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by skirmish 2y ago
Just today I was driving around UCLA on "Charles E Young Dr E", which Android Auto insisted on calling "Charles East Young Drive East". It was hilarious, the first "E" apparently stands for "Edward".
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by skirmish 2y ago
In a graduate course, we used a horrible Russian translation of Jacques Neveu, Mathematical Foundations of the Calculus of Probability https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0006BNQSQ with a huge amount of misprints in formulas.
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by skirmish 2y ago
Doesn't that all depend on air humidity? How can the manufacturer account for that in a printed date?
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by skirmish 2y ago
> it seems to me the diet folks are really struggling to figure out the correct diet. There is no "nutrition science", just waves of fad after fad. Look up Dr. Ancel Keys, father of "low fat" and how he would simply
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by skirmish 2y ago
So, any cheese or wine would be ultraprocessed according to that definition?
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by skirmish 2y ago
On-the-job observations are very subvertable though. They happened a few times in my high school in Soviet Union. At least twice the teacher would prep "good" students a few days in advance: I will ask you this question, and thi
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by skirmish 3y ago
Yay, I am quite safe, all my projects are nested inside "~/Work"!!
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by skirmish 3y ago
I personally would rather type "ThisIsSomeOtherProject" than "this-is-some-other-project" as advocated on the page. Approximately the same number of keypresses but fewer characters to read.
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by skirmish 3y ago
Carlo Rovelli argues in "The Order of Time" that time itself emerges solely from thermodynamics since there is no arrow of time otherwise in physics. Given that, spacetime itself is not at all foundational but a result of limited
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by skirmish 3y ago
Has been done, Marain script from Iain M. Banks' Culture novel series: https://www.omniglot.com/conscripts/marain.htm
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by skirmish 3y ago
'comprised of' is standard verbiage in US patents, and I am guessing he is trying to sound formal and official. Also see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comprised_of .
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by skirmish 3y ago
The point was to avoid hiring unlucky people, of course!
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by skirmish 3y ago
I had a friend in high school who proudly proclaimed that he never memorized trigonometry formulas, he would just derive them from scratch when he needed them. He would often run out of time on our regular 20-minutes long tests. Admirable
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by skirmish 3y ago
Another good one: my company periodically forces all software engineers to wipe their workstations / laptops and re-install everything from scratch. I have one such wipe coming up, with no way to avoid it, will probably spend 3-4 days
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by skirmish 3y ago
Ditto, I was building a Windows desktop and spent hours faffing around attempting to follow official Microsoft instructions even with another Windows computer available; in desperation tried Rufus Installer, worked on the first attempt. Th
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by skirmish 3y ago
“ALL THESE WORLDS ARE YOURS – EXCEPT EUROPA. ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE.”
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by skirmish 3y ago
Two recent builds with Asrock MBs, one CPU 7950X, another 7800X3D, both run very stable with GSkill CL30 6000MT/s memory (overclocked to 6200MT/s).
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by skirmish 3y ago
"According to the more conservative cosmologists, an alien superpower – maybe a collective of Kardashev Type Three galaxy-spanning civilizations – is running a timing channel attack on the computational ultrastructure of space-time its
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by skirmish 3y ago
I personally bought this real world fighter plane tactics book for playing military flight sims: https://www.amazon.com/dp/0870210599 .
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by skirmish 3y ago
And in a few months they pivot to a new obsession (e.g. quantum computing) and fire everybody without a community college course in quantum physics on their resume.
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by skirmish 3y ago
It's most likely because when you forward any internal information to any outsiders, you will get a stern dressing-down by your manager.
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by skirmish 3y ago
The difference is now they think one of those small looped dimensions is much bigger than others, around a micron in diameter, and gravitational anomalies can be experimentally tested when two masses are within a micron from each other.
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by skirmish 3y ago
> At this point, there is no conceivable extinction level event humanity couldn't avoid or avert Um, how would humanity deal with a supernova going off within a few light years? I am still not convinced it will deal with climate ch
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by skirmish 3y ago
Three.js seconded for young children. I followed "Game Development with Three.js" with my daughter when she was around 10, and we both had good time. The approach in the book is very interactive: make a change and see immediate
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by skirmish 3y ago
When I run a LLM (llama.cpp ROCm) or stable diffusion models (Automatic1111 ROCm) on my 7900XTX under Linux, and it runs out of VRAM, it messes up the driver or hardware so badly that without a reboot all subsequent runs fail.
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by skirmish 3y ago
Google does in Finland, https://templ.io/blog/hamina-google-data-center/ Sea water is corrosive, hard to use for cooling.
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by skirmish 3y ago
As a big gamer at the time, my first stock purchase was TDFX. $1.5k was a lot for a student. Lost most of it pretty fast.
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by skirmish 3y ago
Are you one of those managers who insist on talking to me twice every day: "What are you doing right now?". Maybe treat people like grownups, not toddlers at least sometimes.
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by skirmish 3y ago
Code reviewers that made me type in trailing whitespace that editor stripped: "this change is on lines you are not modifying". Still makes my blood boil many years later.
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by skirmish 3y ago
> What is great about remote is that it kind of forces you to write down your ideas in some format It really doesn't for some people. I have coworkers who will never communicate through text; after the first 1-2 messages they alway

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