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- Comment on 🐇 🐇 🐇 3 days ago:
It would’ve been smarter of those companies to replace the bosses with AI.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 1 week ago:
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 1 week ago:
“Modern” is a bit misleading, x87 had
fldpi. The whole x87 part of the standard has been deprecated with x86_64 in favour of the whole sse series of instructions and those don’t come with pi. You instead load a constant from program memory, just like any other.As processors (as of yet) still support those legacy modes they will also contain the constant somewhere in probably microcode storage, calculating it on the fly makes literally no sense at all: It’s (for x87) 80 bits of data, much shorter than any imaginable program, smaller than any circuitry able to compute it so you’d be spending time to save no space which is pointless.
ARM, RISC-V etc. come from the RISC tradition so they wouldn’t be caught dead including such an instruction. Both have zero registers though as zero is an absurdly useful constant, simplifying things drastically, both on the hardware front as well as within the instruction set (move is add zero to source, save to destination, clear is add zero and zero, save to destination)
Now, that’s finite constants. In particular, it’s about floating point arithmetic, which is a wonder of maths and a deep rat’s nest of numerology, but has finite precision, it’s not true real arithmetic. Real real arithmetic is undecidable, in particular comparison and expansion to decimal form are undecidable. Printing infinite strings of digits is usually not what we want to do, and limiting precision of comparisons is… not ideal, but better than having limited precision at every operation: You can decide once you’re comparing how accurate you want things to be and don’t have to worry while writing down your formula (btw Herbie exists, and that’s why packages like this exist. In that case pi is not a constant but a formula, wait, here:
4 * (atan(1/5) / 2 - atan(239)), which can be expanded as needed. Quite slow compared to floating point hardware but when you need it you need it and even if you don’t it’s still useful as a sanity check, gives you an idea of how far off the floating point results are without having to call in a favour with a mathematician. - Comment on Hertz, showing the difference between science and engineering 1 week ago:
You don’t understand that’s just Hanseatic understatement.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
Like, the periodic tables mapping isn’t arbitrary or alternate.
Neither the biology nor culinary mappings are arbitrary.
Did you know that there’s quite extreme agreements on what metals are? Chemists will tell you one thing and not be particularly unified in their response around the topic of semimetals, while astrophysicists have a very simple definition of metals: Anything that has more protons than helium.
Who is right? This has nothing to do with metaphysics (I’ve read a bit down the thread) as in “what is beyond physics, god, and stuff”, but how we interpret our (scientific) observations. Neither definition of metals is more correct than the other, they’re both maps drawn by scientists caring about vastly different things.
Back to the periodic table itself: Defining elements by protons has quite some predictive power but at the same time it’s a vast oversimplification of what actually goes on, ask any quantum chemist. It is rooted in quite hard science, but that doesn’t make it ground reality. Actual reality is something we can’t observe because to observe anything we first have to project it into our minds. All perception is modelling: Ask any neuroscientist. Or, for that matter, Plato.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
Isn’t the rejection of post-modernism like a very Jordan-Peterson–like thing to do?
Peterson is kinda the embodiment of post-modernism, that is, he does all his ideology building by questioning everything else into oblivion.
Of course, not knowing what he’s talking about is also something very Jordan-Peterson-like so that all tracks.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
I haven’t but that sounds like a pie not a cake.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
Like at the end of the day it’s just humans developing a system to make sense of nature
The core of the matter is that we have multiple, mutually incompatible schemes sharing in part the same terminology. Biology is not cooking, both fields care about vastly different things thus the categorisation scheme is different, that’s the end of it. Culinarily, tomatoes have too much umami to be fruit. Botanically peppermint is an aromatic, I recommend you not put it into your soffritto.
- Comment on It's not supposed to make sense... 2 weeks ago:
As the old saying goes “extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.”
It may be convenient to look at classical interpretations but “The intuition we evolved to interact with macro systems is also applicable to the micro level” is in itself an extraordinary claim.
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 2 weeks ago:
So that wasn’t sarcasm? Interesting. Possible instance of backwards causation, the physicists will be ecstatic.
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 2 weeks ago:
If that’s a steelman then it’s definitely at forging temperature (which jet fuel btw can achieve easily), collapsing under its own weight.
