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metricspaceson Inside the miracle of modern chip manufacturing

fantastic info. thanks for sharing.

metricspaceson "Dune" and the delicate art of making fictional languages

It's a book about galactic Jihad for God's sake. Of course they are going to "deflavor" it. I'm of the opinion the entire production is to take narrative control over this amazing work of literature. You can not mistake who are the bad guys and who are the good guys :)

Dune and its follow up volumes are visionary fiction.

metricspaceson In Defense of Simple Architectures (2022)

The conversation in this (overall) thread is dancing around issues of experience,competence, and maturity. And the age ceiling forcefully pushed by people like Paul Graham of this very HN. When your entire engineering team are “senior developers” with 3 years of experience (lol) and most don’t even know what a “linker” does, the fundamental feature of the wunder architecture is obscure and not understood.

Building effective monoliths absolutely demands competent DB experts, schema designers & developers. The problem that microservices solved was the sparsity of this sort of talent when demand overshot supply by orders of magnitude.

(In a way the monoloth vs microservices debates are echoes of the famous impedance mismatch between object graph runtimes and relational tables and DBMSs.)

metricspaceson The game theory of seduction and marriage with Jane Austen

the thought occurs that Jane was obsessing over such matters as a disempowered member of her society. another thought is that romantic nonsense was a mind virus created by the elite to psychologically knee-cap the middle class.

metricspaceson The U.S. Government Will Soon Spend More on Interest Payments Than Defense

plot thickens: the people who own the banks fund the dumb people who borrow from the banks to buy guns from the MIC who the very same people who own the banks and the press also own.

metricspaceson Alexei Navalny has died

the word you are looking for here is ‘regime change’. it is true that it is unreasonable to bring up ‘historic matter’, that is conduct in the ‘prior regime’, to discuss the merits of the current regime. Germany suffered total defeat in WW2 and so its “1944” prison conditions mean nothing. UK arguably can claim “a win” after the end of USSR (the only possible ‘regime change’ we can consider as relevant matter) and so ‘regime vindicated!’ and thus conduct of UK against Irish resistance is relevant as evidence.

metricspaceson Glowdust is a new kind of database management system

This is an interesting point but imo ignores the facilities afforded by an RDBMS and possibly even misunderstands the notion of fully hosting applications on a RDBMS.

Some sort of check pointing is inevitable for recoverable state-less systems (that naturally react to a stream of data/queries) and that ultimately is delegated to either a streaming/messaging (e.g. kafka) or a database (of some sort).

Components of an application hosted in a RDBMS are tables, indexes, views, and code. The code is stateless — they’re just functions. Application state is in tables. Replication is supposed to handle your more hairy operational concerns. What’s the problem?

metricspaceson Inside the proton, the ‘most complicated thing you could possibly imagine’

clearly related to measure (in the abstract sense) and harmonics of natural numbers. what has fascinated me for years has been the sense that we need to rebuild number up using complex numbers and harmonic measures. what we get are still numbers but no longer this monotonic sequence which is a ‘lazy’ or ‘simple minded’ way of ordering N. when ordered by harmonic measures of primes, N itself has structure (beyond a simple incrementing list) but the order is strictly limited to measures provided (rational) with the prime roots of the measure. (an example is the ‘primorial’ harmonic measure of {2, 3, 5} - think rings).

in these harmonic measures, ‘gaps’ between various levels naturally would arise from simple (x) op. For non-relative prime members, the mapping n x n is all over the place but for relative prime members, n x n always results in another relative prime in the ring, so, naturally those ‘lines’ are ‘stable’ and ‘in phase’ so ‘manifested’.

in other words, there is stuff in the R realm — in between ‘quanta’ — but we’re not allowed, capable, ever, of seeing or measureing it.[edit: as in they ‘exist’ in the same realm that (sqrt -1) i exists in — an unseen realm we call ‘imaginary’..]

metricspaceson Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?

it’s a matter of duration not external evaluation. i say the “real thing” since that comes to you rather than you affecting a state of mind-body. there is no street corner for someone to deal you that drug. this is the fundamental difference that is discernible from without. you can see the source of one type of bliss (and you can buy it) and the other one is subject to endless debate except by those who are blissed /out!

metricspaceson Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?

