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   by gaze 6y ago

   Yeah I agree. I generally think of each professor as running their own little mafia with their own territory. The top tier professors all know each other and hang out at conferences. At a certain level, there's phone calls instead of l
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   by gaze 6y ago

   My feelings are a little different. If you feel like doing a PhD and enjoy doing research, you should do it. A PhD above all should be fun, and is thus not a waste. It's only a waste if it's not fun. There will be extended periods
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   by gaze 6y ago

   I just warn you... I think the impulse is to look at this software and think "ok this stuff is kinda rough around the edges. I know, I'm gonna write my own IDE and Compiler and all that in my own language of preference, and use th
4. 424.▲
   by gaze 6y ago

   I think it's more or less a continuation/extension of the ideas of FORTH. You should read their app notes and read the writing of Chuck Moore, Greg Bailey, Jeff Fox, Charley Shattuck, and other FORTH people to understand the ideas
5. 425.▲
   by gaze 6y ago

   I really love greenarrays and that entire social circle. It's an older group of folks that bought a historical house in Wyoming and do chip design, programming, everything with their own home-brew minimal set of software. It's an
6. 426.▲
   by gaze 6y ago

   Eh I disagree. I've never understood "new physics" to mean new fundamental physics. Anderson localization was "new physics." I mean, is discovering new Hadrons "new physics?" They're "just"
7. 427.▲
   by gaze 6y ago

   would this work on maxwell's equations?
8. 428.▲
   by gaze 6y ago

   Well chisel the language itself is proof otherwise. The existence of chisel, built on scala is also proof otherwise. People get interested in things where there's incentive to learn. Have a little faith.
9. 429.▲
   by gaze 6y ago

   This may be a good idea but the schtick is tiresome
10. 430.▲
    by gaze 6y ago

    I think this works well for people who are interested in both Haskell and hardware design. The syntax is pretty nutty if you're just a hardware designer, but it's ultimately a language embedded in Haskell, so it has the friction o
11. 431.▲
    by gaze 6y ago

    "he's a pretty good science communicator" I'm a physics postdoc and can't understand what he writes. How good of a communicator can he possibly be?
12. 432.▲
    by gaze 6y ago

    David Graeber's Bullshit jobs might be an alright place to start. I also just enjoy indulging in the history of places like Tektronix in the 1960s by reading oscilloscope repair manuals... learning about Bell Labs, the Rad lab. It&#x27
13. 433.▲
    by gaze 6y ago

    People will say you're burned out, and they're not wrong... but this doesn't address the substance of the issue. To be an engineer or a scientist today means tolerating a lot of the things you've mentioned. I would amend
14. 434.▲
    by gaze 6y ago

    No VM, no GC. Mostly zero cost abstractions.
15. 435.▲
    by gaze 6y ago

    I really want this... but haven't larry or jerry said that it's not a show about nothing, but a show about where comedians get their material?
16. 436.▲
    by gaze 6y ago

    I wonder how much of his team will follow him. You need someone like John when building a quantum computer and there’s not many like him.
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    by gaze 7y ago

    So the power from the optical system is spread over the retina by the MEMS mirrors. What happens if the laser stays on and one or both of the scanners stops?
18. 438.▲
    by gaze 7y ago

    > J is probably the best language in the world to craft native GUIs How is that the case? I don't really see a grid system or anything like that. I much prefer delphi or wpf or something.
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    by gaze 7y ago

    The first seems like a nonserious thing and D-Wave is a crank company.
20. 440.▲
    by gaze 7y ago

    APL! I wanted something completely nutty that would change my way of thinking. The characters are kinda fun and you pick them up after really drilling them for 3 days or so. Then you begin to learn to read trains and things. It’s a really f
21. 441.▲
    by gaze 7y ago

    It’s not popular among quantum computing groups. We largely use python. It’s popular in a group inside rigetti.
22. 442.▲
    by gaze 7y ago

    You pay them more.
23. 443.▲
    by gaze 7y ago

    Yeah I think that's right. LL is now something I look back upon frequently for reference... but you have to have been introduced properly.
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    by gaze 7y ago

    it's like... kinda true that the observer effect can be expressed as a mutating getter... but that isn't useful. The idea that it can't be expressed is really ignorant.
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    by gaze 7y ago

    HRK is for learning physics, feynman is for feeling like you're learning physics when you aren't, and ll is for feeling like you're understanding nothing. LL and Feynman are definitely nice to look back upon though.
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    by gaze 7y ago

    The documentation can be enjoyable... the spec I think should be dry as a cracker. But if you want to write enjoyable docs, write like John Carlos Baez writes math/physics paper. The enjoyability should serve the clarity. Anything else
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    by gaze 7y ago

    There is this writing style that seems prevalent around certain programming circles, particularly the JavaScript, Python, and Ruby communities. It’s informal and somewhat hammy—- perhaps to seem friendly and more approachable. I imagine it’
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    by gaze 7y ago

    My favorite GUI was always IRIX. I know saying Motif looks good sounds a bit silly... but the whole thing looks ugly-good. Like craigslist or reddit before the remodel. It looks bad on first sight and then once you use it for a while you fo
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    by gaze 7y ago

    what does “exists” mean? We made the whole thing up.
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    by gaze 7y ago

    This article is insultingly bad. Americans are depressed because we have no social safety net and are one medical incident away from financial ruin.