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kingaillas commented on Setting Up a Cluster of Tiny PCs for Parallel Computing   kenkoonwong.com/blog/para... · Posted by u/speckx
kingaillas · 2 months ago
If the author had googled better they might have discovered https://www.learnpdc.org/
kingaillas commented on Lisp from Nothing, Second Edition   t3x.org/lfn/index.html... · Posted by u/nils-m-holm
Y_Y · 6 months ago
But of course you must close the loop by representing Maxwell's equations electromagnetically.

I know this is a classic analogy, but now you've got me wondering, originally Maxwell wrote a messy pile of equations of scalrs, later someone (Gibbs?) gave them the familiar vector calculus form. Nowadays we have marvellously general and terse form, like (using the differential of the Hodge dual in naturalised units),

  d star(F) = J
My question is, when are we going to get some super-compact unified representation of `eval`?

kingaillas · 6 months ago
>later someone (Gibbs?) gave them the familiar vector calculus form.

It was Oliver Heaviside (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Heaviside) that rewrote Maxwell's original equations (20 of them in differential form) into the notation used today (4 of them in vector calculus form).

Here's a nice comparison: https://ddcolrs.wordpress.com/2018/01/17/maxwells-equations-...

kingaillas commented on U.S. Government Disclosed 39 Zero-Day Vulnerabilities in 2023, First-Ever Report   zetter-zeroday.com/u-s-go... · Posted by u/jc_811
timewizard · a year ago
> It's a really hard problem.

Classify them as weapons of mass destruction. That's what they are. That's how they should be managed in a legal framework and how you completely remove any incentives around their sale and use.

kingaillas · a year ago
How about some penalties for their creation? If NSA is discovering or buying, someone else is creating them (even if unintentionally).

Otherwise corporations will be incentivized (even more than they are now) to pay minimal lip service to security - why bother investing beyond a token amount, enough to make PR claims when security inevitably fails - if there is effectively no penalty and secure programming eats into profits? Just shove all risk onto the legal system and government for investigation and clean up.

kingaillas commented on NSF starts vetting all grants to comply with executive orders   science.org/content/artic... · Posted by u/rbanffy
Dalewyn · a year ago
>For example, they've allowed discrimination based on race in government hiring ... Read through project 2025

I advise you read through the actual Executive Orders than some false propaganda material of at best questionable value.

What Trump is mandating with his EOs are a move back to judging people strictly by their merit, by their character. We are once again on the path to making Martin Luther King's dream a reality.

Here are the EOs with regards to the subject matter at hand:

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/endi...

https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/refo...

>Americans deserve a government committed to serving every person with equal dignity and respect, and to expending precious taxpayer resources only on making America great.

>Federal employment practices, including Federal employee performance reviews, shall reward individual initiative, skills, performance, and hard work and shall not under any circumstances consider DEI or DEIA factors, goals, policies, mandates, or requirements.

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>This Federal Hiring Plan shall: ... prevent the hiring of individuals based on their race, sex, or religion, and prevent the hiring of individuals who are unwilling to defend the Constitution or to faithfully serve the Executive Branch;

kingaillas · a year ago
>What Trump is mandating with his EOs are a move back to judging people strictly by their merit, by their character.

Conservatives are OK with rolling everything back and hiding behind words, since right now, most people at the highest levels of power - that do the judging - are white men.

How else do you explain such "merit" based nominations like Hegseth for SecDef, Gaetz for Attorney General, etc. (Gaetz withdrew but getting nominated at all was ridiculous). And if Hegseth is qualified to lead the DoD, then so is anybody who ever served in the military at the rank of Major or higher.

kingaillas commented on Microsoft should be terrified of SteamOS   pcworld.com/article/25715... · Posted by u/dingi
pjc50 · a year ago
Maybe, but we're not quite there yet - Valve still restricting the OS to their hardware. Come back when people who build their own gamer PCs start choosing SteamOS en masse. That's then the start point of a movement away from Windows.

I agree that the 10/11 migration has been an infuriating experience for a lot of users. A Microsoft unforced error, seemingly in the name of insisting on forcing TPM on people.

kingaillas · a year ago
>Valve still restricting the OS to their hardware.

This is changing very soon - Lenovo announced the Legion Go S at CES 2025, and it will ship with SteamOS.

https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/593110/view/52983491...

kingaillas commented on Trump wins presidency for second time   thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
cbeach · a year ago
Firstly, Roe vs Wade was overturned in 2022 during the BIDEN term.

Secondly, Trump has never called for a federal abortion ban, nor, in fact, a state abortion ban.

Thirdly, there are currently exemptions in ALL states that protect abortion if it is a life-saving necessity for the mother. Trump has never proposed removing these exemptions.

kingaillas · a year ago
>Firstly, Roe vs Wade was overturned in 2022 during the BIDEN term.

That timing is all about how long it takes a lawsuit to work through the system to reach a stacked court.... not so much who was President when it finally was resolved.

kingaillas commented on Trump wins presidency for second time   thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
casenmgreen · a year ago
Do we have any sense of to what extent Russian interference played a part in the outcome?
kingaillas · a year ago
The sad truth is even if XYZ country "interfered" with a misinformation campaign... they didn't actually manipulate the votes. Enough US citizens voted for Trump.
kingaillas commented on Trump wins presidency for second time   thehill.com/homenews/camp... · Posted by u/koolba
carom · a year ago
Calling republicans far right is the exact rhetoric that alienates and divides people. Take the next four years to try to find some common ground with the right.
kingaillas · a year ago
Common ground?

They don't believe in climate change, want zero controls on guns, are generally anti-immigrant - even the legal immigrants are lied about e.g. Haitians in Springfield, don't believe women should have certain rights concerning their own healthcare, want to keep cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations, etc.

They are impenetrable. Yes they'd claim I'm unwilling to compromise but we're talking about different starting points - I have to get them to accept certain actual real-world events and facts as true before starting a meaningful conversation.

kingaillas commented on American WWII bomb explodes at Japanese airport, causing large crater in taxiway   cnn.com/2024/10/02/travel... · Posted by u/impish9208
ImJamal · a year ago
I'm not doing anything of the sort. I know bombs are still there from WW2. Just because there are still bombs from WW2 does not mean that every bomb that goes off is from WW2. While it is likely that the bomb is from the war, I haven't seen what evidence they have confirming that. That is all I am asking for.
kingaillas · a year ago
The evidence is likely simple deduction, as in asking "when was the last time this area was bombed" combined with the history of the airport (built for the military in 1943, later converted to civilian use) and also noting other unexploded bombs have been unearthed in the area.

For it NOT to be a WW2 bomb would mean somebody sneaking in another bomb and paving it under the runway without being noticed.

kingaillas commented on Doing laundry on campus without a phone   naveenarun.wordpress.com/... · Posted by u/barbarr
volent · 3 years ago
I don't understand, what's the point of having a dedicated mobile device to access banking services at home?

Why not a computer?

kingaillas · 3 years ago
Some banking feature are only accessible via mobile phone - e.g. check deposit.

u/kingaillas

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