MrEldritch

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by MrEldritch 7y ago
At least to me, your health and safety obviously override honesty, so long as that breach of honesty is not endangering other's health and safety. It is especially not required to be honest to people who are actively working agains
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Cops don't have to face consequences. Who would arrest them?
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
I think that the lesson of the Mill is that you can make an architecture much safer without paying extra as long as you do things in principle. (as opposed to, say, in practice)
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
"shitpost engineering" seems like one of those wonderfully evocative terms (like "premium mediocre") that seems to perfectly capture some aspect of our age.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Given that literally nobody has ever needed, nor will they ever need, to talk about file sizes in millibits , there is no ambiguity involved.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
If you think the best answer to predicting things is to just throw a neural net at it, you should probably learn more control theory. :) (Less flippantly - neural nets are mainly for the case where you can't effectively do manual featu
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
What on Earth are you talking about?
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
https://imgur.com/a/jvEzT7l
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Yes, that's the reason - exactly 10 minutes is a sort of magic number for YouTube, because that's the threshold at which you can place more than one ad on a video and control their placement. Notice how the runtime is 10:02? That&
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Yes, exactly analogous!
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
you are a large, warm object, and as such you decohere basically instantaneously. (In any case, far faster than the milliseconds required for you to perceive anything.) As such, the state-in-which-you-perceive-result-A is completely unabl
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Molecular biology and biochemistry has a pretty major replication crisis of its own. (It's not just social psychology - even classically "hard" fields like organic chemistry have reached the point where practioners are accust
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
> "If people like me can't be sure our home life won't leak onto the sidebars of corporate presentation, or the recommendations of software our kids are using, we'll stop using it entirely." What a fucking joke.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Honestly, I also found Chrome's shrinking tab behavior infuriating. All things considered, I like Firefox's sliding behavior more.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
This is the Internet. Everyone will have forgotten this besides, like, five people before this time 2020.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Thank you for finding a non-Daily-Mail source!
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
I do not, but I can think of a few off the top of my head - the muon g-2 anomaly, the Antarctic upward-moving particle anomaly, the Hubble constant tension, the proton radius puzzle was one until quite recently (but is now largely resolved)
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
You're absolutely correct. The "mechanism", as I understand it, is that the mods just manually bump up threads they think are interesting and deserve a second shot at the front page. HN has quite a lot of manual curation!
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
> Eh you're probably ant fucking I must admit, I'm unfamiliar with this terminology.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
The main reason is actually even more fundamental: Supersonic aircraft have terrible lift over drag.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Here's a response to this article: https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2019/11/11/to... It's a bit disingenuous to be talking about a "cure" before you've tried
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
This looks surprisingly neat, honestly. I've never used Perl, let alone Perl 6, but I think I see why people cared about it.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Neither beta nor gamma radiation will "activate" other parts of the structure to make them radioactive themselves; only neutron radiation (which can convert stable isotopes into unstable isotopes with more neutrons in them) can do
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Alpha radiation is easily shielded from external exposure, but for that exact reason it's also the most damaging; gamma radiation, for instance, will mostly pass right through you, while alphas will deposit all of their energy right in
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
"Can anyone from Invenia explain how they make money or what they're trying to do?" Whenever you have to ask that question about a tech company, you can generally assume that the answers are "venture capital" and &q
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Mastodon comes to mind.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
I think you're seeing hypocrisy when it isn't there. There's nothing hypocritical about US citizens not wanting US companies operating under US law to censor their US media for the benefit of the Chinese government, even if t
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
Mine is always good old http://zombo.com .
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
> "What were they hoping for, global thermonuclear war? US Civil War 2?" Basically, yes.
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by MrEldritch 7y ago
I am unaware of any mainstream American news outlet that skews far enough left to be considered to have an Anarchist, Syndicalist, or Communist bias. Maybe Jacobin magazine, if you count it as "mainstream."

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