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by munchler 2y ago
Great. So we have the following: Q. Who ordered neutrinos? A. They're necessary because they carry energy away during beta decay.
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by munchler 2y ago
“Who ordered that?” is a pretty famous question in particle physics. I think the commenter is just asking “who ordered neutrinos”? It’s a good question, even if it’s not formally rigorous. https://www.aps.org/archives/p
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by munchler 2y ago
I suggest you take a look at this list of physical constants, paying special attention to the "uncertainty" column, and then get back to us on why you don't accept any of them except the speed of light. https://en.
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by munchler 2y ago
Since this camera scans 1D lines, rather than 2D frames, I don't think FPS is the right unit of measure. Perhaps 40,000 lines per second is correct?
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by munchler 2y ago
> the book and its various plot points and devices serve essentially as metaphors for almost anything That is interesting. Coincidentally (or not?), I was just thinking about an excellent article about parent-child estrangement that begi
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by munchler 2y ago
This is very informative. Thank you for the explanation.
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by munchler 2y ago
> Why should anyone read this book if it presents the subject in a wrong way? What is particularly done “wrong” in the book? Does he ever answer this question? It's posed at the start of the book, but then immediately ignored.
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by munchler 2y ago
This is exactly what people who are falling behind would say. They're often the last ones who are aware of the situation. (Just food for thought - not saying you are actually falling behind.)
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by munchler 2y ago
> Giving up tests and versions, I ended up with a much better program. I can’t understand how anyone would willingly program without using source code control in 2024. Even on a single-person project, the ability to work on multiple mach
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by munchler 2y ago
> They also have a far more ambitious effort underway: to build what she calls “an origin-of-life engine in the lab.” Robots will mix inert chemicals in a vast number of combinations, looking for ones that produce more complex compounds.
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by munchler 2y ago
So it turns out that the tendency to enshittification isn't limited to online platforms. What happened to Boeing should become a lesson for bean counters everywhere, and we should try to ensure that our economic system doesn't rew
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by munchler 2y ago
(2020)
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by munchler 2y ago
"Opaque codeball" is a very large category. Are you saying you won't use any 3rd-party libraries at all?
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by munchler 2y ago
This is the opposite of today's "You aren't going to need it" (YAGNI). I think the best approach might be somewhere in between. https://martinfowler.com/bliki/Yagni.html
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by munchler 2y ago
Site appears to be down (or just slow), so here’s a different link about the situation: https://www.investing.com/news/economy-news/south-korea-prep...
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by munchler 2y ago
Thank you, that makes sense. Sadly, F# doesn't support GADT's yet.
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by munchler 2y ago
I'm more familiar with F#, so I got stuck at this line: type ('a,'b) app += List_name : 'a list -> ('a,list_name) app I understand that app is an extensible type and this line adds a union case called Li
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by munchler 2y ago
When I did analysis for a living years ago, we used a subset of Unified Modeling Language (UML) and delivered the result as a Word document containing both the use cases and a class model. That format seems a bit heavy to me now, but the ba
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by munchler 2y ago
That's actually a slightly different video from the one in the article, which is https://www.facebook.com/1288518484/videos/465839182979896/
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by munchler 2y ago
Modeling a system is an under-appreciated skill. In a new domain, however, this should really start with an analysis of the entire problem so as to capture both the static structure of the system (i.e. class model) and its dynamic behavior
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by munchler 2y ago
Brown University's CS department had an entire auditorium full of Apollo workstations when I was a freshman in the early 1980's. The intro programming course (CS11) was taught by Andy van Dam, who might (or might not) be the names
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by munchler 2y ago
> These systems do not receive upgrades, so the company is sure it won’t ever receive one and cause an unexpected crash that could disrupt operations. After all, as the saying goes, “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.” This is horrible log
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by munchler 2y ago
Haiti is currently a lawless hellscape, from what I understand. As bad as Cuba might be, I don’t think it’s in the same league.
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by munchler 2y ago
I was really hoping this was your first comment in 6 years, but alas not.
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by munchler 2y ago
I read the whole thing and learned a lot. It’s full of relevant information, even if it’s a bit wordy at the start.
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by munchler 2y ago
Adams himself changed the plot in every version of HHGG, from radio play to book to computer game to movie. I think it shows how little he was attached to the details of his fictional universe. Personally, I like the plot of the movie a lot
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by munchler 2y ago
Drivers have to run in the kernel in order to access hardware and other low-level system resources. That's how pretty much every mainstream OS works. For example, here's the guide for writing kernel-mode drivers in Linux: https:&
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by munchler 2y ago
So, in other words, there's a race condition in the CrowdStrike Falcon driver at startup time. That, in itself, should be a major cause for alarm, but here we are depending on it to fix this problem.
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by munchler 2y ago
Microsoft Outlook. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/reactions-in-micr...
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by munchler 2y ago
I think a model with zero parameters belongs more to math, because it can be derived from first principles. E.g. The surface area of a sphere is 4/3 * pi * r^3, assuming Euclidean space. Physics begins when we have at least one constan

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