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saboot··on Trip report: Summer ISO C++ standards meeting in Varna, Bulgaria
Ctrl+f "Reflection" -> 0 results

Maybe next year ..

saboot··on Louis Rossmann calls community to leave Reddit
That fills some void, but not all. I particularly liked the <local city> subreddits, used it to find cool events, but now the only alternative is .. Facebook or nextdoor (yikes)
saboot··on The C Interpreter: A Tutorial for Cin (1988)
Depends on the workflow, "C++ for scripting" helped to discover the higgs boson
saboot··on Beej's Guide to Network Programming
I'll ask here in case I can get help.

I followed Beej's linked guide to transfer data over udp sometime ago, written in C on a Windows machine. I then compiled the code on Mac os x but could never get it to work properly. Tried all the Google suggestions at the time, posting this comment in case there's an obvious "oh did you set X?" tip from someone that has done a similar task.

saboot··on Electronics Lab Bench Setup Guide
That is an amazing resource, thank you for sharing!
saboot··on Florida parents upset by Michelangelo’s ‘David’ force out principal
What would make this statue inappropriate versus the bible itself?
saboot··on The U.S. military is missing six nuclear weapons (2021)
What's scary, this article, or considering how much has been lost by other countries (Soviet Union, China, ..)
saboot··on A token-smuggling jailbreak for ChatGPT-4
A topic I haven't seen brought up enough. Does ChatGPT contain publicly accessible, yet classified information? Will it divulge such information? Anything that can be done to mitigate divulging that?

Often two unclassified statements can be brought together to form one statement that is classified.

saboot··on How to lose $950 quickly on Airbnb
This comment is the one that has convinced me to never use AirBnB again.

That is absurd.

saboot··on Rogule: A dungeon a day keeps the Balrog away
This is the type of thing where I am staying up just to play it again.

I would suggest a simple "how to" pop up, like a question mark button on the side.

saboot··on Girl who died of bird flu did not have widely-circulating variant (H5N1)
Do better? I'm expecting we'll do significantly worse next time.
saboot··on Lab leak most likely origin of Covid-19 pandemic, U.S. agency now says
If your point is that the department of energy is badly named, you are 100% correct. It's more like the "department of applied science towards security, energy, and nuclear bombs"
saboot··on Our reality may be a sum of all possible realities
The biggest clue we have right now is illustrated by last year's nobel prize. Particles in an entangled state can interact instantaneously, disregarding space and time entirely.
saboot··on Our reality may be a sum of all possible realities
In the past 10 or so years, a combinatoric approach to particle interactions has shown surprisingly good results. Simple algebraic calculations have been able to give answers that requires hundreds of pages of math through the feynman diagram approach.

This is the amplituhedron, led by Nima Arkani-Hamed, here's an article also by quanta magazine about it

https://www.quantamagazine.org/physicists-discover-geometry-...

In addition to giving exact simple calculations to particle scattering amplitudes, the most important aspect is that it does so in a way that does not require notions of space or time. Leading to the notion that there are more fundamental aspects to reality and space and time may be emergent phenomena.

saboot··on AMD ROCm: A Wasted Opportunity
Depends on the scale of the AI. Many current gen supercomputers use AMD and ROCm exclusively.
saboot··on Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes
I was specifically referring to "do the same" as in reducing the number of auto accidents, which the parent comment I replied to mentioned. Is that the source of confusion?
saboot··on Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes
Then by all means lets let the self driving cars have free roam then. Current state of technology and failures be damned
saboot··on Tesla recalls 360k vehicles, says full self-driving beta may cause crashes
I'm really struck at how this comment has no consideration of the quality or accuracy of current FSD technology.

Also, public transit would do the same.

saboot··on What's new in Matplotlib 3.7
I suppose I'm the minority of people that enjoy using Matplotlib. I dont want a 'simplified' interface, I want to be able to do nearly anything and matplotlib provides that to me.
saboot··on Jupyterlab Desktop
The python ecosystem is moving towards the MyST format for jupyter notebooks to solve this issue,

https://jupyterbook.org/en/stable/content/myst.html

saboot··on Maxima: A computer algebra system written in Common Lisp
Wow! This is fantastic! I got really frustrated with maxima frontends and just ended up sticking with Mathematica, but I'm going to give this a shot
saboot··on Ask HN: Which book would you recommend for learning Python in detail?
It's from 2015, but I learned a lot from watching Philip Guo's playlist on python internals

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV7iu6GiDKwQWZbapY5mP...

Like you I want to know more about CPython behind the scenes, not how to use Python itself. I like the deeper understanding

saboot··on Grid Beam
I desperately hope something like this gets popular. I see one off ideas every now and then but there's not one big system that's easily purchasable yet.
saboot··on Proposal to move 11 Oregon counties to Idaho
I'm speaking strictly about emergency response such as fires, I'm not assuming 'Greater Idaho' is going to have a matching education or social services budget.
saboot··on Official SkiFree Home Page
I'm getting that mug!
saboot··on Proposal to move 11 Oregon counties to Idaho
You are not understanding our point.

If these rural areas want to break away and go their own way, they wont have the resources to combat crisis on their own, they can't even do that with their current tax revenue and I don't imagine they are willing to quadruple their property taxes to do so.

I expect they'll whine and yell at other states if they need help. However I'd hope the gov of the remaining area of oregon would flatly tell them no, at least I would.

saboot··on Proposal to move 11 Oregon counties to Idaho
I could go through and list everyone they get to elect that represents their community, but I'm going let this be an exercise for the reader.
saboot··on Proposal to move 11 Oregon counties to Idaho
Yep, every time a natural disaster strikes other states and the federal govt will be asked to pick up the tab because they refuse to have enough tax revenue to meet basic needs of their citizens. Happens already with other states.
saboot··on Proposal to move 11 Oregon counties to Idaho
If I was a resident of portland, I'd certinaly hope no state resources would be used to prevent or contain wildfires entirely within 'Greater Idaho' borders. It's their problem now, and they can raise taxes to deal with it.
saboot··on Proposal to move 11 Oregon counties to Idaho
They have representation already, at many levels. The city, county, and state, and congressional.
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