Sharlin

Yeah, thanks both for elaborating!

And not one aspect that’s provably infinite, either. Many things though that are finite to the best of our understanding. As in, any infinities that crop up in our models are properly understood to be cases where the models are wrong or incomplete.

> because who would want to buy a Pentium Pro when the better-in-almost-every-way Pentium MMX

Maybe this was satirizing people running after every shiny new thing, but the MMX certainly wasn’t. The Pro was the first P6, a totally new, out-of-order microarchitecture that the Pentium 2 would be based on. The MMX was a standard P5 Pentium with a larger L1 and the MMX vector instruction set which, while the first of its kind in an x86, was ultimately not used much in applications, partly because it was integer-only. In any case, the Pros were expensive and meant for business use, while the MMXs were consumer processors.

And what this means geometrically is that the translation becomes a shear in the 4d space, which is a linear transform. It’s easier to visualize if you think in 2D; the matrix

  (1 b) 
  (0 1)

maps a point (x, 1) to (x+b, 1) which is exactly what we want, while vectors (which we model as points (x, 0)) remain at (x, 0) as they should - translation shouldn’t act on vectors!

Not many, probably, but their cold chain people definitely would have known. Instrumented and remote monitored cold chains are standard these days because keeping stuff refridgerated end to end is a pretty big deal.

Probably most of them had exactly zero inhouse expertise in cybersec and just pretended there’s nothing to worry about because having to worry would be inconvenient. Maybe some of them made a call to their cold chain supplier and were told that there’s nothing to worry about.

Like the GP said, they were bland, sort of jerks (and not really even Jerks With A Heart Of Gold), and had no chemistry together. As far as I can recall, they just had petty drama all the time that felt like it was written just because there’s supposed to be drama.

Like 24 and several other shows, Battlestar Galactica is very 9/11 coded. Everything took a turn towards Darker And Edgier in the aftermath.

Yeah. It boggles the mind how unlikable the Rocinante crew is. Why were they written like that?

...are you serious?!

Well, I meant globally. Child's book was of course translated to various languages but hard to say what its influence on popularizing parchment paper was other countries. I've no idea if those TV shows were broadcasted outside the US, though DVD releases appear to exist.

Well, this thread is about a temper tantrum specifically.

Most of those things are internal US politics anyway and while certainly unpleasant to observe as an EU citizen, they just aren't salient on this side of the pond the same way that his international diplomatic efforts are.

I can believe that the head of state of a powerful industrial nation is a massive crook, criminal, terrible human being, what have you. But a toddler who shits his pants with liquid excrement and thinks it's an assertion of dominance? That's beyond my suspension of disbelief.

Parchment paper was definitely widely used in kitchens before the 00s.

How so? Parchment paper is cellulose impregnated with silicone.

I still cannot believe I'm living in a timeline where the US president is emotionally a 3-year-old and throws a temper tantrum in the public when his parents don't get him a shiny thing he has done absolutely nothing to deserve.

B-but how are you going to be available and responding to emails and Slack DMs 24/7 without a phone?! I guess an employer could allocate each worker a dumbphone that has no other functions than letting your boss reach you. And check where you are physically, probably.

Yeah, "isn't your car sitting idle like 22 hours a day?"

Bathrooms are even more inefficient, btw. How many hours a day do you really use a bathroom? And some people even have more than one just for convenience.

My point was that politics IS their domain, as evinced by the examples I gave.

It’s possibly a good thing in disguise. Maybe it will make software dev finally more inclined to focus on tested and true technologies rather than chasing trendy novelty stuff.

(Oh, who am I kidding, it’s AI that do tech decisions now and they choose whatever stuff that’s overrepresented in their training data, or just NIH stuff, which has inexplicably become a virtue, like measuring progress by lines of code spent has become. )

Many if not most career politicians have education in their domain: law, civics, economics, political science, or similar. On the other hand it’s a common failure mode of STEM people in particular to assume their expertise can be directly applied to more "human" fields and indeed to dismiss those fields as unscientific hand-waving.

“That’s bullshit and loser thinking. Of course it’s possible to be fast and secure,” Yen wrote in the channel at the end of August. “Stop thinking always of how to be slower, and focus more on how to be faster.” Yen added, “stop lovingly handcrafting all our code and use AI more.”

I mean, I also appreciate the honesty of the CEO to say that security is not important anymore and if it is to you, this company is not a good fit anymore.

Letting people go for invented reasons isn't something that happens in civilized countries, by the way.

Well, obviously massage is also very enjoyable. If labor is cheap enough, there's no reason it wouldn't be a common indulgement in public bathhouses (which were the only type of bath available to most city dwellers outside the very wealthiest ones, of course).

I loved this one about periodic double pendulums and their state space https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtjb2OhEQcU

There’s no use in writing docs at all if they contain near-zero density of information that can actually be deciphered. LLM word salad is not documentation, it’s only useful if all you care about is checking the box "[ ] write documentation".

A very funny and informative book review of Gilgamesh (based on Andrew George’s 2003 edition/translation) by a guest author was recently published at Astral Codex Ten: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-book-review-the-epic-o...

Recommended reading for anyone interested in knowing more about the work.

A fate even worse than turning the universe into paperclips: turning it into a bureaucracy.

Probably researched and written entirely by an AI…

Honestly IPv4 addresses should always have been formatted in hex, like FF 00 00 69, with whatever delimiter. Would make it trivial to write directly as a 32-bit int, and parsing and formatting a string would also be cheaper. And you could have funny blocks like CAFE.0.0.

> until software and hardware has been updated

Yeah, about that part. This is a "now draw the rest of the fucking owl" type of idea.

The mul-shift part is what any optimizing compiler does for known divisors and has done since the 90s, if anything it was more vital back then when the gap between div and mul was wider than today.