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anon291
·há 11 horas·discuss
Computation is the study of infinity. That is how I like to think about it. It doesn't seem that way when you're building a website (well, in some ways because it's not at that point), but every algorithm, data structure, etc is an investigation into a certain part of infinity. Think of the way in which we generally categorize algorithms (Big-O notation)... that's just characterizing infinity.
anon291
·há 11 horas·discuss
If the memory is bounded then your software is a simple finite automaton, and can be decided in finite time. The issue is with unbounded memory. The issue with the halting problem is a simple characteristic of infinity. This is actually what people are noticing when they say that computation is a fundamental part of the universe. They are correct! The universe deals with infinitisemals all the time. As humans, we have only discovered ways of dealing with certain classes of infinitesemals (calculus). The others remain beyond our ability to characterize. Indeed, some have been proven to be uncharacterizable.
anon291
·há 11 horas·discuss
I've been to India many times (visiting family) as someone born and raised in America, and most people on the internet have bizarre views on India. I'm someone who is generally 'down' on travel to India because it's just a lot to ingest and I prefer easier places, but I personally would never worry about the sorts of things people online claim. It's not particularly dangerous in terms of violence. Food is amazing obviously. Hotels are out of this world if you're willing to pay the totally normal rates and not stay in hovels -- in fact hospitality is miles ahead of most western countries. Chaotic, loud, dirty at times, sure. You have to be used to seeing visible, sometimes shocking, poverty. And of course, if you don't know the local language and are not traveling with someone who is, it can be even more overwhelming. But I mean people are nice, and in some places, it's really nice and there are even some places I've been where I could see the appeal of living there.

I think India tends to defy common categorization. It's a developing country, but also quite advanced in many ways. Certain things work better. Trains are great. Metros are now really nice. Payment is great. They mostly do their own thing and it seems to be working for them.

To be totally honest, a lot of the India negging is from accounts associated with 'rival' countries. This has become more obvious as places like X have started showing the origins of many accounts. And before people start bringing up caste or whatever to explain my neutral-to-positive disposition towards the country, my 'community' in India is technically an 'otherwise backwards class', so it's not like I'm basing this based off of my family's non-existent wealth. By far, I'd rather stay in actual accommodations in India rather than with family because the accommodations are legit nice, and staying with family can be really hit or miss.
anon291
·há 9 dias·discuss
Oh sure I run about 10 miles / week, but that's only like 2 hours max running. I still sit most of the day and have tons of 'sitting' problems. I don't know what everyone else's experience with tech work is, but sports is max 4-5 hours / week, and about 20 hours is spent mostly sitting even with a standing desk. Still have the lower back issues that most sitters have.
anon291
·há 9 dias·discuss
I have no idea what 'sedentary' even means. I work on a desk mostly but I also walk 15 - 20 k steps per day because that's just my life and I accomplish most daily tasks (shopping, going to park, coffee, etc walking). Is that sedentary?
anon291
·há 9 dias·discuss
I usually kexec into new kernels, but rarely, I do reboot for firmware updates.

My system is rebooted sometimes due to power, and while it comes back just fine... there's no need to reboot a computer that works.
anon291
·há 10 dias·discuss
I use NixOS and haven't restarted my machines in years. Always on. There are power outages once in a while but everything is set to restart when power is available so it comes back up.
anon291
·há 11 dias·discuss
It's a bit messy and gives away too many details of my setup (including IP addresses and such). I'll see if I can eventually release something like it. I've thought of developing a tool that lets you auto-generate network topologies and such. My main use case is testing failovers with switches.
anon291
·há 11 dias·discuss
I do use nixos on my (limited) servers. I self host everything. Ama.
anon291
·há 11 dias·discuss
I self host my own stuff in a data center with a bunch of computers. I have a virtualized setup all in nix defining nixos setups for all hosts. Switches are virtualized using open v switch and everything is made so that the nix expression generates a launch script to test the whole set up.

Before I deploy I know that all hosts will be able to boot properly from tftp and then communicate and launch kubernetes.

I never ssh into any of my nodes at this point. Amazing. It just works. Once in a while I'll restart them just for funsies.
anon291
·há 11 dias·discuss
I've find my email on simple-nixos-mailserver for almost a half decade... So easy, less than 25 lines of code and a command line to update every few months.
anon291
·há 11 dias·discuss
I've run nixos for ten years now without ever having to reinstall... Just continuous updates and my dev environments are nice and segregated and one command line away from being identical on all my computers.

Nirvana
anon291
·há 12 dias·discuss
I've found ChatGPT to be much better at medicine than doctors. For example, every winter, I would get itchy toes. I was quite concerned because they could be quite painful. But the symptoms were not obvious and they wouldn't occur often. The toes would swell up and become quite red and uncomfortable. One doctor suggested gout, which was not the right diagnosis, because I have no urea problems. Others suggested a skin cream.

No... I told ChatGPT exactly what I told you and it came up with the answer: Chillblains, which should have been obvious given everything I described, yet general practitioners were clueless and often reached for high intervention approaches

Harmless condition fixed by wearing socks. I brought it up with the same GPs who had misdiagnosed me and none had heard of it.

Of course, I'm cognizant that it could be mistaken, but a hospital fed my diabetic aunt a normal sugar diet while she was in a coma and forgot to give her metformin, so I mean, it's not like humans can't be retarded as well. The difference is no one gets offended when I point out ChatGPT has the capacity to be an idiot. Instead they just fix it.
anon291
·há 13 dias·discuss
Why? If you have too much help or whatever being produced such that your body eats too much, just take a drug. The harm of being fat is worse than anything ozempic does
anon291
·há 17 dias·discuss
This is not about Indian nationalism (which I don't really care about) or whether they should be unified countries (which I don't care about). This is about the forced mass migration of people from their homes and the resulting millions of deaths due to what is basically religious extremism.
anon291
·há 17 dias·discuss
Sure we can argue about that as well but that doesn't change the mind numbing amount of bloodshed caused by the chosen solution and the resulting successor state that harbored and continues to harbor terrorists hell bent on destroying America.

Ideally India would have balkanized into ethnolinguistic nations with a common union like the EU. That would have probably been the best outcome but the religious partition has led to increased religious extremism on both sides, seemingly unsolvable instability for 1/4 of the world population, and again, millions of deaths.
anon291
·há 17 dias·discuss
I just started an LLC in Oregon and I did it in the evening and got a confirmation by the next morning and an ein next afternoon
anon291
·há 17 dias·discuss
It was a boon economically but people died. Millions of people died due to the actions of a few aristocrats and religious zealots. Probably the greatest humanitarian crisis in the last millennium.

And the partition of India is the well accepted term for the event. I'm not going to be drawn into some post colonial syntactic argument in a discussion about the very real deaths if very real people as well as the human tragedy of the subsequent forced displacement from land people had lived in for thousands of years.

Jinnahs argument with the Indian Congress was because someone sang a song once referencing a Hindu goddess from a novel. It's honestly bananas and difficult to understand especially when his own daughter lived in India after partition
anon291
·há 17 dias·discuss
I mean JD Vance is in Pakistan saying he's as close to the military junta there as his own wife, stirring up unnecessary pain at a full on mass unplanned genocide (I'm referring to the partition of India).

People claim Israel has America by the balls and that's probably true.

The other country that has us by the other ball is Pakistan.
anon291
·há 19 dias·discuss
Perfect pitch is a useless skill. Good interval sensitivity for melody and good harmonic sense is more useful.

I dunno I have relative pitch but extremely good and can play basically anything from ear. And in a bunch of different keys because I'm not impeded by perfect pitch sensitivity.