prof-dr-ir

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by prof-dr-ir 13d ago
Julia is fantastic if you do numerical work and want to write out your inner loops explicitly without sacrificing too much performance, either for pedagogical reasons or because you want to fiddle with the algorithm. It is a lot of fun to s
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Antigravity Extension for Visual Studio Code(marketplace.visualstudio.com)
2 points by prof-dr-ir 26d ago|0 comments
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by prof-dr-ir 7mo ago
I agree that this behavior is insane and should be fixed. Do however note that it is possible to install another keyboard on iOS, which may alleviate your suffering before you switch to Android in about 120 days. Personally I rely on Gboard
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by prof-dr-ir 8mo ago
Yes, and RFK Jr. says certain vaccines have never worked. I guess what I want to convey is how sad your comment makes me. What went wrong that makes you, and anyone really, trust that man's opinion on physics? Here is a cynical but ove
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by prof-dr-ir 8mo ago
Among theoretical physicists there is little doubt that Edward Witten is currently the greatest living theoretical physicist. Here is an interview with him from a few weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAbP0magTVY I
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by prof-dr-ir 8mo ago
> I really miss Google Inbox I very much agree. Also really miss the ability to quickly group related emails. (And no, that was not the same as adding a label; for one, the whole group simply appeared as one "bigger" email in t
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by prof-dr-ir 8mo ago
The article is just generally sloppy. > .. my recent trip from Abu Dhabi to LA. 24 hours door-to-door. We have the technology to reduce that to under 10. The direct flight (by Emirates) takes 16h15 mins, so that leaves 7h45 mins not in f
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by prof-dr-ir 8mo ago
good train > plane > bad train
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by prof-dr-ir 9mo ago
> Factoring becoming a reasonable benchmark is strongly related to quantum computing becoming useful. Either this relation is not that strong, or factoring should "imminently" become a reasonable benchmark, or useful quantum
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by prof-dr-ir 9mo ago
I am confused, since even factoring 21 is apparently so difficult that it "isn’t yet a good benchmark for tracking the progress of quantum computers." [0] So the "useful quantum computing" that is "imminent" is
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by prof-dr-ir 9mo ago
> what is this new style of writing Congratulation, you are now able to recognize an AI-generated text. (As of December 2025 at least, who knows what they will look like next month.)
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by prof-dr-ir 9mo ago
Since May 2024 he isn't actively trying anything at all.
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
I made a related comment about two years ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38255476
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
Frankly I am so tired of this whole branch of research where people try to be foundational about "quantum theory" but at the same time boil it down to qubits, gates, bell tests and, well, two-by-two matrices. Here is my viewpoint
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
> Paris' Mordor: Châtelet. "Worst of all, the air was full of fumes; breathing was painful and difficult, and a dizziness came on them, so that they staggered and often fell. And yet their wills did not yield, and they struggle
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
I think you misread my comment. Did the CEOs of Google or Microsoft hire former ministers from India as strategic advisors, or make unprecedented and eyebrow-raising investments in Indian startups?
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
I agree that a relocation might not happen, but the increasing Frenchification of ASML after their CEO became French does smell a little off.
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
Yes, and the footnote also says that "this metric is age-standardized". I did not easily find an explanation of what that means, which made me distrustful of the data. Fortunately, good old Wikipedia has what we are both looking f
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
> the collapse of publicly funded science This is preposterous. You are completely forgetting that there are actual groups of humans, people who know and respect each other, coming together and discussing the proposals. Being involved in
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
Cool. You would of course end up negatively charged yourself and therefore quite strongly attracted to the black hole. So I would recommend moving your civilization to a Dyson sphere around the black hole before aiming your cluster of LHCs
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
I am very interested in moving my photos and data to a self-hosted solution but am a little anxious about backups. Do you simply trust hetzner to not lose the data on your 1TB storage box? (I am aware that I am currently trusting google and
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
One important factor is that the critics score is binary in a sense: if all critics agree that the movie was "passable but not great" then Rotten Tomatoes still gives it a 100% critics score. The website explains it clearly enough
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
Good question. You are absolutely right that entropy is always fundamentally a way to describe are our lack of perfect knowledge of the system [0]. Nevertheless there is a distinct "reality" to entropic forces, in the sense that i
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
[citation needed]
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
> The next day the first thing I did was walk to the nearest ATM and withdraw several hundred euros, and I bought a bunch of water. That is a very good idea for everyone. Putting together an emergency supplies kit is what various Europea
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
'massive' -- by which standards? It is high time we got used to companies being fined a reasonable fraction of their revenue. And TikTok's global revenue last year alone was estimated at $20 billion to $26 billion [1]. [1] h
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
Good idea, I submitted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43855933
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PC case maker HYTE discusses their cost structure and tariffs [video](youtube.com)
33 points by prof-dr-ir 1y ago|0 comments
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
Similarly HYTE, mostly known for their PC cases, gives a remarkably detailed insight, both into their cost structure and how they are impacted by tariffs, in this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1W_mSOS1Qts&t=1394
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by prof-dr-ir 1y ago
The last major European blackout was in 2006: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_European_blackout

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