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Can Thermodynamics Resolve the Measurement Problem? (2023)(quantumfrontiers.com)
4 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
> The Javascript stops working when printed to physical paper. It works for me. Maybe you need to upgrade your paper? What version are you using?
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by lisper 2y ago
> I swapped "weakness" for "dishonesty," But both of those are unnecessarily uncharitable readings. Country style is neither weak nor dishonest, it's just different. A lot of country-style people consider city-
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How many real numbers exist? New proof moves closer to an answer (2021)(quantamagazine.org)
58 points by lisper 2y ago|60 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
> they can be interpreted as attacking, or weakness I think a more constructive way to look at it is one style puts a higher cost on wasting time than and the other style puts a higher cost on appearing unsympathetic. I call it "co
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by lisper 2y ago
Recommend for what? For learning about the actual history of time? Start here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Time There are 113 references, those should keep you busy for a while.
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by lisper 2y ago
In a way having money makes it harder because it makes it harder to blame your unhappiness on your circumstances.
578.
by lisper 2y ago
The hardest part of getting what you want is figuring out what it is.
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by lisper 2y ago
> Here's a snarky response from Gore Vidal When it comes to snark, Vidal was a true master of the craft.
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by lisper 2y ago
On that theory, every story should have a date in the title. But that would get tedious.
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by lisper 2y ago
Some things to notice about this paper: 1. It contains no references. 2. It is not actually about the long and painful history of time. In fact, it barely touches on history at all. 3. Some of the things it says are flat-out wrong. For
582.
by lisper 2y ago
> In software, a single bit-flip or typo can lead to catastrophic failure That can happen in physical engineering too, if it's not done right. Likewise, if a single bit flip can lead to catastrophic failure, that's an indicati
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by lisper 2y ago
> Tons of difference. QED.
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by lisper 2y ago
That may be, but that doesn't make them the same .
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by lisper 2y ago
> I lived in the Knoxville/Oak Ridge TN area at the time Hey, so did I! ORHS class of '82. Maybe we met back in the day?
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by lisper 2y ago
With good reason.
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by lisper 2y ago
> It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends on his not understanding it. I'm going to have to add that my list of favorite aphorisms. And it's not just salaries that drive this dynamic. It
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First Principles Numerical Demonstration of Emergent Decoherent Histories(journals.aps.org)
3 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
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Can Classical Worlds Emerge from Parallel Quantum Universes?(physics.aps.org)
3 points by lisper 2y ago|0 comments
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by lisper 2y ago
Oh yeah, I should clarify: I didn't mean that building this model was comparable to building an actual airliner. But I do think it's comparable to building, say, an RV-14 ( https://www.vansaircraft.com/rv-14/
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by lisper 2y ago
The detail on this thing is just insane. The amount of time and effort put in is comparable to what it takes to build an actual aircraft. [UPDATE] Just to clarify: building an actual jetliner is obviously orders of magnitude harder than bu
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by lisper 2y ago
Sure, but often != always. And if your language forbids type inference then you are burdened with the cognitive load of worrying about types every single time whether there is a good reason in that instance or not.
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by lisper 2y ago
> doesn't sound like a good idea. It isn't, but that ship sailed when cpp was invented. > Keep it stupid simple Could not agree more. That's why I use Lisp.
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by lisper 2y ago
> Why is it bad to have semicolons in programs then? It's not bad to have them, it's bad to require them when they aren't necessary. It's bad to make their absence be a fatal syntax error when they aren't ne
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by lisper 2y ago
> That might be exaggerating compared to your actual position To the point of being a straw man. There was actually a time when neither white space nor punctuation was used andallwordswerejustruntogetherlikethis. Note that it's sti
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by lisper 2y ago
> The spaces in your “ | ” punctuation are also not strictly needed. yes.that.is.true|spaces.are.not.strictly.needed.at.all|there.are.alternatives.and.there.are.situations.where.using.those.alternatives.actually.makes.sense|however.the.u
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by lisper 2y ago
> The full stop at the end of your last sentence isn’t strictly needed. yes, that's true | but this redundancy is not necessary | it's there for historical reasons | there are other ways to designate the separation between sent
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by lisper 2y ago
> you cannot ever marshal an army of cheap Lisp programmers That may be, but since Lisp programmers are easily 10x as productive as ordinary mortals you can pay them, say, 5x as much and still get a pretty good ROI. > you can't j
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by lisper 2y ago
Sure. I understand why things are the way they are. But that I don't think that is a reason not to complain about the way things are. Improvement is always the product of discontent.
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by lisper 2y ago
If the world put even a tenth of the effort into training Lisp programmers as it does into training Java programmers you would have no trouble marshaling an army of Lisp programmers.

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