sankhao

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by sankhao 11d ago
>Mathematics, especially pure mathematics, has always been about communicating stories that help us understand reality more deeply. I'm pretty sure pure mathematics is the part of math which is not about reality.
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by sankhao 28d ago
I've been daily driving Linux since ubuntu 12.04. Things have improved a lot. It used to be the best OS for (a certain class of) programmers. It's now the OS I installed on my 7 year old son's computer. Things like connecting
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by sankhao 4mo ago
I also think the analogy doesn't work. In the plane situation it seems obvious that the luggage should be ejected before passengers, which is what the guy was asking ?
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by sankhao 6mo ago
Germany has over 83M people.
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by sankhao 7mo ago
Thanks for your work. Moved my company from Slack to self-hosted Zulip after Salesforce unilaterally decided to transfer our account to Alibaba Cloud and the transition has been very smooth. We especially appreciate proper markdown support
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by sankhao 1y ago
The slide is so bad it might be intentional. The intent would be to be reassuring enough that no one will point at Boeing and say "Boeing technical failure strands astronauts in space", while providing just enough information that
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by sankhao 2y ago
This is doable in c++20 https://github.com/stephenberry/glaze
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by sankhao 2y ago
Ion drives do not escape the rocket equation, they simply have a higher Isp.
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by sankhao 3y ago
I find it odd that twitch would rather shut down their service than simply stop offering a free tier. They already have an ad-free service called Twitch Turbo, surely enforcing usage in Korea wouldn't be prohibitively difficult. This m
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by sankhao 3y ago
They're not, and it's a very annoying requirement. Even 5V/3A was hard to provide reliably. On the other hand, rock pi supports 12V/2A, which modern chargers will provide without any issue.
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by sankhao 3y ago
How long are they supposed to spend to start appreciating it enough to tolerate 20x performance penalty to core engine functions ?
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by sankhao 3y ago
Hardcore vim user with UHK here. I actually love that the caps lock key is remapped to esc in the firmware, so I always have the Esc where I expect it on any computer I plug it in (this is not unique to UHK of course). In fact on the UHK, t
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by sankhao 3y ago
I wouldn't mind if the mail client stored local embeddings of my email contents to enable a good search function.