klodolph

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2041.
by klodolph 5y ago
Twitter is already a “tool that catalyzes groupthink stratification”, the problem is that you have some high-profile Twitter personalities that weaponize their fanbase against targets of opportunity on Twitter—sometimes unintentionally, oth
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by klodolph 5y ago
> A 20MB interpreted bundled in the browser is basically nothing considering the browser sizes. My install of Google Chrome is around 85 MB. 20 MB is a lot more than nothing.
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by klodolph 5y ago
Browsers already have a persistent cache! If you're downloading it on-demand and caching it, why would it need to be integrated in the browser at all? Why not just stick it in a CDN and treat it like a regular file, the way it works
2044.
by klodolph 5y ago
It's still a big penalty, you're just changing who pays the penalty, when they pay the penalty, how often they pay the penalty. Personally, I'm pretty happy that we have WASM at all, and I think there's a lot of work we
2045.
by klodolph 5y ago
You're still downloading the 20MB WASM-compiled interpreter, it's just that now you're redownloading it every time your browser updates.
2046.
by klodolph 5y ago
I agree that we need more operating systems, but... > These machines used specialized hardware and microcode to optimize for the lisp environments (Because of microcode you could run UNIX and the Lisp OS at the same time). This is a dead
2047.
by klodolph 5y ago
Ah, well, back in 2005 or so, Mac people were talking about launchd. Things have settled down since then.
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by klodolph 5y ago
I think in order for it to be a "conversation about X", more than one person has to talk about X.
2049.
by klodolph 5y ago
To be honest, I think the reason systemd comes up in a self-hosting conversation at all is because - Some people want to talk about how difficult things are, and come up with reasons to make things sound difficult, - Some people have an axe
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by klodolph 5y ago
> I don't know anything about systemd, nor do I want to. Well, that’s fine. We’re mostly talking about self-hosting web servers, and you don’t need to know anything about systemd in order to run a web server on Linux, any more than
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by klodolph 5y ago
Ah, I thought you had a complaint about systemd & text files. It sounds like you are okay with it, unless I misunderstand your comment.
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by klodolph 5y ago
Systemd is easy compared to init scripts. Maybe that’s the comparison point. I know that’s my comparison point, since I wrangled init scripts for a couple decades before systemd, and when systemd came out, suddenly it felt a million times e
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by klodolph 5y ago
I wonder what the timeline is from “encoder appears in consumer chip” to “people use it for video calls”.
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by klodolph 5y ago
I think you've twisted "personal contexts" into "friends" and "explaining yourself when you say no" into "respecting other people".
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by klodolph 5y ago
That they’re schemes to make money that don’t withstand scrutiny or solve problems better than the alternatives.
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by klodolph 5y ago
> Rational arithmetic satisfies (a+b)+c=a+(b+c); floating point arithmetic does not. Therefore floats are not a subset of rationals. This reasoning is not sound. The conclusion is only correct by accident. The reason floats are not a sub
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by klodolph 5y ago
Please don't reply to one person in two places in the same thread. The natural numbers don’t satisfy the ring axioms. Perhaps this is the flaw in your reasoning.
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by klodolph 5y ago
> No, I'm not assuming any axioms. And yet, > I'm describing the process of observing properties of nature and then finding a formalised description of those properties. A "formalized description of those properties&quo
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by klodolph 5y ago
In this case, we know it would be incorrect (in general) because eigenvalues are often irrational. In other cases, there are often better ways to figure out that the answer is correct. Figuring out that the answer is correct using rational
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by klodolph 5y ago
People have got to stop suggesting this. It doesn't make any sense and it's usually a waste of time. First of all, the example in the article is computing eigenvalues. Let me ask you: how do you expect to calculate eigenvalues usi
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by klodolph 5y ago
Again, that’s begging the question. You are assuming certain axioms, and the question is “why did we assume these axioms?” Using the word “definition” rather than “axiom” is just a way of rephrasing the argument. If your answer to “why are
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by klodolph 5y ago
> What I wrote was not a sketch or a hint, but a proof, from the ring axioms. Hence "begging the question"... you're assuming the ring axioms hold for the negative numbers. But they do not hold for the natural numbers in t
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by klodolph 5y ago
> Negative numbers need to model different aspects of physical reality; They don't "need" to, but it is very useful that they do.
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by klodolph 5y ago
The chargers I have are all separate from the cables. Both Apple and Android.
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by klodolph 5y ago
> ...when you don't change phones often, you should exactly NOT be drowning in chargers. Right, and the way to achieve that is to sell the charger separately. Just with 3 phones each x 2 people over 11 years (replacing phones every
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by klodolph 5y ago
Isn't there a ton of stuff you need to buy for someone at work? Phone, charger, cable, laptop, ethernet cable, cubicle walls, ergonomic chair, desk, lanyard, ID badge, company branded water bottle... even at small companies the charger
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by klodolph 5y ago
I know people are going to chime in about how a phone is expensive and how it's shocking that they are upcharging you for accessories that you need in order to use your phone, but for me, the landscape has changed. For reference, I d
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by klodolph 5y ago
No, it turns out that if you do that, it's hard to come up with definition of multiplication that people will accept. That's why (-2)x(-3)=6 is inevitable. The only "easy" thing is writing down an equation like (-2)x(-3)
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by klodolph 5y ago
I’ve been playing games recently and I can’t think of cases where I didn’t feel like I got a complete game for $60. Is that a myth that just keeps getting repeated? Or are there specific games where that’s true? The price is probably gonna
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by klodolph 5y ago
> My theory is that NFTs and Bored Apes are a fad of dumb rich kids playing with Mom or Dad's money, which they are given so they stay out of their hair. It’s so much worse. NFTs and crypto are seen as a lottery ticket. If you’re ne

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