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by wyager 4y ago
When reading articles like these, I can't tell if they are very low semantic density, or if they are using terms of art that sound like noise but are actually communicating valuable information. "accelerating mission/delive
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by wyager 4y ago
Earlier this year I was changing some firewall configs and my torrent jail on my home server stopped working. I spent like an hour debugging, only to realize that my 1-year mulvad subscription had expired in the middle of messing with my fi
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by wyager 4y ago
Would latex or markdown work for her?
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by wyager 4y ago
Why is someone working in research publication not using a typesetting engine like tex? Incidentally, git supports non-wysiwyg typesetting just fine.
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by wyager 4y ago
> For crypto to replace modern finance, it needs to be better in every way I don't think this follows logically at all. Can you explain your thought process? (FWIW, I think that most likely the only component of finance that will be
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by wyager 4y ago
Basically anyone I consider especially credible has been consistently saying "everything except bitcoin is overwhelmingly likely to be a scam", which has proven to be a fairly reliable heuristic. I think anyone who actually "
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by wyager 4y ago
Hip places charge like $15 for a cup of ice cream and do weird (but tasty) gastronomy gimmicks like liquid nitrogen freezing or maltodextrin usage. You pay more than $4 at normie chains like coldstone.
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by wyager 4y ago
Easy solution; use Fujifilm. We both agree they don't overheat. Incidentally, I think they are also much better cameras for most use cases.
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by wyager 4y ago
Don't use a sony A6**; they overheat. Use a fujifilm or an A7 series.
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by wyager 4y ago
Sony A6 series - yes. Sony A7 series - no. Fujifilm, any version - no. Based on my (sparse) experience.
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by wyager 4y ago
The lack of AF is a feature, not a bug. I replaced my AF lens with eye AF with a manual focus lens on my work webcam. The DoF zone indicates to other viewers if I should be conceptually "in focus" at that point in the meeting (i.e
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by wyager 4y ago
If you tweak some zoom settings you can get a slightly-less-shitty bitrate, and people constantly comment on the quality of my MILC-based setup (APS-C camera with a cheapo chinese prime f/1.2 lens). This is vs the $200-ish logitech ext
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by wyager 4y ago
Most small planes still use 100LL. The local airport I fly cessnas out of only has leaded gas.
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by wyager 4y ago
> We'd know it by now if that were true. My brother, we have a tanking fertility rate, rapidly declining testosterone levels and sperm counts, and widespread sexual development issues causing intense social conflict. It is already m
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by wyager 4y ago
I expect that in 100 years, they are going to look back on this period of widespread endocrine disruptor exposure from plastics, hormonal birth control, etc. with the same or greater horror and incredulity than we look back on the Romans po
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by wyager 4y ago
This paper contests the notion that this has to do with possible negative side effects of prolonged ketosis: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32088118/
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by wyager 4y ago
> Find me something like Erlang/Elixir with the speed of Rust and I won't learn another programming language ever again. You're describing haskell again. You haven't articulated why you have disliked haskell in the pa
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by wyager 4y ago
Yes. Go spawn a million tasks in haskell. It will work fine. 50k is child's play for GHC runtime. Only serious competitor is BEAM.
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by wyager 4y ago
> When it comes to performance, rust+tokio is going to be much more performant This is nonsense without significant further qualification. I guarantee the tokio scheduler and async stack model gives you net worse results for many real wo
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by wyager 4y ago
This impression does not match reality. It's great to work with. I'd certainly take it over ocaml (having spent probably thousands of hours on both).
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by wyager 4y ago
The brain runs fine off ketones. Better than on glucose, in many cases. This is why so many of the therapeutic targets of ketogenesis are neurological. Only red blood cells and a couple other actually need glucose.
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by wyager 4y ago
An ML that competes with rust+tokio is an exact description of haskell. It's had the best multicore runtime and concurrency primitives of any general purpose language for quite some time. No need to wait.
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by wyager 4y ago
It's unclear to me if Touch ID already ignores dead tissue. I can find some reputable sources claiming it does, but there seems to be a lack of consensus. > Mashable repeatedly asked Apple, Google, and Samsung for comment on the mat
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by wyager 4y ago
"Unprofessional" companies like tesla and ryanair are the only companies where I put even the slightest faith in the sincereness of their public statements. I know that the truthfulness of a public statement by any "professio
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by wyager 4y ago
Operations in G3 have a bunch of extra work compared to operations on quaternions alone due to the presence of odd grades. However, if your values are quaternionic, these grades should always be zero, so you can safely elide the operations.
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by wyager 4y ago
Correct. Quaternions have 4 elements and a small number of multiplications. G3 has 8 elements and more multiplications. This gets worse quickly in higher dimensions.
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by wyager 4y ago
> This actually seems like solid advice for communicating, generally If and only if your job is to write tedious corporate pablum.
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by wyager 4y ago
Google is your friend! "Apple inclusive language guidelines", first result. Specific quotes: > Avoid using specialized or technical terms without defining them. Using specialized or technical terms can make your writing more su
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by wyager 4y ago
I was reading the new Apple app UI guidelines, and under the section about "inclusive language" it basically said "You are not to make jokes. You must speak as if to an idiot. You must write like a PR release.". Horrible
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by wyager 4y ago
Although I grokked quaternions before learning GA, I am 100% certain that the GA explanation is better and more intuitive. GA breaks down quaternions (and their generalization to arbitrary dimensions) into smaller pieces that are much more

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