This seems like an example of black and white thinking. Did they never drink water? beer? wine? Of course not. A better question - under what circumstances did they prefer beer? wine? cider? water? And later on tea? coffee? Etc?
Readit Newsnritchie commented on The great medieval water myth (2013) leslefts.blogspot.com/201... · Posted by u/apsec112
millibits per second? No actually megabits per second...
This is one of the many things where Go just takes care of automatically. Since Go 1.19, if you import the os package, on startup, the open file soft limit will be raised to the hard limit: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/8427429c592588af8c49522c...
Seems like a good idea but I do wonder what the cost is as the overhead of allocate the extra resource space (whatever it is) would be added to every Go application.
Beyond mundane living expenses, bicycling and brewing supplies.
nritchie commented on Wikipedia's Most Translated Articles sohom.dev/most-translated... · Posted by u/sohom_datta
This begs the question: How many languages can be accessed via AI translators?
nritchie commented on Creating beautiful charts with JRuby and JFreeChart blog.headius.com/2025/04/... · Posted by u/headius
Being able to add an interpreted script engine to a Java application is a super-power for some uses. I embedded a Jython (Python in the JVM) command line into a Java Swing app to provide a level of flexibility that I never could with a GUI. Every time I look at JRuby I wonder if Jython was the right choice. It is too late now but JRuby looks awfully nice.
nritchie commented on Why is AI so popular when nobody wants it? newslttrs.com/why-is-ai-s... · Posted by u/spzb
In articles like this I’m always surprised that author did not take 5 minutes to think that well, maybe I’m living in a bubble and there’s lots of people that are actually excited about AI.
I wonder the complete opposite. On Hacker News, people are excited about AI. Outside this bubble, in the real world, less so.
Here (https://uncertainty.nist.gov/) is another similar Monte Carlo-style calculator designed by the statisticians at NIST. It is intended for propagating uncertainties in measurements and can handle various different assumed input distributions.
As a scientist, I like to believe that my greatest contribution is my fresh ideas. Maybe AI will be able to do this better than I can. If so, I'm not sure that I really want to be a scientist anymore. TBH, I'm in science because I enjoy the process of thinking, coming up with ideas and testing them. Eliminate any part and it just becomes another tedious job.
nritchie commented on DOGE 'Audits': A Mask for Corruption, Not Efficiency medium.com/less-than-a-mi... · Posted by u/rbanffy