xeonmc

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   Arthur C. Clarke: The Food of the Gods(bestreadables.com)

   2 points by xeonmc 3y ago|1 comments
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   by xeonmc 3y ago

   archived: https://web.archive.org/web/20231117135901/https://bestreada...
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   by xeonmc 3y ago

   I for one am waiting for the Amazon Basics counterpart to come out instead.
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   by xeonmc 3y ago

   What a coincidence, recently saw it on Asianometry's video about the Iran water crisis. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaEhNTpvEN8
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   by xeonmc 3y ago

   There's a reason why it's called "Hardware" and not "Easyware". The very same reason why it's called "Software" rather than "Dependaware".
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   by xeonmc 3y ago

   Isn't this just kerning but with extra steps?
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   by xeonmc 3y ago

   > In many ways, the work of a critic is easy. We risk very little, yet enjoy a position over those who offer up their work and their selves to our judgment. We thrive on negative criticism, which is fun to write and to read. But the bitt
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   by xeonmc 3y ago

   Actually, I believe it was rather his distant cousin, Kirk Girdle, with his Incompetence Theorem.
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   by xeonmc 3y ago

   Depleting your fridge is not the same as permanently destroying it.
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    Minecraft also teaches the next generation to think in the Metric system. “How big is one meter?” “It’s one Minecraft block wide.” “Oh, that’s easy to remember.”
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    How do this compare to Fennel?
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    Could this mechanism possibly be related to the Boson Peak anomaly in disordered materials? Potentially extra acoustic excitation mode caused by interactions of transient large-cluster vibrations.
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    The Value of Interactions [video](youtube.com)

    1 points by xeonmc 3y ago|0 comments
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    Request for Position: WebUSB API(github.com)

    4 points by xeonmc 3y ago|0 comments
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    Nah, it's just that Silicon Valley folks are used to 0-based indexing instead of 1-based.
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    Or out of an Alan Moore comic.
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    Zig is probably the worst offender of this, especially exacerbated by the lack of adequate documentation.
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    #famouslastwords
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    > "I predict that within 100 years, computers will be twice as powerful, ten thousand times larger, and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own them." Not wrong with how the AI arms race is looking.
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    Great. Now kill WebHID and WebUSB next.
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    So basically myelins are, besides being each neurons' personal caretaker, also the neurons' personal fridge.
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    LAPACK Release: releases from 1.0 to 3.1.1(github.com)

    3 points by xeonmc 3y ago|1 comments
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    ChatGPT = Cunningham bait
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    Be on the lookout for someone asking to tour an Acrylic fabrication facility.
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    so would you say that it's basically a panorama of Jones vectors?
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    Screenshots from Windows 95(guidebookgallery.org)

    94 points by xeonmc 3y ago|84 comments
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    May be matrix inverse? y = Mx —> x = M\y
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    Zig comptime will yield the fastest result ;P
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    and C++ would be easiest?
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    by xeonmc 3y ago

    off topic, but what do you think of this video by Asianometry talking about the intricacies of analog design for a laymen audience? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNypq1XuZRo