varjag

28 ms·

661.
by varjag 2y ago
Lowkey mad at the lady dragging her hand luggage.
662.
by varjag 2y ago
It had approved the budget for USAID which was slashed wholesale.
663.
by varjag 2y ago
Most people reading this will switch careers from IC before that happens.
664.
by varjag 2y ago
It certainly isn't. Getting even C code written by human with best effort for addressing standards and conventions accepted is challenging enough.
665.
by varjag 2y ago
To be fair cost per launch was in that ballpark already ($$0.15-0.05) with Ariane, Atlas and Soyuz non-reusable vehicles. SpaceX maintains the cost just about to undercut the competition.
666.
by varjag 2y ago
tl;dr sublinear worst case query and insertion in hash tables.
667.
by varjag 2y ago
IMO it's more reminiscent of Red Guards from Cultural Revolution era China.
668.
by varjag 2y ago
The TAoCP itself is a side project from his original goal of writing a book on compilers.
669.
by varjag 2y ago
I dunno most people I know here do appear to have iphones. And many of those who have an Android seemingly have an iPhone as work or personal device in addition. So 60+ percent doesn't sound unlikely.
670.
OpenLDK: A Java JIT compiler and runtime in Common Lisp(github.com)
212 points by varjag 2y ago|61 comments
671.
by varjag 2y ago
This is great! Thanks for sharing it.
672.
by varjag 2y ago
LHC had confirmed the existence of Higgs boson, essentially validating then-hypothetical mechanism for emergence of mass. It also had ruled out a very popular, theoretically beautiful but as it turned out invalid direction of physics studie
673.
by varjag 2y ago
Which are the non-member states still? Is that post Brexit UK and Norway (the EEA member)?
674.
by varjag 2y ago
The poster I replied to brought up Ariane 5 crash as the example of ESA dysfunction while being very positive about SpaceX. SpaceX had lost plenty launch vehicles both in testing and with live payloads, just ask Zuckerberg. I pointed out th
675.
by varjag 2y ago
They had to design a reference standard quality nanovoltmeter because HP/Agilent could not keep up with volume & cost. And it was only one among scores of side quests. https://hackaday.com/2021/02/26/
676.
by varjag 2y ago
Is Galileo up there or it is just the PDFs and the red tape orbiting?
677.
by varjag 2y ago
Sorry that you feel this way but saying that EU can't complete complex projects is not a reasonable argument.
678.
by varjag 2y ago
Was that literally you who complained that Galileo was too new? Is Huygens too old now? Well take your pick: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:European_Space_Agency...
679.
by varjag 2y ago
Yeah sure ESA lands a probe on bloody Titan while its peers crash land on the Moon but the results are "way behind". Delirious.
680.
by varjag 2y ago
LLMs are not "comparably complex" to LHC, they are perhaps 0.1% of the complexity from engineering POV. By any metric, from system design to physical infrastructure to run them.
681.
by varjag 2y ago
The snarky point of explosions wasn't mine, the poster I replied to brought it up. The rest of your points is really one item, launch vehicles. It's where the USA clearly has the lead (above everyone else, not just ESA in particul
682.
by varjag 2y ago
Russia had its last deep space mission (failed) in 1996. GLONASS did not operate until 2005. Chinese contributions to scientific space missions had been very modest although am sure they may catch up later. NASA has 3x the budget of ESA. Th
683.
by varjag 2y ago
If your metric of innovation is the amount of rockets exploded at debuts you shouldn't bring up SpaceX really. The EU had committed to a number of deep space and scientific instrument programmes spanning decades and seen them through t
684.
by varjag 2y ago
The Large Hadron Collider clearly works and is infinitely more complex than yet another language model.
685.
by varjag 2y ago
Oh come on startups deliver websites, it's 1997 shit.
686.
by varjag 2y ago
Europe runs its space programme in this way and so far it has pretty good track record. There are more ways to build stuff than the worship of personality.
687.
by varjag 2y ago
Quite the opposite, it's a lot of history in the making. But most likely it is the undignified end of Pax Americana.
688.
by varjag 2y ago
Distant how exactly?
689.
by varjag 2y ago
Mediocre developers are the first to hop over to the management track or non-coding sanctuaries like system architecture. So naturally they are over represented in tech leadership.
690.
by varjag 2y ago
Two months in much of Europe is within 6-month trial period, it's easy to let anyone go.

More ›