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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Infinite Hotel Paradox⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It has to do with countably infinite sets.

  The analysis on Wikipedia does a better job of explaining the concept: …wikipedia.org/…/Hilbert's_paradox_of_the_Grand_H…

  The whole point is that it’s something we can prove mathematically that is highly unintuitive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Forced to use copilot? Wtf?

  I would quit, immediately.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palmer Luckey says he wants to 'turn warfighters into technomancers' as Anduril takes over production of the US Army's IVAS AR headset from Microsoft⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, senior Haskell developer here and I have had their recruiters hounding me many times, even though I have told them to fuck off again and again.

  I always find it so funny that they chose Haskell. They are desperate to hire, but no one in the Haskell community actually wants to work for them. I’m in a discord server with a bunch of veteran Haskellers and everyone there won’t touch them with a 100ft pole.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can read the full paper yourself here: arxiv.org/pdf/2501.02305.

  I haven’t had time to fully read it yet, but glancing through, it looks pretty legit.

  This is a graduate computer science student working with accomplished CS faculty at Rutgers and Carnegie Mellon, we aren’t talking about some rando making outlandish claims.

  The thing about computer science is that, like math, it isn’t subject to the pitfalls of empirical science. It isn’t dependent on reproduction. The proof is provided in the paper, so either it indeed proves what it claims to, or the proof is erroneous, which can readily be refuted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you read the article? The claim is that they have invented a new kind of hash table that has vastly improved algorithmic complexity compared to standard hash tables.

  I haven’t read the paper yet, but if what the article claims is true, it could be revolutionary in computer science and open up a ton of doors.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do the majority of women still take their partner's last name?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  My wife and I think it is. I took her last name since it meant more to her.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wednesday it is, my dudes.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How is that pronounced? wow-wow-rohn?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jack Black is what happens when the class clown doesn't become depressed and instead becomes even more of a clown⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Robin Williams killed himself due to early onset dementia from brain disease: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robin_Williams#Death.