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by AlanSE 3y ago
I strongly agree with almost everything I've read here, but I agree less-so that screen size doesn't matter. We don't build computers to be used socially. I've seen... demos? Someone makes a table with touch input recogn
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by AlanSE 3y ago
Or any philosophy, for that matter. I have been reading up on this subject, "What We Owe The Future" book lately. As I soak up more of the arguments, I see a lot of spilled ink, highly debatable key takeaways, and no practical rec
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by AlanSE 3y ago
Funny enough, in 2023, the option most likely to be viable for the impossible task of categorizing the training set would be to use a LLM. While I don't "trust" these AIs to give accurate information, it's probably withi
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by AlanSE 3y ago
Perhaps non-human entities will lament that. Or perhaps humans who are leveraging more advanced search/discovery tools to look for specific things. Otherwise, there is too much content for anyone to view.
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by AlanSE 3y ago
The problem with asteroids is the population dynamics and time required with these heliocentric orbits. Yes, there are asteroids at a lower Delta-V than the surface of the moon. There might be only a handful that are even worth capturing an
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by AlanSE 4y ago
From 2005 until now, rates of peanut allergies have increased 2-fold or more in the US. Similar for tree nuts. Anecdotally, it feels like more. There's a huge generational shift even among recent parents, where it feels like a problem
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by AlanSE 4y ago
I'm in the same boat, and it's true, even doctors don't get it. Gone through several pediatricians and got a blank stare back, mouth-agape. Children are getting older, and thankfully, are no afflicted with the same allergy as
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by AlanSE 4y ago
Some form of this thought is irresistible, but we shouldn't hesitate to point out the obvious flaws. You load up your car with more people and more stuff when you go on a trip, and more batteries would add MORE load on the frame. This
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by AlanSE 4y ago
If you take the climate science seriously, then you really must accept net-zero by 2050. After that, maybe net-negative. Assuming you're an educated person, the question we must ask is if natural gas is viable to fill in the gaps from
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by AlanSE 4y ago
I don't know if I agree with the "organized civilian protestation" entirely. While NIMBY did play a role historically, this seems out-of-touch when I consider the mothballed & troubled builds which are currently in South
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by AlanSE 4y ago
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing. I had a go at all the contenders a while ago when Google Photos changed their storage policy and did not see that one. I see a sharing menu in one of their screenshots. Considering that it's sel
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by AlanSE 4y ago
The fridge isn't the biggest energy hog in the house, but I'm very sympathetic to the absurdity of heat levels in a house. I often see my HVAC cooling when the set-point temperature is actually _higher_ than the outside temperatur
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by AlanSE 4y ago
Inflation is always permanent.
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by AlanSE 4y ago
The corrected numbers still look like the 3%-5% range, which is still probably enough of a reason to switch stove types... if all the other reasons weren't enough already.
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by AlanSE 4y ago
I'm picking up a theme about the US health care system - that doctors respond to conditions caused by environment with a drug. Our lifestyle (activity) is unhealthy, our food is unhealthy, our houses are nice but we don't get out
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by AlanSE 4y ago
This reminds me (from a long time ago) of seeing IT department stick names of jungle animals on computers so they can be recognized on the network. These days, there are many cases where _instances_ of something are given random "cute&
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by AlanSE 4y ago
Yes, this is true but only from the reference frame of the cosmic background radiation. It is still possible that you can get O(n^3) from the reference frame of the aliens themselves, because time dilation makes travel fairly fast. You get
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by AlanSE 4y ago
Those dates will be just in time for people to read the earliest wave cli-fi books as they're living through it!
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by AlanSE 4y ago
That argument seems to violate the basic rules of exponentials. If an advanced species did settle on an stasis, then that will only last until some subset of the population decides to go beyond the stasis. Particularly for a space-faring ci
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by AlanSE 4y ago
Pacer took thinking about nuclear fuels in a lot of new and interesting directions. For the use case of interest, they really wanted to maximize the fusion yield fraction, minimize the radioactive products, and minimize the total yield. Had
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by AlanSE 4y ago
This seems to say to me that D-T reactions produce neutrons, and that the kinetic energy of the neutrons is smaller than what you get by hitting U with that neutron. You already have the energy from the neutron (which will land somewhere in
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by AlanSE 4y ago
Huh, ok. After some quick Googling, Wikipedia paints JET has having tried, and failed, to reach Q=1, only getting 0.67, which was way back in 1997. It's very strange to read that we get Q=0.67 in 1997 in a tokomak, and then Q=1.5 in 20
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by AlanSE 4y ago
My thoughts as well, this is their business advantage to lose. > NACS is the most common charging standard in North America: NACS vehicles outnumber CCS two-to-one, and Tesla's Supercharging network has 60% more NACS posts than all
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by AlanSE 4y ago
I think the idea is that we would keep them in a lab and feed them whatever works.
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by AlanSE 4y ago
> If I get sent any messages like those examples on the left it actually upsets me. I spend lots of time responding to issues and informal messages like that. Processing vague reports like this is nearly a daily task for me. The examples
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by AlanSE 4y ago
> suboptimal but creative solution I saw recently was neighbors working together to remove their backyard fences to create a large and safe play area for children in the suburbs. This is something I would love to do, but still feels so
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by AlanSE 4y ago
Small reactors are not expected to be any cheaper than traditional reactors. They are a better bet right now because the traditional reactors keep getting mothballed in developed nations, and they have some clever technical innovations, but
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by AlanSE 4y ago
https://thehill.com/policy/equilibrium-sustainability/350461... An interesting quote which echos what you're saying here: > That means that table corn, carrots, cabbage, apples and broccoli are all example
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by AlanSE 5y ago
As a young adult during the Bush years, I felt strongly that we needed to take aggressive action to replace foreign oil dependence with new energy sources (renewables, nuclear, whatever, sign me up). Politically, I saw both a nationalistic
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by AlanSE 5y ago
> Forests only sequester carbon as they grow. After that they are carbon neutral. You end up with land that cannot be used for any economic purpose. (The creatures and plants that live in it have a value too, but that is not part of this

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