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Comment · 1 day ago
the impression i get is that people don’t per se assert that exploitable bugs exist in Lean, but that the volume of (code) proofs published represent a new magnitude of challenge to the integrity of Lean.

the obverse would be to assert that Lean (or any other theorem prover) is infallible under all circumstances, present and future - an even weightier claim in my opinion.

Comment · 16 days ago
some of the pain of RAW is mitigated with good workflow. shoot RAW+JPEG and when culling, delete the RAWs you won’t edit. keep RAWs for any outstanding shots. that clears up a large proportion of the issues.

JPEG engines are getting better and more configurable (Fuji recipes, LUTs on Panasonic) which makes this workflow more viable.

what i’d love is a good intermediary archival format that is more space efficient than RAW while keeping more editing latitude than a JPEG. using a dynamic preserving tone curve like Log in 14 bits and compressing it losslessly. although i wonder if that would be much better than compressed DNGs.

Comment · 24 days ago
perhaps my requirements aren’t that complex but i find Affinity mostly a great replacement for InDesign. there are some annoyances and unintuitive limitations but its all workable.
Comment · 25 days ago
Comment · 28 days ago
i personally like affinity better than the FOSS photoshop alternatives, mostly for UX reasons. what i still haven’t found a good replacement for is Lightroom. i use darktable but the way the interface is laid out is antithetical to getting into an efficient flow state. and i say this despite the fact that i consider the output strictly superior to Lightroom (or in fact anything i’ve ever used).
Comment · 29 days ago
the makers of the github CLI ‘gh’ which is github themselves.
Comment · 1 month ago
oh this is amazing. funny that they are self aware enough to talk about reducing context switching
Comment · 1 month ago
nvidia investing in every aspect of the hype cycle is terrifying. as an ai skeptic i almost don’t want the bubble to burst anymore, i don’t know if the economy can recover at all. perhaps a new economic paradigm will emerge, but if so, the transition is going to be rough.
Comment · 1 month ago
exactly. i really feel the bloat of wordpress but it’s so much easier than setting up a CMS infrastructure.
Comment · 1 month ago
solve the land use problem for growing cattle feed if you want it to be maximally ethical.
Comment · 1 month ago
his whole point is that specifically problems that have been held as important by consensus in the field are a finite resource. obvious example being the Clay millennium prize problems. seems like they function to shape the direction of future research into useful directions. which is to say, the process of developing a solution itself generates more useful problems.

of course thrrr are tons of problems once you remove this social consensus based filter. if i’m not mistaken Ramanujan left a book of dozens of unproven theorems, for one quick example. i don’t think that that has opened up dozens of fields of mathematical research.

Comment · 1 month ago
regardless of whether it’s possible, there is enormous value in the community, ecosystem, and learning materials centred around Reaolve as it is right now. the workflow has been refined over years. no one shot slop effort will have that network effect behind it, and if the workflow isn’t a drop-in replacement it’s dead in the water anyway.
Comment · 1 month ago
the browser is definitely becoming more OS-like. that’s the Chromebook bet. but for proper office work you need good file management. if they’re not keen on trusting cloudy solutions by the big corps then FOSS on bare metal is the way to go.
Comment · 1 month ago
i was also extremely confused by this
Comment · 1 month ago
simply put, they aren’t the big bully. they don’t have the worlds strongest army and control of the most important currency to strongarm pretty much anyone who stands in the way.

i agree with your sentiment though.

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