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Yes but not precisely. There is an uncertainty that is difficult to remove. However, if you combine it with modern image recognition and you know your target it will be probably en…

My impression is that Harvard will be filled with amazing students nonetheless, there are a lot of them. It may miss some of the extraordinary ones, though.

This field is like a minefield for critical thinkers given the sensitivity around the issue and the difficulty in finding rigorous answers. In stuff like that I don't trust the mai…

Some elegant abstractions are created too. JS modules, for example. Or, in another field, the Language Server Protocol. But yes, humans are humans and everything that is "simple" w…

The church defended a scientific assertion based on theology and used their (absolute) political power to curb other worldviews. Even assuming that Galileo could not prove beyond r…

In fact gluons have a QCD charge, they just don't have a QED (electric) charge. That QCD charge is basically one color and one anticolor, minus the trace. So there are 8 different …

In defense of the Remarkable its primary purpose is a very useful use-case. No iPad or Android tablet could get me to ditch paper and notebooks altogether. The Remarkable did it. A…

Their SIMD vectorized instructions are very neat and clean up the horrible mess of x64 ISA (I am not familiar enough with Neon and SVE so I don't know if ARM is a mess too)

I am waiting for "React Native for the Web for Native" as a tool to port React Native for the Web pages to native apps. To be followed by "React Native for the Web for Native for t…

You'd be surprised by how much water has been saved in droughts by encouraging this kind of small scale efforts. E.g. the Cape Town water crisis

They are breaching a walled garden. And they are looking at a system with capabilities unseen before. And Apple has its prestige. I can totally understand the excitement that goes …

That cross-compiling is still so thorny in 2021 is in my opinion a big failure of software engineering. The creator of Zig is maintaining a very accessible and immediate cross comp…

Probably I am lucky but I don't meet a lot of people who use Twitter outside Twitter. I believe that Twitter is not a cultural influencer as much as a product used by people who al…

I wouldn't look at the mouth of a gifted horse. Their closed source binary is not huge. Also I don't worry about updates. Why would I connect my notebook to the Internet anyway? I …

In the rM1 you just write to a framebuffer device in /dev/fb0 to write on the screen. It's so easy you could probably write an application that does that, compile it for ARM, load …

Interesting. As an aside the Remarkable runs Linux too and it's somewhat hackable, but its main application is closed source, as is the drawing of the screen (accomplished with tem…

> Is that really so much to ask?... Yes. You cited requirements that to be satisfied together require a huge effort. You want something that can "just work" and is also cross-platf…

I disagree. Such tooling would probably be annoying for pro users and beginners alike. The reasoning involved is deeper than what an automatic tool can accomplish. It requires know…

The article is from 2012 and today in 2021 Iran still has no nuclear weapons. So it did, after all, slow them down. This tactic has been successful for the Israelis against the Egy…

I don't know why but for a moment I read this comment in horror imagining language developers implementing telemetry in the compilers and tooling themselves, then relying on them t…

Linux as a system is very ill-defined. I'd argue that GNU/Linux by definition contains glibc even if they are not in the same tree and musl based distributions are a variation whic…

HPC courses can be pretty good for that. Stuff like OpenMP is great for doing quick things like a parallel for cycle

Perhaps it's me but I like to be able to edit articles and see discussions, and I haven't figured out how to do that from the mobile version. So I find myself constantly fighting t…

It seems Microsoft and Intel are threatened by the M1 and had to do this hastily. Hence the rush for Windows support in spite of Linux.

Let's be real. There are more physicists than fitting research problems. That's why your average physics PhD graduate is typically employed outside of the field they learned and ea…