Try this: Is it consistent to believe that evolution is the means by which God created, and continues to create, creatures? Does “well evolution just happens” have more, less, or equally much of an argument for itself? Note: Blindly assuming naturalism instead of God’s will doesn’t count because neither of those are falsifiable.
Thing is: There’s more than one way to connect the data points into an overall theory. Those theories try to explain the data points by starting from made-up axioms, and naturalism is just as much made-up as the Spaghetti monster. Unless you want to posit some kind of Platonism?
- Comment on Well whenever you notice something like *that*, a wizard did it 2 weeks ago:
Psi research is a fascinating field, responsible for lots of improvements in study design, metastudy statistics and criteria, whatnot.
Like, it is hard to control your experiment so that you don’t accidentally measure side channels as telepathy or whatnot. Or subjects having hit rates because they have the same cognitive bias as experimenters selecting cards “at random”. The list is endless.
Sceptic: “Your study has these and these flaws”. Psi researcher: “We’re using state of the art experimental design, accepted in every other field, and are open to suggestions”. Sceptic “…damnit”. I guess at least half of Psi researchers are consciously trolling for the heck of it, the bulk of the rest is dabblers, full-on crackpots are actually a rarity. Crackpots don’t tend to have the wherewithal to get their stuff into a form that’s even remotely publishable.
- Comment on Gnome adds Pride themes! 🏳️🌈 2 weeks ago:
Links but no screenshots, insert joke about Gnome’s UX.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Meh. I got sitebanned on lemmygrad on like day five.
OP is right in the sense that it isn’t hard to catch a ban on lemmy, also that there’s plenty of places that will ban you for completely contrary things (like, most places for denying genocide, lemmygrad for not denying genocide).
It does matter what you get banned for. And defending kiwifarms is a no-go for any civilised community.
- Comment on Is lemm.we actually shutting down? 3 weeks ago:
Better many lazy mods with proper vibes than one eager mod with a chip on their shoulder.
I wouldn’t mind going through reports etc. either, I can take off some load, but don’t make it a responsibility.
- Comment on do you think freewill truly exists? 3 weeks ago:
To a (modern) compatibilist, free will is the capacity to respond to the same stimulus with different reactions, i.e. it’s equivalent to the cybernetic concept of degrees of freedom. As such, answer:
“You can poke a ball-point pen and it’s going to do the same thing, over and over again: Extend and retract the lead. It is predictable because its internal complexity is below the threshold of chaos.” Then proceed to poke them in the arm to see how many reactions they have to that. Mentally prepare for a tickle fight.
- Comment on I am not a builder… but that does not seem right 3 weeks ago:
In other words they’re good at knocking on the wall.
- Comment on faen 3 weeks ago:
For completeness sake there’s Low Saxon “Slunt”, note the n, meaning “rag” as well as “disorderly person”. Not related to German “Schlund”, gullet, that’d be Slunk. I can’t find any proper etymology but my guess would be that English lost the “n” at some point.
Funnier are words like Gröönhöker. That’s the same roots as “green” and “hooker” but it’s not what you think, it’s someone who can hook you up with the green stuff, a greengrocer. Or the perfectly cromulent toponym Quickborn meaning “lively spring”.
- Comment on Raised by extra strict hispanic catholic parents 4 weeks ago:
2000 years ago would’ve been the Romans, Christianity much less Catholicism simply didn’t exist at that time. And I think Morocco conquered Andalusia before the crusades. By like 400 years.
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 4 weeks ago:
Already there. The blackwall is AI-powered and Markov chains are most definitely an AI technique.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 4 weeks ago:
I was going to add a jab at the Brits but then thought “nah, they’re going to do that themselves, much more effective that way”.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 4 weeks ago:
Ryanair has no plans to introduce them. (sorry for the metro link).
Also Ireland kind of gets a pass they don’t have a rail link to anywhere. A Dublin-Holyhead tunnel would definitely be a good idea.
- Comment on Low quality cropping will officially launch on Lemmy in 2025 4 weeks ago:
The lengths the US will go to to avoid building rail.
