Idiot_in_Vain

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Sponge-like fossil could be Earth’s earliest known animal(nature.com)
4 points by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago|0 comments
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Excel is a lot more user friendly interface for data analysis/manipulation, than a raw CSV file.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Winners write the history - so yeah SkyNet is the good guy.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Sure, and they are happy to sign up any number of ISIS members?
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Yeah, a "regular university" signs up students right off the streets of Siria.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
The same stupid argument applies to anyone who orders the kit - why not persue a degree in biology and get a job in a lab instead. Obviously the kit has many advantages. A terrorist organization, like ISIS can get their hands on a few kits,
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Reminds me of the time one of the Netscape founders called Windows a “Poorly Debugged Set of Device Drivers”. That really got Microsoft moving and a few years later IE6 won the first browser war.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Of course they do. They can buy a Blu-Ray disk of a movie they want to watch (and potentially store a copy on a home NAS) or buy a Netflix subscription. Can buy a digital recording of a song, or a Spotify subsription.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
OK, but what are you trying to say? US is world's biggest market and home to most big tech companies. It has a two party system. Do you suggest that the majority of people will select which of the two parties to vote for, based on thei
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
What does a 401k have to do with extremely rare events? Preparing for stuff like a nuclear war would mean buying land in South America, Africa or Australia, building an underground bunker, stacking on water, food, medicine and weapons, etc.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Yeah, and? How much do you think the humankind is willing to pay to save a human live - a million dollars, a billion, a trillion?
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
The tsunami was a minor effect from that asteroid - setting the whole planet on fire and releasing a ton of toxic gases in the athmosphere is what did the real damage.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Heavy-tailed modeling doesn't reallly matter. There are very few enterprices where preparing for extremely rare events is worth the effort - nuclear power plants, weapons of mass destruction, bio labs working with dangerous organisms,
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Because a few ships a year are expendable for the global economy. Not worth it to try to make every ship less sinkable - e.g. it may decrease the number of annual losses by 50% at the cost of making an average ship 10% more expensive - obvi
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
They'll invest the huge profits into EV battery factories, EV charging stations, renewable energy startups, etc. BT, Shell, etc. have already given up on oil and gas. They don't invest in new refineries, pipelines, drilling rigs.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Very few people. What percentage of iPhone users have their phones jailbroken? 0.0001% Almost no one will do it - it's a lot of work, loss of warranty, loss of small conveniences.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
People vote with their wallets. If they buy stuff that's cloud and subscription based, that's the world we're going to live in tomorrow. Big corporations are of course very happy to proceed - it gives them a lot of power, con
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Or you can just use FF containers - which is 99% less work.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
"objectively better performance" What are yon talking about? How many people browse the web on an i9 13900K with 32GB RAM? Try a 5 year old laptop with 4GB RAM and you'll see a completely different picture - Firefox is far b
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Complete nonsense. There are no alternatives to F35.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
>> I mean, more generally, what is Erlang implemented in? Pure magic, that can't be recreated in any regular language :)
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Are they? Does that include exploits for a specific model of an Android phone? The exploit in the article applies to a GPU driver for a GPU that's used on a minority of the phones sold in US.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
There's an endless supply of 0-days in both Android and Windows drivers.
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
What are the advantages over AutoMapper?
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
The current system works well for the majority of the people on Earth and for most of the people in the rich West it works extremely well - we have a lifestyle that very few could afford just a century ago. And the system does reward smart,
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by Idiot_in_Vain 4y ago
Read the title as "Scrolling improves intelligence" and thought a new generation is rising where every second will be an Einstein. I seem to remember another study showing inteligence in only dependant on genetics, and in long ter