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- Comment on How are computer chips designed? 1 day ago:
In a high-level, you don’t design them anymore. You write them, in code. The compiler turns your code into the chip masks, and has an optimizer that will mangle the hell out of the relatively simple stuff you wrote.
In a lower level, that compilation is not really done automatically, and people will intervene in lots of places, and AFAIK, how people divide it and interact with it are well guarded secrets from the chip maker.
- Comment on Go Green 1 day ago:
From this far away, looks like you can expect plenty of mangoes in the summer.
- Comment on PC Master Race 2 days ago:
It’s trolling when you are friendly to the perpetrator, and rage baiting when you are friendly to the victim.
- Comment on Snow Kitty 2 days ago:
Many animals that live in temperate climates change colors every year.
It’s not the case of this one. I just wanted to point that many do :)
(Now, seriously, gray and white are probably a very good disguise in places where the snow doesn’t take over everything all the time.)
- Comment on a minor to moderate amount of tomfoolery in construction 2 days ago:
I never noticed, if you make the rotary supercollider with two way streets, it works!
- Comment on Can't have nice things 3 days ago:
Accelerometers do use a relatively large amount of power.
But if your thing has haptic feedback, it’s safe to say the battery is going all into it.
- Comment on And I don't care 4 days ago:
Notice how filling a void just created another, larger void.
You can’t win.
- Comment on Fictional 5 days ago:
You are correctly trying to say it’s well defined, but you are complaining about the wrong comment. You should check the meaning of “arbitrary” again.
Anyway, it’s not entirely arbitrary because it was created to represent a “round” fraction of the Earth’s circumference that is similar to the length of a person’s arms. But it deviated from that too, so it’s subjective how much that counts.
- Comment on Better safe than sorry 5 days ago:
If those clock actually didn’t exist anymore, than it really would be no point in knowing how to read them.
And there’s close to no point nowadays. If I was making some school curriculum, I would probably keep them because they are useful for teaching fractions. But I would look for an alternative.
- Comment on mercy merci 5 days ago:
Hum… I tried to maintain that philosophy until they attracted a wanderer that I was unable to get rid of for 2 days until it ate all the spiders. Also, one of them attacked me, what wasn’t a big issue, but I prefer not to happen again.
Now I kill them all.
- Comment on Dwarf Tyrant vs Tyrant^2: Who would win? 5 days ago:
Seems to be a common practice on that type of article.
- Comment on eel butts 6 days ago:
You just need capacitors.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 6 days ago:
Yeah, that makes sense. I can even imagine how it tastes now.
Around here, people use spaghetti (and probably an egg to make it larger), what is probably not too different.
- Comment on Great Depression: Part Deux 6 days ago:
Oh, you eat it without the bread?
- Comment on If only we knew... 6 days ago:
Nah, the OP is one step ahead and wants to execute people for holding tattoos.
- Comment on Dwarf Tyrant vs Tyrant^2: Who would win? 1 week ago:
Also, hard to believe that thing in the image weights as much as a rhinoceros. How much is a rhino in metric?
- Comment on From the outside looking in 1 week ago:
The GP is living in a more normal time when the media amplified disasters to fill the available time.
They’ll eventually come to 2025, then the media summarizes disasters to fill the available time.
- Comment on They need to bring you in to feel their power over you 1 week ago:
Corporations nowadays are more honest about it. They’ll plainly say that it has been their best year ever, but they are letting you go because they missed their financial target… that they increase 10 to 30% every year no matter what.
- Comment on necessary read 1 week ago:
Sadly, it is the cowards who invent nightmares and conjure them into reality, and who also have little hesitation toward cruelty and violence when they lash out at those they project their inner demons onto.
You say that in response to a comment from a person considering themselves courageous and asking to the death of most people on the world…
- Comment on life purpose 1 week ago:
WFH pros: you don’t see your coworkers and don’t even need to leave the house!
WFH cons: you don’t see your coworkers and don’t even need to leave the house!
- Comment on Got 'em 1 week ago:
No, you are at the top. If you were at the center you wouldn’t need a level to tell you.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 1 week ago:
It’s not about not teaching the platonic definition.
The problem is that you don’t start at the platonic definition. Mathematicians don’t start there either, they start at a problem. The problem may even be a hole in some other platonic idea, but nothing is ever self-contained Platonism… except maybe for categories, but well, the problem it looks is how far pure Platonism can get you.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 1 week ago:
Yes, people teach mathematics wrong. It should start from application, and only then get formalized.
A large part of the problem is that we put people that study pure math deciding how to teach it.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 1 week ago:
The problem is that the eigenvector is the thing that satisfies the equation he showed you. That’s what it is.
Mathematics is full of completely unsatisfying answers, and only when apply it you get any meaningful idea why those things exist. But those are not their definition.
- Comment on I'm too stupid for this 1 week ago:
That one is “evidently”. It wasn’t obvious until you tried.
- Comment on Load bearing Tupperware 1 week ago:
It’s amazing how cheap politicians are relatively to those companies sizes.
- Comment on Load bearing Tupperware 1 week ago:
There’s nothing tiny about AWS US-EAST-1.
- Comment on American public transit 1 week ago:
so the fucking half hour frequency doesn’t apply
No, you misunderstood.
If I decide to go by bus, it will take more than 90 minutes of travel time. The wait time isn’t counted there. (I would need to take 2 buses, one is hourly, the other one is frequent.)
Before I started working from home, I used to walk.
- Comment on American public transit 1 week ago:
Yes, it’s 3km.
Takes about 20 minutes on a bicycle because you can’t go through the same path. And it’s stressful.
- Comment on American public transit 1 week ago:
I live about 30 minutes walking from my workplace, that usually takes about 15 minutes by car (20 at rush hour).
It takes more than 90 minutes to get there by bus.