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by mif 5d ago
Great app to play around with. I thought I can think of the implicit form for a cube. I couldn’t (how embarrassing). It’s: f(x,y,z) = max(|x|, |y|, |z|) - const.
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Reliability Lessons from SQLite – Richard Hipp | SSW (2026) [video](youtube.com)
3 points by mif 1mo ago|1 comments
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by mif 1mo ago
Great talk about testing and how it improves your code, among many other things. SQLite is probably one of the ideals in software development.
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by mif 2mo ago
I like how Kevin Kelly brings together the ideas about what could be next. That’s always been his thing, hasn’t it? He is probably on to something here and it’s ok to be vague, I think. I don’t mind at all whether it’s all 100% technicall
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by mif 3mo ago
Free stuff like roads and schools? Or free stuff like polluted water and air?
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by mif 6mo ago
I’m not an expert and surprised by the extent of Azure’s technical debt and its consequences. What would be a “minimal” reproducible configuration or setup of services that shows those technical deficiencies in the clearest way? A “benchma
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by mif 1y ago
Mine, too. And conky. And how I loved those configurable shortcuts…
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by mif 1y ago
What I didn’t realize until a few months ago about writing, James summarized as > while “writing a first draft” is intimidating, “reading through all your notes” or moving note cards around on a table, contemplating structure, is not. In
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by mif 1y ago
Reminds me of the Gray-Scott explorer [0], implemented with WebGL (in 2012!!). Mathematics is beautiful! [0] https://www.mrob.com/pub/comp/xmorphia/ogl/index.html
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by mif 1y ago
I’m not shocked.
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by mif 1y ago
Thanks for that. I thought about giving lisp a try, lately. This tutorial/presentation has been very insightful and I will try out kons-9 to pick up some lisp.
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by mif 2y ago
Almost as unreal as the matching dinosaur footprints on two different continents. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41352656
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by mif 2y ago
Bye, bye, Porsche.
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by mif 2y ago
Hold your horses. I think the title overstates the impact of those old wheat varieties. Yes, genetic diversity is high. But, the reason that today’s wheat is less diverse is only the side effect of one of the most astonishing feasts ever pu
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by mif 2y ago
Reminds me of [1]. We are good at estimating the median but not the mean. [1] https://erikbern.com/2019/04/15/why-software-projects-take-l...
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by mif 2y ago
Current world-wide oil production is c. 83 million barrels per day [1]. With the estimated 511 billion barrels, about 2x of Saudi Arabia’s reserves (2005, [2]), that would last for about 15 years. [1] https://ycharts.com/ind
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by mif 2y ago
The graph named “non-linear growth”, is actually showing linear growth. I know, it’s confusing, but as long as the factor is constant (10), growth is linear. A quick way to check if something grows linearly is to put it on a log-scale and t
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by mif 2y ago
Reminds me of some of the remarks Joe Armstrong made a while ago [1], and which I came across via another submission a couple of weeks ago (which escapes me). It’s a great talk about the physical limits of computers and computation. [1] ht
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by mif 2y ago
For those of us who don’t know what RAG is (including myself), RAG stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation. From the video in this IBM post [0], I understand that it is a way for the LLM to check what its source and latest date of informa
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by mif 2y ago
I think we need more people like her to speak out about their experiences. And it doesn’t even matter whether it’s academia or tech or anything else. That’s the only way to try to overcome and recognize „survivorship bias“. There are billio
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by mif 2y ago
I had a hunch, came to the comments first, and found your summary. Thanks for that.
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by mif 2y ago
I wouldn’t think so. Envy is this funny feeling we hardly ever admit ourselves but which is part of being human. It happens to everyone no matter where they are in the hierarchy. Or, as Bertrand Russell puts it: „Beggars do not envy million
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by mif 2y ago
Similar to the imitation problem, I’ve read somewhere that it’s not greed what drives people to accumulate things (wealth etc.) but envy. You don’t want more for the sake of getting more, you simply want more than your neighbor. It’s all re
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by mif 3y ago
I just won $100,000,000. https://tinypic.host/image/D5mU9w
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by mif 3y ago
That’s awesome. I would like to do that with Telegram or WhatsApp.
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by mif 3y ago
Same here. I find it relevant because it creates an awareness of where I am in my current state of mind. I also think I can derive a morality from it, or at least some personal values of mine. I don’t know how to describe it properly, thoug
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COP28(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by mif 3y ago|0 comments
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by mif 3y ago
https://www.dataviz-inspiration.com/
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by mif 3y ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20231024033221/https://www.theat...
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by mif 3y ago
This looks good. Thanks for sharing.

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