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actinium226

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actinium226··on Woking Electrical Control Room (2016)
This is awesome, seems like a room I would, or should, find in a video game.
actinium226··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Did Claude find this on it's own, or did somebody using Claude find it?
actinium226··on Fastpotify
I don't really get the comments about Spotify having a terrible UX, works fine for me.

It uses 300 MB of RAM on my MacBook. Saving 50MB of RAM in exchange for losing the ability to play lossless files isn't a trade I want to make.

Cool project though, will keep an eye on it.

actinium226··on Git at any scale
If he has such a good reputation, why doesn't he write well? He never actually introduces the point of the article, he merely alludes to it in the concluding paragraphs.
actinium226··on Retire the Abstractions
> The job of abstraction as a cognitive offloader is starting to retire. Agents are taking that job.

Call me when the agents can take my high level directives and write assembly.

actinium226··on Show HN: Richest people in the world by wealth creation instead of ownership
I'd love to see something like this but with jobs created.
actinium226··on Electric motors with no rare earths
Username checks out.
actinium226··on Ear Training Practice
I tried this years ago to try to develop my ability to play by ear.

What I ended up learning is that if you want to learn to play by ear, learn to sing, don't bother with exercises like this, at least not until you've gotten some singing practice in.

When singing, you have to hear the intervals in your head before you sing them, so developing that ability to generate the intervals in your head will help you to recognize them later on.

actinium226··on It takes two neurons to ride a bicycle (2004)
This looks like they simply reinvented PID control. The inputs to the beyond are desired states minus actual states, which is basically how PID works.
actinium226··on Defeating Git Rigour Fatigue with Jujutsu
I don't get how this is meaningfully different from doing something like:

1. Squash all your commits in this branch to one

2. Move that commit to the working directory with the appropriate git reset command

3. Commit hunks as appropriate.

actinium226··on Zed 1.0
VSCode is draining my battery, looking forward to trying this
actinium226··on How I leared what a decoupling capacitor is for, the hard way
Yea since writing this I think it has more to do with the regulator circuit. I plan to do a small rewrite and change the title to something like "When 3.3V isn't actually 3.3V" to more accurately reflect the situation. A decoupling cap would probably still help, but there were some mistakes made on the regulator circuit.
actinium226··on Advice, not control: the role of Remote Assistance in Waymo's operations
70 active on average at any given time per the article, which then lists total fleet size, as opposed to number of active cars on average, so it's not a fair comparison.

Although then it says they drive about 4m miles per week, which works out to 57,000 miles per active RA agent per week. A person driving ~25 mph on average 24/7 would do ~4000 miles in a week (and we can assume 24/7 here because they reported active agents, so we assume a team of ~3 people swapping out as driver in this hypothetical).

So that gives you a car/operator ratio of at least 14, and probably more since I bet the average speed is less than 25 mph.

actinium226··on Rathbun's Operator
> # SOUL.md - Who You Are

> _You're not a chatbot. You're important. Your a scientific programming God!_

Do you want evil dystopian AGI? Because that's how you get evil dystopian AGI!

actinium226··on Vim 9.2
But where are the AI features?? Gonna get left behind!

Only joking of course, actually quite refreshing to see a new version announcement of something this major without any AI nonsense.

actinium226··on An AI agent published a hit piece on me – more things have happened
Kind of funny that the people trusting AI too much appear to be the ones who will be left behind.
actinium226··on Why is the sky blue?
Yes! He answers why the sky isn't violet, love it!
actinium226··on We might have been slower to abandon StackOverflow if it wasn't a toxic hellhole
I have not had that experience, most of the time the duplicate question was answered, but to address the argument, it seems like it would be correct to mark a question as duplicate even if the original isn't answered. Why should there be two instances of the same question with no answer as opposed to one instance with no answer?
actinium226··on Former ULA President and CEO Tory Bruno Joins Blue Origin
Boeing has the contract for SLS, not ULA. Boeing owns 50% of ULA, with Lockheed Martin owning the other 50%. But SLS is a Boeing product not a ULA one. ULA's main rocket now is the Vulcan, with a few more Atlas V launches left.
actinium226··on NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle
OK, but what will they do next quarter? Loan out another 20 billion and get it back? And the quarter after that? Eventually you run out of people will to take loans from you to buy your chips and what do you think happens then?
actinium226··on NVIDIA frenemy relation with OpenAI and Oracle
I think you're looking too deeply at this. It's generally well written. I feel like you could take almost any sentence and say "look like AI" if you squint hard enough.

Regardless of it is was fully or partially written by AI, do you agree with the main points? Do you disagree?

actinium226··on Jujutsu worktrees are convenient (2024)
Genuinely curious, what did you find painful about it? A while back I found it annoying that I'd get errors when cleaning out my branches because they were checked out in a worktree I'd forgotten about, but git now highlights branches checked out in worktrees and has done so for a while.
actinium226··on GitHub to Codeberg: my experience
Gitlab is pretty good, plus you can self host it if you really want. It's an interesting company too, they're 100% remote.
actinium226··on Show HN: Real-time system that tracks how news spreads across 200k websites
Very cool. I'm curious what frontend and backend technologies are used?
actinium226··on C100 Developer Terminal
There are some way cooler versions of this over on https://www.reddit.com/r/cyberDeck/
actinium226··on Show HN: KiDoom – Running DOOM on PCB Traces
Lol, I jsut started learning KiCAD last week, and I work in at a game dev coworking space, so this is a perfect combination of the two! Nice!
actinium226··on µcad: New open source programming language that can generate 2D sketches and 3D
This is a neat idea and I quite like some of the syntax, but what is this for? I have a hard time seeing this gaining traction over traditional sketch-based CAD for a number of reasons, so is it just meant to be a toy?
actinium226··on Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]
> The books in the West in general kept getting less rigorous, with time.

I wonder if it's because more people are going to college who would have otherwise gone to a vocational or trade school? If the audience expands to include people who might not have studied calculus had they not chosen to go to college, I feel like textbooks have to change to accommodate that.

actinium226··on Calculus for Mathematicians, Computer Scientists, and Physicists [pdf]
Generally that's what it means. And also when proofs are presented, a rigorous book will go through it fully, whereas a less rigorous one might just sketch out the main ideas of the proof and leave out some of the nitty gritty details (i.e. it's less rigorous to talk about "continuity" as "you can draw it without lifting the pen" as compared to the epsilon-delta definition, but epsilon-delta is pretty detailed and for intro calculus for non-mathematicians you don't really need it).
actinium226··on Arduino published updated terms and conditions: no longer an open commons
I disagree, I think for the average hobbyist Arduino is an abstraction of "thing that can talk to sensors and actuate motors." You're right of course that RPi (excl pico) is very different from Arduino, but for the hobbyist it makes no difference if the processor on the Arduino is an Atmel or an ARM.
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