What I want is a silent refrigerator, will this bring that? pray
Readit NewsTistron commented on Staying cool without refrigerants: Next-generation Peltier cooling news.samsung.com/global/i... · Posted by u/simonebrunozzi
I think it's worse than this. Even with hyperreals, 0.999... = 1, I believe, since they have to obey all laws of arithmetic that are true for the reals. At the very least, 3 × 0.333... = 1, and not 0.999... even for the hyperreals.
You're saying that 0.999...=1, and simultaneously you are saying that 3 × 0.333... = 1 and not 0.999...
What? How can it be that a=b and a≠c when b=c?
I'd like to read more about the difference between living aqua and dead water.
Spent a little time on wiktionary:
> Unlike its neuter synonym wódr̥, h₂ep- is always gendered in descendants. This may reflect the same animate–inanimate (or semantically active–passive) distinction in early PIE that is often supposed for the nouns meaning “fire”, such as h₁n̥gʷnís m and péh₂wr̥ n respectively.
> Two main terms for “fire” are reconstructible for Proto-Indo-European: h₁n̥gʷnís and péh₂wr̥. They are usually considered in semantic opposition. The first term is usually masculine and refers to fire as something animate and active (compare Agni, the most prominent Old Indic deity), whereas the second term is neuter and refers to fire as something inanimate and passive, i.e. as a substance.
I'd like to read more about the difference between living aqua and dead water.
Tistron commented on By default, Signal doesn't recall signal.org/blog/signal-do... · Posted by u/feross
I wonder if 2025 will be the year of Linux.
Windows has turned itself into spyware. Apple is too expensive and going the same way.
Meanwhile the user experience of Linux has dramatically increased. Put on a good skin and most people wouldn't notice the difference. You don't need to reply that you can, I know you can. You're on HN. But most people just use their computer for the browser and most people can't tell Chrome from Firefox. Most people get their lockin by their tech friend or child. Really, Microsoft's only lockin remains Office.
It won't be a complete shift but the signs of growing userbase is there. Would be a huge win for open source! If you haven't tried Linux in a few years try giving something like PopOS a go or if you want to say you use Arch then try EndeavourOS. Both are very stable, latter slightly less.
Edit: enfuse was right, I should have suggested EndeavourOS instead of Manjaro.
Has anyone else managed to make a trackpad that is even close to as good as what apple makes? I've never tried a non-apple trackpad that didn't suck.
Tistron commented on In a high-stress work environment, prioritize relationships wqtz.bearblog.dev/high-st... · Posted by u/wqtz
"Powered by Bear ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ" ->
"A privacy-first, no-nonsense, super-fast blogging platform
No trackers, no javascript, no stylesheets. Just your words."
Yet, about 30% of the source of TFA is a stylesheet. I guess they mean no external stylesheet?
Tistron commented on I use zip bombs to protect my server idiallo.com/blog/zipbomb-... · Posted by u/foxfired
what are your favorite static site generators? I googled it and cloudflare article came up with Jekyll,Gatsby,Hugo,Next.js, Eleventy. But would like to avoid doing research if can be helped on pros/cons of each.
I've come to really appreciate Astro.js
It's quite simple to get started, fairly intuitive for me, and very powerful.
Tistron commented on But what if I want a faster horse? rakhim.exotext.com/but-wh... · Posted by u/saeedesmaili
Nothing has ever felt better than my student days with DC++. The whole campus had a server we all used and I could search for stuff I liked and see what other people who had that on their disks also had, and explore that. I found a lot of music that way, as well as other stuff.
Before that we had had a list of ftp servers which was also good once I wrote an indexer, but DC automated all that and made more people able to participate.
I hate the Netflix interface enough that I prefer to watch movies other ways even though I have access to it.
So many articles and comments claim Ai will destroy critical thinking in our youths. Is there any evidence that this conviction that many people share is even remotely true?
To me it just seems like the same old knee-jerk luddite response people have to any powerful new technology that challenges that status quo since the dawn of time. The calculator did not erase math wizards, the television did not replace books and so on. It just made us better, faster, more productive.
Sometimes there is an adjustment period (we still haven't figured out how to deal with short dopamine hits from certain types of entertainment and social media), but things will balance themselves out eventually.
Some people may go full-on Wall-E, but I for one will never stop tinkering, and many of my friends won't either.
The things I could have done if I had had an LLM as a kid... I think I've learned more in the past two years than ever before.
I would expect people today to be quite a lot worse at mental arithmetic that we used to be before calculators.
And worse at memorizing stuff than before writing.
We have tools to help us with that, and maybe it isn't a big loss? And they also bring new arenas and abilities.
And maybe in the future we will be worse at critical thinking (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43484224), and maybe it isn't a big loss? It is hard to imagine what new abilities and arenas will emerge. Though I think that critical thinking is a worse loss than memory and mental arithmetic. Though, also, we are probably a lot less good at it than we think we are, generally.