> a tiny part

don’t you believe that for a second. God does not deal with tiny graces. it’s just a process and then it becomes overwhelming and all resistance is gone. all of it.

metricspaceson Where did DNA come from?

> [emergence of order]

The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (1991)

https://www.abebooks.com/9780195058116/Origins-Order-Self-Or...

> Did mitochondria have any idea

It remains a possibility, not subject to fascile dismissal, that ‘our world’ is a side-effect of a self reflecting mind. You will note on serious reflection that all you know and experience is ‘image’ and ‘imagination’. Now that there is a ‘correspondence’ to an ‘outside reality’ is only obtained when there are 2 or more of ‘us sentients’ and we compare notes using ‘language’ (with all its limitations and to be understood in its maximal sense & associated limitations, including ‘expression’, ‘communication’ and ‘reading’).

> Biology is applied physics

Not all applications of physical laws result in living forms. Physics can be applied to understand (some aspects) of biological entities given that they are (conceptuallyminimally in part) made of physical stuff subject to governing regime of matter we study as physics.

metricspaceson Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?

that doesn’t provide the real thing - it is a ‘Fire’ destroys the person. God’s Love is a ‘Light’ builds you up and makes you strong and vital. You really have to experience it - and read Pascal’s wager in the light of his expressing a subjective personal understanding of spiritual experience not a logical formula for converting non-experienced. (Pascal got a hit of Love from God not a hit of opium.)

metricspaceson Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?

you do not have beliefs about the one you love. seeing truth/reality is when you stop cheating on the one you love. so love becomes real when your hearts sees clear. and since this is not “fiction” but rather the Reality of your Subjective Experience that is the only thing you ‘know’ for a ‘near at hand, within sight, felt by heart’. Love always tames Reason. whether imaginal love, temporal love, or divine love. The former are shattered when they are subjected to ‘external reality’.

The acid test of true love for God is that Reality confirms it.

metricspaceson Cousins are disappearing. Is this reshaping the experience of childhood?

It’s like love. You fall in love, you fall in love with God. The rest is just garbled mumbling to yourself and others. And like love, it is your experience of it and your view of your beloved that matters, who cares what others think. This is how it is with actual belief. You experience something that shatters the illusion. Once that happens, you belong to God bothered people. And yes, those who have never experienced love also think love is “just chemical processes in the body”. But it’s not, otherwise they’d bottle that chemical process and make a zillion selling it. (They try with drugs but is just ain’t the same thing, you know?)

metricspaceson What it was like working for Gitlab

‘He worked remote’ thought popped into my head. He wasn’t there to “grow into leadership role” with the rest of the early employees. I do agree with your read of the situation.

btw, that restaurant in Amsterdam is apparently the go to place for startups. I am certain I sat in one of those chairs (was this on 2nd floor facing the canal?) with another fabled startup.

metricspaceson Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

The tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao The name that can be named is not the eternal Name.
The unnamable is the eternally real. Naming is the origin of all particular things.Free from desire, you realize the mystery. Caught in desire, you see only the manifestations.
Yet mystery and manifestations arise from the same source. This source is called darkness.

Darkness within darkness. The gateway to all understanding.

metricspaceson Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

A discreet unit of measure exists in dynamics & its relationship to position space is informed by Heisenberg’s theorem.

(My actual point is that Reality is neither continuous nor discreet - it is an infinitesimal point and it is our mind — that likes to name and number things and relies on duality to make ‘distinctions’ — that creates the universe, the subjective reality that we perceive as inhabiting.)

metricspaceson Why is Maxwell's theory so hard to understand? (2007) [pdf]

> computer science leaking out

Planck constant would like to have a word with you. But it is true that CS shines a light on the matter of mapping the infinite into bounded spaces.

This matter of ‘cognition’ is the entire matter (npi) of contention. What is the actual relationship between number and perceived phenomena? What is the deeper meaning of the concordance of mathematics and physics? Where do these magical constants come from and what does it all mean?

It seems we bring the ‘world’ into being by partitioning. See Genesis 1 for details.

> the world is continuous

Reality is actually a unified undivided unity without form and timeless & eternal - that is all we can say with certainty. The “world” is our perception of this reality. Our cognitive machinary is discreet, and a mapping of this reality into metric & temporal spaces of the mind.