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by semi-extrinsic 8mo ago
The disease of having 100 citations in each paper had not yet broken out when the papers in question were written. A good paper in 1994 probably had about 8 references, and certainly not any to common textbooks.
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by semi-extrinsic 9mo ago
> It's all layers of porous defenses. Also known as the "swiss cheese model" in risk management.
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by semi-extrinsic 9mo ago
No, I think that's Microsoft Viva Career.
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by semi-extrinsic 9mo ago
It will come with 6 GB of RAM, unless you get the Microsoft 365 Xbox X Copilot Dynamics Pro with 13 GB RAM.
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by semi-extrinsic 9mo ago
Isn't Pixel 10 the first one with fully supported desktop mode? I remember I was very confused when buying a Pixel 7 to replace my (then 3 year old) Huawei P30 Pro, and the inferior camera + lack of desktop mode made it feel like a net
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by semi-extrinsic 9mo ago
Fortran 90 should fit the bill nicely.
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by semi-extrinsic 9mo ago
> everything is scaled way too large The HiDPI/Retina bullshit is just bullshit. I've been running a 4K 43" 4:3 display at 100% scaling since 2018. It is neither blurry nor scaled too large. It can, however, comfortably fi
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by semi-extrinsic 9mo ago
For solving physics equations there is also Jacobian-free Newton-Krylov methods.
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by semi-extrinsic 9mo ago
Ah, then I see what you mean. I was thinking of the different form factors in terms of which fingers are moving the ball, how your wrists are oriented, etc.
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by semi-extrinsic 9mo ago
Too late to add this as an edit to my post, but: I should have specified I do a fair bit of CAD and image editing work in addition to coding, so I need a high quality pointing device. If you just use the pointing device for switching window
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by semi-extrinsic 9mo ago
> Your regular ~$50 sucks because it follows the form factor of a mouse even though you don't have to move it around. I don't understand - between the Kensington Orbit, Kensington TB550, Elecom HUGE, Nulea M505, M511 & M514
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by semi-extrinsic 9mo ago
A year ago I went down the rabbit hole of looking into custom trackball-keyboard integrations. Ploopy, Charybdis, Dactyl, CCK-ball, etc. My final boring conclusion is that what I had already been doing for the past 20 years is much cheaper
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by semi-extrinsic 9mo ago
No no, in comparison to academia, programmers have been extremely diligent at documenting exactly how stuff works and providing fairly reproducible artifacts since the 1960s. Imagine trying to teach an AI how to code based on only slide dec
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by semi-extrinsic 9mo ago
This idea is just ridiculous to anyone who's worked in academia. The theory is nice, but academic publishing is currently in the late stages of a huge death spiral. In any given scientific niche, there is a huge amount of tribal knowle
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by semi-extrinsic 10mo ago
Depends on the acidity.
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by semi-extrinsic 10mo ago
I am all in on uv as well, and advocating for its use heavily at $dayjob. But I think having as much as possible of these things encoded in standards is good for the ecosystem. Maybe in a few years time, someone will make something even bet
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by semi-extrinsic 10mo ago
From what I can tell, Hatch, PDM, pipx and pip-run also support it.
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by semi-extrinsic 10mo ago
The /// script block is actually specified in PEP 723 and supported by several other tools apart from uv.
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by semi-extrinsic 10mo ago
Fun fact: the Planck mass is about 22 micrograms, about the amount of Vitamin D in a typical multivitamin supplement, and the corresponding derived Planck momentum is 6.5 kg m/s, which is around how hard a child kicks a soccer ball. No
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by semi-extrinsic 10mo ago
Functions, the way we use them in mathematical equations, have a particular syntax. The point of functions in Fortran is to mimic this as closely as reasonably possible (consider it is a language with a long history). Giving the user low-le
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by semi-extrinsic 10mo ago
Being wrong about details like this is exactly what I would expect from a professor. They are mainly grant writers and PhD herders, often they are good at presenting as well, but they mostly only have gut feelings about technical details of
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by semi-extrinsic 10mo ago
Functions return a value, subroutines do not. So functions can, at the whim of the compiler, cause an extra copy. Style wise, many prefer to reserve functions for things that resemble mathematical functions (i.e. only intent(in) and pure).
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by semi-extrinsic 10mo ago
The Apple hardware is indeed very nice, but it's not a good environment for gaming. They've traditionally been quite gaming-hostile with refusing to support the later generations on OpenGL. Then there was a wrapper for Windows gam
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by semi-extrinsic 10mo ago
No difference from e.g. Shutterstock, then? I think most businesses using AI illustrations are not expecting to copyright the images themselves. The logos and words that are put on top of the AI image are the important bits to have trademar
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by semi-extrinsic 10mo ago
E. M. Forster would like a word.
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by semi-extrinsic 10mo ago
The paper is cool, and this is not a criticism, but Fig. 4 gives strong "draw the rest of the owl" vibes.
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by semi-extrinsic 10mo ago
I recently had the distinct displeasure of being the first to set up a service in Azure on a new tenant at Microsoft. Of course I first had to faff about adding the company credit card, which took five tries and two days. Then I found I had
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
Yeah, there is an interesting question there (always has been). When do you stop citing the paper for a specific model? Just to take some examples, is BiCGStab famous enough now that we can stop citing van der Vorst? Is the AdS/CFT cor
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
Probably mainly because it doesn't seem to exist outside of the US, and I live in Europe. Only hear about products like that when shit's hitting the fan. From reading the wikipedia page, almost kind of impressive they are still tr
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by semi-extrinsic 11mo ago
Of the evidence presented here I am mostly shocked that Peloton is still a thing. The last time I heard about them was that cringeworthy ad in pre-Covid times. I thought they were the Juiceroo of fitness equipment.

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