As said before, the physics for chemistry is 100 years old (Schrödinger/Dirac), but the N-body Hamiltonian is an exponential beast. Scaling to just 1mg (~10¹⁹ particles) hits the "Exponential Wall."
The app on your Mac today isn't a rewrite of the legendary Mac OS 7.2.1 Graphing Calculator, but an acquired app based on Curvus Pro introduced in OSX Tiger. The first one has a legendary backstory. 2 devs snuck into…
The disagreement in timelines usually comes from differences in the used definition of AGI. Many who predict a 2026–2028 arrival define it as: 'the ability to perform any purely cognitive task a human can do.' If we…
When you explore a problem, use Python and lists/sets/dictionaries/JSON. Wait with types and specific data structures till you have understanding. Speed of development over speed of execution. When you know what and how…
If you can do a successful switch to cloud only Entra (aka. AzureAD) first, you are 90% ready for a migration to Open Source. You need Entra for Licensing anyway. Yes, I'm aware that this is hard. Univention Nubus…
The text was mangeled by some OCR-software. This ad can be found as image on Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_1_Advertisemen...
Yes and no. They all have a very solid industrial base, like 30% to 50% of the economy, with ~50% of workers living abroad (not fully part of the welfare state). Comparatively high R&D. Low taxes. And plain tax evasion…
https://homerdixon.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Environmen...
I made a mistake: Test # A B C Result 1 True True False True 2 False True False False 3 True False False False 4 False True True True
Modified Condition/Decision Coverage It's mandated by DO-178C for the highest-level (Level A) avionics software. Example: if (A && B || C) { ... } else { ... } needs individual tests for A, B, and C. Test #,A,B,A &&…
AlgoDrill is so futuristic, that Gemini 3 included it in the HN front page 10 years from now (#5): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632
I can remember perl vs python flame wars ca. 2002. Also, the early 2010s are not that recent: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Pythonista%2Cp...
The history of the Windows TCP/IP stack went most likely like this: IBM (NetBEUI, no TCP/IP) -> Spider TCP/IP Stack + SysV STREAMS environment -> MS rewrite 1 (early NT, Winsock instead of STREAMS) -> MS rewrite 2 (make…
ZTE is also under scrutiny. The reason it's only Huawei and ZTE is that other Chinese providers are so insignificant that the telecoms will likely be able to replace the infrastructure themselves with spares or…
"Chat Control" is mass surveillance, not targeted Action. Targeted action mayhaps needs some readjustment, but by and large is already easy to obtain for law enforcement. Normalizing mass surveillance would set a…
There is something to the existence of fads and fundamentals. When I started, it was Object-Oriented-Programming (with multiple-inheritance and operator overloading, of course), Round-Trip Engineering (RTE), XML, and…
Silent SMS (Short Message Type 0) have been around since 1996.
twinBASIC tries hard to be a bug compatible successor.
MS Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro (1997) and Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 (USB). You can buy similar today, but nowhere near the pricepoint. Also the out of the box support by Windows has vanished, and therefore the…
A bit of both. Also, the modern Codecs have slightly different tradeoffs (image quality (PSNR, SSIM), computational complexity (CPU vs DSP vs Memory), storage requirements, bit rate) and therefore there isn't one that…
I would claim that: (interactive labs + quizzes) > Learning from books Good online documentation > 5yr old tome on bookshelf chat/search with ai > CTRL+F in a PDF manual
You mean file9 before file10? I have some beef with microsoft, that you can only change this at the Computer level, not per user (see registry key below). Also they call it natural sorting for users, but logical sorting…
I haven't read that. But the search for immortality is ancient. It's in the Gilgamesh epic; Emperor Qin Shi Huang searched for it, as did many others looking for the Philosopher's Stone. Of the current wealthy…
I would like to know what dystopian books you have read. I think about 50 years ago there began a slow shift from warnings of overt totalitarianism (1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451) to threats of social…
It's so dead that 79.2% of all websites rely on PHP to some degree. https://kinsta.com/php-market-share/
As said before, the physics for chemistry is 100 years old (Schrödinger/Dirac), but the N-body Hamiltonian is an exponential beast. Scaling to just 1mg (~10¹⁹ particles) hits the "Exponential Wall."
