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I'm incorrect. there's a spec discussed here

https://www.gnu.org/software/libc/manual/html_node/Infinity-...

Because representing infinity is not possible outside of symbolic logic and isn’t encodable in floats. I think it is a simple numerical reason and not a deeper computer reason.

You cannot take a week off who will cover your responsibilities?! Lol, that kind of small company.

Cute names for standard things is one of my software bug bears, i.e. pet peeves, i.e. annoyances. Ruby gems and rust crates and something something beans. It is cute jargon and it annoys me to hide the definition inside a language specific terminology.

I have an uneasy feeling logging into a Text Editor vscode and seeing a Microsoft correlated account, work or personal, in the lower left corner. I understand that settings sync or whatever but it’d be preferred to keep to a simple config json or xml (pretty sure most settings are in json).

I have no problem, however, pasting an encryption public key into my Sublime Text editor. I’m not completely turned off by ability fir telemetry, tracking, or analytics. But having a login for a Text Editor is totally unappealing to me with all the overhead.

It’s a bummer that similar to browsers and chrome, the text editor with an active package marketplace necessitates some tech major underwriting the development with “open source” code but a closed kernel.

Long live Sublime text (i’m aware there are more pure text editors but do use mice)

Libraries confuse me to this day. Just give me a path!

I found this blog when looking up Student’s t linear regression.

I’m curious what the cumulative operating cost / financial repayment plan is relative to the capital installation cost. Funny enough if it is advantageous to you vs solar city that is one more argument in favor of them running a poor business model.

Ok fair point.

One such method was an improvement in matrix matrix multiplication in 2022. So I’m sure there is a potential discovery of many efficient numerical algorithms that will be uncovered with machine learning.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05172-4

My parent comment was a knee jerk response to the over confidence and wishful thinking of computer work people to a magic AI box solving all the hard physical problems like its some simple conversation prompt away.

Yep, the crowning achievement of machine complexity in recent human history is easily generalized in computational efficacy by effectively markov chain chatbots that were trained on project Gutenberg, reddit comments, and github python and javascript repos.

Or it could become a gameable review step like first line resume review.

I think the only structural way to change research publication quality en mass is to change the incentives of the publishers, grant recipients, tenure track requirements, and grad or post doc researcher empowerment/funding.

That is a tall order so I suspect we’ll get more of the same and now there will be 100 page 100% articles just like there are 4-5 page top rank resumes. Whereas a dumb human can tell you that a 1 pager resume or 2000 word article should suffice to get the idea across (barring tenuous proofs or explanation of methods).

Edit: incentives of anonymous reviewers as well that can occupy an insular sub-industry to prop up colleagues or discredit research that contradicts theirs.

If I could afford it, I’d certainly get a >$2000 queen size mattress in a few years. Nice firm mattresses are expensive. Internet connection and temperature control are not something I’m remotely interested in. A subscription doubly so. This is hilarious and illustrates how naive and reliant people are for technology to solve every problem in their lives.

Hi, I just renewed my sublime text and merge licenses after starting in 2021. Thank you for sticking to simple product excellence and not following trends. Thanks for focusing on the editor for human users and not pushing some service based enterprise licensing system or ai tooling where the company aspires to 1000x. It’s a great product and my most used PC software.

Yeah I have accessibility/distraction issues with all the flair and animations and small text in vs code.

I know all text editors need some degree of config to be comfortable but sublime is nearly immediately usable. Vs code is the only thing I need to configure to remove flair and features vs extend them.

Cool, I will try it. Thank you

I’ve heard of typst before. A light language for better markup sounds great.

LaTex is a dark art and I just repeat basic incantations learned from the elder boards.

But, I cannot bring myself to write docs in a web browser and use web app storage. I have a personality disorder that requires me to use a local text editor for personal use cases.

Also I will buy a perpetual license for software. Like sublime text i just renewed a 3 year license to text+merge.

I get that subscription licensing is better for the dev business but I can’t do it.

Latex and git has been advantageous to authoring a resume for me. It separates the layout design ant content.

“Oh no it’s 2 pages with only education on p2.”

Quickly comment out a bullet and print off a fresh 1 page pdf. I don’t use dumb words or phrases now to fit layout, at least far fewer. And git makes me less worried about deleting when it isn’t working.

One pattern i use, that i think makes things simpler, is to have a layout/contact template with definitions, then different context specific main latex files inputting from a sub directory of section blocks: experience, skills, education, etc.

I’d thought I was slick with word table layouts for sections, until a counselor told me the table structures persist in the supposedly flat pdf.

I wish there were an standard optional JSON attachment with a ridiculous small kb size limit to upload along with a human readable resume to help out the user data AST parser.

In my opinion, that’s the magic of programming languages. I type a few high level words and characters, then there is a deep stack of interpreting the strings into machine code and returning data and side effects. It is stupid simple as the end user and immensely complex chain of machinery.

SQL is an extreme example of strings parsed to make complex computer behavior. Shell scripting too.

For enforcing complete object correctness and interfaces as they are explicitly designed then low code no code seems like it has a better proposition.

Anyway, maybe structured editors fit a space between dumb strings and pointing and clicking blocks and connectors. I’m all for correct tool for the job and end user. I think that minimizing end user tooling with some LSP go-to definitions and linting in a text editor is my preference. Similar to how FIFA used to be against high tech slow mo replay for soccer matches to make the sport egalitarian / accessible for the whole world I think that analogously programming should focus on the simplicity and portability of authored documents.

