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At some point, we will no longer be mathematicians and engineers, but instead become matrix psychologists. "Do not make mistakes."

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hace 5 díasdiscuss

To expand on "time dilation": an EVE Online star system is served by a single compute node in their server farm at a time. Most systems are empty most of the the time, but some locations in the universe have much more player activity. Eve can dynamically move systems between server nodes, depending on player activity. Once the number grows into the thousands in a single system, the server CPU resources can't keep up. In the past (prior to 2011), this would make the game randomly unresponsive, or cause dropped connections.

Time Dilation is the in-game solution for this: the simulation is throttled so the game runs slower for everybody, but doesn't kick people off. Last time I checked, time dilation could go as low as 10% normal time- meaning you can only fire at 10% normal rate, move 10% as fast, etc. It feels like your ship is flying through molasses- it's not fun, but is also more fair for all players.

Alliances that know there will be a big fight can fill out a form with Eve Online to "schedule" the fight so that star system can be migrated to a larger server before the fight.

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hace 5 díasdiscuss

For the non-EVE players, when you join a fleet in-game, the other members of the fleet have a purple icon next to their name. NPSI is a play-style where you join transient fleets with the express intention of getting into battles.

Players in your own corporation and alliance typically have blue icons, and those you're at war with have red icons- this is based on manually-set "standings". Alliance roams typically have a NBSI policy: Not Blue, Shoot It!, which means you'll be attacking enemies and neutrals.

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hace 20 díasdiscuss

Applets redux.

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hace 20 díasdiscuss

Nobody seems to have really embraced the truly distributed model of git, where you can expose a local repository via read-only HTTP, and collaborate by pulling from each others' repositories. No pushes.

This would be unwieldy in a corporate environment and for those who don't really grok git, but for a small cadre of experienced developers, this may be a workable model.

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hace 20 díasdiscuss

Live within your means. Save aggressively. Invest wisely.

(Source: I'm one of the 21,000, let go via a 6am email after 15 years with the company in engineering and management roles.)

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hace 28 díasdiscuss

I was looking for people who I had worked with at a company that was acquired 15 years ago, and some random person claims to be the CEO of that company.

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el mes pasadodiscuss

    jshell> "πfs".toUpperCase()
    $1 ==> "ΠFS"

    Welcome to Node.js v26.3.0.
    Type ".help" for more information.
    > "πfs".toUpperCase()
    'ΠFS'

    Python 3.14.5 (main, May 10 2026, 10:21:34) [Clang 21.0.0 (clang-2100.0.123.102)] on darwin
    Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
    >>> "πfs".upper()
    'ΠFS'

    echo 'πfs' | awk '{print toupper($0)}'
    ΠFS

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I have an unc/age ratio below 0.5! Surprising...

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Seems like that it's not that coding agents are to blame, its that the people who are ultimately responsible for committing and merging the offending code are to blame, regardless of its origin.

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

Indeed. This paragraph shows something that most people really don't understand about AI.

> 98. It is appropriate to preface this discussion with two considerations. First, any statement regarding AI risks becoming quickly outdated, given the remarkable pace at which these systems are developing. Second, all of us, including those who design them, possess only a limited understanding of their actual functioning. Indeed, current AI systems are more “cultivated” than “built,” for developers do not directly design every detail, but instead create a framework within which the intelligence “grows.” As a result, fundamental scientific aspects — such as the internal representations and computational processes of these systems — remain, at present, unknown. There thus emerges an urgent need for a twofold commitment: on the one hand, a deepening of scientific research; on the other, the exercise of moral and spiritual discernment.

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

How is their RISC-V adventure going? The RP2350 included a couple of open-source Hazard3 cores. Does the RPi Foundation collect any feedback about how these are being used, and if there's any interest in developing a RV-only SoC/SBC? Would that help them save some costs- or is it just cheaper to keep their existing ARM agreement rather than spending the resources to maintain RV to their preferred level of support?

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

It's a money maker. Maybe not a number one spot, but they don't have to stand up any more datacenters.

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

"Wow, it looks amazing, honey!" -John's Mom

hah!

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

I wonder if he had to answer a few Leetcode / Codility problems first.

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

It's enough of an influence that macOS APIs had (or still have) "NS" prefixes to many functions.

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

When my mother retired, she volunteered at the local church to transcribe and prepare 100 years of sacramental records to prepare them for digitization by the archdiocese. There were records in filing cabinets in offices, some in chests stored in the basement of the church, some with water damage.

The Catholic Church keeps pretty good records, for the most part. In New England, Quebec, and maritime Canada, many people can trace their ancestry back to at least the 1500s based on these records.

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

I am sad to say that the latest release Neovim (0.12) no longer works properly with my VT420.

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hace 2 mesesdiscuss

I've never been Wolfram's biggest fan, but this is a solid article. I'm trying to get a deeper understanding of the transformer architecture, and it seems that the written articles on transformer are bimodal: the either blind you with the raw math, or handwave the complexity away. I have been trying to figure out why the input embedding matrix is simply added to the input position matrix before the encoding stage, as opposed to some other way of combining these. Wolfram says:

> Why does one just add the token-value and token-position embedding vectors together? I don’t think there’s any particular science to this. It’s just that various different things have been tried, and this is one that seems to work. And it’s part of the lore of neural nets that—in some sense—so long as the setup one has is “roughly right” it’s usually possible to home in on details just by doing sufficient training, without ever really needing to “understand at an engineering level” quite how the neural net has ended up configuring itself.

It's the lack of "understand[ing] at an engineering level" that irks me- that this emergent behavior is discovered, rather than designed.

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