BirAdam

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by BirAdam 2y ago
This seems like a well written, balanced, principled, fair news article. Well done Reynolds and Gutiérrez.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I dunno. He seems somewhat consistent. I think people just generally don’t like the things he’s consistent about.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I would be very interested in a broader study of a human population. It is my understanding that sugar alcohols have been popular in Japan far longer than in the USA and EU, and Japan is the longest living population to my knowledge. I do n
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I wouldn’t say “fine”. It would be a year without summer, and the loss of life due to starvation would be rather severe.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I had similar issues with Zen of a few different generations, and with various boards. As a result, I built a new machine around an Intel 12400 as well. I did have to buy a thermaltake socket reinforcement bracket to mitigate the bending is
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Until the later Core 2 Quad CPUs, AMD’s stuff was “technologically” better in the multi core workloads. The problem with that is that multi core workloads were uncommon at the time. This is where the “AMD Fine Wine” meme originated. By the
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by BirAdam 2y ago
But that is due to extreme curvature on account of the body’s mass. I think that John Michell was on the right path to discovering black holes, but the sciences known to him and his time weren’t sufficient for him to complete the thought.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
But you’d trust a megacorporation closely tied to government that has an explicit interest in tracking you, keeping paths for intelligence agencies and law enforcement open, and generally being deceptive? You trust browsers that openly phon
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by BirAdam 2y ago
WebKit is still an open project as is Blink. Why would this be concerning?
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Well, macOS is sort of BSD, but not quite. The kernel isn’t really BSD despite large sections being originally taken from BSD. The XNU kernel isn’t really BSD anymore. Then, the userland (BSD is both kernel and userland developed together)
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by BirAdam 2y ago
So, there’s cost, sure. But from what I understand, ITER was only energy positive when one discounts everything involved in building and running it. That is, the energy positive result was essentially just containment and reaction, and not
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Personally, that lack of space is a thing that bothers me. Screw the plants and animals, we need solar farms, right?
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Governments don’t fight because of religion or culture. They do it over power, resources, and material wealth.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Or it’s always in the future because people are trying to do with an accelerator what normally takes the mass of a star to do. Whether or not it’s even possible is up for debate.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Wild pig indicates formerly domestic pig that has gotten out and gone feral (which happens super quick in pigs) while boar are those swine that have either remained wild or are a generation or two removed from domesticated swine so as to be
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Author here. I don’t use Wikipedia at all. Generally, I read old magazines, books, and occasionally old websites in the Wayback machine when I can’t find other stuff. I then write. I don’t make citations as my work is meant to be neither au
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Class is absolutely part of it in my experience. The difference between Chuck and Charles, between Chad and Chadwick, Bob and Robert, and so on. The old money folks I’ve known were very particular about that sort of thing, while few others
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I would say that TempleOS was complete considering Terry's goals.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Eh, plants too. Many plants react to the environments, recognize kin, seem to communicate with each other, etc People don’t like it, just like many people don’t like animals being aware. I had a fascinating theological discussion with a guy
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Well, I think that depends upon what is being measured. Is this general intelligence, or is this mastery of a single thing?
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Not sure that that’s a great alternative considering how slowly pineapples grow…
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by BirAdam 2y ago
I was thinking more in terms of market share, but you raise an excellent point.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Serious Sam was one of my uncle’s favorite games (along with Duke Nukem 3D). He was a hugely important figure in my life, and playing through his favorites is a good way to keep connected to my memories of him. So, thanks to you and your co
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by BirAdam 2y ago
ARM has had a series of issues, but it has continued to do well despite all of them. The thing is, they’ve been doing well because of license holders. That’s their business. If they keep treating their customers poorly, they will lose. RISC
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Neither. Mathematics is set of logic discovered by humans and then used with numerals, an abstraction invented by humans, to measure things.
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Well, commenters made some decent points, but the real issue is that you need a reason, a seriously good reason, to legitimize the expense involved in building an engine. In the case of The Industrial Revolution, this was pumping water out
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by BirAdam 2y ago
Any time there is power to be had, the worst people are the most incentivized to seize it. It is the nature of power and of humans.
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by BirAdam 2y ago
As humans, we often acknowledge our species’ failings in adhering to rigor and planned systems. Humans typically acknowledge that most lawyers and politicians are corrupt, and we often even admit this is due to various incentives that exist
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Happened at my job yesterday.
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You raise an interesting point about the nature of politics. I’ve been thinking about this a bit, but it seems to me that radical/revolutionary politics are talking about how people want things to be while quotidian political ideas are

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