scheidegger

scheidegger, 7 months ago to random

I was expecting stupid, and this is worse. It's stupid and anodyne. Fuck this guy.

scheidegger, 8 months ago to random

Small teaser for my talk tomorrow on Quarto and Typst. (This template really was shockingly easy to make, and using it is almost just a matter of installing the template and "format: poster-typst")

scheidegger, 2 months ago to random

You maybe think I'm joking about citing "do not create the torment nexus", but I get like one of these every week, seriously

scheidegger, 10 months ago to random

House just hit 98F. 36 more hours...

scheidegger, 10 months ago to random

Is there a real XML parser in javascript? (ie: not one that spits back a plain javascript object)

scheidegger, 7 months ago to random

Does anyone like the "autoplay random shit that you never asked to" feature in services like YouTube, Spotify, etc, ever? It's completely baffling to me.

scheidegger, 7 months ago to random

let's say you had absolutely zero common sense and a modicum of spare money, and wanted to put together a personal compute farm.

What's the right move? A bunch of ec2 instances? An 8u rack in the garage (or some closet, or a local colo facility like it's 2002)?

Have any of you done something like this? Under what budget?

scheidegger, 8 months ago to random

Jacob Collier, Rick & Morty, Joan Didion, and Infinite Jest are all in this weird category with a gigantic chasm between “I think it’s really good” and “I want to hang out with the prototypical people who agree”

scheidegger, 9 months ago to random

Needing coffee to not be an idiot, the coffee bootstrap problem strikes again, cc @regehr

scheidegger, 9 months ago to random

The amount of crap ware and ads everywhere on a windows 11 install is wild. Time to brush off that rpi and finally get a pi hole going

scheidegger, 8 months ago to random

lfgggg

scheidegger, 5 months ago to random

Metropolis-Hastings is one miraculous algorithm, let me tell you.

scheidegger, 3 months ago to random

@arnicas Did you see this? https://openai.com/research/video-generation-models-as-world-simulators The video interpolation tricks are pretty phenomenal

scheidegger, 11 months ago to random

The amount of people that fundamentally don't understand the reason TypeScript is actually good is astounding. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36637221

A remarkable display of what should be rightly regarded as a pile of disqualifyingly bad takes, starting with the linked article itself.

scheidegger, 8 months ago to random

Daisy does not super enjoy when spouse leaves for the day

scheidegger, 10 months ago to random

• Our house is now officially running a fever
• I can’t tell you if we’re about to test the overflow capabilities of this display, or if we already have

scheidegger, 6 months ago to random

The f16s are buzzing us over here today, wild.

scheidegger, 5 months ago to random

I dare you to read the comments section here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38629355

scheidegger, 5 months ago to random

To the "covid is just the sniffles if you get vaccinated" folks, i love that for you, but man this is hitting me harder than i thought it would, and I got the booster less than 2 months ago!

scheidegger, 3 months ago to random

Is there a podcasting app that is not atrocious? (If you say overcast and are not a software engineer: I’m so sorry we put you through things. If you say overcast and are a software engineer, please never develop user facing software)

scheidegger, 7 months ago to random

4am. Wake up with the dog barking very loud, outside. Not good.

Open backyard door

Is there a fire outside? What is this horrible chemical smell?

Bring the dog in. Do we need to evacuate? It smells like everything is burning. 1/2

scheidegger, 7 months ago to random

Any horror stories from folks who've updated to macOS Sonoma? How bad is it looking out there?

scheidegger, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

There's a pattern that academics engage on all the time which absolutely enrages me.

It involves setting up an asymmetric game, where

person 1 mass-emails persons 2..N who have either of two moves, A or B.

Move A takes some effort ("fill in this survey", or "tell us about your project so we can feature it in our own work")
Move B takes none: "fuck off my TODO list, tyvm".

The problem here is what happens when you analyze this game. (1/n)

scheidegger, 2 months ago to random

I feel this user's frustration in my bones

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254596387?sortBy=best

TIL spotlight searches the web automatically on any string you type. It is, of course, by default enabled.

You know, no one would ever want to use macOS's spotlight to search for a private string, right?

You know, SPOTLIGHT, THE FEATURE ORIGINALLY DESIGNED TO SEARCH YOUR LOCAL HARDDRIVE

scheidegger, 1 month ago to random

This is the main airport of my home town right now :( 100k displaced, water levels expected to take weeks to recede