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dimator commented on String theory inspires a brilliant, baffling new math proof quantamagazine.org/string... · Posted by u/ArmageddonIt

xqcgrek2 · 11 days ago

A few hundred people working on String Theory for about four decades is about $500 million. Hope this proof was worth it.

dimator · 11 days ago

so like 12.5 million a year? what an incredible self-own.

aside from that, this number is meaningless without context: how much do other fields of research get?

dimator commented on Zohran Mamdani wins the New York mayoral race nbcnews.com/politics/elec... · Posted by u/jsheard

Workaccount2 · 2 months ago

Western Europe would have been collapsing right now if daddy cold capitalist didn't show up with gas and guns to drive away the Russian bear.

Western Europe has been on vacation for 30 years. There is no future where they can stay on the path they have been on. European leaders recognize this, but how the hell do you get a generation raised with an easy life to recognize this?

Germans work 400 hours a year less than Americans, and they celebrate that. Good luck.

dimator · 2 months ago

> Germans work 400 hours a year less than Americans, and they celebrate that. Good luck.

Yes, everyone everywhere should endeavor to... checks notes... work the maximum number of hours in a year.

dimator commented on The Case That A.I. Is Thinking newyorker.com/magazine/20... · Posted by u/ascertain

aydyn · 2 months ago

Learn to work on interesting problems? If the problem you are working on is novel and hard, the AI will stumble.

Generalizing your experience to everyone else's betrays a lack of imagination.

dimator · 2 months ago

This is my experience. For rote generation, it's great, saves me from typing out the same boilerplate unit test bootstrap, or refactoring something that exists, etc.

Any time I try to get a novel insight, it flails wildly, and nothing of value comes out. And yes, I am prompting incrementally and building up slowly.

dimator commented on 10M people watched a YouTuber shim a lock; the lock company sued him – bad idea arstechnica.com/tech-poli... · Posted by u/Brajeshwar

dekhn · 2 months ago

Issues with master locks are hardly new- back in the 1980s, I downloaded a file from a BBS explaining how to open a combo lock (basically by pulling on the shackle while turning, and a few other tricks.

It's still online: https://cdn.preterhuman.net/texts/anarchy_and_privacy_contro...

dimator · 2 months ago

Oh my god, I remember doing this technique on my lock, I remember doing this in the early BBS days, I remember learning this from a short text file. I'm 80% sure it was this file!

Thanks for unlocking this memory for me!

dimator commented on We're in the wrong moment ezrichards.github.io/post... · Posted by u/chilipepperhott

anonzzzies · 2 months ago

I came to the same conclusion after 40+ years of programming: better if you come to that realisation earlier. Still love coding though, but I leave the paid work to my colleagues and llms: I just code for fun these days. I also write for fun and find it pretty similar, feeling and satisfaction wise.

dimator · 2 months ago

But, what about the graduating senior who, yeah started because they love the craft, but also need a way to pay the bills for a few decades of their life?

dimator commented on Apple M5 chip apple.com/newsroom/2025/1... · Posted by u/mihau

nielsbot · 2 months ago

> Apple is a marketing company made to sell stuff.

That's like... every company? Are you saying they don't have good tech?

dimator · 2 months ago

Gp is saying their primary expertise is advertising. It's hard to watch any apple announcement and not notice how utterly hyperbolic they are at touting their own achievements.

Ya sure, you can say that every company must do that, but apple are exceptional at it. Once you start noticing the unlabeled performance charts, the missing baselines, the comparing with ages old models, the disingenuous "86x" metrics, the whole show becomes cringe worthy.

dimator commented on No I don't want to turn on Windows Backup with One Drive idiallo.com/byte-size/say... · Posted by u/firefoxd

dimator · 2 months ago

Out of the loop, why not?

dimator commented on Is pawn promotion to rook or bishop something that is seen in play? (2012) boardgames.stackexchange.... · Posted by u/susam

dimator · 3 months ago

It's super exciting when it does happen, just from the rarity aspect. Here's one: https://youtu.be/z6jKBaVSOLw

dimator commented on Ladybird passes the Apple 90% threshold on web-platform-tests twitter.com/awesomekling/... · Posted by u/sergiotapia

EgregiousCube · 3 months ago

What does that say?

dimator · 3 months ago

It says that there's funding, which goes much further than hobbyists could.

dimator commented on Thoughts on Mechanical Keyboards and the ZSA Moonlander masteringemacs.org/articl... · Posted by u/TheFreim

dotancohen · 3 months ago

All I want is a quality split mechanical keyboard with Function keys. I use an IDE all day, I don't want to pull quadruple buckies every time I debug.

The Matias Ergo Pro is almost perfect, but I had two of them and they both failed within one year. I had one of each switch type (low force and regular) - both were missing some button presses and repeating other button presses.

dimator · 3 months ago

Not sure if it's been mentioned, but keychron make split keyboards:

https://www.keychron.com/collections/split-keyboards

I'm not sure if they're in stock, but it's a lovely keyboard with dead simple programmability.

u/dimator

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