Posts by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
(DIR) Post #AjM9YtkyKyDW9pwCno by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-06-27T14:57:41.099360Z
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over 34C perceived temperature outside, no wind, no clouds. hell's gates broke loose.
(DIR) Post #AjMbW9s0lht5yriDEu by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-06-27T19:14:56.142824Z
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just walked out a job interview for a superduper well paying job. it took a panel of 3 people approximately 55 minutes to ask me a question i didn't know the answer to, after that they decided that they've had enough. the question was something about lock-free concurrent bipartite buffers that i didn't know off-hand.
(DIR) Post #AjNqdcfjm549o2wrK4 by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-06-27T20:41:20.240514Z
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@susie they didn't even ask me anything about compression because they already knew from the previous guy that it's a dead end. so i have a feeling that they got a bit frustrated and started digging to see if they can get me hung up on something
(DIR) Post #AjUcz5OAACd3hMmuDw by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-07-01T17:04:20.112856Z
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none of the 'software tragedies' like 737max, therac25 or the shuttle are the fault of engineers.case study: the software of therac25 was originally written for therac6 which had hardware interlocks and relied on them extensively for safety. if only uninformed management did not push for keeping the code unchanged and randomly removing the hardware safety features, nothing would have happened. but let's see what wikipedia has to say:> These accidents highlighted the dangers of software control of safety-critical systems, and they have become a standard case study in health informatics, software engineering, and computer ethics. Additionally, the overconfidence of the engineers and lack of proper due diligence to resolve reported software bugs are highlighted as an extreme case where the engineers' overconfidence in their initial work and failure to believe the end users' claims caused drastic repercussions.that's just disgusting. all of these tragic accidents combine a noxious brew of:- wishful cost and schedule "estimates" as a precondition for project approval.- feigning of current technical expertise as a job requirement for management.- hiding of real issues by lower management, for fear of a "shoot the messenger" reaction by upper management.- regulatory capture.- the allure of the "plausible deniability" defense, ever-rising with ascending level of management.the highest levels of management involved are of course boards of directors, and national legislators. and when was the last time any of us heard a "mean culpa" from either of those? i'm so tired of this shit. this kind of chernobyl-like scapegoating is just depressing.
(DIR) Post #AjWuvkl0bMEmKixDI8 by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-07-02T19:34:44.988223Z
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Larry Wall on Lisp:> Lisp has all the visual appeal of oatmeal with fingernail clippings mixed in.
(DIR) Post #AjYUjBFQacmmEgRk9I by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-07-03T12:49:34.659882Z
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I got good with LaTeX!
(DIR) Post #AjYUjE3U9U10wVskS0 by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-07-03T13:38:13.428164Z
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@wolf480pl indeed
(DIR) Post #AjaBzNE0Jk9BCbhyoy by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-07-04T07:48:46.821216Z
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two screenshots that tell a story
(DIR) Post #AjeurFovEjCuUTJoum by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-07-06T16:12:04.218445Z
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good news! huffman coding is now introduced in my book only on page 130 now.
(DIR) Post #AjeywN3k9IZKCrwkFc by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-07-06T16:25:27.414180Z
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these two screenshots come from a single book. 7 pages apart.
(DIR) Post #AjghRtod0D5DusgFnM by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-07-06T19:34:07.754429Z
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@Suiseiseki it is a book that i am working on. and it is not a book on GNU :P
(DIR) Post #Ajgi8JAr6ty8j8IcwC by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-06-28T13:09:14.271378Z
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https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/518757/pdf - interesting paper. it suggests that during periods of great extinction, the ever-increasing intensity of intergalactic radiation exceeds certain limits acceptable to biological life, followed by a significant and ever-increasing deterioration in the conditions of life on earth and, among other things, a significant increase in the occurrence of errors in the DNA code of living beings, resulting in their death. a period of gradual increase in the intensity of intergalactic radiation is followed by a period of peak intensity lasting several million years, and then the intensity of radiation gradually decreases for several million years. For this reason, this factor does not lead to the sudden extermination of life on earth, but only to a very significant degree hinders its existence over a fairly long period (about 10 million years). the direct cause of the fluctuation in the level of intergalactic radiation reaching our planet is the perpendicular motion of the solar system relative to the plane of the milky way and the fall of the milky way to the large cluster of galaxies in the constellation of virgo. the highest level of intergalactic radiation is during the period of maximum tilt of the solar system to the north of the galaxy. surprisingly, the graph of the increase in intergalactic radiation is consistent with the fossil record on earth.
