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by zephen 2mo ago
> Apparently you just deserve a life of pain. Don't we all? (I can see that you are starting to get downvoted as well. Spread the love.) Stack overflow was interesting. Its design was the only thing like it at the time, and made i
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by zephen 2mo ago
You're welcome. > Just leave out the analysis of my mind! I should have added weasel words like "maybe" and "probably" because I don't know you. Yet, everything I wrote, I have observed numerous times in ot
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by zephen 3mo ago
> Sorry to say, the first half of this comment is almost gibberish. In what way? > It became algebra when I introduced an unknown variable and wrote down an equation. But a lot of people, including me, can solve it without writing dow
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by zephen 3mo ago
> It's a kind of cheating because it means not understanding the essence of the problem In my opinion, this method presumes a clear understanding of the problem itself. If you didn't have a clear understanding of the problem, y
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by zephen 3mo ago
Thanks for the downvote. Look, when someone says "you need algebra to solve this" is it reasonable to assume that they are talking about informal methods that people have used forever, or is it more reasonable to assume they are t
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by zephen 3mo ago
But that was over a hundred years ago. She must be dead by now.
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by zephen 3mo ago
> I can't see a way to do it without algebra. This is related to "When all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail." It's slightly different, because you've supercharged your hammer. Everything you ev
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by zephen 3mo ago
Do you have a citation that shows that this issue has been settled?
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by zephen 3mo ago
I did a similar thing with a rack of test equipment. I had a PC power supply on each shelf, and used an NPN transistor to turn on the power supply whenever the USB port connected from the main computer to that shelf rack was turned on. Cr
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by zephen 3mo ago
These are what I use: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B096YKDYX5 However, to your point: > I think especially the cheap hubs will changes the parts used overtime and not update the revision. Yeah, the last time I purchase
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by zephen 3mo ago
I agree. But then, I'm pretty sure you haven't said anything different than what I said in the great-great-grandparent of your comment, other than slightly fleshing it out for a couple of particular scenarios. But you haven't
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by zephen 3mo ago
You need to be careful with this one, or reductio ad absurdum might lead you to not build microservices, or even a monolithic app, before you have acquired your first customer.
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by zephen 3mo ago
There are 5 trits. In any case, if there were 3 trits, I'm not sure what the practical difference between a single table you describe and 3 different 256 byte tables, again depending on the architecture. Yes a single table would have b
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by zephen 3mo ago
I was wondering the same thing. Obviously, it partly depends on the implementation machine, how big a hole the tables blow in your cache, how fast the multiplies are, etc. But it probably also hugely depends on the format that you want your
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by zephen 3mo ago
Attention is a valuable commodity. I guess I owe you. Here, have an upvote.
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by zephen 3mo ago
What's the point? There's nobody here but you and me.
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by zephen 3mo ago
> I can guarantee you that most of these simply didn't go far enough; And I can guarantee that I knew, when I wrote my comment, that I was summoning this very "No true Scotsman" argument. > they couldn't work out h
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by zephen 3mo ago
> For me, the answer to this is economics. Even if you love lisp, there are way more companies hiring for stacks that don’t include lisp Certainly. But why would that be? It couldn't possibly be that the programmers already there
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by zephen 3mo ago
> compared to languages which demand much more effort to get anything substantial done. It is not clear at all to me that other languages "demand much more effort" for the same end result. It is clear that many non-lisp program
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by zephen 3mo ago
I cannot disagree, but many who should know better do. I have seen people argue with a straight face that there are no copyright concerns simply because of the sheer volume of the data that LLMs are trained on. This makes less than zero s
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by zephen 3mo ago
> I wonder. I didn't, and still don't, but now I wonder why you wonder.
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by zephen 3mo ago
Yes, I see you have produced a very small (re)tort, but arguably have used it well.
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by zephen 3mo ago
It's kind of a useful distinction, but the categories are really blurry. For example, the layout software vendors provide a solution that both uses non-determinism in their final product, and also checks the results against whatever
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by zephen 3mo ago
> I would say [whether nondeterminism is bad] is unambiguously defined by the problem you're solving. Sure. You gave an example where it can work. Another example is something like a PCB or chip layout engine. That particular doma
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by zephen 3mo ago
As others have discussed, people argue for many reasons, ego being one of them. I didn't really understand this. I grew up before the internet, and I have ADHD, which essentially means I have limited working memory. One of my compensa
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by zephen 4mo ago
Non-determinism is not inherently bad. We have had useful non-deterministic tools for (in computer years) several generations. Non-determinism combined with bugginess? That's a terrible combination. It is impossible to gradient-desce
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by zephen 4mo ago
> that’s true of all agile practices Which is what, honestly, makes the term essentially meaningless. To the extent that parts of agile are and have always been "best practices" we already had a term for those.
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by zephen 4mo ago
The useful core idea of "shift left" is early collaboration between development and various testing functions. But, again, that was being done in many organizations (and for sure, in most successful chip companies) well before any
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by zephen 4mo ago
> The fact that short iterations adding features incrementally leads to better outcomes for software project is something professionals have known and argued for since the 1960s. And practiced by software professionals since the 1960s.
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by zephen 4mo ago
On the one hand, maybe it matters, because most people won't go to the trouble to sue, and suing the store doesn't really address the root cause anyway. On the other hand, maybe it doesn't matter, because if this were really

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