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by troymc 10mo ago
Thanks, I made a note to update that someday.
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by troymc 10mo ago
I made a poster showing how one might write a Hello World program in 39 different programming languages, and even different versions of some common languages like Java: https://troymcconaghy.blog/2025/01/13/39
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by troymc 11mo ago
I wonder about a Ford F-250 owned by an ox (an ox Ford).
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by troymc 1y ago
Essential oils from plants (terpenes/terpenoids) are hydrogen-rich hydrocarbons and they smell nice. Menthol is an example, with a hydrogen mass fraction of about 12%. For comparison, water has a hydrogen mass fraction of about 11.2%.
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by troymc 1y ago
My main learning is that character.ai is consistently in the top four, along with ChatGPT (always #1) and Claude. I didn't even know it was in the running.
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by troymc 1y ago
It reminds me of that old joke: - "Say milk ten times fast." - Wait for them to do that. - "What do cows drink?"
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by troymc 1y ago
Are you referring to the Stargate Project? I guess so, since there weren't any other 500 billion USD AI projects announced recently in the USA. Construction of the first data center Abilene, Texas site is ongoing. Emily Chang visited t
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by troymc 1y ago
Micel mē þynceð þanc, þæt þū gemanst mǣl-gespreca ealdra. Wæs þū hāl.
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by troymc 1y ago
Here's a quote that predates Newton by some centuries: "We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or an
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by troymc 1y ago
Thank you for your comment. We appreciate you taking the time to share your thoughts.
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by troymc 1y ago
It might make more sense to put data centers on the Moon. It's fairly close, about 1.3 light seconds away. You wouldn't use it for anything realtime, but it would be fine for long AI training jobs. You could bury the servers under
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by troymc 2y ago
People who develop software have to understand what "open source" means (technically, not just some sloppy interpretation), because using a non-open-source package in an otherwise open source project can contaminate the whole th
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by troymc 2y ago
My current favorite option is Quarto [1]. It's basically a friendly wrapper around Pandoc [2], letting you write in Markdown (+ lots of Quarto-specific extensions) and render to LaTeX, Typst, multi-page HTML, EPUB, docx, and more. [1]
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by troymc 2y ago
That was fast. So 2025.
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by troymc 2y ago
Yep, exactly. Here's a translation of Proclus: "He [Euclid] lived in the time of Ptolemy the First, for Archimedes, who lived after the time of the first Ptolemy, mentions Euclid. It is also reported that Ptolemy once asked Euclid
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by troymc 2y ago
Another example akin to the proof of the 4-color map theorem was the proof of the Kepler conjecture [1], i.e. "Grocers stack their oranges in the densest-possible way." We "know" it's true, but only because a machin
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by troymc 2y ago
I never understood that quote until recently. The story goes that the (royal) pharaoh of Egypt wanted to learn geometry, but didn't want to have to read Euclid. He wanted a faster route. But, "there is no royal road to geometry.&q
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by troymc 2y ago
Also known as "treknobabble."
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by troymc 2y ago
I looked around some more and it seems that it is, in fact, the total number of units sold that peaked, not the total dollars of sales. I found a good video that outlines all the reasons: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsXx
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by troymc 2y ago
I was rather hoping that a "Telegraph Simulator" simulated the electric and magnetic fields along a telegraph line. This is more of a Morse Code toy.
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by troymc 2y ago
This is true. Using a neutrino beam, the minimum latency would be approximately: (diameter of Earth) / (speed of light) ~= 42.5 milliseconds Some high-frequency traders might actually be able to justify the investment needed to enable
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by troymc 2y ago
One use case is to estimate the minimum latency for communications between two points on opposite sides of the Earth, which would be how long it takes light to travel halfway around the Earth: = 20,000 km / (speed of light) ~= 66.7 mil
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by troymc 2y ago
The French definition of the meter can also be described as "such that the distance from the equator to the North Pole, through Paris, is 10,000 km." This is a handy number to know! It means, for example, that the circumference of
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by troymc 2y ago
Maybe that's true, but maybe the average cost of a new car in Asia is quite a bit lower, so the overall effect is still declining total overall sales (measured in USD)? Here's a fascinating video about a city in China that's
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by troymc 2y ago
The latest version of Tectonic is 0.15.0 (i.e. pre-release), and is dated February 5, 2024. Looking at the contributions on GitHub [1], there's not much activity happening in the repo. Frankly, there are better ways to get and use TeX
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Thumbs up emoji case could be going to the Supreme Court(ctvnews.ca)
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by troymc 2y ago
Meta Horizon Worlds launched in 2021, so I guess it doesn't count. (Meta continues to invest in it.) VIVERSE (from HTC) was announced in March 2022. It's still around. It's something you can do with your HTC VIVE headset. It&
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by troymc 2y ago
CVEs are very important, of course, especially nowadays, but... Many licenses, such as the MIT license, are very open. All you have to do is include the license text and the names of the software creators, because they want attribution. In
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by troymc 2y ago
It sounds like you and your fellow employees are generating those sboms while on the clock. In other words, your employer is paying for those sboms, indirectly, already. From your employer's point of view, sboms are an expense. Maybe i
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by troymc 2y ago
This was not intended to be a serious article, like something you'd submit for publication in an ACM journal. The last sentence is: "(Also I decided to try writing this thread in the style of a linkedin influencer lol, sorry about

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