Earw0rm

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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Being autistic enough to not give a damn is kind of a superpower here.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
If you're making 500k and living paycheck to paycheck, that suggests some insanely expensive habits, there's something wrong if you don't have the self-discipline to get a bit of financial leeway at that level. Either you&#x2
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The question I'd ask of people making 500k is, what's stopping them from living frugally for a few years and then spending the rest of their life in the "do whatever you want" category. But I guess it's selection bi
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Not all megafauna are herd animals on the scale of American buffalo. Others were limited to smaller areas or less numerous to begin with, and the ones that survive are probably those that started off most numerous. African elephants are han
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
At least in so far as the higher level (DOM, browser runtime) and lower level (memory access, to the extent that it's mediated by the WASM VM) have no security issues... The VM itself is pretty tight, but abstractions have a nasty habi
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
It's more contextual than that. In some cases, ship vs not ship, profit vs not profit, is the difference between a company thriving and failing to thrive. In others, there are second- or third-order effects that render marginal profita
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
And the huge population movements, cramming exhausted people together in dense and often unsanitary conditions, characteristic of 20th century warfare are ideal conditions for.. guess what?
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Depends how you define work, and how it's divided up. A remarkable amount of labour goes into generating income to pay for care, for example. Both people saving for their own in later life (or insurance to pay for it), and working to p
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
At least for staple/commodity/bulk crops. Not necessarily desirable for every type of produce or animal agriculture. Automated chicken factories are also enormous and remarkably light on labour input, but there are other consequen
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Other species have culture (behavioural traits/patterns and social organisation/cues that are communicated, not innately inherited via genes and development), and other species have tech (making intentional modifications to their
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Same, at least 90% or so. I'm terrible at recognising faces - changing a "symbolic" feature like facial hair or glasses will completely throw me - but great at reading maps.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Just because you're reliant on words to think doesn't mean others are. Language certainly helps shape thoughts, even to the extent that, certainly for older kids and adults, different languages influence and constrain thought in d
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
That's culture, and it's known to exist among animals in a limited way. We don't really know what the upper bound for non humans is, because we don't know exactly what's being communicated by, for example, whale son
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Yep, definitely possible to design and build unpleasant sun traps! But also mostly possible (even for curtain-wall apartments) to avoid it with good design. Not much help if you buy an existing place whose builders didn't take hot summ
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Indeed, and similar mild, rainy maritime climate.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Not even. I've a 500wh ebike battery which is about 3 litres in volume. We're talking 1/500th the density. Which is a good thing, as EV battery fires are nasty . A lot of stored energy there!
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
UK climate "needs" AC for 1-2 months, one summer in three. And a fair chunk of that is the summer holiday season, when a lot of people won't be home anyway. It is possible to mis-design houses and apartments to need it more t
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
(We should improve society somewhat. And yet you participate in society. Curious. I am very intelligent.).gif
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
And who ends up paying in a world that doesn't get its act together on sustainability? Hell, who's paying right now? Who's had their country invaded or their political system up-ended to keep cheap oil and cheap goods flowing
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Ok, try a different lens. "Optimise" is never a neutral verb, we always optimise /for/. Growth-above-all capitalists observe, correctly, the correlation between economic output and human wellbeing, and assume, incorrectl
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Getting rid of mortgages rather illustrates my point. You'd lower prices but also destroy people's ability to afford/buy... anything. Prices are a function of people's ability to access money, not their direct income. An
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Asking people - or indeed governments - in isolation if they'd like less migration is a bit like asking if they'd like less rain. Leaders and media who were up-front about the reality of the choices we face would make for a less t
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
> It's not clear who has an availability of money. I'm aware of zero people within recent years buying a home without a mortgage. Availability of money has never been worse. "Availability of money" includes the abilit
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
The irony being that (from a UK perspective at least), in the absence of immigration, childcare and senior care would be even less affordable than they are. Somebody has to do this work: it's essential, as well as hard, unglamorous and
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
UK has massively high house prices - at least in "desirable" areas, and some not so desirable ones where it's possible to commute to work in a desirable area. That doesn't necessarily reflect a shortage, it also reflects
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
Data-level parallel processing (or SIMD vector width) is a different thing to address space width. If you want to see some _really_ wide units, look at GPUs. For UUIDs, 16-byte short strings and IPv6, there's no real reason the SIMD un
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
I'd prefer a culture with a little self-discipline and self-control. Not using 150 horses where five, or none, will do. Let's use the oil, sure, but treat it like we need it to last 200 years, not 20. If you take an audit view, yo
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
And it's very difficult to secure SMT from side channel attacks without sacrificing a big chunk of performance gain.
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
And coal/oil marked (mostly) the end of slavery and other forms of indentured labour. But Jevons' paradox means that the efficiency of oil leads to its consumption at huge levels. You want the strength of 150 horses just to go to
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by Earw0rm 2y ago
enhancer - sesame oil is more used as a dressing/seasoning AIUI rather than a frying oil.

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