You have no idea how many steps, robotics, offsets, material feeds, alignments, tool setup, recipe fixing, materials troubleshooting go into a fab. These are all to run automated processes. You underestimate how difficult it is to sink heat in a vacuum and the cost of scaling volume and keeping pressure to a low exponent (high vacuum).

Robot surgery is tolerant of a much greater length scale of defect than a modern IC chip and is orders of magnitude fewer process steps.

Try to watch a youtube video or something but even then you won’t see the full picture. There are so many layers and the wafer passes through different flavors of the same processes over and over.

They built the supplier global and local ecosystem and they have a local pipeline for engineering and technician talent. The US has good graduate and university systems but the industrial culture is different and you see that in operations. There are different workplace incentives.

They’ve been working for a long time to reach this superior position and made good decisions business partners and investments along the way. These investments in local national economies take time, decades. I agree with you, IP is reductive where I think there is a combination of tangible and intangible factors, trade secrets, talent, operational discipline, management and long term thinking.

It’s hard to see in present time, but it becomes clear in retrospect when the winning companies started making failing decisions while on top. Then doubling down on those poor decisions or switching strategies too frequently to make an effect.

I am so confused how their corroborating charts indicate that sea ice is receding, yet they interpret it as a reversal and proof that warming / climate change is a myth.

Edit I shouldn’t have used word geological bit meant ‘worldwide’

I admit data collection is imperfect, especially looking back 200 years. But to attack a fairly sound hypothesis that is multi factorially demonstrated in physical geological behavior, I wholeheartedly disagree with.

Just because US weather stations in the 70’s were more rural than urban does not in itself gives credence to the idea that climate change/warming/ greenhouse gases is a nonissue or somehow a totally misunderstood non-warming phenomenon. Even a climate that tended to one mean value zero standard deviation throughout the year would be devastating coming from our current temporal and geographical distribution.

Your point about weather stations is a technical detail in data collection while there are several other corroborating methods indicating a warming ocean and atmosphere, albeit not geographically uniformly distributed. But you have this gotcha fact about weather stations ambient baseline temp vs some platonic ideal temp that reflects what’s going on in the abstract notion of a climate.

The sea ice has satellite photo analysis (area) dating to 70’s or 80’s with daily or weekly granularity.

I cannot convince a climate change denier or skeptic but am leaving that comment and this one hoping that observers don’t just take your initial counter-fact to be a valid falsifying argument.

As everyone says weather is not the climate, spurious yearly data do not nullify long form trends, and I’d just look at low pass filtered or line fit or yearly average of granular image data to argue that there is a time localize trend since the 80’s consistent with a warming ocean.

I disagree with you I think you used logical fallacies to misdirect and cause skepticism about something that is fairly corroborated and the debate needs to focus on mitigation or investment or policy changes.

Ok, arctic sea ice.

Ice exists at temperature below 0C or 32F at 1atm AND at system energy levels below the enthalpy of melting for liquid water, or latent heat for this first order phase change.

Thermodynamics uses temperature and pressure to explain system energy of molecules for liquid vapor solid phase systems. Latent heat is the esoteric part of this phenomenon because it requires a scientific education to understand calculus and work. Understandably, everyone can grasp temperature.

I think your comment is a perfect example of misdirection and people using “data driven methods” to attack a “first principles” explanation of physical phenomena.

Here’s a link because that gives my idea more weight.

https://earth.gsfc.nasa.gov/cryo/data/current-state-sea-ice-...

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_sea_ice_decline

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05686-x

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adj8469

Computer people talk about scientific methods and their “home lab” stuff, ai and inherent structure of data then absolutely fall for the facebook-grade-misinformation arguments to not trust something that is too mainstream. Jfc

Lol and the blockchain NFTs were encoded urls because a compressed image is too heavy for the chain, but millions of DNA samples, logged into perpetuity. I don’t see how the original comment provides a sincere evaluation of the goodness of fit for that played out solution.

Then what about running the wood genetic sequencing labs in source countries. Explain how these developing countries are going to undertake a DNA based quality system for a highly fungible commodity so we can feel good about wood flooring.

It’s nuts using youtube-dl and unwrapping to get the opus files are like 96kbs and sound good. 96kbs mp3 would need to mix to mono and still sound like gravel.

I like to load WAVs on my iphone if lossless uncompressed available. AAC is the next highest quality supported lossy compression file in apple music app. From my understanding they won’t ever go to flac or opus because don’t want software decompression.

I like opus on VLC for youtube-dl rips but if I’m buying music I want lossless uncompressed.

I’d recommend using the polars SQL context manager if wanting to defer learning how to do everything through their API. The API is a big enough shift from pandas it took me a minute to figure out but I really enjoy having the choice to stay in dataframe methods or switch to SQL only transformations. It has global state too if that’s needed. I like that it isn’t a RDBMS but provides all of the SQL I use.

https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/sql/python_...

https://docs.pola.rs/api/python/stable/reference/sql/python_...

The only time I’ve had version issues running python code is that someone prior was referencing a deprecated library API or using an obscure package that shouldn’t see the light of day in a long lived project.

If you stick to the tried and true libs and change your function kwargs or method names when getting warnings, then I’ve had pretty rock steady reproducibility using even an un-versioned “python -m pip install -r requirements.txt” experience

I could also be a slob or just not working at the bleeding edge of python lib deployment tho so take it with a grain of salt.

I believe the argument for privatization of services is that you can switch providers in a marketplace, that should provide efficient options. So you can switch payroll and billing systems from ado to new without laying off a whole division and software rewrites. However in practice it leads to vendor capture and more interface layers of project and program managers and auditors.