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by lanstin 2y ago
I have had a low grade curiosity about this since the 1970s, so nice to have it definitively answered (tho I'm a bit sad gum is just plastic now). Next up: coke and Mentos, and swallowing sunflower seeds (although really this article
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by lanstin 2y ago
Ok,makes sense. Using this terminology, I asked claude and found out how to move a shell from a standalone window to sharing 2 panes with another shell. Incidentally, this "screen absent" is why you should always volunteer to hel
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by lanstin 2y ago
I always get scared when I accidentally have two shell sessions visible at once in tmux. I immediately exit one. I suppose I should read a bit on it. When I want side to side comparisons I go to the shell running emacs and do it there (pos
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by lanstin 2y ago
We are the grey goo! Excellent idea.
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by lanstin 2y ago
1. My immediate family I meant spouse and children, not parents and siblings. Your point about family of origin is quite important. 2. I'm pretty old. My point is you can't really ever know how other people see you. It's w
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by lanstin 2y ago
You are safe anyways by the "sticks and stones" principal. Worrying about what other people think about you, unless they are your immediate family, is a pretty inefficient use of time.
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by lanstin 2y ago
I agree with these points, but the "U" is Uniform: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc1738
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by lanstin 2y ago
I will suggest that but as far as we both can tell he wakes when he has had enough sleep but keeps staying up late on phone or procrastinating or like driving home from meeting friends after getting off work at midnight.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Because they have a brand reputation and all the (recent) words coming out of Elon, his media platform, and his AI are shit and people don't like them and it would conflict with Apple's brand image - they don't even let movie
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by lanstin 2y ago
User viewable docs should be Anglo-Saxon and dev docs should be Latin (or Attic Greek?) Publicity materials should be medieval Arabic, and the secret documentation that isn't shared should be in Mandarin.
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by lanstin 2y ago
My youngest child is like this. OMG, it was so stressful till he graduated high school and I was like I'm never waking you again. Wake yourself up or miss class or work, whatever.
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by lanstin 2y ago
https://arxiv.org/abs/2101.11052 claims to have derived an experimentally verifiable prediction from many worlds (namely that energy is only conserved in the linear progression of the wave function, and not necessarily
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by lanstin 2y ago
Or worse “hey you have a reward” but it doesn’t show up in the UI for three minutes. Twitter used to do this to me all the time.
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It is a very convenient way to move higher latency operations from the realtime path to a near real time path. E.g. you want to send an email when a payment is authorized, you don’t want to wait for the whole SMTP transaction so you just po
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by lanstin 2y ago
http://blog.rongarret.info/2024/03/a-clean-sheet-introductio...
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by lanstin 2y ago
Being able to put everything into (good) source with all the lessons we have about how to manage source code over time puts incredible power into teams that can handle it.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Cloud costs more but gives you data enter as a service. Software defined everything.
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by lanstin 2y ago
Not really, it's more like CPU registers. Very limited and stuff has to be in their to be computed on (consciously) (lots of unconscious computation as well of course; a lot of efficiency to be found in moving computation from consciou
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by lanstin 2y ago
I love lisp and On Lisp, SICP and Let over Lambda all taught me so much. But, I like high volume programming, at least a few K calls per second per core, and that means working in big orgs with other people which means code that takes a lot
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Functional linear analysis - it has tendency to produce a proof for unprovable statements; the proofs will be logically argued and well structured and step 8 will have a statement that is obvious nonsense even to a beginning student, me. Th
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by lanstin 2y ago
That is such a sweet feeling - doing what you feel is good test suite (maybe not TDD perfectionistic 100%but good) then few months later you add a new feature and the tests find some subtle bug that would have affected production.
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Yeah this is the main truth in the fine article.
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Weirdly it's not related to regular space-time that we seem to inhabit - the Hilbert space in which QM happens does not correspond to the space of special relativity. Space and time of specific things are both the result of applying op
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by lanstin 2y ago
I take issue with this: "I don't know about you, but my subjective experience is that there is exactly one of me at all times. I consider this aspect of my subjective experience to be an essential component of what it means to be
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by lanstin 2y ago
The difference between a Hilbert space and an inner product space is that a Hilbert space is complete, i.e. has an uncountable number of points. Its all fine and dandy to say that in the history of the universe we can only come up with a f
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by lanstin 2y ago
Verseon is doing raw quantum mechanics computations about various potential drugs and various important receptors. https://www.verseon.com/
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by lanstin 2y ago
Do you have an example of a mathematical theory of quantum field theory where the function is not commplete in the sense that makes things uncountable?
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by lanstin 2y ago
Saying that Richard Nixon either did or did not eat eggs for breakfast at a certain date is a bit naive. There are many possible physical occurrences where the material reality will fail to neatly fall into whatever definitions you have of
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Assistants work the other way - do this task and please ask any needed followup questions if the task is unclear or you are stuck. And they go off and do it and mostly you trust the result.
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The experience of abuse, especially directed at oneself rather than towards everyone, can lead to an idea that one is uniquely, shamefully bad, cut off from others, abnormal in an essential way, as opposed to the idea of everyone is in the

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