AlecBG

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   by AlecBG 1mo ago

   First one water is lower. Ball is more dense than water, in boat displaces its weight in water, in water displaces it's volume Dip for hill roll is faster
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   by AlecBG 4mo ago

   Java engineers write lots of HTML in java docs:)
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   by AlecBG 5mo ago

   You can enforce at the org level to only allow actions pinned to hashes. You can also choose a small whitelist of actions to allow.
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   by AlecBG 5mo ago

   First sentence starts with horrible antisemitism. Can someone fix it? (on my phone with kids so not in a position to)
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   by AlecBG 7mo ago

   With certain macros disabled like .map the runtime is O(code length)!
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   by AlecBG 8mo ago

   You can describe spinning particles in flat space and AdS space really nicely with twistors using this
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   by AlecBG 1y ago

   Or similarly I flip a coin a thousand times, but only tell you when it's heads and don't tell you how many flips I did.
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   by AlecBG 1y ago

   Not sure I completely agree as you often use only a small part of a library
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   by AlecBG 1y ago

   This sounds pretty easy to hack together with 10s of lines of python
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    by AlecBG 1y ago

    well he certainly mentions a result where if there is an everywhere timelike Killing vector field (+ some other assumptions) you can prove that Hawking radiation doesn't occur and that does not include for example the Schwarzschild sol
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    by AlecBG 1y ago

    I'm not sure what more you want from him, there are many papers and even a textbook linked? It's bloody John Baez, the man knows his stuff. On you actual point, it is shocking because its claimed that baryon number is not conserve
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    by AlecBG 1y ago

    Does this support time travel queries? Does it support reading everything from one snapshot to another? (This is missing in Athena) If yes to both, does it respect row level deletes when it does this?
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    by AlecBG 2y ago

    Why OrderedDict when dict is already ordered?
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    by AlecBG 2y ago

    If anything ICBMs are better at moving fast and breaking things than the tech industry
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    by AlecBG 2y ago

    The lemniscate really looks like a homoclinic orbit in a 2d dynamics problem
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    by AlecBG 2y ago

    I don't know how they did it, but verifying Bells inequality would do it if you made many pairs
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    by AlecBG 2y ago

    Translation: There is no better way to write with long words than to numeronymise them everywhere! Or for the less obtuse among us, this version will only numeronymise words with length six and up:
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    by AlecBG 2y ago

    I'm not sure I agree. That sort of type conversion involves inclusions, while the examples Buzzard talked about involved isomorphisms
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    by AlecBG 2y ago

    Sealed interfaces in java 21 allow pattern matching
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    by AlecBG 2y ago

    OpenAPI + OpenAI and now FastAPI and FastAI How long until there's a RESTAI company?
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    by AlecBG 3y ago

    I've found the exact opposite of that in practice. Had way more problems with tearing down CDK stacks
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    by AlecBG 3y ago

    I think Istio docs are great! I do agree that it's complicated, and I think their API is more confusing that it needs to be. The ontology of DestinationRules, VirtualServices, ServiceEntrys, Gateways (as in the K8s resource), gateways
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    by AlecBG 3y ago

    I think you end up with no degrees of freedom in 2+1 and below