pohl

32 ms·

511.
by pohl 4y ago
...they found a single shape Kind of, though, right? One could also look at it as they've found two shapes that happen to be reflections of each other.
512.
by pohl 4y ago
Would a universe with infinite mass keep expanding? Either way, headline could use some work.
513.
by pohl 4y ago
The set of all galaxies is finite, isn’t it?
514.
by pohl 4y ago
The old Settings UI was nice, but it had a really bad scaling problem as more preferences were added, making it badly organized. I like the new one, better, though it did come into the world roughly and still needs work. Mostly, though, I&#
515.
by pohl 4y ago
You sampled one instance in a fediverse with thousands upon thousands of instances. Do you think none of them have a community more aligned with your worldview?
516.
by pohl 4y ago
It was said above that he was “playing the role” of being an inventor, and this observation was directly juxtaposed against a con man.
517.
by pohl 4y ago
If you’re going to make that distinction, shouldn’t you also cite quotations where Jobs makes the claim to specifically be the inventor? It seems the charge in this thread depends on blurring that boundary such that marketing on behalf of t
518.
by pohl 4y ago
Mathematics, at its foundations, loves to see how much they can get with the smallest number of concepts and assumptions. It’s good to learn what’s really necessary.
519.
by pohl 4y ago
I was surprised by that one. I’ve tried to get it to do that but there was a safeguard in place at the time where it refused to imitate his style.
520.
by pohl 4y ago
How’d he do on the Novichok poisoning of Sergei Skripal?
521.
by pohl 4y ago
From c2rust.com: The C2Rust project is being developed by Galois and Immunant. This tool is able to translate most C modules into semantically equivalent Rust code. These modules are intended to be compiled in isolation in order to produce
522.
by pohl 4y ago
Great name
523.
by pohl 4y ago
…due to the Fed raising rates Translation: due to the banks not being sufficiently stress-tested to assure resiliency under reasonable rate fluctuations.
524.
by pohl 4y ago
Good recipe for humanlike interactions, but interesting?
525.
by pohl 4y ago
I installed the nightly version yesterday, and was pleased to see menus On macOS.
526.
by pohl 4y ago
Looks like Carp does also have eval. It’s nice that one gets to choose to pay the cost here. https://carp-lang.github.io/carp-docs/core/Dynamic.html
527.
by pohl 4y ago
FTA: The team suspects climate change may be warming the region and affecting bee and possibly butterfly survival.
528.
by pohl 4y ago
Interesting, I hadn’t realized how much the phrase “memory safety” understates what is desirable.
529.
by pohl 4y ago
Yeah, that’s something, at least. Wouldn’t the order that mutations happen still matter, even though they have to acquire a lock? Not a pythoneer, myself.
530.
by pohl 4y ago
Does Python do anything to enforce mutually exclusive access when mutating? If not, that’s a hole you could drive a truck through, isn’t it?
531.
by pohl 4y ago
They could use a to have ChatGPT generate a function for that.
532.
by pohl 4y ago
But as I pointed out in a post last week, most of these things (except for Covid, obviously) were looking worse a decade ago No, they weren't, because a decade ago there was still hope that democratic process could lead to sensible p
533.
by pohl 4y ago
Would you cite the marketing to which you referred? I’ve never seen it.
534.
by pohl 4y ago
Reminds me of how liquids behave in Starbound.
535.
by pohl 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34934815
536.
by pohl 4y ago
Clearly. 4chan is a site, however. It’s not a relevant comparison.
537.
by pohl 4y ago
Any single site should be judged by the worst elements it allows.
538.
by pohl 4y ago
That is the crux of the problem. Leopards eating faces.
539.
by pohl 4y ago
Soviet-esque, but if the party was driven by profit motive, though, right?
540.
by pohl 4y ago
What's always seemed weird about that, to me, is that I've never been surprised when some lone hacker — who is not the developer of the tool in question — volunteers to use the PA-RISC machine they have access to make something

More ›