nikofeyn

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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> We are certainly not the only species in the world who does things for pleasure that aren't neccessary for our survival. no, we’re not, but we are the only ones who so to the detriment of entire (and numerous) species and ecosyste
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Nature, as a whole, is full of equilibrium, but single species try to maximize their survival in any way possible. We are not that different. except we don’t really just maximize our survival. if we did or had the capacity to, we would
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Seems like a good way to increase rates in a somewhat progressive way. how is it progressive, exactly? seems like it’s just another tax on the poor who have to get to jobs at exact times.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> A major problem with train systems in the United States (and this is both short and long haul) is that almost the entire country is sprawl - built around the automobile. this is an excuse i have repeated myself, but it is just that, an
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i actually just did this in f# using the MailboxProcessor. it's beautiful. although, f# has had this since the beginning and is much cleaner being able to define the states and transitions using discriminated unions and having exhausti
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> How much would taxes have to go up (because spending can't go down, right?) for citizens to contribute their fair share of paying down the debt? this seems like a weird statement. what is "fair share"? i am a middle clas
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> it has the data structures that other languages just can't compete with mind elaborating?
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i feel like python is just the next c++. everyone rides the hype train and thinks it’s gravy until 10 years later everyone realizes it’s full of mistakes and yields unwieldy codebases readily. i have never developed python code and said “th
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
this list is silly in that it doesn’t even mention the lg v series phones. not only do they have audio jacks, they have audio DACs built-in such that you get better sound with better headphones. they are really quite good with my buyer dyna
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i am sick and tired of hearing apple claim "best", "first-ever", "most advanced", etc. in all their marketing. it's all unfounded, usually even false, and always misleading. there were smartphones last yea
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
maybe? but in my non-expert opinion, probably not. intelligence doesn't seem to be correlated with the age of the species or recent lineage from what i understand. in the water, sharks are extremely old, almost reaching back to the din
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Mathematics is used as a tool to explain the world and to create the least-complex model which predicts the data. that's maybe a description of how mathematics is used, but that isn't a description of mathematics.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
>> He addresses the questions around this directly... > It may be that we’ll discover that Epstein got rich by blackmailing people whom he had encouraged or enabled to commit abuse. I doubt it, but it’s possible. providing a loose
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i stopped reading when he classifies epstein as a "type 3" person. i think it's quite bold, especially without any evidence whatsoever, to claim that epstein's money came from non-criminal activities. and this is coming
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> This stuff is difficult. i don’t think it’s that difficult. the government finds a way to spends billions and trillions of dollars on tons of stuff that has no meaningful impact. if the government cared, they would increase the budgets
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
how exact do you separate the two? without funding, science doesn’t happen? and this article is covering a specific viewpoint, but how people do science can certainly be political (and is).
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> I can almost guarantee the TSA will invest zero dollars or time into deciding which MacBooks are okay. This is Apple's problem to solve. Zero time, money or attention from the TSA or the airlines will be invested. how is it apple&
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i fully agree with you. it has a stubbornness about it and not in a good way like the stubbornness you might find in lisp, scheme, and sml derivatives. i have had to write python on only a few side projects, but it was miserable, as you say
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
the title of the linked video says it is a deep fake.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
for industrial applications, basically any other serial solution other than usb is a far better choice than usb. "almost" doesn't work for industrial applications. i personally don't think it works for consumer applicati
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
it advertises itself as an actor language and being distributed and concurrent to the core, but the actor documentation has nothing but “please document me!” messages. :(
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
adoption of usb is a problem. it is a complete nightmare of a standard and specification.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
are you serious? wolfram research was founded in 1987 and google in 1998. what gave you the impression otherwise?
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Languages don't die; people do. that's a weird sentiment. it's even hard to respond to, because it's not even clear what your point is. languages dying is a metaphor and not a literal statement. they certainly do &q
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
while i am not convinced this law would do anything useful given that there is plenty of other low hanging fruit for the government to address, i don't think this is a good response. for things that maliciously target human behavior an
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
or abusing their tax exempt status.
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
i know that they use labview and national instruments for some components, but my comment was more along the lines of "if they have some large dependence on labview and ni hardware, then [it would be very surprising...]". however,
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> Because we really ought to go that way (more proofs like Idris/Agda). proofs are not everything in software. what do you do if you're handed a massive code-base in idris and are asked to make a change, a change that requires
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
> I would argue any dynamic programming language is a good alternative to labview. why? labview is not a dynamic programming language. > I'm a proponent on using python for labautomation (we run workshops at some major optics con
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by nikofeyn 7y ago
not even close. it would be very surprising to me if cern is getting rid of their labview dependence, as it will undoubtedly increase their development time and robustness (if they are doing things right).

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