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My long running message of the day: "eventually all programmers turn into mumblers."

Ditto.

The submitter made it up. Despite being a user on the site for years they apparently don't know the submission rules: use the original title, only edit to fit or for obvious clickbait. The simplest rules are the hardest to remember?

I’ve been studying Music theory along side guitar for two months (using Absolutely Understand Guitar and Hal Leonard method) and at least in the self-study space this is not this bleak.

After only two months I have learned that there are seven modes of the major scale that you have to memorize, memorizing their names and order was not hard, if I know the major scale (which I do, and was not hard to memorize because it is only 8 notes) you can derive the other six by playing the same notes but starting at a different root note. If you start on F and play the same notes as the C major scale you have the Lydian mode. C and F are a perfect fourth a part so Lydian is the fourth mode. Where the sharps and flats are I can figure out just by playing it and listening where and how it differs from the major scale.


>If the change contains changes to the UX it has to be approved by a human reviewer.

Would that not imply that a change that does not effect the UX does not have to be approved by a human reviewer? Otherwise, why specifically call out "changes to the UX" and not say "all changes"?


I tried it on macOS Sequoia and it froze everything except the cursor movement.

There's also a power generation water cost though!

Something like 500g/MWh for gas/coal/nuclear (~70% of power in AZ), so a huge xAI datacenter (Colossus 2, ~1 GW/h) would use ~700 MW of this type, or ~350k gallons of water an hour, which would be 0.2% of the Colorado rivers flow rate last year.

I don't know if that's significant.


I'd rather vaguely gesture at data in the training corpus. That, at least, introduces some variance and forces me to add my spin on things after testing.

I don't think so, but when I am driving long distance I do make a habit to stop by all the local markets. The funniest situation was when I went to one in AZ, this one vendor had incredible raspberries just like home. I asked his secret... he had driven hours that morning from my home. He was on his way to selling out though.

I remember losing sleep when I bought my RTX Pro 6000, but somehow they keep going up in price, and waddya know I’ve even done real work that appreciates the VRAM size.

Box. Amateur. Talk to me when you have a filing cabinet full of cables with bags labelled “SCSI”, “IEE-488 (Commodore)” and “DIN”.

At least my past self was good enough to bag and label.


Distillation is not infiltrating systems and exfiltrating weights.

Nice strategically-placed pussy.

The keyboard layout is terrible on account of its misplaced trackball. There's a special hell reserved for people who design keyboards with trackballs below the numpad; that shit needs to be situated either in the middle of the typewriter keys, or directly below the space key(s), in line with the golden ratio and with some space to rest one's wrists.


I will check it out, thank you.

Google claims that 10% of its power goes to non-computing overhead. Even if that were 0 somewhere else, ok how much more expensive is the power in that area, probably more than 11%. And I don't know how much they spend on power to begin with, relative to the other costs that probably go up.

Engineers understand that every technology represents inherent tradeoffs.

Give me enough guano, charcoal, sulphur, steel, and flint and I can cobble together carpet bombing from my kitchen without ever having to go up the tech tree past a few hundred years ago.

Hell Hamas themselves under heavy sanctions have shown they have the technology, they merely lack the surfeit of resources to implement it.

This isn’t me arguing with you, I’m just flabbergasted that someone could say with a straight face that Israel doesn’t have the technology to carpet bomb.

I want us to decrease or end our alliance with Israel for political reasons related to how their government has interacted with ours(the US) but I am constantly surprised by these people who honestly think that Israel wouldn’t collapse the moment US support ended, like they didn’t fight several existential wars and win previous to our support.


How do you stay motivated to do this?! I've tried to start my app in React Native multiple times, but it always sucks, so I finally started learning Swift. I'm already not sure how I'll stay motivated to learn Kotlin too, and rebuild the whole app again.

Hey you’re right, we should gladly accept every decision the big corps make. They know best, after all. We should probably lick their boots too, in gratitude for their benevolence.

Where does the title comes from?it's not on the website it seems like just a website to send letter to military personnel

Ah, that's nice!

Tangent: your comment would have been stronger without the politics.

Btw, Rust ain't the only vector here. With an LLM at your side, you can also write your performance and safety critical parts in Lean and prove them correct.

Lean can compile to some pretty fast code. (Though it needs a bit more engineering work around eg SIMD to get really fast.)


Technology historians will pin 2026 as the year frameworks died.

The toxic effects also impacted the area where I grew up here in the Southern US - there’s a road that’s known locally as “Chemical Ranch Rd” where there’s a ~100 acre property that was used for testing Agent Orange.

Who cares? The world is being handed an infinite creation machine that conjures entire worlds into existence, radically reshaping the future of the species and what our descendants will be able to do, and your reply is ~"they took our jobs!"

Figure out how to stand on the shoulders of giants like any of your predecessors of note.


The comments about play here are echoed really nicely by a 3Blue1Brown video - not public yet, but up on Patreon.

Thank you for bombing kids all over the planet

Got an example? I'm pretty sure new datacenters are still using cooling towers.

Per-capita can be bad and so can overall scale. It wouldn't matter if Norway was the highest per-capita because like 5 people live there.

Yeah, what happens to me is I need a thing, go to Amazon to order it, see that I already bought it 4 years ago, spend 30 minutes trying to find it, then let out a big sigh and order it again.

Most recently: a USB to TTL serial adapter.


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