- Comment on people trashing the self-service section of the post office 1 month ago:
Austrian and Bavarian gibberish indeed is the same, one tribe, different states. The rest of the sign isn’t in Boarisch though so in Bavaria you’d expect it to be completely in Standard German. Bundesrepublik Standard German, that is, not Austrian Standard German with heuer, Jänner, Paradeiser, and whatnot.
- Comment on people trashing the self-service section of the post office 1 month ago:
The green sign reads “Please don’t leave empty boxes here. Bring them to the bin outside”
No it doesn’t. It has a bad slogan in big font: “If we all unpack here, we can all pack up” (the idiom probably works if you squint hard enough). Then “Please don’t leave waste paper (carton) in the self-service-zone. Carry your empty package to the container. The environment will be just as happy as us”.
It does not say where the container is (despite the definitive article in English, it’s not implied that there even is one at location), nor does it have relevant information in large letters, just lots of fluff. It’s accessively passive-aggressive, trying to give the impression that it’s all polite while simultaneously ordering you around.
Here’s what would work: Big: “Waste paper container is around the corner”. Small: “Please. Thanks”. You don’t have to convince people, you just have to make it convenient and they’ll be happy to carry their stuff five metres instead of playing carton Jenga.
Also they’re using “Packerl” for package that’s probably Austria. Maybe Switzerland it’s not like I’m a specialist in southern gibberish. Also not enough yellow for a Deutsche Post shop.
- Comment on Einstein-Landauer culinary units 1 month ago:
There’s a better way: German flour types. They’re specifying mineral content, e.g. standard “white flour” is Type 405, meaning that when you pyrolyse 100g of flour, 405mg of ashes will be left. As the minerals were all in carbon solution before, and temperatures are low enough to not melt them into slag, you’re essentially left with single atoms. Close enough at least for an assumption. If you disagree I shall hand you a mortar.
Of course, that doesn’t specify everything. I suggest also measuring the released energy, then jot both numbers down on the complex plane. So you have joule-moles of flour.
- Comment on Polar bears 1 month ago:
It’s a category. All lines are arbitrary to a degree and “interbreeds and produces viable offspring” is not terribly arbitrary. You can have arguments around populations which could and would interbreed if they weren’t geographically distinct, you can argue about whether offspring needs to be viable no matter which way around the sexes of the parents are, or how large the percentage of viable offspring needs to be, but in the end, yep it makes sense to have a distinction somewhere around that bunch of criteria.
House cats and European wild cats are considered distinct species not because they’re genetically incompatible, but because they don’t interbreed – too many behavioural differences, and we’re not speaking about culture, here. So even if they could intermingle in theory in practice they don’t, so they stay separate, so they’re different species.
It’s kind of… a behavioural view on the genome? If you have a better idea, field it.
- Comment on GTA 6's delay doesn't mean the games industry's in trouble - it's already dead 1 month ago:
The Steam store is a nightmare for discovery.
It’s brilliant actually. I mean it’s still arguably a shitshow, but Steam is very good at letting shovelware sink to the bottom of their algorithms.
1000xResist was an indie title that was named GOTY 2024 by a few publications, but they only just crossed 100,000 copies sold about a week ago.
Not bad for a story-focussed adventure.
Sifu sold 3m, Baba is You about half a million. The game may be brilliant, the GOTY award may be perfectly deserved, still ain’t going to play it because it’s not my genre. “Story-focussed adventure” is like a quarter of a step above walking simulator when it comes to ludological complexity I’d rather read a book. That’s of course just me, for the general audience… well, it’s niche.
- Comment on Please consider supporting Lemmy development 1 month ago:
As for East Germany, would you mind stating how your thesis about the government taking an active role
If you read what I wrote, then you would know that I actually stated: a) the government didn’t do that and b) it prevented civil society from doing so.
(titles of your links)
West German Government Was Full of Ex-Nazis After World War II
So in the east.
The Purge of Lawyers after the Breakdown of the East German Communist Regime
…lawyers. Gregor Gysi is a lawyer, btw.
All in all you really don’t seem to be particularly knowledgeable about German history. You also don’t seem to be willing to investigate what I gave you, instead falling into a partisan “But SED good therefore they are right” (unironically) and “everything is the fault of the west”. Very predictable, very sad.
