xeonmc

3,785 karma · joined June 30, 2022

xeonmcon Olympic Committee bars transgender athletes from women’s events

Can trans male who transitioned before puberty compete in male olympics while being pumped full of steroids legally?

xeonmcon End of "Chat Control": EU parliament stops mass surveillance

I think the more fitting imagery would be https://en.meming.world/images/en/4/4a/Moe_Tossing_Barney_Fr...

xeonmcon Antimatter has been transported for the first time

Except the fine structure constant

xeonmcon GitHub is once again down

How fast was Skype?

xeonmcon LaGuardia pilots raised safety alarms months before deadly runway crash

> I just hope they don't try to pin this on the controller who was on duty and move on without putting plans in place for some sort of structural change.

I am reminded of the Uberlingen disaster:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2002_%C3%9Cberlingen_mid-air_c...

xeonmcon The gold standard of optimization: A look under the hood of RollerCoaster Tycoon

https://xkcd.com/2501/

xeonmcon Wired headphone sales are exploding

Apple EarPods Type-C

xeonmcon Avoiding Trigonometry (2013)

That’s exactly what I mean, there are no inverse trig that needs to be involved anywhere, see the matrix section in the article. It is trivial to recognize that vector inputs are pretty much the same space the k coefficients and mentally treat cos and sin as a shorthand symbol in terms of vector products.

And in any case inverse trig functions are just components of logarithms of quaternions, and trig is components of exponentiating half-axis-angle into quaternions.

xeonmcon Avoiding Trigonometry (2013)

This is just https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rodrigues%27_rotation_formula

xeonmcon Type resolution redesign, with language changes to taste

Rust is a Bugatti Veyron, Zig is a McLaren F1.

xeonmcon Intel Demos Chip to Compute with Encrypted Data

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-05-27

xeonmcon Ask HN: Most beautiful personal blog UI you have ever seen?

https://danluu.com

xeonmcon US tech firms pledge at White House to bear costs of energy for datacenters

Is it the same kind of pledge as alluded to in the Amber Heard trial?

xeonmcon A CPU that runs entirely on GPU

Gibberish Pipeline Units

xeonmcon A CPU that runs entirely on GPU

General Processing Units

Gross-Parallelization Units

Generative Procedure Units

Gratuitously Profiteering Unscrupulously

xeonmcon GitHub having issues [resolved]

Maybe they mandated to use AI for quality control?

xeonmcon Physics Girl: Super-Kamiokande – Imaging the sun by detecting neutrinos [video]

(should be Psychic Girl)

xeonmcon OpenClaw surpasses React to become the most-starred software project on GitHub

Any sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice.

xeonmcon Ape Coding [fiction]

People in this thread discussing the merits of the satire seriously are completely missing the joke over their head that the entire thing was meant to be just a setup for the Rewrite It In Rust punchline.

xeonmcon Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

Embrace, Embellish, Enshittify.

xeonmcon Ghostty – Terminal Emulator

Would a terminal deal with them have added another billion to your account if it hadn’t been nonprofit?

xeonmcon Microsoft announces new "mini PCs" for Windows 365

Echoes of https://web.archive.org/web/20250424025507/https://support.h...

    3. Can I still use my Ai Pin for offline features?
    
    Yes. After February 28, 2025, Ai Pin will still allow for offline features like battery level, etc., but will not include any function that requires cloud connectivity like voice interactions, AI responses, and .Center access.

xeonmcon We do not think Anthropic should be designated as a supply chain risk

    > 'mass surveillance' and 'autonomous killbot' as defined by the government and not the vendor

Ah, so they’ll be applying the good ol’ Three-Fifths Rule[0], a classic.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-fifths_Compromise

xeonmcon We Will Not Be Divided

Club Penguin was a gem. Now all we get are Roblox.

xeonmcon Julia: Performance Tips

Its syntax is great for math and has a comprehensive ecosystem of scientific computing libraries stewarded by that timelord guy from Men in Black 3.

xeonmcon Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away."

This is nothing. Wait until you see what the eye-tracking technology Amazon has been developing for their workers could be used for.

xeonmcon What does " 2>&1 " mean?

Haskell

xeonmcon Statement from Dario Amodei on our discussions with the Department of War

    > I thought "Anthropic" was about being concerned about humans

See also: OpenAI being open, Democratic People's Republic of Korea being democratic and peoples-first[0].

[0] https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/PeoplesRepublicO...

xeonmcon Danish government agency to ditch Microsoft software (2025)

Meh, best I could do is an atmosphere controlled by an American PBC.