Skip Navigation

InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)J

jasory

@ jasory @programming.dev

Posts
1
Comments
76
Joined
2 yr. ago

  • How exactly does one get better at programming?

    Jump

  • Time and space complexity can become very prevalent, you can quite literally see it from the runtimes. Unlike OOP, which in many cases (Java excluded), you can get away without ever writing it.

  • What are you working on?

    Jump

  • Pivoting away from number theory and trying to learn molecular dynamics. I still have a large number theory research library that I can work on, but now I need to find a research topic in MD.

  • Ubuntu 25.10's Move To Rust Coreutils Is Causing Major Breakage For Some Executables - Phoronix

    Jump

  • Sure, but is there an actual reason to be switching?

    Uutils doesn't seem to be an evolution of coreutils, but a functional clone. What advantage do we get with that?

    Note: I have pull requests against uutils so I'm by no means anti-Rust or against the project. But I personally would not replace coreutils with it.

  • The Finnish Marticulation Examination to move away from Linux-based exam enviroment due to perceived threat of dwindling support on student devices

    Jump

  • Why at the same time? Can't it be done over a week?

  • A Lot Of Rust Code Lining Up For The Linux 6.18 Kernel

    Jump

  • Or maybe the resignation was a wake-up call that resulted in systemic changes.

    I have no idea what the actual case is, but there are often multiple possible causes.

  • If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action?

    Jump

  • The thing about all these conspiracy theories about false flag killings, is why would you choose such an incredibly risky way, where the target could just as easily be accidentally killed if you get the windage wrong?

    The reality is that is vastly more likely that they were trying to kill ICE employees, but since they were blindly firing at a van, they only hit detainees.

  • If you are in the US, and a karen threatens to call ICE on you, what's the best course of action?

    Jump

  • Or get shot to death, when an anti-ICE activist fires on your transport.

  • Microsoft blocks Israel’s use of its technology in mass surveillance of Palestinians

    Jump

  • Israel was going for a death toll, they said it explicitly themselves.

    AI "errors" had nothing to do with the outcome in Gaza. The IDF would have used another sloppier metric for targeting, they flat out don't care as long as they still get money and US troops defending them.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

    Jump

  • Physics modeling is arguably the most important task of computers. That was the original impetus for building them; artillery calculations in WW2.

    All engineering modeling uses physics modeling, almost always linear algebra (which involves large summations). Nuclear medicine—physics, weather forecasting—physics, molecular dynamics and computational chemistry—physics.

    Physics modeling is the backbone of modern technology, it's why so much research has been done on doing it efficiently and accurately.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

    Jump

  • Their articles aren't that deep and they mostly focus on similar topics.

    I think it's perfectly possible for someone to have a backlog of work/experience that they are just now writing about.

    If it were AI spam, I would expect many disparate topics at a depth slightly more than a typical blog post but clearly not expert. The user page shows the latter, but not the former.

    However, the Rubik's cube article does seem abnormal. The phrasing and superficiality makes it seem computer-generated, a real Rubik's afficionado would have spent some time on how they cube.

    Of course I say this as someone much more into mathematics than "normal" software engineering. So maybe their writing on those topics is abnormal.

  • Big Decimals: Stop Using Floats or Cents for Money

    Jump

  • You can use Kahan summation to mitigate floating point errors. A mere 100 thousand floating point operations is a non-issue.

    As a heads up computational physics and mathematics tackle problems trillions of times larger than any financial computation, that's were tons of algorithms have been developed to handle floating point errors. Infact essentially any large scale computation specifically accounts for it.

  • The FBI couldn't get my husband to decrypt his Tor nodes, so they told a judge he used his GRAPHICS DRIVER to access the "dark web" and jailed him PRE TRIAL for 3 years.

    Jump

  • You really think people who reject science are gonna save you from fascism?

    Jump

  • Voter turnout was at a record high in 2020, because the Covid-19 pandemic and BLM protests, made the then administration unpopular. It was a relative anomaly, and the next presidential race would have had lower turnout regardless of the candidate.

    Prior to 2024, Harris had always presented herself as more left than Biden, she only claimed to tow the line in 2024 due to how unpopular she was in the 2020 DNC primary.

  • Ignoring lemmyhate, are programmers really using AI to be more efficient?

    Jump

  • I'm not a software dev but rather a mathematical researcher. I see zero use for myself or designing any advanced or critical systems. LLM coding is like relying on stack overflow, if you want to solve a novel or sophisticated problem relying on them is the wrong approach.

  • A theory I have

    Jump

  • The commenter more or less admitted that they have no way of knowing that the algorithm is actually correct.

    In your first analogy it would be like if text predictors pulled words from a thesaurus instead of a list of common words.

  • GTK ported to Android — here we gooooo!

    Jump

  • The mersenneforums have users solve an obscure (to a non-mathematician) but relatively simple number theory problem.

  • Deleted

    Permanently Deleted

    Jump

  • I struggle to find something more obnoxious than incorrectly employed formal logic.

    There is no contradiction. The intersection of "native-sounding English" and "(English with) no grammatical errors" is not empty. So it's actually perfectly possible to meet both criteria.

    It also wouldn't be a logical contradiction even if it wasn't possible, since contradictions are conflicts of arguments that rely on different propositions being true, not the valuation of the actual propositions.

  • Reddit users in the UK must now upload selfies to access NSFW subreddits

    Jump

  • Your solution is worse.

    As is, it is the responsibility of the content provider to make sure that they are distributing only to people who are legally allowed to have it.

    With age-verification the user has to prove that they are allowed to access the content, then the site can distribute it to them.

    Your approach is to distribute the content by default and only deny it to ChildDevices. In order for this to work at all, you have to mandate that children can only use ChildDevices. This is soooo much worse than simply requiring that adults who want to see certain content have to prove that they can legally access it. If adults have reservations about providing ID for pornography, the loss of such content seems to be much less than denying children Internet access. (Although, I'm sure that Lemmings would disagree for obvious reasons).

  • I wish there was a right click install button for deb files

    Jump

  • If you have Nautilus as the filemanager, you can write a Nautilus script that does this for you, you just then have to right click and select the script. You can run essentially any script this way, I use it for some preset file conversions.