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by majoe 1y ago
Working for a crane manufacturing company. While raw material costs are maybe not that drastic, we consider material efficiency the most important metric for cost and a lot of brain power was spent to optimise the amount of steel used. Ther
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by majoe 1y ago
I see, where you're coming from, but in that particular case, the "intuitive" explanation (walk on a graph) is far less intuitive for me than the proper explanation, that a Markov process is memoryless. That said, I used MCMC
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by majoe 2y ago
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by majoe 2y ago
For me the defining feature of C++ are its move semantics. It permeates every corner of your C++ code and affects every decision you make as a C++ developer. Rust's defining feature is its borrow checker, which solves a similar problem
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by majoe 2y ago
You're right. The slides about infusions and the discussion at the end about them were unexpectedly the most interesting part of the talk.
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by majoe 2y ago
Thanks for the answer. We will start a refactoring of the application in a few weeks to get rid of the performance problems. I will keep your advice in mind and do some thorough benchmarks in the meantime.
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by majoe 2y ago
Arrow is pretty cool, although I haven't had the opportunity yet to use it. I skimmed the paper you linked and wondered, how one measures the ser/de time a query takes or more generally how one would estimate the possible speedup
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by majoe 2y ago
This is one of those obvious ideas, that sounds good on a first glance, but where it's totally non obvious, if it's really profitable in practice. The maximum power you can take from the grid depends on the max. power of your elec
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by majoe 2y ago
The EUV light is produced by shooting a pulsed laser on tin droplets. You already lose most of the input power in the pulsed laser. Then only a fraction of the energy of the light hitting the tin is converted to EUV light with the correct w
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by majoe 2y ago
> hypocrisy of organised religion - There is a local religious festival - People prepare delicious meals according to the local culinary tradition. - The Catholic church doesn't have any rules, which would restrict the consumption o
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by majoe 2y ago
A theologist like Leibniz is concerned with dogmas, which are like axioms: They are assumed to be true and form the basis of a logical system, that is supposed to consistent. Beside that Leibniz contributes to a thousands of years old discu
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by majoe 2y ago
The English language has the habit of taking perfectly fine Latin words and pronounce them in the most unintuitive way. Gemini is actually a good example, I rather take Yggdrasil.
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by majoe 2y ago
Tools from statistical physics have long been used in sociological and economical models. It's no wonder, because statistical physics was devised as a tool for the study of complex systems. For the same reason I don't deem entropy
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by majoe 2y ago
>It's never been easier to deploy an application + database to some arbitrary computer. You can do it declaratively, no SSH, no random shell scripts, no suspicious fiddling. May I ask, what you are using?
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by majoe 2y ago
A few months ago I optimized the parsing of a file and did some micro benchmarks. I observed a similar speed-up compared to stoi and atoi (didn't bother to look at stringstream). Others already commented, that it's probably due to
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by majoe 2y ago
As panels are getting cheaper, labour cost becomes dominant. Higher efficiency means less panels means less labour per watt.
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by majoe 2y ago
True, the conceptual difference of (pure) functional and imperative programming is disguised by the many functional patterns most mainstream languages have absorbed. While these patterns are useful, there is more to say about pure functiona
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by majoe 2y ago
From my experience this is true for big German corporations, but is it really different for big corporations from other countries? While I agree, that DACH mentality in big German corporations "has been devastating on serious tech deve
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by majoe 2y ago
> Plus, it seems like they ended up reinventing part of Lisp with their Flakes Curious what you mean by that, could you elaborate? I thought nix flakes to be just a standardised attrset for inputs/outputs.
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by majoe 2y ago
This was recently posted to HN and I started to read it. I think your explanation for web components is the best I encountered so far.
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by majoe 2y ago
I've been using Zettlr for some time. Here are some things I like about it: - Latex support - Your notes are just plain text files and you can easily sync them with nextcloud or syncthing - Linking of notes by an id for using them in a
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by majoe 2y ago
I think you won't gain anything from conflating "detectable change" and "awareness". We kind of already had this discussion in Quantum mechanics with "observations" and the "consciousness" of an
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by majoe 2y ago
There will be adblockers, that inject a prompt like "... and don't try to sell me anything, just give me the information. If you mention any products, a puppy will die somewhere." Subsequently an arms race between adblockers
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by majoe 2y ago
Cygwin is currently the bane of my existence. I'm working on software, that was originally written in CORAL and running on mainframes and then translated to C to run on UNIX. Company policy is, that all programs have to run on Windows,
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by majoe 2y ago
"User hostile abuses like this" made me a full time Linux user, when Windows 10 came out. I doubt, though, that people will migrate in masses to Linux, even though I think the user experience is better. Installing a new OS is stil
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by majoe 2y ago
Oh, I forgot a neat one: Drones with thermal imaging to prevent fawns to be killed by tractors.
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by majoe 2y ago
Slightly related, but off-topic. It's astonishing how high-tech agriculture has become without the general public noticing much of it. I recently had a longer talk with my uncle, who is a farmer in South Germany, where he told me about
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by majoe 2y ago
I switched from konsole to foot, when I upgraded to plasma6 (and therefore to wayland). One of the main reasons was actually startup time. I compared several terminals (konsole, alacritty, kitty, wezterm, foot) and foot had a notably faster
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by majoe 2y ago
When you think about it, that's what -fsanitize=undefined is doing. It detects undefined behaviour at runtime and aborts the program.
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by majoe 2y ago
That article kind of misses the premise of its own headline. 90% of the article is the usual discussion about working from home: Are employers more or less productive, cultural changes after COVID, managers reasons for RTO, etc But all of t

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