Blammar

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by Blammar 4y ago
Yes! For a while, I thought I had lost my mind, my decrepitude had finally arrived, and I was no longer remembering my teenage calculus.
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by Blammar 4y ago
"dx" is a term rigorously defined in infinitesimal calculus (IMO a much easier to understand approach to differentiation.) So, yes, you can multiply by dx (even if x is a more complicated function.) ∂x would have a problematic def
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by Blammar 4y ago
There's no actual storage density information, is there? Nothing in KJ/m^3 units. Ball milling to shove gas into nanoparticles seems counterintuitive, as ball milling is typically used to grind particles smaller. I could imagine i
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by Blammar 4y ago
Agreed. HN for high scores for now I suppose! 347,319 in 0.7 years best I could do in 15 minutes.
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by Blammar 4y ago
Yeah, the neutral party needs to verify both ends of the transaction. Good point about subtle defects. Hmm. That I do not have an answer for, especially if the seller is not aware. Maybe it's just not possible to trust the Ferengixxx h
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by Blammar 4y ago
I always thought Ebay's fundamental design error was that it did not serve as a true escrow agent. Yes, that would have been difficult to scale, but then you'd not need a fraud department at all as both sides would be able to veri
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by Blammar 4y ago
"sending most things to the individual States to decide is the correct default." Problem with that is the deciders in these states don't reflect the population of the state in general. Another problem with that is what if the
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by Blammar 4y ago
Sorry I didn't see this response earlier. Yes, extremism to me does feel orthogonal to political orientation. "Delusional centrist" is closer to what I had in mind. Here's the thing that I think is important: you can&#x2
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by Blammar 4y ago
Well, through time and effort, I've upgraded my clump of cells to a bag of meat and minerals...
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by Blammar 4y ago
I'm wondering if abbott (he's not worth capitalizing) is going to do that by redefining the meaning of rape in Manly Texas...
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by Blammar 4y ago
Why do you buy the argument it's a clump of cells until, say, five weeks? How do you rigorously define the dividing line for you? From my viewpoint, it's a fetus until it can survive outside the womb, which seems to be around 22-2
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by Blammar 4y ago
You can also say that about the extremists in the middle, or anywhere. There should be no doubt as to what is real and what isn't, independent of political ideology.
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by Blammar 4y ago
I had a similar issue. This is my tl;dr understanding now. The thing to realize is that the view from outside shows the object falling in and getting dimmer and dimmer and more and more red shifted. You never actually see the object disappe
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by Blammar 4y ago
Start by seeing if you can make some neutronium in the lab first. When that goes off brighter than a million suns, the problem will dawn on you...
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by Blammar 4y ago
Learn how to invest. Start here, for example: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Getting_started . It's true you'll make far more money starting your own company, if it is successful. Unfortunately, I don't
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by Blammar 4y ago
Something I've always wanted to work on but now that I've grown older after ~47 years of playing computer games I'll need to pass on to the next generation: A Natural User Interface To Games. Right now, there's a transla
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by Blammar 4y ago
Is the reason they have to drill down 20 km to 500C rather than say 7 km to 175C (presumably a far simpler task) is the equilibrium heat flow? That is, the water/steam cycle is extracting heat from the surrounding rock. That can only b
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by Blammar 5y ago
Depends on your definition of "star." You can see the Andromeda galaxy with your naked eye (as well as the galactic center.)
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by Blammar 5y ago
Well, the small parts of reddit (usually associated with games, or books, or SF) where you can ask questions and get direct answers are greatly appreciated by me.
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by Blammar 5y ago
I can suggest a good reason why the Nvidia GPU drivers are opaque binary blobs. Generally speaking, you don't build a multi-billion transistor chip, and manage to ship the A01 spin without doing some magic. The Nvidia GPU i/o inte
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by Blammar 5y ago
I believe Dyson spheres don't rotate, so they just have to be able to handle the stress of the central sun pulling uniformly on the surface. Per the Ringworld not being stable, I think the same math applies to the sphere as well as the
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by Blammar 5y ago
Think you meant to say "extinction of deaf culture." Speaking for my family, my normal-hearing brother connected just fine with our very deaf parents. He learned sign language and what he had to do to communicate well.
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by Blammar 5y ago
Bird in the hand versus two in the bush, perhaps. ARM is proven, RISC-V isn't (do you know of a RISC-V chip that is competitive with Apple's M1 ARM-based chip?)
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by Blammar 5y ago
I still find it useful to supply the missing vowels anyway because it gives you an opportunity to find out where they are in the word.
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by Blammar 5y ago
He did. I still like Kipling anyway, even with his feet of clay. As a counterpoint, may I suggest https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Man%27s_Burden as a variation on the theme. Take up the Black Man's burden -- S
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by Blammar 5y ago
Perhaps the number of repetitions has grown over time in your embellished memory. Even at 5 minutes per writing and 200 times, that's 16+ hours.
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by Blammar 5y ago
Correct. The issue is that, for index investors that want statistical robustness, having 25% of your funds in only 6 stocks increases your risk (specifically, your variance.) People who invest conservatively (e.g., are happy with returns of
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by Blammar 5y ago
Just so people remember history correctly: 1. The Roaring Twenties market peaked in August 1929 with a ~6100 Dow. 2. Market low in November 1929 at ~3800, a ~38% drop. The "big crash" was just ~4400 to ~3800. 3. Then it RECOVERED
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by Blammar 5y ago
It's ....58209_7_494459... I checked against my memorized pi expansion. Oddly enough yours and mine stop at the same place!
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by Blammar 5y ago
Sadly, not for me. Google docs has a hard failure mode in that if your document is hundreds of megabytes in size, docs backs your document up every few keystrokes and everything slows down to a crawl. I couldn't figure out how to turn

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