(DIR) Post #Ajgi8LXyHveE5P87FI by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-06-28T13:12:28.307476Z
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bad news: the current position of the solar system is actually headed towards the maximum northern tilt and it is closer to the northern tilt than the southern tilt.
(DIR) Post #AjmUlNyCynzeU9smuG by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-07-10T07:34:28.821602Z
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One thing that I hate about literature markets is that the median customer has the intelligence of a Trump voter.Out of curiosity I checked out the reviews online of the best data compression book available on the market right now (K. Sayood's) - it's about 100€ for a brand new copy at 800 pages. Reviews? Sorry, one star. Too expensive.I could understand if the price tag of 200€ was too expensive. But 100€ for a book this big, really? An A4 page costs ~0.05€ to print; do some math in your head to notice how the author makes 0.07€ per page on this book (and probably even less if you add the publisher tax). Seriously, /that/ is too much? Most people don't understand two things: writing books incurs a non-linear cost. It's actually closer to being quadratic. If n is your amount of pages, it takes O(n^2) time to write, review and edit it all. Second, nobody is actually capable of doing a calculation like this in their head.The only reason why you can buy e.g. JK Rowling's hot air for a few bucks a copy is precisely because publishers did the calculation and figured out that it's going to be economically feasible to batch print it and distribute it. Now take any less popular book where the publisher didn't entirely have such an assumption. Jane Hodge's "Shadow Of A Lady" (in the non-mass-market edition) by my calculations ends up at TWICE the cost per page compared to K. Sayood's book. No reviews about it being bonkers expensive. Go figure.TL;DR: the average person can't divide two numbers in their head & that writing long form books is a stupid idea in this wretched economy.
(DIR) Post #Ak1XH5IO3nPhk7D5gu by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-07-14T11:58:51.019869Z
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we should combine Malbolge, Haskell, CUDA, MIPS assembly, Lean and Verilog to create a new fantastic programming language.
(DIR) Post #AkGFJAvfCai7zRpNMO by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-07-24T16:25:49.534261Z
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My own "tier list" of programming languages, judging by how nice they were to use for tasks I had at hand.S tier: C, Java, APLA tier: Rust, Elixir, TypeScriptB tier: Haskell, JavaScript, PerlC tier: Lua, Python, C++D tier: PHP, Go, Common Lisp
(DIR) Post #AlX3ZB7YPJ2NFw5VoG by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-08-31T16:48:24.783118Z
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hi everyone! looking for laptop reccs.my current laptop has (at this point) a completely broken keyboard and is missing most keycaps. on top of that it has a bunch of difficult to fix problems with broken plastic on the hinges and dents. i posted about it a while ago and today i ordered some replacement parts. but assembling this all together requires more manual skills than i have, so i will send back all the replacement parts and buy a new laptop.any recommendations for something that won't break in a week? i am looking for something with a good keeb, a cpu comparable to r9 3900x and 32G of RAM.
(DIR) Post #AltSc70wu61piic2ds by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-09-11T12:16:33.946844Z
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A brief guide to following accounts on the Fediverse
(DIR) Post #AmBgjxKZgcucCwhnCC by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-09-20T06:48:13.254458Z
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realisation: PP is a computational class (Probabilistic TM, Polytime) so you can have PP-hard problems
(DIR) Post #AnwpJ2tJQ4mesUbMye by kspalaiologos@fedi.absturztau.be
2024-11-11T22:51:45.571527Z
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