great. I think I’ve been using it for long enough that it j
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by gaze 5y ago
Why is it an absurd question? You haven't justified this "tens or hundreds" figure at all, just called it absurd.
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by gaze 5y ago
Does anyone who has looked into this know what's _actually_ going on here? If I made up a scam ethernet switch company, I doubt positive-feedback.com would pick it up and review it positively. How much do I pay for a positive review? H
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by gaze 5y ago
Do you really think Elon Musk provides orders of magnitude more value than the engineers who actually built the damn thing? His main contribution was the capital.
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by gaze 5y ago
In the words of Michael Lewis, “I appreciate this, but I just want to know one thing: How are you going to fuck me?”
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by gaze 5y ago
Nothing wrong with making clean room equipment in your garage. It just doesn’t inspire confidence in their ability to contribute to cutting edge gravity research. In other words, the author list and the paper as a whole fails the sniff test
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by gaze 5y ago
The author list is half a joke. Some dude who makes clean room equipment in his garage and an official representative of NASA’s crank group. I don’t understand how this crap gets funded.
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by gaze 5y ago
I half agree. Yes I do think you have a bunch of technologists self-indulgently trying to apply the next shiny thing where bettering the world is second priority. However, I think changing the system from inside is largely a fool’s errand.
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by gaze 5y ago
Moore Jig Grinding machines.
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by gaze 5y ago
The writing is better than I might have produced as a first year college student, but this needs copy editing. I might suggest that the word “extremely” should be removed not only from the entire repository but all of the user’s repositorie
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by gaze 5y ago
Boycotts don’t work unless they’re organized on a massive scale. Otherwise it’s just a blip, or a relatively constant background. People are boycotting Amazon right now and this is incorporated into their decisions.
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by gaze 5y ago
So the chandelier looking thing is a dilution fridge and is just used to make the processor cold. The processor is usually pretty small, not that different from your CPU. That part is indeed iterated on but the fridges aren’t changed much.
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by gaze 5y ago
For what it’s worth, Felix Gonzalez Torres’ work pushed me from “I don’t understand this modern stuff” to “oh I get it now.” Maybe it can do that for others? I think there’s this notion that art has to be technically sophisticated to be of
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by gaze 5y ago
I accidentally read your comment the wrong way around -- sorry about that!
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by gaze 5y ago
Yes but the exponential scaling doesn't really work to anyone's benefit. It just means that N people can each mentor an average of N people and so on and so forth. An active community means that the people who are working on the p
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by gaze 5y ago
I really detest the word "just." It's the ultimate signifier that someone hasn't properly engaged with a problem.
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by gaze 5y ago
It requires collaboration and mentorship too. These don’t scale super well.
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by gaze 5y ago
No. No no no. It’s extremely standard to measure a material that’s known to be “weird” and not know what you’re going to see.
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by gaze 5y ago
It’s absolutely the other way around. High Tc superconductivity, quantum hall, Geiger-Marsden, etc…

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