Submitted 2 months ago by fossilesque@mander.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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I actually watched that episode last night, so that post was kinda jumping at me. What are the odds…
Sagan, a real teacher. Not only smart, there are quite a few smart people. But also able to make something complicated easily understood. To make something abstract sound straight. To make something minds can’t grasp comprehensible. A beautiful ability!
Perhaps he is the chosen one to decipher the old Eldrich scripts to the masses. Incomprehensible knowledge becomes casual teachings through this man
How To Make An Apple Pie From Scratch has the recipe for that.
(Seriously, it’s a great read - one of my favourite popular science reads since, well, since Sagan.)
One of my favourite quotes to bring up whenever someone is cooking
I am very popular in the kitchen
“In case I want to watch them and they’re not on any of my streaming services” /s
Can I have one where using their brains doesn’t cause humans discomfort?
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 months ago
I am guilty of reinvenring the wheel on almost every project. It brings immense control but doubles the workload. I do this because I have trust issues, but at least in the end I have “homemade everything”
MrPoopyButthole@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s practice and it makes you better!
marcos@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As long as you don’t insist on using them even after it became clear that the off the shelf version is better in ever way and you’ll never have enough time to reach its quality level.
Hadriscus@lemm.ee 2 months ago
it does !!
brbposting@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
I’d be curious to hear of a time when it paid off and one when it didn’t it. And about the kind of stuff you do.
I’m rather preparing to reinvent the wheel a little bit, as a technical person albeit one who does not code.
Sinuousity@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I feel like doubling the workload is better than quadrupling the size of the project inheriting a bevy of features and tools you likely won’t touch at all. Sure it’s stripped out later (ideally), but I like less bloat and that includes during dev when I might have to dig through 3rd party code with its own conventions and standards packed into a ‘source available’ library with potentially dogshit or absent documentation.
Also yes, it’s good practice
boonhet@lemm.ee 2 months ago
Unused code is stripped out by the compiler, but will your homemade library properly use all the fancy instruction set extensions for matrices? IIRC it’s not as simple as just compiling for the correct microarch. But I could be wrong.