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by K0balt 1y ago
There is a fallacy in over application of the survivorship bias concept. Literal survival for early cultures was often a matter of luck. Agriculture was an innovation that improved the odds. Early cultures that practiced agriculture outperf
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by K0balt 1y ago
Interesting proposition. I’ll be giving this some thought.
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by K0balt 1y ago
It depends on the antenna efficiency of course, but I was surprised to discover that BLE modes around 128kbps using coded-PHY have a range extending over 1-1/2 km without a directional antenna. At 2.4ghz its line of sight, of course, b
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yes, it’s a free lunch from the “western” perspective, unfortunately sponsored by the blood and suffering of Ukrainian men, women, and children. It’s awful, and the incentives of Ukraines allies are to draw the conflict out as long as possi
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by K0balt 1y ago
Make no mistake, we spent the USSR to death. We made our military advances so expensive to stay at parity with that it simply overwhelmed their economic production capacity as a nation. Sure, they did it to themselves, but we made the situa
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by K0balt 1y ago
Meh, to me it failed to engage. Characters very one dimensional, I’d call it young adult level sophistication . Some cool ideas though. TBF I am trying to write fiction for the first time in my writing career, and I also suck at characters
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by K0balt 1y ago
Likely they will increase their support. It’s a very short distance to this becoming a China/NATO proxy war.
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by K0balt 1y ago
So, this is the evolution of Ukraine into the west / China proxy war that I was worried that it would become back in 2014. Interesting object lesson in how slow motion disasters unfold. People in the west in general fail to understand
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by K0balt 1y ago
X? But then you have to follow people, and inherently that backs you into a syncopation bubble. I value HN for the diversity of well considered opinions and ideas… but sadly that is dying.
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by K0balt 1y ago
The earth also had a molten surface for millions of years before that. You’re right, earth doesn’t give a f*. But humans need a much more moderate environment to thrive. For example, If you look at cognitive performance in humans, it scales
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by K0balt 1y ago
Good point. Cheerio.
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by K0balt 1y ago
It’s astonishing how here, in an ostensibly technical forum, the vast majority of comments are left by people who did not even skim the article. At least read through the informative comments left by those who did read it before giving your
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by K0balt 1y ago
Yeah. It’s conflation of coincidence (as in coincide) with causality, as usual. That there was a widespread major flooding event doesn’t support the existence of a God, though (unsurprisingly) most human cultures have a distant memory of
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by K0balt 1y ago
It’s on a sub$ part with 8-20 pins and is intended to do what you might otherwise do with a handful of logic gates, for reasons of timing or power consumption. It’s also quite fast compared to the processor in this case. It’s great for hand
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by K0balt 1y ago
Interesting. I wouldn’t have intuited autism as being on the opposing end of psychosis, really, at least not based on my experience of both in my family.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Random layperson musing: I wonder if schizophrenia (or perhaps psychosis) could be in some way analogous to the LLM temperature function becoming disregulated? I mean, what is the extreme opposite of psychosis? If it is matter of degree, wh
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by K0balt 1y ago
I don’t know what is happening in the rest of the world, but here in the Dominican Republic (where a major export is sugar, ironically) almost all soft drinks are laced with sucralose. This includes the not-labeled-as-reduced-calorie offeri
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by K0balt 1y ago
Agreed. Its application perhaps pushes the boundaries. For example if a regulatory body establishes “food safety” limits, they tend to be permissive up to the point of known harm, not a guide to wholesome or healthy food, and that is perhap
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by K0balt 1y ago
Idk, I think that the motives of most companies are to maximize profits, and part of maximizing profits is minimizing risks. Food companies typically include many legally permissible ingredients that have no bearing on the nutritional value
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by K0balt 1y ago
I’m hoping for a fleet of half kilometer long airships so I can build my solar powered floating luxury home, so let’s hope someone thinks it will work lol.
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by K0balt 1y ago
This exactly. Evolution is a stepping stone to engineering., which then will also be subject to evolution. (Is there a word for engineered evolution?) The trick will be to remain -human- perhaps. Or we just accept the fate of the loser of n
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by K0balt 1y ago
A failure of inculturation. By default, humans are just clever apes. Language and culture transforms us into thinking beings that inhabit a worldview beyond the sensorium, of potentials, of possibilities, of hidden truths. The inculturated
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by K0balt 1y ago
Made me think of lander design. Recent efforts seem to have created a shape that always ends up on its side? XD
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by K0balt 1y ago
No, that’s what headlines are for!
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by K0balt 1y ago
There are some significant differences. But the logic that having your basic needs covered makes you lazy is just ridiculous on its face. People don’t just keep working in the first thing that covers their basic expenses. They strive to adv
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by K0balt 1y ago
“Food on the table in nice, Mrs Jones, but nothing beats a beautiful, green, weed free lawn” But yeah, you’ve got a point. It’s great for general dynamics stock outlook. lol.
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by K0balt 1y ago
Ukraine, and now Iran, have made one thing abundantly clear to the world: if you want to have any actual sovereignty on the world stage, you must have nuclear weapons. Otherwise you are merely waiting for another nation to find an excuse t
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by K0balt 1y ago
Wouldn’t it just be all left wings, and no right ones? Obviously, the natural solution is windmill blade helicopters. You could use large blades for the main rotor and smaller ones for the tail rotor, or go with a chinook style dual rotor s
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by K0balt 1y ago
Money has never been the problem for homelessness. It costs cities more money to deal with homeless people than it does to build public housing if the city provides the will to do so. This has been proven out time and time again. There are
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by K0balt 1y ago
“Of course” But, that’s not where we are headed. Instead, automation will make money irrelevant in the “we don’t need to make money because money ultimately only can be used to pay wages, and nothing else” way. Since automation means you do

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