The app on your Mac today isn't a rewrite of the legendary Mac OS 7.2.1 Graphing Calculator, but an acquired app based on Curvus Pro introduced in OSX Tiger. The first one has a legendary backstory. 2 devs snuck into…
The disagreement in timelines usually comes from differences in the used definition of AGI. Many who predict a 2026–2028 arrival define it as: 'the ability to perform any purely cognitive task a human can do.' If we…
When you explore a problem, use Python and lists/sets/dictionaries/JSON. Wait with types and specific data structures till you have understanding. Speed of development over speed of execution. When you know what and how…
If you can do a successful switch to cloud only Entra (aka. AzureAD) first, you are 90% ready for a migration to Open Source. You need Entra for Licensing anyway. Yes, I'm aware that this is hard. Univention Nubus…
The text was mangeled by some OCR-software. This ad can be found as image on Wikimedia: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Apple_1_Advertisemen...
Yes and no. They all have a very solid industrial base, like 30% to 50% of the economy, with ~50% of workers living abroad (not fully part of the welfare state). Comparatively high R&D. Low taxes. And plain tax evasion…
https://homerdixon.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Environmen...
I made a mistake: Test # A B C Result 1 True True False True 2 False True False False 3 True False False False 4 False True True True
Modified Condition/Decision Coverage It's mandated by DO-178C for the highest-level (Level A) avionics software. Example: if (A && B || C) { ... } else { ... } needs individual tests for A, B, and C. Test #,A,B,A &&…
AlgoDrill is so futuristic, that Gemini 3 included it in the HN front page 10 years from now (#5): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46205632
I can remember perl vs python flame wars ca. 2002. Also, the early 2010s are not that recent: https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=Pythonista%2Cp...
The history of the Windows TCP/IP stack went most likely like this: IBM (NetBEUI, no TCP/IP) -> Spider TCP/IP Stack + SysV STREAMS environment -> MS rewrite 1 (early NT, Winsock instead of STREAMS) -> MS rewrite 2 (make…
ZTE is also under scrutiny. The reason it's only Huawei and ZTE is that other Chinese providers are so insignificant that the telecoms will likely be able to replace the infrastructure themselves with spares or…
"Chat Control" is mass surveillance, not targeted Action. Targeted action mayhaps needs some readjustment, but by and large is already easy to obtain for law enforcement. Normalizing mass surveillance would set a…
There is something to the existence of fads and fundamentals. When I started, it was Object-Oriented-Programming (with multiple-inheritance and operator overloading, of course), Round-Trip Engineering (RTE), XML, and…
Silent SMS (Short Message Type 0) have been around since 1996.
twinBASIC tries hard to be a bug compatible successor.
MS Sidewinder Force Feedback Pro (1997) and Sidewinder Force Feedback 2 (USB). You can buy similar today, but nowhere near the pricepoint. Also the out of the box support by Windows has vanished, and therefore the…
A bit of both. Also, the modern Codecs have slightly different tradeoffs (image quality (PSNR, SSIM), computational complexity (CPU vs DSP vs Memory), storage requirements, bit rate) and therefore there isn't one that…
I would claim that: (interactive labs + quizzes) > Learning from books Good online documentation > 5yr old tome on bookshelf chat/search with ai > CTRL+F in a PDF manual
You mean file9 before file10? I have some beef with microsoft, that you can only change this at the Computer level, not per user (see registry key below). Also they call it natural sorting for users, but logical sorting…
I haven't read that. But the search for immortality is ancient. It's in the Gilgamesh epic; Emperor Qin Shi Huang searched for it, as did many others looking for the Philosopher's Stone. Of the current wealthy…
I would like to know what dystopian books you have read. I think about 50 years ago there began a slow shift from warnings of overt totalitarianism (1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 451) to threats of social…
It's so dead that 79.2% of all websites rely on PHP to some degree. https://kinsta.com/php-market-share/