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New comment by ithinkso in "Linux kernel 6.12 has been released"

ithinkso — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 09:06:03 +0000

As the comment above stated - so that the numbers don't grow too large

New comment by ithinkso in "Why does man print "gimme gimme gimme" at 00:30? (2017)"

ithinkso — Fri, 04 Oct 2024 10:12:34 +0000

Our testers (China and India) know that when they see KURWA or DUPA in logs that to send it straight to the polish site, we are considering adding a hook to check for those

New comment by ithinkso in "Is running a more efficient way to travel than walking?"

ithinkso — Tue, 13 Aug 2024 01:25:27 +0000

> i.e. hoofed animals can only walk or sprint

I did horse riding for a bit, that is not true. There is a lot of speed ranges you can choose from

New comment by ithinkso in "Is running a more efficient way to travel than walking?"

ithinkso — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 23:50:29 +0000

I don't doubt the results but I cannot imagine how that can be true, I'm not fit but I've had many 20+hours hikes to the high mountain peaks but if I run to a bus stop when I'm late I'm tired beyond belief and I just cannot maintain running, have to stop

New comment by ithinkso in "Tensors, the geometric tool that solved Einstein's relativity problem"

ithinkso — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 21:49:26 +0000

This is actually a harmful definition, both (1,1) and (0,2) tensors can be written as a matrix but they are very different. It's like calling vector an array but vectors require vector space and arrays are just arrays. It doesn't help that std::vector is very common in CS but 'pushing back' to a mathematical vector just doesn't make any sense

New comment by ithinkso in "A worker from Berkeley's Urban Ore has opened a museum celebrating wingnuts"

ithinkso — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 20:28:06 +0000

Although not exactly what you 're looking for I also have similar itch - youtube channel 'New Mind' have some nice videos in this area, check it out, maybe it will be something you find interesting

New comment by ithinkso in "Git-PR: patch requests over SSH"

ithinkso — Sun, 14 Jul 2024 13:32:27 +0000

Although I do agree with your overall sentiment

> the problem is "just" gaining traction and having a good plan for moderating The Stuff People On Internet Will Upload. See GitTorrent for another (unrelated) example of a good idea that never gained traction.

maybe there is a reason why github gained traction

New comment by ithinkso in "How the continuum hypothesis could have been a fundamental axiom"

ithinkso — Wed, 03 Jul 2024 21:27:45 +0000

I found that the sooner you ditch 'human intuition' in learning maths/physiscs the better you will be at it

New comment by ithinkso in "X debut 40 years ago (1984)"

ithinkso — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 22:43:01 +0000

I'm switching to Wayland on the New Year's Eve of the year of Linux desktop

New comment by ithinkso in "In highly connected networks, there's always a loop"

ithinkso — Sun, 09 Jun 2024 17:18:38 +0000

> Finding a cycle is hard!

I mean, it is easy in the size of the graph, you constructed implicitly an exponentially large graph, I don't think it's in the spirit of GP point where the hamiltonian cycle is exponentially (in the size of the graph) hard to find

New comment by ithinkso in "Mathematicians marvel at 'crazy' cuts through four dimensions"

ithinkso — Thu, 25 Apr 2024 06:48:31 +0000

The most unique thing about 4-dimensional space imho is that some simple manifolds like e.g R4 have uncountably many differential structures possible, in lower dimensions there is only one, in higher - finitelly many.

When push comes to shove I'm not sure we have enough experimental physicists...

New comment by ithinkso in "PaperBack: How to store arbitrary data on A4 sheets of paper (2007)"

ithinkso — Tue, 02 Apr 2024 21:04:37 +0000

> Optical media has a lifespan too. We have paper from hundreds of years ago that is in decent condition.

All the optical media from hundreds of years ago degraded? What a shame

New comment by ithinkso in "Ibis, a federated Wikipedia alternative"

ithinkso — Thu, 14 Mar 2024 09:26:01 +0000

The only thing worse than moderation is the lack of moderation

New comment by ithinkso in "The CAP theorem. The Bad, the Bad, & the Ugly"

ithinkso — Fri, 08 Mar 2024 18:00:41 +0000

Your 'duh's escalated quite quickly, I had a Euclid postulates feelings when reading it - first four are 'duh' and then the fifth one comes swinging.

(by the way I think you have your Newton's law order wrong, that's the second one you're referering to)

New comment by ithinkso in "Learning Theory from First Principles [pdf]"

ithinkso — Sun, 03 Mar 2024 16:19:16 +0000

One just assumes Occam's razor and you're good to go in a vast majority of cases

New comment by ithinkso in "Temperature-sensing stirbar with RFID"

ithinkso — Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:50:13 +0000

> Coffee or tea will taste better to you if you put a lot of work into it.

This is very true but, tangentially, this is the opposite when you make drink/food for others. I found that you get the best effect when you spend a lot of effort to cook and perfect the dish but when asked, you have to pretend you basically winged it and it wasn't a hassle

New comment by ithinkso in "The opposite of a shibboleth is a frisco"

ithinkso — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 13:23:39 +0000

> the same unfunny xkcds over and over to an endlessly delighted audience.

I guess you are just not one of the lucky 10000

https://xkcd.com/1053/

New comment by ithinkso in "Show HN: FreshTube – show latest videos from YouTube channels"

ithinkso — Sat, 30 Dec 2023 14:54:13 +0000

I forgot shorts exist, there are ublock origin filters that work beautifully. I haven't blocked the upcoming ones because there are very rare in my feed and I just unsubscribed from the few notorious offenders

New comment by ithinkso in "Electric Dump Truck Produces More Energy Than It Uses"

ithinkso — Sun, 19 Nov 2023 07:20:39 +0000

> we were not able to find anything larger except the occasional electric train

Not sure what occasional means in this contex, hard to find a train that doesn't use the grid

New comment by ithinkso in "Matplotlib"

ithinkso — Sun, 12 Nov 2023 16:51:33 +0000

Tangential but a thing about defaults - when I was at uni, in a lot of labs we were doing data analysis and plotting in something called Origin. I absolutely loved the defaults there, to this day I can recognize if it was plotted using origin and I had visceral reaction if I'd see something done in Excel. Sane defaults are very important and I'm not sure why they are often afterthoughts