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by perlgeek 2y ago
I did study physics, and our statistical physics lecture only derived thermodynamic laws. We also had a somewhat shoddy derivation of Newton's Laws from the Schrödinger equation, but wasn't really satisfactory either, because it d
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by perlgeek 2y ago
The main objection is: if there wasn't a classical limit, our brains would have evolved differently. So yes, we can use the antrophic argument as evidence for the existence of the classical limit, but it doesn't have explanatory p
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by perlgeek 2y ago
You need quantum physics to understand how chemistry works. So, given that chemistry plays a huge role in how the human (or any) brain works, it would be quite a stretch to argue that the brain works with classical physics. We are often slo
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by perlgeek 2y ago
The Universe is fundamentally quantum in nature; if anything, we'd need a model that explains why classical physics works so well most of the time.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> - Whatever the outcome in Ukraine, suddenly, nobody will care. The media won’t talk about it, people will have largely forgotten, and some other controversy or distraction will be the story of the day. I'm sure the Ukrainians will
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by perlgeek 2y ago
The endgame isn't for the USA, it's for Trump. I don't really know what it is, but I'm pretty certain that to understand his actions, you have to rid yourself of the idea that he's doing it for anybody or anything e
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I work for one of the domestic alternatives. Guess where our network gear vendors are? (Currently using mostly Arista, but also some Juniper core routers, used to have Cisco gear too). Guess where our OS is being sold from? (Even when use L
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by perlgeek 2y ago
... and nearly all European corporations run US-made operating systems on some of their machines, many of which are critically important. A real untangling of the US and European economies seem both impractical and really inefficient.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Germany has its own planes certified for use with US nuclear warheads. Any strike command would need to be a joint US + DE decision. I could imagine that Germany replaces the US warheads with French or even British ones, but not actual owne
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Germany will absolutely not have its own nuclear weapons in 10 years (there are already US nukes stationed in Germany, so foreign ones aren't a change in status quo). Even for a highly industrialized nation, developing nukes is a big p
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Opsgenie offers an API for integrations. To me it sounds like this API will stop responding after 2027-04, so you need to rework your integration. Not just a pricing/packaging/branding change. If you have sources that disagree, I&
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Obviously, reliability and pricing play a big role. Another one that's surprisingly important to my employer: select the country of origin of phone calls. The company I work for offers (among other things) datacenter colocation in Germ
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by perlgeek 2y ago
FYI I've gotten an email from Atlassian with the title "Important announcement for Opsgenie customers", which mentions the EOL and contains a link to the blog post.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> Yea, I actually happen to think that Mozilla doesn't have ill intent here I could understand that if it was just the Terms of Use thingy. But if you look at the whole picture, I cannot really come to the conclusion. Why did they r
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Perl has had a limited data tagging system for decades now, called "taint checking". If enabled (through a command line switch), all data coming in from the outside (sockets, STDIN etc.) are "tainted", and if you e.g. co
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Some software I inherited from my predecessor is already like this. When I got it, one part of it was a single Perl file with about 5k lines of code, with 20+ variables visible in the whole file, with 10+ levels of nested loops, basically a
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Maybe. Maybe now, or maybe in a year or two, AI coding tools will be good enough that a single semi-technical person can be Product Manager for a small product, and implement all the feature through AI/LLM tools. Probably not for somet
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Company A wants to hire an engineer, an AI could solve all their tech interview questions, so why not hire that AI instead? There's very likely a real answer to that question, and that answer should shape the way that engineer should b
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by perlgeek 2y ago
If the battery is dead, it's not driving, so not need for much breaking power (dunno how they handle the parking situation). What I wonder is: what if the electrical system has a short, close to the battery and alternator? Would the re
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Some washing machines actually measure how dirty the drain water is to decide whether to do another pass with fresh water. Since this is a dynamic decision, the remaining time cannot be accurately predicted in advance. (Not saying this is t
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by perlgeek 2y ago
Writing a CAS from scratch would've been much more complicated. Reusing an existing one? Maybe not. Yes, it would likely be slower, but is a 1ms vs. 10ms response time in the calculator app really such a big deal? entering a correct ca
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I imagine you could do most or all of this with yacas, which is actually a computer algebra system (GPL).
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I suspect it's even more complicated; if the particulate matter is different in size, the relative amount delivered to a human lung might depend on the distance. So if you want to model somebody being 10 meters away from the street, yo
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by perlgeek 2y ago
I disagree very hard on this. We mostly talk about the problematic cases, but most of the time when I need some software, I just install it through the package manager and it just works. Compare this to Windows, where you often have to sear
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by perlgeek 2y ago
radixsort isn't a comparison-based sort algorithm, so you're comparing apples to chickens.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> There is no reason to believe in a singularity. There are reasons, and the proponents aren't shy about stating them. > Technological progress follows a sigmoid pattern not an exponential pattern. That's true, but you don&#
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by perlgeek 2y ago
You want to lose those that break the law.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
This seems entirely ideologically motivated to me.
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by perlgeek 2y ago
> Would GitLab have been better? My impression of gitlab CI is that it's also not built for monorepos. (I'm a casual gitlab CI user).
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by perlgeek 2y ago
You do realize that in vast majority of all countries, all major social media platforms are owned by foreign companies? There seems to be a real risk of propaganda on Tiktok, but foreign ownership alone isn't a sound reason for a ban.

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