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green_on_black

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About green_on_black

I did some programming. At some point I started getting paid a bunch of money for it. Neon green terminals are the best.

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    Comment #35114549

    Personally, "even if I have something to say, why bother writing? It's the internet, and people will either ignore, lambast, misconstrue, say ackshually, etc." I find it much simpl…

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    Comment #34785818

    minor nitpick, it's not that we don't believe it makes mini black holes, it's that we're fairly extremely sure those black holes wouldn't interact with anything in the minor "time"…

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    Comment #34784038

    Something something dimensional analysis is just a typechecker

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    Comment #34783350

    Okay, and now half the devs simply decide to not deal with the issue of licensing and just business source everything. Congrats, that's definitely the better world to code in, righ…

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    Comment #34783299

    The guy literally went to prison when he didn't have to. Holy shit.

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    Comment #34657203

    It's unfortunate that lower level "math" is so banally taught (i.e. calc and below), at least in the US.

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    Comment #34632446

    https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Eye_movement_desensitization_and...

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    Comment #34590222

    That's fucking hilarious.

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    Comment #34565897

    So, having more conditions is apparently less conditional?

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    Comment #34419124

    Physicists don't fundamentally believe in anything, except perhaps in that everything is merely a possible explanation of our data.

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    Comment #34364684

    Minor nitpick: we typically just need 2 derivatives in the physical world.

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    Comment #34244851

    On the other hand, I do care. Because I just want to have fun.

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    Comment #34203805

    Bypass the limit? No. Partially because you need to propagate that measurement somehow to your brain. But assuming that we have the "pin down perfectly" part (idk how that would ev…

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    Comment #34154650

    "true nature" -- I'd say that this idea of a "true" nature (even existing) is quite arrogant.

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    Comment #34154603

    Holy shit. T I L.

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    Comment #34033108

    I agree with everything except the first sentence. Similar to a meeting, where time used meets time alloted, complexity meets complexity allowed. https://www.stilldrinking.org/prog…

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    Comment #33871196

    Feel free to express your thoughts. But I browse for content. And if AI has better content than you, then I prefer AI. Note that if we're talking about triangulating human sentimen…

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    Comment #33829746

    As an (ex-)physicist who did minor QC research, I'm very annoyed at the sensationalism. I do typically enjoy Quanta, their sensationalism is usually less severe, and the intuition …

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    Comment #33632842

    Stable Diffusion hentai plots.

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    Comment #33603421

    Here we see the ruling class unleashing their serfs against the bourgeoisie, a tale as old as tales.

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    Comment #33525909

    I think (low confidence) this is due to basic chem being not-composable. And of course, possibly dangerous in a hard to detect way.

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    Comment #33491464

    Wow, I like green-on-black so much that I config my terminal and username for it haha. Great post!

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    Comment #33464739

    Twitter would have to pay me something like 3 times more than Stripe for me to consider it, if I were back in the market and had those two.

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    Comment #33444561

    tl;dr: Using C/C++ and being human => memory safety problems.