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by lanstin 3y ago
These systems do not have periodic orbits they have symmetric strange attractors. So tracing a particle thru these systems will not result in periodicity but will trace out these symmetric structures. It is unclear from the website if these
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by lanstin 3y ago
For your company you have a lot of smart people other than coders. And Notes had a rich collaborative set of intrinsically that you could hip out work flow applications like an accountant with spreadsheets. And built in security and auditin
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by lanstin 3y ago
At some point I wants to say to these backward states: may it be as you ask. Fine, turn your back on the fruits of humankind's knowledge and development. But of course, they have children; even if they do not care for them, we must.
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by lanstin 3y ago
When Redhat IPOed (or soon after? quarterly report? I can't remember) they sent out a poster with the 0.01 source code to their share holders. It fits and is fun to read from time to time.
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by lanstin 3y ago
That's how it was at AOL. But also, in general, people who wrote C code never designed SQL stuff. We'd come up with some requirements, meet with a DBA (who at the time got paid a lot more money, I always assumed because their work
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by lanstin 3y ago
I miss notes - it was really a better way to organize companies than anything later. Historical valuable data, records of why decisions were made, ephemeral email like things but for groups, user programmable if it didn't quite match y
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by lanstin 3y ago
I don't know, I worked in the 90s when I had a private office and it was very nice compared to the shitholes being offered now. To be sure salaries were like 25% of what they are now, but the thing I like about WFH, the ability to clo
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by lanstin 3y ago
Crucial among them is the ability to combine googling and experimenting to get solid answers without having to go full monty on the framework/library/API that you are need to have work in a certain way. And knowing when to do that
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by lanstin 3y ago
Wouldn't you end up with 50 "get an URL" functions for different types of concurrency frameworks, different retry strategies, different SSL implementations, etc.?
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by lanstin 3y ago
Edited: It was interesting. I don’t think cheap matters much in a world where compute is still getting rapidly cheaper. Being certain is good, but the throw tons of data into massive models keeps beating everything else. I do think the mode
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by lanstin 3y ago
No matter how much we learn, the percentage that we know of the relevant total declines year over year. Focus on learning how to find specific answers without having to take on the burden of learning it all, and learning the deep truths tha
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by lanstin 3y ago
>I mostly try to head this off by trying to be self-aware about my knowledge level on a topic, and saying “I’m not sure…” when I’m not sure about something. This excellent tactic for avoiding pointless debate and inviting helpful replies
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by lanstin 3y ago
Those are awesome book, but short. From the time I started the first page of the first to the time after I finished them all and pre-ordered the next was maybe 9 days.
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by lanstin 3y ago
I have been SWE for 30 years. My youngest is off to college and I immediately enrolled in a masters program, apparently because I want to understand QFT which no amount of my own reading without doing much homework has enabled.
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by lanstin 3y ago
I have talked to a number of homeless folks (I tend to go to a bagel shop for breakfasts most mornings) and a few of them are former engineers, both software and hardware. A little untreated mental unhealthy, a divorce, loosing the job, and
886.
by lanstin 3y ago
No Perl?
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by lanstin 3y ago
Wow, I thought the original article was awful tho good, then I saw the lseek goto which seems much worse, then I see this dlopen for bash and I find it's the worse. But impossibly cool. Did you have a usecase for this or it was just fu
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by lanstin 3y ago
Which is why Stallman got pissed at the lack of source code and worked so hard to make source code always available. So that the economic limitations line up more closely with the physical limitations.
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by lanstin 3y ago
It was interesting. I don’t think cheap matters much in a world:where compute is still getting rapidly cheaper. Being certain is good, but the throwmtons of data i to massive models keeps beating everything else. I do think the models need
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by lanstin 3y ago
Fascinating. I had no idea people are still working on this sweetly optimistic project, like the architects writing a catalog of data taxonomies but for the unfenced territory of humanities knowledge. Sort of a modern Principia Mathematica
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by lanstin 3y ago
I remember being intrigued by this idea. I doubt it would work but it’s interesting to understand why. Seems the main hold up is that each function might have to point to other function as dependencies, so it’s not going to be linear but re
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by lanstin 3y ago
Big changes there.
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by lanstin 3y ago
I have never seen these index functions used as a transfinite basis for a vector space. And it seems like the function is not a limit point of finite sequences of basis functions, but some weird transfinite sum with mostly zero entries? Cle
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by lanstin 3y ago
Relatively ordinary. My teachers wanted me to go into grad school, which had sort of been my plan my whole life, but i had authority issues and it didn’t seem like a good idea. I also enjoyed programming so I let myself get pulled into inte
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by lanstin 3y ago
I took 3,4, 5 and 6th grade math in 3rd grade. taught my self algebra and some easy calculus in 4 and 5th grade, then I went to math camp in 7th grade where i got credit for algebra 1 and 2 and took geometry and trig and precalc (passing s
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by lanstin 3y ago
Because with the GIL it was dead simple to glue a C library into Python, and also was the canonical way to address hot inner loops in Python: rewrite into C. Nothing fancy but a little trial and error with module loading and you get 30% spe
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by lanstin 3y ago
Makes sense: they knew arbitrary mutability was a requirement but did not think it thru for the required keyword.
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by lanstin 3y ago
with the caching, it's a nice bimodal distribution, 99.99$ 0 ms response time, 0.01% 30 ms response time (with a small chance of having that query packet be dropped, with retries in the 1000s of ms). I've seen people write caches
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by lanstin 3y ago
Sadly reboot the VM is still a valid step in debugging DNS, while you google "clear cache for this type of client resolver" Also, the dreaded caching of negative results/authoritative no such domain just before you get the ne
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by lanstin 3y ago
No one has near-perfect up-front knowledge of a software system designed to change and expand. The solution space is too large and the efficient delivery methods are a search thru this space.

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