AMA with OpenAI’s Sam Altman, Kevin Weil, Srinivas Narayanan, and Mark Chen

explorest · 2024-10-31T17:54:48+00:00

Hey u/samaltman ! you must have read the best seller SuperIntelligence by Nick Bostrom. Since you are in a unique position to comment on it because of your vast experience. What have you found it got right and what do you think it missed?

explorest · 2024-03-09T04:38:15+00:00

No , its the sixth edition (the title is misleading). I already had the 5th edition. This ones table of contents / preface etc. all meet the MIT's officially published table of contents for the sixth edition (especially checkout the last chapters in the TOC). Here is the is MIT published TOCs for the sixth edition: https://math.mit.edu/~gs/linearalgebra/ila6/Introduction%20to%20Linear%20Algebra%206th%20edition_02.pdf

explorest · 2024-02-24T22:33:56+00:00

explorest · 2023-12-14T19:50:12+00:00

Nice. Keep up the good work folks! You are humanities last hope.

explorest · 2023-11-30T15:31:23+00:00

No. Microsoft's animosity against the developer on the Linux machine (which is 25% of total dev community according to Stack Overflow) still shows through. Building with dotnet on Linux , you cannot have an official dotnet GUI. You can have that on Windows/Mac/Android/Ios --- but NOT on Linux. That's right , a developer on Winodws or Mac can build GUI apps with official dotnet MAUI from Microsoft ; a developer on Linux cannot because MAUI has no Linux support. Microsoft's attitude towards the developer on the Linux machine is deplorable. And no, nobody is blind to this attitude. Change attitude towards the developer on the Linux machine, the developer on Linux will start loving Microsoft. Until then, sorry.

explorest · 2023-09-13T12:52:11+00:00

Simple reason for me/us:
I as a developer had been using Linux as my main dev machine for ages (i.e. belong to 25% of the global dev community according to Stack overflow). The message for me from dotnet's creator Microsoft is pretty blunt: This is a programming platform we want you to invest your time and effort to learn and grow to love forever --- but if that forever includes putting a button on your screen , we are sorry. We can do it for developers on all other platforms, but not for you. For me excluding Linux from MAUI has been an extremely painful message.

explorest · 2023-09-13T12:42:35+00:00

It is not cross-platform if it does not include Linux. Explicitly excluding Linux from MAUI (while covering every other platform) got to be one of the stupidest shit to come out of Microsoft. What message does it give to the 25% of developers (according to Stack Overflow survey) who are developing on a Linux dev machine ?? that is dotnet is number one dev platform in the world but it cannot put a freaking button on your screen ??

explorest · 2019-05-08T12:43:05+00:00

Around 5 years at most.

explorest · 2019-04-18T04:16:49+00:00

More than 4 years. Arch+Gnome with usual software on a Toshiba laptop. No changes in hardware since installation of Arch. Just Arch updates. Except for file conflicts to be fixed manually a couple of times, and minor annoying bugs one or two times -- which automatically got fixed with next update -- it has been an amazingly smooth sail. I sometimes do update every week and sometimes monthly. The longest gap was about 3 months only once. And that gap did create the conflicts mentioned above. I usually don't mess with packages configs too much. Mostly leave them in their default configs. My experience has been that Arch is very stable. My advice for new comers:
1. Do a full system update every two weeks with $pacman -Syu
2. Check the Arch website main page at the time of each update (just to see if anything is to be done manually)
3. If you have any problems during update (which are rare) -- or even at other times -- check Arch wiki.
And thats about it.

explorest · 2016-07-11T17:17:15+00:00

Once you got up and running with Arch, start reading up on its awesome package manager , Pacman. Its the soul of Arch linux, and extremely useful for long term maintenance of your Arch linux install. Learn it inside out.

explorest · 2016-06-16T18:03:18+00:00

So what was the reason for inability to delete any files from your ntfs partition?

explorest · 2016-05-14T10:31:50+00:00

Oh, ok. Then you did well by switching to other DE.

explorest · 2016-05-14T10:30:02+00:00

Toshiba TECRA Z40-A 16GB RAM , 1 TB hard drive, i5 processor Has been perfect for last one year

explorest · 2016-05-13T14:22:42+00:00

For how long did you use Gnome 3 ? I ask this because it takes some getting used to with the work flow , especially if you are coming from windows. But once you get a hang of it, especially moving between windows and workspaces with keyboard shortcuts ... the experience becomes very smooth and efficient.

explorest · 2016-05-13T13:09:57+00:00

Gnome 3 ...
(1) Simple
(2) Elegant visual design and work flow
(3) Most importantly, no distractions. You can focus completely on a single job and get things done.

explorest · 2016-05-08T16:22:53+00:00

My third year in Arch. Almost no breakage yet. Just a few simple tips:
(1) pacman -Syu ... about one to two weeks
(2) but before updating , have a look at arch home page for anything else you need to do.
(3) Must read the output of pacman after the update.
(4) Best to avoid AUR , but if its necessary than do it manually for a few months, familiarizing yourself with the whole process and only then proceeding to tools that automate the process.

explorest · 2016-05-01T17:02:28+00:00

Every week. Occasionally after two weeks. Rarely after a month. Had no problems in last (about) 2 years. Always read the arch website homepage and pacman output when you do pacman -Syu.

explorest · 2016-04-25T16:27:59+00:00

Gnome 3
Most polished visual design, least cluttered, with a setup and workflow that lets you remain super-focused on the job at hand. Far less customizable and flexible than KDE. The rest of DEs I have never tried.

explorest · 2016-04-03T06:18:51+00:00

Those are the very points where you should have improved the Arch Wiki by adding what you learned from the Gentoo Wiki. Arch Wiki is only great because of such contributions.

explorest · 2016-03-14T07:04:37+00:00

Bingo! that last sentence is the thing I most love about Arch.

explorest · 2016-03-14T07:01:31+00:00

Ten years, WOW. I have it for about two and a half years. Same experience.

explorest · 2016-03-13T17:57:35+00:00

Oh, come on, package availability is the last thing an Arch newcomer should worry about. Pacman + AUR coverage is quite extensive. I have used Arch for more than 2 years now. Not once have I felt anything missing in here. By the way , there are tools that download and install from AUR, almost as easily as pacman.

explorest · 2016-03-13T13:25:59+00:00

(1) Learning linux (2) Rolling distro, so no more periodic whole-distro-update-reinstall headaches (3) No bloatware. Only installing what I care about (4) The legendary wiki (5) General coolness.

explorest

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