Gustephan
@Gustephan@lemmy.world
- Comment on W̶̊ͅe̴͔̕ ̵̬̇à̵͙ř̷̥e̸̛̬ ̵̯̓t̸̛̩h̴̗͑ę̴͌ ̸̭͊s̴̼̆i̸̠͐m̴̩̄ũ̴ͅḻ̵͛ä̴͎́ṱ̶͛í̶̢ö̴͎ň̶̺.̴̗̄ ̷͔͛ 1 week ago:
This is what happens when you use regex to parse [X]HTML
- Comment on Caption this. 1 week ago:
Beware! Refracted sunlight causes the nefarious gay agenda to appear. Always stares directly into the sun when outside to minimize your chances of viewing EVIL GAY REFRACTED SATANLIGHT
- Comment on Every year, sanctions kill more people than wars 2 weeks ago:
You went further than I did haha. I formed my opinion after reading the title of post and the “Between 2010 and 2021” at the beginning of the preview, then skimmed the article to see if I was off base. I’ve spent enough of my life trying to get/maintain grant funding from fascists to know what it means when the data is that blatantly cherrypicked.
- Comment on Every year, sanctions kill more people than wars 2 weeks ago:
Notice how the study conveniently cuts off right before the meat grinder that is the Russia Ukraine war started. I’d imagine the methodology of the study disproves the conclusion they made if you don’t cherrypick the data. I wonder who would benefit from doing an obviously bunk study to convince people think that sanctions are worse than wars?
- Comment on Nine out of 10 nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland reject pay award 3 weeks ago:
Yeah turns out two years of above inflation pay rises dont make up for 40 or 50 years of wage stagnation. Fucking wankers
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I just block that community. Not like out of malice or anything but it prevents me from commenting on a post without looking at the comm name. I try to make a habit of not spending time in places where I am not welcome
- Comment on bad board games 4 weeks ago:
My first speeding ticket happened during college. I had to take a few weeks driving course, cut luxuries out of my life for a month, and pick up extra shifts at my job for a month to handle it. It was an overall miserable experience.
My next speeding ticket happened while I was an engineer. I literally paid it off on my phone while the officer was doing paperwork on the side of the road AND gave them an extra $100 because I could do that instead of any kind of driving course. I stopped caring about it at all 10 minutes later. It was fucking wild to see “laws are only for the poors” in action like that
- Comment on cookie combs 4 weeks ago:
Does it haunt your dreams the same way it haunts mine?
- Comment on cookie combs 4 weeks ago:
I’ve legit been thinking about this since i posted the comment lol. I think the target area should probably be a minimal regular hexagon, but I honestly dont have the mathematical chops to figure it out myself or to know which would be more interesting.
Intuition tells me to either try to reduce the problem to like convex hull or figure out a reasonable way to generate random packings and just monte carlo it a few million times for a close to optimal solution. A reasonable way to generate random packings feels like it would be way harder to implement than it sounds
- Comment on cookie combs 4 weeks ago:
I wonder what the optimal packing of 17 hexagons looks like
- Comment on Thoughts?? 5 weeks ago:
I used to maintain an excel database along with an ecosystem of internal engineering tools in excel/vba. I worked in a vault, and one day I asked my isso if I could get python on some of the machines in my lab. A full 1.5 years later they got back to me that some security office was finally ready to consider my request and sent me a bunch of paperwork to fill out to justify why I needed python. And separate copies for each individual library I wanted to come with it. Needless to say I went on continuing to maintain my excel database and toolkit
- Comment on Thoughts?? 5 weeks ago:
YouTube. Straight up. When I learned to code my yt search history was a million different versions of “how to <do thing> in python” for months. I also really liked the “Computational methods for physics” textbook (you can find the pdf for free on cambridge website), but that book is written for an audience that knows near graduate math but starts praying if their advisor asks them to write a program
- Comment on Thoughts?? 5 weeks ago:
That might be the stupidest thought terminating cliché ive ever heard. The virtue of the tool absolutely does matter. I’m not out here trying to metaphorically mine iron with a pickaxe when we have metaphorical excavators available, and no amount of expertise will allow somebody to be more efficient with the pickaxe than any random novice with an excavator.
- Comment on Thoughts?? 5 weeks ago:
Old people and technology man. My advisor during my masters was an absolutely brilliant woman; she’s one of the people who has been basically defining the field of data science since the early 90s. The first time I ever published with her, I sent my first draft and her response was “can you convert this to docx? I don’t know how to work with tex.” I still think she’s one of the most brilliant people I’ve ever known but damn did it hurt to work on Microsoft word documents with her
- Comment on It's just loss. 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think this is loss. I’m ready to eat crow if I’m proven wrong, but I think the real joke is the amount of time people will spend staring at this image and trying to figure out how it’s loss
- Comment on Our dancers have infinite curves 1 month ago:
- Comment on [Video] BBC cuts away during pro-Palestine musicians Kneecap. The followup act Bob Vylan invents a new chant on live TV 1 month ago:
Those abs need a marble statue, not a shirt
- Comment on Amazing Grace 1 month ago:
TIL that Dolly Parton entered in and lost a Dolly Parton lookalike contest at some drag bar in LA in 2012
- Comment on I'm down 1 month ago:
This is how you get the thoroughbred of sin riding across the nation
- Comment on And you can thank me for it 2 months ago:
Glad you like it :)
And hey, you never know. You’re a person on the internet I don’t know; I wouldn’t want to look like a fool in front of you and your deer furry lover if that happens to be your situation
- Comment on And you can thank me for it 2 months ago:
- Comment on And you can thank me for it 2 months ago:
With a reflective pool of water on the forest floor. Like the rest of us
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 months ago:
“Everything I don’t like is ai”
Grow up. The imgflip watermark is clearly visible in the meme, and it’s an ancient meme format.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 months ago:
Euclidean geometry enjoyers in shambles
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 months ago:
I guess n would be infinite in the limit I’m looking for. I’m looking at this in like a “musing about theoretical complexity” angle rather than actually needing to use or know how to use pi on modern systems.
For the record, I realize how incredibly pedantic I’m being about the difference between the irrational pi and rational approximations of pi that end up being actually useful. That being said, computational complexity has enough math formalism stink on it that pedantry seems encouraged
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 months ago:
You sound like an involved and caring father. Rock on, dude
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 months ago:
Do said atomic instructions produce pi though, or some functional approximation of pi? I absolutely buy that approximate pi is O(1), but it still seems like a problem involving a true irrational number should be undecidable on any real turing machine
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 months ago:
Is it actually? I’ll admit im pretty rusty on time complexity, but naively I’d think that pi being irrational would technically make even reading or writing it from memory an undecidable problem
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 months ago:
“is not like you do calculations by hand anyway”
… get off my lawn, whippersnapper.
- Comment on Order of magnitude is a hell of a drug 2 months ago:
That’s because your engineering ass needs things to be physical and sane. Physics is a field for the mentally unwell to sink further into insanity while incoherently scribbling greek letters on every available flat surface.
On a more serious note, yeah you absolutely have to be careful about where you apply really ambitious simplifications like that. There are plenty of mathematical regimes where you can use natural units (this is the term to look up if your interest extends further) and simplify your reference frame by a hell of a lot though. Setting the speed of light to 1 is also a hell of a drug, and brother I’ve got an addiction
