jordigh

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Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso. Octave core dev, Mercurial enthusiast, annoying free software zealot who really just wants us all to get along.

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Comment · 1 day ago
God, I can't even with the two-eyed cacodemons, what sort of abomination is this.
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Comment · 1 month ago
I never could get the DVD player exploit to work, so I ended up buying a memory card with with FreeMCBoot.

I get the feeling that the DVD exploit is fiddly and requires adjustments for each iteration of the possible PS2 hardware configurations.

Comment · 2 months ago
Calderón did exactly that. Fought an all-out war with the cartels. 60,000 people dead and nothing changed.
Comment · 3 months ago
Erm, I'm not sure you clarified anything other than removing one pair of spurious round brackets that who knows why they're there in the source material.

There are other weird formatting things in this article, which I blame on AI. I don't think the whole article was written by AI, but the copy-editing and formatting looks like an AI messed up things, such as those pointless round brackets or the inconsistency of multiplication (sometimes there is a × sign, sometimes there isn't), or this:

> have suspected that O(n²) was an inherent speed limit for multiplication. The celebrated Soviet math professor Andrey Kolmogorov posed the O(n^2)

The AI can't decide on notation.

Comment · 4 months ago
> That part is fine. But why, then, does multiplying zzˉ give a “magnitude” that works in a reasonable way?

Because the product of all Galois conjugates is a norm and the determinant of the linear operator defined by general field multiplication of a primitive element when viewing the field extension as a vector space of the extension field over the base field.

Although the geometric interpretation of norms in Galois theory really only works for the complex numbers because only the complex numbers are a field. Quaternions are not a field.

Comment · 4 months ago
Wow, so you used the earliest public versions. Ever written a retrospective of what 40 years of Emacs has been like?
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Comment · 4 months ago
Yes, I'm ignorant, because Heidegger isn't saying anything. He didn't teach me anything. Thus I remain ignorant, unknowing.

You can't even explain what he said, you just said, "go learn his words". That's not knowledge, that's not insight. That's just "the wordplay is great". But it's not content. It's merely form, it's sophistry, it's useless and meaningless.

I asked a very specific question originally. What does "time is the ripening of temporality" mean? That's one way to translate one of the things he says, using different words for time and ripening in German. He's playing word games because those words sound similar in German and people like you confuse it for profundity.

Comment · 4 months ago
I keep hearing "it's better in German" which really reinforces my point that he's just playing word games with etymologies without saying anything.
Comment · 4 months ago
You actually read Being and Time? What the heck do you get out of it? Heidegger just seems to play word games with German words without actually saying anything. "Time is the ripening of temporality." tf do phrases like that mean??

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