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ranzispa

@ ranzispa @mander.xyz

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  • Please let me squash a merge commit

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  • I like squash merge on small changes, but when larger code changes are there it becomes a huge commit which is difficult to review if you ever have to go back.

  • Please let me squash a merge commit

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  • When I do that I always have a Dev branch that I use as the production branch to run the actual calculations.

    When I get something working I merge it off, clean up the history a little bit, rebase main onto it and then rebase de onto main.

  • Please let me squash a merge commit

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  • Sometimes you really don't want to look over the commit history of your colleagues. As long as it's a small feature, a single commit is a pretty good option.

    Rather than:

    • implemented X
    • forgot this
    • oh, this was not needed
    • now tests actually pass
    • oops
    • fixed this
    • should be ready
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  • Fucking mint, never get rid of it.

    However, thinking about blackberries, the only solution is fire.

    I don't know which one wins, as long as they win far away from me...

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  • Indeed, but it is a fair question to ask: what is the actual concentration in the ocean? I did not read the study, possibly they used a concentration similar to the one encountered in oceans.

  • Magic: The Gathering Arena Team Unionizes At Wizards of the Coast

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  • I don't really see the point to be fair. It's unlikely a union will force workers of a factory to modify the contractual situation if they're happy. However workers who are being well treated can push for better conditions for people working in other companies.

    There should could be a subscription payment, where I'm form it is something quite negligible to the salary of one worker. If it is well administered, that money can be used to pay workers if they ever decide to go on strike.

    When the company starts screwing workers, it is already quite late to be in a union, at that point you don't have a support net which has already been prepared. In general it's better to be in a union before you need it than to scramble for one.

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  • Grant proposal:

    • salaries: 100k
    • fish tank and equipment: 20k
    • chemical supplies: 500k
    • animal acquisition and maintenance: 50k

    We justify the expenditure in this study with the need to repeat the experiment up to 500 times to reach statistical significance. The ethics committee approved the project after testing the sample of preliminary evidence we provided them with.

  • Magic: The Gathering Arena Team Unionizes At Wizards of the Coast

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  • Why not unionize anyway? Are unions on a factory level over there?

  • When you love systemd so much every aspect of your life has a unit file

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  • systemctl start heating

    Now that I think about it, I'm sure there is someone somewhere who has this setup.

  • load bearing worm

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  • Regarding the effect of worm drawings on the lifespan on microorganisms: a systematic analysis.

  • Quantum Computers Are Not A Threat To 128-bit Symmetric Keys

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  • It's most likely not the same people, as AI destroyed quantum computing. A person strongly invested into quantum computing would be crazy to push for AI.

  • Quantum Computers Are Not A Threat To 128-bit Symmetric Keys

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  • Quantum computing has already been destroyed by AlphaFold.

    I work in the computational chemistry field and I'd really love a working quantum computing solution to that kind of problems, but since the ML solutions came up most research in that direction stopped and it does not seem like there is any nearing solution in the world of quantum computing.

    I'm not talking about qubits numbers or amount of errors themselves in the system but about the complete lack of algorithms that can handle the problem. Most of what I've seen is handling childlike problems that a single core CPU will do better and quicker anyway. It really does not feel like all the promises that have been done are anywhere near to coming true.

    When I speak with people working in the field they're like: sure in a few years if we can get better computers we'll be able to handle a few hundred atoms at a time (all without any actual working methodology and assuming that will be developed), however we are more commonly talking about hundreds of thousands of atoms... There's little hope on my part that anything useful will come out of there soon. However, I do really hope it does: quantum computing would be a huge revolution for chemistry if it works as advertised.

  • Look at the way he writes for loops too smh

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  • Clearly Kendrick Lamar started programming in the 70s in Fortran, had a small flirt with MATLAB and ended up using Julia in the end.

    I didn't know he was so strong in scientific computing.

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  • I'm a chemist, I just gave a class to students today. The main topic of the whole lesson was this: we have all these theories and methodologies, we are not going to study how they work and how to use them, let's discuss now all the limitations they have and when they do not work.

  • Microsoft reveals major price increase for all Surface PCs as RAM crisis continues

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  • I had this impression as well, until I had to troubleshoot some problems I was having with the screen. Did not give it root access, but it run a bunch of analysis on the system and within a few minutes it was spitting out configuration files that I just had to copy in the correct directories.

    Doing the same myself would have taken me a day on the arch wiki. I've been using Linux for years, when I was on X I was editing the Xorg.conf without looking up the documentation. If you know exactly what the problem is, you'll fix it faster that way. However, if you don't troubleshoot many systems often it is unlikely that you have a structured approach to identifying the problem. LLMs can be quite organised in doing that.

  • Shell Tricks That Actually Make Life Easier (And Save Your Sanity)

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  • Never seen small spherical walnuts.

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  • Scientific calculations - and other approaches as well - put out garbage all the time, that is the main point of what I said above.

    Some limitations are known, just like it is known that LLMs have the limitation of hallucinating.

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  • Calculations will happily tell you that an acutely toxic drug is the best way to cure cancer.

    The reason why that does not lead to catastrophe is that there are many checks and safety nets in place in order not to blindly trust any result.

    The exact same approach can be applied to an LLM.

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  • I can tell a piece of software to do the maths for ms. Sometimes the results appear to work with reality.

    People complain about LLMs hallucinating, but they have no idea of how many assumptions and just plain "everybody does it this way, I guess it works" are there in scientific research.