z3phyr

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by z3phyr 2y ago
Using the same logic, one can argue "SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED AS IS". It should be up-to the user to choose the correct software based on their security policy. I write software for fun and skillz, making computers do extraordinary th
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by z3phyr 2y ago
Quantum Computing, Protein folding, Fusion etc are usually PR topics. If the intention is to advance these, then small amount of funding is useless. We need dedicated Manhattan project style endeavors, a population dedicated to the cause.
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by z3phyr 2y ago
Advances in science requires enormous resources. Take space travel. These companies will never try to innovate in deep space travel, because it brings nothing to them. Low Earth Orbit is where the profit is (but less science) They could fun
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by z3phyr 2y ago
Our industry does not argue about code style. There were a few distinct subcultures which were appropriated by the industry who used to argue about code style, lisp-1 vs lisp-2, vim vs emacs, amiga vs apple, single pass vs multi pass compil
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by z3phyr 2y ago
I think array languages can be a very good fit for graphics programming. I wonder if anyone tried that?
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by z3phyr 2y ago
Does the switchboard in a nuclear missile launch facility run Crowdstrike? I picture it as a high quality analog circuit board that does 1 thing and 1 thing only. No way to run anything else. Globally networked personal computers were kind
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by z3phyr 2y ago
When I lived in Delhi, my home was near the ridge area of North Campus. Its a lush forest with shrubs, ferns, and subtropical hard trees with a few lakes. The temperature difference, the coolness in air and the vibe difference from the rest
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by z3phyr 2y ago
I really like this area of computer culture. RE, writing kernel modules, figuring out how stuff works and making stuff do what it was not designed to do aspects. However, legal avenues to do so are far in between and it requires a huge amou
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by z3phyr 2y ago
I can see many problems can be solved with modern symbolic approaches like theorem provers, dependent types, pattern matching etc. But I will have to dive in to actually confirm it.
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by z3phyr 2y ago
Or maybe something like a lisp machine or a smalltalk os?
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ROOT: analyzing petabytes of data scientifically(root.cern)
356 points by z3phyr 2y ago|93 comments
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by z3phyr 2y ago
There is only one government
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Operation Endgame(operation-endgame.com)
2 points by z3phyr 2y ago|0 comments
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by z3phyr 2y ago
ICQ was my first interaction with computers proper as a kid. My father had just started as a programmer; and the family just got a computer with a Windows 95. Father sets up ICQ so that we can chat and send new year greetings, when he is aw
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by z3phyr 2y ago
Can anyone recommend some good drones outside of DJI?
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by z3phyr 2y ago
Please touch grass sir!
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by z3phyr 2y ago
There is not much difference in the capability of human experience. I bet a baby born in 494AD, teleported to the modern period and raised by modern humans will be indistinguishable in capability to every other human being.
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by z3phyr 2y ago
I mean, Its dangerous to exist in the same space as a potentially advanced aliens. Might as well observe them.
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by z3phyr 2y ago
Sure, create worm holes, travel dimensions and all that
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by z3phyr 2y ago
> We are on earth No, if we have a dyson sphere, we are everywhere playa
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by z3phyr 2y ago
And yet autocracies are historically the most "successful" types of governments. Humans always and eventually end up selecting autocracies with thunderous applause.
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by z3phyr 2y ago
This feels like a normal valley office setting. With l33t stuff, I imagine rave parties like in the matrix, and hackers banging away at their keyboards doing funky things.
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by z3phyr 2y ago
John Carmack, ryg, people making demoscene, are the hackerest of the hackers, and they use Windows mostly. These people derive from the Wirthian pascal heritage. Unix people would not know.
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by z3phyr 2y ago
If security is the top priority then performance, ease of use, system malleability can no longer be the top priority.
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by z3phyr 2y ago
It would be like a regular raytracer, but instead of writing pixels to a file, you write them to your buffer/texture.
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by z3phyr 2y ago
Th soviet mechanical and rf engineering efforts were very well regarded during the early cold war period, and I would argue, much more sophisticated. Language did not stop the USSR. It was the economic policy like banning some disciplines b
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by z3phyr 2y ago
Rust is good for software following a strict spec and design doc. A lot of what I do is exploratory in nature. Rust sucks there, fighting me. Best kind of languages in those cases are Lisp, Python and (unironically) C with Visual Studio deb
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by z3phyr 2y ago
You will be correct for the most part. However, there is a question of motivation as well. Kids can make very cool toys with a lathe. I am not from the west, but I watched Band of Brothers. From most of the ww2 media there is always a term
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by z3phyr 2y ago
Nope. Academia has a very sad bottom line as well. What OP needs is enough financial stability and political will that they can do whatever they want. This can be slowly achieved by grinding at a corporation, taking political control and gr
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by z3phyr 2y ago
The core skill of the teacher lies in recognizing the interests of the pupil and then working on refining those skills so that the pupil can use those skills for at least their betterment, if not the society. And that is one of the toughest

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