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by sevensor 11mo ago
Which average office tasks would those be? Writing project proposals? Putting budget numbers into a shared spreadsheet? Composing a progress report? Preparing presentation slides for an executive status update meeting? Writing performance r
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by sevensor 11mo ago
This honestly does not sound boring in the least. Statistical design of experiments is super interesting. You can tune your experiments to get the most useful information within your experimental budget. If you’ve ever run a physical real w
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by sevensor 11mo ago
I understood the article to say that it was a driver that enabled the hardware and not a software decoder.
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by sevensor 11mo ago
I’m sure these motivations do play out in some circles. However, every single homeschooler I know personally, and I know quite a few, does so because they want their children to have a very specific kind of religious education. Often the wa
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by sevensor 11mo ago
If I understood the article correctly, you can re-enable this by making a purchase on the Microsoft Store. All stakeholders win. Licensor. OEM. Microsoft. We made the pie bigger! Well, maybe not so great for the end user or the IT departmen
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by sevensor 11mo ago
Now that the pendulum has finally swung back from OOP, has OOP become a generic term for any poorly thought out conceptual muddle? “Welcome to Intertrode. You’ll be working on the big refactoring project. Our legacy system was designed by o
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by sevensor 11mo ago
I think Jarndyce v Jarndyce is still going as well.
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by sevensor 11mo ago
“Hacks” 4-10 could easily be replaced with “use numpy.” Performance gains from doing math better in pure Python are minimal compared with numpy. It’s not unusual for the numpy version of something to end up taking 0.01x as long to run.
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by sevensor 11mo ago
Self quantification. Sleep trackers, fitness trackers, bathroom scales. I am deeply uninterested in gamifying my body, and I resent attempts to do so for profit.
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by sevensor 11mo ago
What I’m saying is that the decline in math skills isn’t as obvious as you’re making out. The post COVID cohorts currently in high school are doing a lot better than the ones who are currently sophomores in college did. Anecdotally anyway,
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by sevensor 11mo ago
It’s a shame other commenters are so busy waging culture war that this explanation is being minimized and dismissed. I’m married to a high school teacher, and not only is there a super obvious cohort that spent 8th-9th grade playing Fortnit
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by sevensor 11mo ago
An absolute horror story, followed by a long slow struggle to find a place in the world afterwards. It’s almost as if the unspeakable insanity of what the school was doing protected it from discovery. Nobody from groundskeepers to senators
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by sevensor 11mo ago
> the only robust way to edit \ASCIIMATH\ is to use a \WYSIWYG\ editor and hope that the parser doesn't change ever. Ouch. I wrote a couple of parsers when I was young and foolish without trying to specify the grammar, and it’s a g
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by sevensor 11mo ago
I’ve read the post carefully and I still don’t get how they proved Santa Claus without proving the proposition.
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by sevensor 11mo ago
I like this as an analogy but not as an explanation. In fact, if you’re unfamiliar with linear algebra, this might be a nice way to think about projection onto a different set of basis vectors. But even the best human translators can be dee
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by sevensor 11mo ago
Fair enough, my ion implant experience was DRAM / flash. I never worked on PV.
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by sevensor 11mo ago
I don’t know about entrepreneurship, but I remember meeting this delightful bohemian set of students in college. Fearless, carefree, they listened to interesting music, they visited interesting countries, and they threw fabulous parties. It
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by sevensor 11mo ago
Yes, this would be P type. Boron is usually the P type dopant of choice. I’m not sure what role they have in mind for this, but probably to replace polysilicon and metals as conductors. What you have to watch out for is that this will make
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by sevensor 11mo ago
What I remember from those days was saving my work reflexively because the chances of the window manager or text editor crashing at any given moment were quite high. Also, emacs came in for lots of grief for being so slow. Remember “Eight M
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by sevensor 11mo ago
I was hoping for more captions on those, they’re quite fascinating. I wonder if the architects understood what a half century of weathering would do to the surface.
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by sevensor 11mo ago
Getting your program to render the same on different platforms takes a lot of work the user will never see, and that goes double if you actually want it to behave the same. There are some very deep problems you have to work through, like wh
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by sevensor 11mo ago
What’s the opposite of damning with faint praise? “Removes many but not all of the C footguns. Self hosted compiler isn’t that much faster than Clang.”
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by sevensor 11mo ago
Wow. OK, I believe you. Still don’t see the advantages over using the same number of bits for fixed point math, but this definitely sounds like something IBM would do. Edit: Back of the envelope, you could measure 10^26 dollars with picodol
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by sevensor 11mo ago
Hilarious and apt. Either you want fixed point for your minimum unit of accounting or you want floating point because you’re doing math with big / small numbers and you can tolerate a certain amount of truncation. I have no idea what t
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by sevensor 11mo ago
This is a neat project! I read the last post and I’ll work my way back through them.
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by sevensor 11mo ago
You chose the example here. Pick a different one if it’s not what you want to talk about.
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by sevensor 11mo ago
Because std::vector isn't much of an abstraction, in the sense of removing a set of concerns from consideration. v[i] is just pointer math. What happens if you index outside the bounds of v is anybody's guess, and it can fail si
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by sevensor 1y ago
> it's very natural to put them to different machines, so you need your IPC to be network calls But why is this natural? I’m not saying we shouldn’t have network RPC, but it’s not obvious to me that we should have only network RPC
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by sevensor 1y ago
How about old fashioned interprocess communication? You can have separate codebases, written in different languages, with different responsibilities, running on the same computer. Way fewer moving parts than RPC over a network.
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by sevensor 1y ago
I enjoyed the humorous back and forth in the middle. “What about meat?” “Nettles” “Grain?” “Nettles” “Seasoning?” “Also nettles.”

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