ur-whale

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by ur-whale 3y ago
Condensers is an interesting concept and one that is IMO sorely needed in many dev environments (to wit, the amount of work that has been put in Zig to get the compile-time language to be as powerful and compatible as possible with the real
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Your approach of the problem, while theoretically correct (world is infinitely complex, therefore no model can encompass it, news at 11), is of zero practical use. As a matter of fact, IIRC, the Chinese around the 11th century walked the ex
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> I know of no such scientific model. Indeed, almost all of them do not predict observed data. Now you're being entirely unreasonable. How did NASA put people on the moon? How did we fly satellites to the outer reaches of the solar
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> The goal of science is to provide predictive models of the observed data. This, a 100%. The "explaining how the world works" is only interesting insofar as it helps produce further and better predictive models (BTW Feynmann h
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> You cannot do science with statistics The entire team at CERN would beg to differ. So would all of the field of cosmology. So would the entire medical profession, researchers and practitioners - although I do agree that calling medicin
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> ML people nowadays barely know basic stats. The same can unfortunately be said of many "statisticians", who use statistics as a big recipe book without understanding the first thing about the mathematical underpinnings of the
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> What is everyone doing that needs something else? You omitted to explain what you do for a living. I write code for a living, and what you describe simply doesn't work for me given the many different things I need to look at and r
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> As usual, a thousand word essay on Google's WEI without ever mentioning that Apple sailed that ship silently The "look! there's a bigger asshole over there" defense. Never a winning strategy.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> moderation on SO has gotten progressively more horrible. Can't agree more. So many relevant questions shot down by an anal retentive mod you end up having to find the answer on another site.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> I told her her beliefs were akin to racism. Very nice argument against the BS that is astrology. Thanks, will add it to my arsenal.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
If there is a downfall of RISCV, it's going to be the myriad of sub-architectures and their weird naming schemes, with an added layer of marketing drones muddying up the waters even further. This is going to confuse the hell out of the
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Thanks for the summary, the original text makes more sense with that as context.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
I have a starfive visionfive V2 [1] board at home to play with riscv. Can be had fairly quickly from Aliexpress for ~ 100 bucks. Very similar in nature to a raspi, but still a bit rough around the edges: - getting debian up an running
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by ur-whale 3y ago
No snarkiness intended, but I just read your post for the 3rd time and although I understand each sentence individually, I'm still not sure what point you're trying to make.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/6IeKj
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by ur-whale 3y ago
"Major consequences", and here I was already think a beam of protons flying at near the speed of light was let loose towards the city of Geneva. But no, just a section of the accelerator that needs fixing.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> They also don't have intellectual property. You say it like it's a bad thing? How quaint.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> It seems to me that all build systems are just DAGs Yeah, well, it's a little bit more than that. Two things come to mind that don't neatly fit the DAG mental framework: - dynamically generated dependencies (e.g. when y
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> If cables are cut you can bet the US will retaliate Unless it's the US doing the cutting, of course.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
Not to be mistaken with Simone Veil [1], another famous french figure bearing a similar sounding name. [1] https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simone_Veil
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by ur-whale 3y ago
No USB-C port. No NVME port. Price tag is too high. Shame because the rest of the H/W looks nice.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> The dual-use word "explode" This is what is really nice about crypto: many things "explode", in the destructive sense of the term, and on a very regular basis. Most interpret this as crypto being bad. I don't.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
You government (wherever that may be save a few places) is very likely already doing it, they're just being very discreet about it instead of making it the law of the land.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
As if there was already not enough reasons to flee that god-forsaken place (see recent riots, one example among many), now parliament is busy manufacturing new ones. Amazing.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> seeing loads of wind turbines everywhere The wind turbines are only there to hide the giant, coal-powered power plants that Germany had to restart because the tree-huggers who run that country decided to ditch nuclear. I very much doub
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by ur-whale 3y ago
https://archive.is/DlGpI
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Technology Changes the Battlefield(economist.com)
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> Those lucky sons of bitches in Norway. Well sure. But then they also have Lutefisk [1] and one of the world's most annoying population of mosquitoes. You can't have it all good. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> 30 years is too far out to make sense. You're correct. It's very likely to be far worse than that.
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by ur-whale 3y ago
> This luxury is not available for most of the countries. And it's increasingly likely that it won't be available to the US for much longer. The fact that the US weaponized their currency during the Ukraine / Russia war ha

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