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by lr1970 3y ago
> Anyone read the Livshitz-Landau textbooks? Any thoughts on them and how the compare to the Feynman Lecture series? Landau-Livshitz books are gradual level while Feynman Lectures are undergrad level physics course. They should not be di
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by lr1970 3y ago
To complete the analysis we should look at the achievements of those who failed the Theoretical Minimum.
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Airplanes rarely get scrapped for parts because of incidents like this. They have pretty extensive maintenance and repair checklists, ... And yet these "extensive maintenance checklists" did not prevent such a serious malfunc
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by lr1970 3y ago
> The invasion of Ukraine enjoys popular support inside Russia - around 70%. You should not take this number seriously. It has been greatly exaggerated by russian propaganda. At the same time there is no independent reliable polling in r
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by lr1970 3y ago
Should Harvard reduce their exuberant tuition fees? After all, a chatbot does not need salary to feed its family, right?
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by lr1970 3y ago
If you want to see people urinating through their pants you are welcome to visit New York City subway.
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by lr1970 3y ago
That would not fly in USA. Quite a few passengers wight twice as much as other passengers with fishing vest or not :-)
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by lr1970 3y ago
GPS is owned by US government and operated by US military [0]. And US military does not charge retail :-) [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
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by lr1970 3y ago
> It would have been worse as a peasant under the tsar. Communism brought modernity to Russia and made it a world power. Big misconception. Russian Empire just before the WWI (1913) was a dynamic growing economy. It was behind Germany an
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by lr1970 3y ago
> In the late 80s.. Before that there was some growth intertwined with stagnation. In both 70th and 80th there was no growth. Maybe in 60th there was some but it was before my time. Anyway, it was depressing place. There were some great
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by lr1970 3y ago
> But the Soviet Union nonetheless grew. Its growth rate was similar to that of the United States, but starting from a lower level (missing out on catch-up growth). ... Even though the system was not efficient, it wasn't disastrous
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Not to downplay any of your points, but as a counterpoint, I'm not sure this was true for Vim/Neovim. On the contrary. Emergence on neovim had a positive impact on vim speed of development, and Bram's attitude to new fea
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Rust is winning market from C and C++ precisely because of strong technical leadership and direction. No, Rust is winning because it is 40 years younger than C and 30 years younger than C++. Rust incorporates advances in computer langu
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by lr1970 3y ago
First, the entire moderator team (BurntSushi et el) resigned citing inappropriate actions of a Rust core team member (details were not made public). Now JT resigns for a similar reason. Rust project governance has been a problem for a whil
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by lr1970 3y ago
After 45 years TeX (1978) [0] and LaTeX (1984) [1] are by far the most popular typesetting system in academic publishing. For example, a vast majority of all papers on arXiv.org are typeset in LaTeX. Thank you very much Professor Knuth [2]!
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Completely obliviating the "human" part of what an employee is ... Used to be called "Personnel" - dry but definitely about human beings. Now it is "Human Resources" with the emphasis on the faceless resou
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Im fact, deep battle, refined during the fighting at the Eastern Front in WW2, is one of the more successful maneuveur warfare doctrines out there, especially in wast territory. It is interesting to note that the most successful offens
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Maybe some mention of quantum information science ... Not quite "quantum information science" per se, but Feynman's "Lectures on Computation" (1996) provides fascinating insights into information theory as well
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by lr1970 3y ago
> I just don't understand why someone would start something in a memory unsafe language these days. I cannot in good conscience put that on a customer's machine. We ended up rewriting a component to drop support for Parquet and
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by lr1970 3y ago
The professor clearly does not understand how LLMs work and his approach to catching cheats is flawed. The students should loudly complain about such an unscientific approach with unknown false-positive and false-negative rates. Cheating is
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by lr1970 3y ago
> Yeah the American system absurd. “We have all the data but you still need to figure it out yourself and if you get it wrong you’ll get in trouble”. IRS knows all the income data only in simple cases like salaried employees with W-2 for
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by lr1970 3y ago
> What in the process wouldn’t work with this method? Testing of EUV lithography machines is very complicated and slow process. You cannot scale it without magically cloning all the test engineers and technicians.
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by lr1970 3y ago
> This idea the default should be "act like you're being watched" is harmful, both to the individual and to society. As George Orwell said in his 1984 "Big Brother is watching you".
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by lr1970 3y ago
> ... or that human progress has often been driven by conscious or subconscious inspiration. Obligatory: "Good artists copy, Great artists steal!" (attributed to Picasso and Steve Jobs)
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by lr1970 3y ago
Dup. Already discussed on HN less than a day ago [0]. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35847988
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by lr1970 4y ago
Thanks for pointing out a factual error. I corrected it and added explicit EDIT paragraph.
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by lr1970 4y ago
Before becoming Intel's CEO Paul Otellini served as executive VP of sales and marketing. This uber-blunder is a great example what happens when you let a "bean-counter" run a tech company. EDIT: corrected factual error. Paul
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by lr1970 4y ago
> For a $1T org like Amazon, these are distractions. A $1T company is spending multiple millions left and right on useless virtue signaling trying to show how good a corporate citizen it is. Even a fraction of that money could have saved
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by lr1970 4y ago
> alluded to a possible launch date of 420 Hitler's birthday?
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by lr1970 4y ago
There is Amazon SideWalk [0] that could potentially allow devices join mesh WiFi behind your back. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Amazon-Sidewalk/

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