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Goodbye, Rust. I wish you success but I'm back to C++ (sorry, it is a rant) in c/rust@programming.dev
Bars vs Grocery Stores in the United States in c/map_enthusiasts@sopuli.xyz
JINJER - Pisces (Live Session) | Napalm Records in c/metal@lemmy.world
The Planck Cruncher: The universe's fastest password cracker in c/privacy@lemmy.ml
[–] 8 points 2 years ago (1 child)

Not sure if this is what you're referencing, but there's a famous quantum computer researcher named Scott Aaronson who has this at the top of his blog:

If you take nothing else from this blog: quantum computers won't solve hard problems instantly by just trying all solutions in parallel.

His blog is good, talks about a lot of quantum computing stuff at an accessible level

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    What is your Brown M&M? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    Idiomatic awk in c/linux@lemmy.ml
    [–] 8 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Does anyone here actually use awk for more than trivial operations? If I ever have to have to consider writing anything substantial with bash/awk/sed/etc, I just start writing a Python script. No hate to the classic tools, but Python is just really nice.

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    What is your Brown M&M? (lemmy.world)
     

    If you haven't read about it before, the term comes from the band Van Halen, who demanded that there were no brown M&M's backstage. People thought it was just a crazy rock star thing, but David Lee Roth later explained that it had a purpose:

    Van Halen was the first band to take huge productions into tertiary, third-level markets. We’d pull up with nine 18-wheeler trucks, full of gear, where the standard was three trucks, max. And there were many, many technical errors—whether it was the girders couldn’t support the weight, or the flooring would sink in, or the doors weren’t big enough to move the gear through.

    … So just as a little test, in the technical aspect of the rider, it would say, “Article 148: There will be 15 amperage voltage sockets at 20-foot spaces, evenly, providing 19 amperes … ” This kind of thing. And article number 126, in the middle of nowhere, was, “There will be no brown M&M’s in the backstage area, upon pain of forfeiture of the show, with full compensation.”

    So, when I would walk backstage, if I saw a brown M&M in that bowl … well, line-check the entire production. Guaranteed you’re going to arrive at a technical error. They didn’t read the contract. Guaranteed you’d run into a problem. Sometimes it would threaten to just destroy the whole show. Something like, literally, life-threatening.

    My Brown M&M atm is AI-generated comments like this (first comment is referencing something like df = ... that they removed from the code, but left the comment, second comment is super useless):

    # Assuming df is your DataFrame

# Show the plot
plt.show()

    That probably means whoever I got the code from just copy/pasted whatever the LLM spit out, and didn't actually think about the code at all.

    What is a small detail that you pay attention to because it means there's bigger issues to watch out for?

    The US having ambitions to fight China will never stop being hilarious. in c/meanwhileongrad@sh.itjust.works
    [–] [S] 3 points 2 years ago

    Maybe they mean engineers in general? Engineers tend to be over-represented in cults, because "Smart people believe weird things because they are skilled at defending beliefs they arrived at for non-smart reasons."

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    • Finally did it, got my parent on linux. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
    Finally did it, got my parent on linux. in c/linux@lemmy.ml
    *Permanently Deleted* in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    Which scene in a movie/series do you think didn't make any sense to the plot ? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.world
    [–] 11 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    The trilogy would've been much better if either director had done all 3. Either J.J. Abrams with a fun nostalgic return to form, or Rian Johnson with a fresh new take. The whiplash from them fighting with each other over the direction of the plot just ended up being a huge mess. I'm pretty surprised they weren't just told what the plot was going to be, kind of seems like a screwup by whoever handled that.

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