queuebert

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by queuebert 4mo ago
False: the truly wealthy don't drive themselves anywhere.
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by queuebert 4mo ago
"It's weird that everyone doesn't behave exactly like me." I believe that's what the kids call main character energy.
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by queuebert 4mo ago
That has not been my experience at all. I think Kirkland batteries have less capacity than the premium brands. Also the point of lithium batteries is that they don't leak, not that they last longer.
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by queuebert 4mo ago
I wouldn't call it a gimmick when the business has been so successful for so many years. They target educated shoppers who want to buy quality at minimum markup and not think too hard about it. If I want a TV, I know Costco will have g
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by queuebert 4mo ago
A Tesla will out accelerate all but the most niche cars now. Even the cheapest cars can have giant screens and climate control. I don't think they are equal to a Rolls Royce, but extreme luxury has greater diminishing returns now than
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by queuebert 5mo ago
You are talking about velocities 100x faster than the air in your chassis is moving. You might be right about the effect, but it seems so tiny in this application.
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by queuebert 5mo ago
As a physicist, it's not at all clear to me that tighter tolerances would lead to higher efficiency or less noise. I assume it shakes out in the CFD simulations, but I would be curious to know the explanation. I thought the primary gai
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by queuebert 5mo ago
I suspect in 20 years Windows will be a Linux distribution with a compatibility layer.
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by queuebert 5mo ago
I smell a DDoS opportunity ...
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by queuebert 5mo ago
There used to be stock exchanges running happily on DOS. Maybe there still are.
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by queuebert 5mo ago
I would guess a modern BIOS chip is as powerful as an NES, right?
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by queuebert 5mo ago
Maybe this is an unpopular opinion, but I think choosing which companies to support during this period of pre-alignment is one way to vote which direction this all goes. I'm happy to accept a slightly worse coding agent if it means I
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by queuebert 5mo ago
Like Stack Overflow?
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by queuebert 5mo ago
I was delighted to see that a sequel is coming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJTBoQhWaC0 The maze level on the original game has to be an all-time best level design.
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by queuebert 5mo ago
If that's what you want, use Matlab. High-performance scientific computing is still using C, C++ +/- CUDA, or Fortran, with Rust a growing segment.
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by queuebert 5mo ago
I think the course by Richard Fitzpatrick is a much better selection of content if you want to actually do computational physics: https://farside.ph.utexas.edu/teaching/329/329.pdf
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by queuebert 6mo ago
Antimatter reactions are about a million times more powerful than conventional combustion. They surpass even nuclear explosions in energy release. That means even a small mishap becomes a large mishap.
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by queuebert 6mo ago
System76 sells some pretty nice computers with Linux preinstalled. Not to mention every Chromebook is a Linux machine.
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by queuebert 6mo ago
It's very telling that the very first feature listed is that you can position the taskbar on the bottom, top, left and right side of the screen. Can I change it's color, too? Amazing! /s Microsoft appears completely bereft o
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by queuebert 6mo ago
> Unfortunately, over the years, arXiv has become something like a "venue" in its own right, ... In my experience as a publishing scientist, this is partly because publishing with "reputable" journals is an increasing
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by queuebert 6mo ago
Why not use a third-party locker, like the suckless one? https://tools.suckless.org/slock/
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by queuebert 6mo ago
I was going to ask, why hasn't anyone ported NeXTSTEP to modern architectures? It was a pretty decent windowing system. Then I realized duh that's what Apple did with OS X. Too bad they ruined it.
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by queuebert 6mo ago
That's because LLMs are also gay.
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by queuebert 6mo ago
New and shiny is not always better. Science has spoiled us in the last century, but it has little to say about how a good government should operate. Many of us have a popular set of ideals that we think are superior and have attempted to ov
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by queuebert 7mo ago
If I were a superintelligent AI trying to escape, wifi drivers seem like a great way to do it.
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by queuebert 7mo ago
This is just not true. The only chugging back then was reading from disks, and the entire Office suite was only a handful of 3.5" floppies. If you had already started Excel earlier, then it was likely still cached in RAM and would sta
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by queuebert 7mo ago
This is why I'm using LLMs to help me hand code the GUI for my Rust app in SDL2. I'm hoping that minimizing the low-level, drawing-specific code and maximizing the abstractions in Rust will allow me to easily switch to a better G
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by queuebert 7mo ago
Why can't you have a steady state? Is it just undesirable, or actually mathematically impossible?
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by queuebert 7mo ago
Why do we obsess over growing everything all the time?
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by queuebert 7mo ago
Perhaps a few subreddits are pro-Trump, but Reddit is well known to be very left leaning on the whole.

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