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by munchler 2y ago
> The team set out to explain Miranda's enigmatic geology by reverse engineering the surface features, working backward to uncover what the moon's interior structure must have been to shape the moon's geology in response t
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by munchler 2y ago
I was a consultant for nearly a decade and far preferred fixed-price contracts, on the rare occasion we could get them. When you are paid hourly, you work at the customer’s whim, and are often treated like an employee, or worse. You are ess
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by munchler 2y ago
She’ll always be the charmingly clueless young secretary in the Gary Seven episode of Star Trek: TOS to me. I wish that had been made into a series.
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by munchler 2y ago
World population is 8.2 billion. Assume that 1/3 are asleep at any given time, leaving 5.5 billion awake. It’s not a huge stretch to imagine 20% of them (1.1 billion) using core Google services during peak times.
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by munchler 2y ago
> Unification has too much spooky action at a distance, a threaded state Isn’t this why we have the State monad, or even just fold-like functions? There are multiple ways to tame this problem without resorting to mutable state and side-e
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by munchler 2y ago
> The team can't fix the bug without information from me, and it's been too long for me to provide information to the team. Ugh. I feel like developers should already know this, but I guess not: If at all possible, please, plea
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by munchler 2y ago
They would still need to create a large number of plausible details, which is difficult.
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by munchler 2y ago
So if you're explicitly requested to provide as many details as possible, you'll still refuse to do so?
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by munchler 2y ago
Here is a gift link to the full article on the NY Times site. This should allow people to hear the music. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/arts/music/chopin-waltz-d...
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by munchler 2y ago
That is some fancy backpedaling.
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by munchler 2y ago
Careful what you wish for: https://web.archive.org/web/20140527121332/http://www.infini...
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by munchler 2y ago
Order-dependency is a feature, not a bug, but it does take some getting used to. If you really want to avoid it, you can now declare all functions in a module to be mutually recursive, so you can put them in any order. Cyclic dependencies b
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by munchler 2y ago
If you like LINQ, you should really give F# a try.
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by munchler 2y ago
The challenge is in making a physical object rotate fast enough to produce the effect. The article says "the fastest rotation achievable by standard motors is of the order of 10 kHz", which is apparently too slow. The frequency of
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by munchler 2y ago
I’ve been working remotely for nearly 20 years and will never return to a cubicle. The secret to making online meetings bearable is simple: use audio only - just like talking on the phone, which people can do happily for hours. I don’t need
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by munchler 2y ago
> I later learned that the execs at most of the tech companies were similarly clueless on what made software possible, and basic stuff like trading off time for space and vice versa. Why would an exec ever need to know about time/sp
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by munchler 2y ago
More than a dash. I would describe Project Euler as math problems that you need a computer to solve.
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by munchler 2y ago
The clever part isn't just the recursion. These translate (almost) as "one" and "two" in German.
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by munchler 2y ago
Allowing the user to run an executable directly off a USB drive seems like a very bad idea for an air-gapped computer. It's hard to imagine a scenario where this would be necessary.
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by munchler 2y ago
Yes. It’s literally called “Modded-NanoGPT”.
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by munchler 2y ago
> it only has two colors (black/white, 1/0) As the article mentions, the source video is grayscale, not monochrome. Grays are used for motion blur, glow, gradients, etc.
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by munchler 2y ago
I converted the example on the Gleam home page [0] to F#: let spawn_task i = async { let n = string i printfn $"Hello from {n}" } // Run loads of threads, no problem
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by munchler 2y ago
C# is indeed adopting some functional techniques from F#, but C# is still so bogged down with imperative cruft that the resulting combination of styles is a mess.
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by munchler 2y ago
All the more reason to include it in the comparison.
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by munchler 2y ago
> If we lived in smaller, more self-sufficient communities, then we would not have scale and the people in such communities would not have much desire to develop AI either. Yes, because they’d be too busy worrying about food and disease
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by munchler 2y ago
Framing this as inverting a function is interesting, but raises a question, since any function that maps multiple inputs to the same output is not invertible. For example, let's say we invert a checker algorithm and "run it backwa
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by munchler 2y ago
Microsoft is integrating Copilot into many of their products, including Visual Studio and Office/365.
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by munchler 2y ago
I would refer you to an interesting book called “The Commissar Vanishes: The Falsification of Photographs and Art in Stalin’s Russia”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Commissar_Vanishes
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by munchler 2y ago
Your phone already does both automatically, so I’d call it a draw.
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by munchler 2y ago
Article about avoidance maps avoids showing any avoidance maps.

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