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by steamrolled 1y ago
Assembly, assign, assert, assume, associate... I think most of what you're picking up is not actually naughty.
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by steamrolled 1y ago
> Because they are vibrating, a lot of that energy is being wasted in brownian motion. So the denser it is, the more your average vector is going to be toward more dense brownian motion as the particles interact and induce more brownian
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by steamrolled 1y ago
Loving math is not necessarily a problem. But if you want others to love it too, you have to explain it in a way that makes them see the light. A lot of STEM education is more along the lines of "take the rapid-fire calculus class, mem
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by steamrolled 1y ago
I don't get why EE education emphasizes problems of this sort. The infinite grid is an extreme example, but solving weirdly complicated problems involving Kirchoff's laws and Thevenin's theorem was a common way to torture stu
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by steamrolled 1y ago
> Gary Marcus isn't about "getting real", it's making a name for himself as a contrarian to the popular AI narrative. That's an odd standard. Not wanting to be wrong is a universal human instinct. By that logic,
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by steamrolled 1y ago
The complaints about licensing seem a bit weird given that the company actually accommodates hobbyists. They have a $100-something perpetual home license that doesn't require internet access. Most other vendors of niche "pro"
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by steamrolled 1y ago
> Formal Methods in general are underrated in the industry. Pretty much no large companies except AWS (thank you Byron Cook!) use them at a large scale. At least Microsoft and Google poured a lot of money into this by funding well-staffe
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by steamrolled 1y ago
The original post asserted the article is nonsense; you're trying to justify that by saying you don't like the author's writing style. Two separate things... The article is mostly correct, although it makes some weird claim
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by steamrolled 1y ago
The main reason system() exists is that people want to execute shell commands; some confused novice developers might mix it up with execl(), but this is not a major source of vulnerabilities. The major source of vulnerabilities is "oh
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by steamrolled 1y ago
There's a ton of hobbies like that. There are people who collect out-of-print comic books, sports memorabilia, old militaria, etc. What's the point of any of it? It's the joy of having a hobby and being a part of a community,
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by steamrolled 1y ago
"Extremist" is just a pejorative variant of "radical". I assume they're using it tongue-in-cheek. When it comes to speech, it's really not hard to imagine positions that would have been controversial at any poi
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by steamrolled 1y ago
Back in the olden days, pressure-treated wood contained compounds of arsenic and chromium. This made it pretty terrible to cut, sand, burn, etc. The warnings persist in part because older wood still has that problem, so "reclaimed wood
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by steamrolled 1y ago
The point of the SI system is not that one meter is "better" than one foot. It's that we picked one subjective point of reference and then made almost all the other units related to that in a straightforward way and scaled wi
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by steamrolled 1y ago
> I wonder if 2025 will be the year of Linux. I know it's a running joke, but we had a decade (+) of Linux in many other consumer use cases, such as smartphones. The problem is that if you're selling a consumer computing platfo
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by steamrolled 1y ago
The old internet is still there, it just hasn't scaled as quickly as everything else. And frankly, we have a role to play if we want to preserve and nourish it. You say you liked the site. Drop the author a thank you note. Amplify it b
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by steamrolled 1y ago
I think the article describes a real problem in that AI discourages thought. So do other things, but what's new about AI is that it removes an incentive to try. It used to be that if you spent your day doomscrolling instead of writing
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by steamrolled 1y ago
More generally, prior to LLMs, you were competing with 8 billion people alive (plus all of our notable dead). Any novel you could write probably had some precedent. Any personal story you could tell probably happened to someone else too. An
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by steamrolled 1y ago
There's a lot of folks doing financial calculations in this thread, but keep in mind that this produced an unstable isotope of gold with a half-life measured in seconds. This has been done before. Even before you get to any economic ca
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Slightly Rude Notes on Writing(experimental-history.com)
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by steamrolled 1y ago
If Signal becomes financially dependent on government contracts, the govt gains a lot of leverage over the app. I'm not sure that's a great position for this particular platform to be in.
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by steamrolled 1y ago
I don't want to be judgmental because I know these are extremely difficult situations with no easy answers, but what strikes me about this article is that the author blames the profit motive after what can be uncharitably viewed as tak
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by steamrolled 1y ago
> It can’t replace a human for support But it is replacing it. There's a rapidly-growing number of large, publicly-traded companies that replaced first-line support with LLMs. When I did my taxes, "talk to a person" was re
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by steamrolled 1y ago
> It's kind of flat, unappealing scenery and it's boiling hot in the summer. Several decades ago, you could have levied the same criticisms against South San Jose, Morgan Hill, and so on. But people now want to live here. There
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by steamrolled 1y ago
Yeah, and given that the mistake is consistent between the text and the image, I think the author just sort of doesn't understand inductors. "The efficiency numbers aren’t based on calculations or research – I merely ran each circ
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by steamrolled 1y ago
Is this some sort of performance art? It's an article that criticizes AI that's evidently largely written by an LLM and illustrated with AI-generated images.
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by steamrolled 1y ago
I don't think these comparisons are useful. Every time you look at companies like LinkedIn or Docusign, yeah - they have a lot of staff, but a significant proportion of this are functions like sales, customer support, and regulatory co