noosphr

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by noosphr 11mo ago
Another dozen or so of these and the self mutilation that teach companies have engaged in the last few years with mass lay-offs should finally end. Extrapolating at current rates I guess that means April 2026.
632.
by noosphr 11mo ago
What's the state of IRC these days? I've not kept up since the mid 00s and wonder where people have gone now.
633.
by noosphr 11mo ago
It's the worst solution, apart from the fact it works better than all the other solutions.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
I build CO2 laser cutters after dropping out from my physics PhD for 18 months. Unlike you I do know what I'm talking about.
635.
by noosphr 11mo ago
OK, put you face in front of a 45w co2 laser tube and report your results. The laser is collimated but not focused so by your logic it will be fine. This is advice on par with eating tide pods.
636.
by noosphr 11mo ago
Yes, this is a guide on how to be a software developer, not a computer scientist. Poor name aside it isn't terrible advice for what it is.
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by noosphr 11mo ago
It's 45w of lasing power. I have a scar on my hand that's 15 years old from running one of those at 10% power and getting a reflection from a bare metal sheet. This will absolutely scar, if not char, your cornea faster than you ca
638.
by noosphr 11mo ago
Home rigs like that are no longer cost effective. You're better off buying an rtx pro 6000 outright. This holds both for the sticker price, the supporting hardware price, the electricity cost to run it and cooling the room that you use
639.
by noosphr 11mo ago
I don't think we've seen the end game yet. I have an electric cargo bike. During a kids party yesterday I ran 5 different errands with it while someone with a car managed to get stuck in traffic, not find a parking spot, and miss
640.
by noosphr 1y ago
If you can give that bibliography I'd love to read it. I have the same intuition and a few papers seem to support it but more and explicit ones would be much better.
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by noosphr 1y ago
The same is true of all infrastructure from roads to water pipes. You are being obtuse for the sake of AI doomerism.
642.
by noosphr 1y ago
A power line can be used for a century.
643.
by noosphr 1y ago
Because you only do that once the tech has been comodatized and you have wrung all the benefit for your country that you can. The British didn't industrialise Indian for a reason.
644.
by noosphr 1y ago
I disagree. We have been living on the investment of previous centuries and decades in the West for close to 40 years now. Everything is broken but that didn't matter because everything that needed a functioning physical economy had mo
645.
by noosphr 1y ago
That is motion not action. The point of javascript is to display websites in the browser. Ask yourself, in the last three years has there been a substantial improvement in the way you access websites? Or have they gotten even slower, buggie
646.
by noosphr 1y ago
Never mistake motion for action. An eco system moving too quickly, when it isn't being fundamentally changed, isn't a sign of a healthy ecosystem, but of a pathological one. No one can think that js has progressed substantially in
647.
by noosphr 1y ago
The overwhelming majority of people who worked on x11 are retired and a growing minority are dead. This is the fourth incarnation of x11 and the people working on it now have nothing to do with the people who developed it. Xorg is the casto
648.
by noosphr 1y ago
>The issue doesn't seem to be performance; it seems to still come down to being too eccentric for a lot of use-cases, and difficult to many humans to grasp. Lisp is not too difficult to grasp, it's that everyone suffers from in
649.
by noosphr 1y ago
The big failure is that we stick with languages designed for computers and not people. A C (or Rust) kernel is a heroic effort that takes man-years to complete. A Lisp one is an end of semester project that everyone builds for their make be
650.
by noosphr 1y ago
You can make it as reliable as you want by hosting it on prem.
651.
by noosphr 1y ago
They fired a ton of employees with no rhyme or reason to cut costs, this was the predictable outcome. It will get worse if it ever gets better. The funny thing is that the over hiring during the pandemic also had the predictable result of m
652.
by noosphr 1y ago
If your main competitor is giving you 90% of your revenue they aren't a competitor.
653.
by noosphr 1y ago
If you aren't doing maths when you're writing or reading a maths document I have no idea what you're doing, but you sure as hell aren't reading it in any sense a mathematician would recognise.
654.
by noosphr 1y ago
Copied text does not inject bitcoin mining malware three months after I paste it.
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by noosphr 1y ago
I see this as an absolute win. The state of micro dependencies of js was a nightmare that only happened because a lot of undereducated developers flooded the market to get that sweet faang money. Now that both have dried up I hope we can cl
656.
by noosphr 1y ago
While you're right about Tex, that was more a critique of LaTeX, which is the only language that understands how to typeset everything after the '- in the table. As for m-expressions they also came from lisp, but were abandoned be
657.
by noosphr 1y ago
Here is a rather nice video that explains just how bad maths notation is at describing maths operations without a mountain of implicit assumptions about what each expression means: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iqlxsSrd-M4
658.
by noosphr 1y ago
Changing to a better notation is no more humans serving computers than replacing Roman numerals with Arabic ones was humans serving parchment and ink. In both cases a superior system was held back by people too used to an inferior one to un
659.
by noosphr 1y ago
The amount of effort we are putting into transcribing doodles into pixel accurate text is astonishing. In my undergrad days I loved LaTeX and friends because it let me convert my notes to digital paper and websites without having to change
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by noosphr 1y ago
The above post contains csam, Dang please delete it without reading. Thanks.

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