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by xelxebar 1y ago
You might be interested in this: https://www.crowdsupply.com/modos-tech/modos-paper-monitor It's just a dev kit run, but I've got high hopes for the whole Modos project.
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by xelxebar 1y ago
> I think this works in simple domains. Business incentives are aligned around incremental delivery, not around efficient encoding of the target domain. The latter generally requires deep architectural iteration, meaning multiple complet
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Notes on Programming in C by Rob Pike(lysator.liu.se)
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by xelxebar 1y ago
The growth of BB is certainly mind-boggling; however, I personally find its growth rate so untouchable as obviate any attempt at understanding. There's nothing to gain purchase on. The fast growing hierarchy, on the other hand, provide
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by xelxebar 1y ago
Frustratingly, attempts to discretize space invariably run into problems with relativity, since they effectively impose a preferred frame of reference. I.e. you can impose a minimum distance, but relativistic length contraction means that o
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by xelxebar 1y ago
In my years of reading and writing bash as well as Python for sysops tasks, I'd say that bash is the more reliable workhorse of the two. Python tends to encourage a kind of overengineering, resulting in more bugs overall. Many times I&
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by xelxebar 1y ago
Indeed! Funnily enough, there seems to be something similar going on between defining large finite numbers and defining large countable cardinals.
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by xelxebar 1y ago
I kind of feel like set -o errexit (i.e. set -e) provides enough unexpected semantics that explicit error handling makes more sense. One thing that often trips people up is this: set -e [ -f nonexistent ] && do_something
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by xelxebar 1y ago
Permit me to vent just a bit: > Python is a great scripting language, and won't blow your foot off if you try to iterate through an array. I kind of hate that every time the topic of shell scripting comes up, we get a troop of comme
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by xelxebar 1y ago
Pentation? How quaint. For other Large Number fans, David Metzler has a wonderful playlist that goes way down the rabbit hole of the fast growing hierarchy: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL3A50BB9C34AB36B3 Highly re
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by xelxebar 1y ago
> Number of monospaced font character blocks this string will take up on the screen Even this has to deal with the halfwidth/fullwidth split in CJK. Even worse, Devanagari has complex rendering rules that actually depend on font cho
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by xelxebar 1y ago
That's pretty reductive of horseshoe crabs. Foraging bipeds have evolved many times, equally good at human things. Metallurgy? Spaceflight? Particle physics? Those are clearly unnaturally contrived reference classes. Why can't hum
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by xelxebar 1y ago
I think you did a good job delineating top complaints people have about shell, but I have to reject the pro/con framing. Shell operates quite naturally under stream-oriented data-centric design patterns. But that's an architectura
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by xelxebar 1y ago
Calling something as exceptional or special entails a value judgement; it's not particularly surprising, IMHO, for the things humans care about to align around human traits. Heck, even the act of making judgements about human exception
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by xelxebar 1y ago
It's not so much a matter of exhaustively listing pros and cons, but more a matter of appropriateness to the desired goal or goals IME. I seriously doubt that a comprehensive pro/con list can even be coherent. Is dynamic typing a
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by xelxebar 1y ago
> That it does get a lot of love strongly suggests that there are reasons for that. Reasons, sure, but whether those reasons correlate with things that matter is a different question altogether. Python has a really strong on-ramp and, th
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by xelxebar 1y ago
Honestly, I read this a just a case of somewhat sloppy terminology choice: - Positive → AI Boomerist - Negative → AI Doomerist Still not great, IMHO, but at the very least the referenced article is certainly not AI Boomerist, so by process
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by xelxebar 1y ago
In a particular sense, division and subtraction are more general than their supposedly more primitive inverse operations. For example, we can take the "difference" of two points to get a vector, i.e. the grocery store is in tha
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by xelxebar 1y ago
Also, "double" rotations, which have no analogue in 3D space. The extra degree of freedom in 4D lets you perform 2 orthogonal rotations. This means that you can rotate around in 4D space, leaving only the origin fixed. In 3D rot
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by xelxebar 1y ago
Personally, I have only run 9front on VMs, but my understanding is that 9front will boot on most x86/x86_64 machines. There is also explicit work to keep it running well on RPi hardware, which is what adventuresin9 runs. For a bit more
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by xelxebar 1y ago
Note that Guix also runs on the Hurd and has first class support for running a Hurd VM service if you just want to play around. https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2024/hurd-on-thinkpad/
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by xelxebar 1y ago
I use 9front heavily. Latency is never a problem in my experience unless you're mounting in resources from a different continent, where ssh is slow anyway. Even in those cases, the UX is closer to mosh, since rio remains local. In gene
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by xelxebar 1y ago
> Do you mean that repeated measurements on different systems might not be independent because they come from the same source? More that the measurement settings could be correlated somehow. So called "cosmic Bell tests" try to
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by xelxebar 1y ago
I feel like one of the lucky 10,000 today! Thanks for asking. Jump up an abstraction layer. Multiplication and addition are each commutative, but performing multiplication followed by addition is not the same as addition followed by multipl
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by xelxebar 1y ago
> either locality fails of realism fails Or statistical independence fails, no? The CHSH derivation, for example, requires commuting expectation value with conjunction and similar for other Bell-like's that I'm aware of. This a
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by xelxebar 1y ago
> how can we build a product that saves local affiliate stations money Let's bring back those supposed good 'ol days! What are some valid business models that could successfully fund local affiliates? Knowing nothing of the ind
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by xelxebar 1y ago
One of my better ideas recently was to name files like CVS rows, which allows ls output be directly piped into database processing pipelines etc.
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by xelxebar 1y ago
> But what do you do when you discover you don't have similar values? Look deeper? Explicitly held beliefs are just a sliver of the tip of the iceberg that constitutes our experience as humans. The US, in particular, seems particula
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by xelxebar 1y ago
I don't think you can avoid risks and be vulnerable at the same time. It's a bit of a catch-22, I'll admit; oversharing can push people away, but the only way I know to figure it out is to fall, get back up, rinse, and repeat
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by xelxebar 1y ago
It's certainly a solid improvement in the space of VCS UI, but beware that jj has some current limitations which might prohibit switching, especially for the git power users. Lack of gitattributes support precludes git-crypt and git-lf

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