green_on_black

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by green_on_black 4y ago
Personally, "even if I have something to say, why bother writing? It's the internet, and people will either ignore, lambast, misconstrue, say ackshually, etc." I find it much simpler to lurk.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
minor nitpick, it's not that we don't believe it makes mini black holes, it's that we're fairly extremely sure those black holes wouldn't interact with anything in the minor "time" (if you can even call it
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by green_on_black 4y ago
Something something dimensional analysis is just a typechecker
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by green_on_black 4y ago
Okay, and now half the devs simply decide to not deal with the issue of licensing and just business source everything. Congrats, that's definitely the better world to code in, right?
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by green_on_black 4y ago
The guy literally went to prison when he didn't have to. Holy shit.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
It's unfortunate that lower level "math" is so banally taught (i.e. calc and below), at least in the US.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Eye_movement_desensitization_and...
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by green_on_black 4y ago
That's fucking hilarious.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
So, having more conditions is apparently less conditional?
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by green_on_black 4y ago
Physicists don't fundamentally believe in anything, except perhaps in that everything is merely a possible explanation of our data.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
Minor nitpick: we typically just need 2 derivatives in the physical world.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
On the other hand, I do care. Because I just want to have fun.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
Bypass the limit? No. Partially because you need to propagate that measurement somehow to your brain. But assuming that we have the "pin down perfectly" part (idk how that would even be possible): Mostly because the position/
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by green_on_black 4y ago
"true nature" -- I'd say that this idea of a "true" nature (even existing) is quite arrogant.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
Holy shit. T I L.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
I agree with everything except the first sentence. Similar to a meeting, where time used meets time alloted, complexity meets complexity allowed. https://www.stilldrinking.org/programming-sucks
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by green_on_black 4y ago
Feel free to express your thoughts. But I browse for content. And if AI has better content than you, then I prefer AI. Note that if we're talking about triangulating human sentiment, it becomes a different story.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
As an (ex-)physicist who did minor QC research, I'm very annoyed at the sensationalism. I do typically enjoy Quanta, their sensationalism is usually less severe, and the intuition they givd is decently aligned when I (sometimes) dive d
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by green_on_black 4y ago
Stable Diffusion hentai plots.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
Here we see the ruling class unleashing their serfs against the bourgeoisie, a tale as old as tales.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
I think (low confidence) this is due to basic chem being not-composable. And of course, possibly dangerous in a hard to detect way.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
Wow, I like green-on-black so much that I config my terminal and username for it haha. Great post!
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by green_on_black 4y ago
Twitter would have to pay me something like 3 times more than Stripe for me to consider it, if I were back in the market and had those two.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
tl;dr: Using C/C++ and being human => memory safety problems.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
It seems that some memory safety bug in C/C++ makes HN frontpage every other day.
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by green_on_black 4y ago
You're not accounting for the fact that Rust ships with a mandatory static analyzer called rustc. Btw Google recently gave a talk about switching from Java to Kotlin, which significantly reduced bugs, despite less mature tooling. So...
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by green_on_black 4y ago
I'm glad you're responding with real issues, though let me reiterate that my comment was more to amuse and vent. Long live clopen source!
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by green_on_black 4y ago
Here's a (not-recommended but amusing) nuclear option: Tit-for-tat. Regulators and artists don't want this? Okay, include in all open source software licenses that regulators and artists are now barred from using them without paym
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by green_on_black 4y ago
It seems to me that an estimation of any computable number would scale with at least but not equal to O(n) of its denominator. Otherwise, it would be non-computable (please correct me, this is just my intuition). For 355/113 to be mo
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by green_on_black 4y ago
I agree, but certain concepts exist strongly at the language level. Like functional programming, Haskell for example: the power of static typechecking along with good type inference, or functional/immutable patterns, or programs as dat

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