Negitivefrags

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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
He didn't say anything about the end of democracy. Apparently the media zeitgeist is so strong with this now that even just saying "Democracy" triggers the thought. All he said is that it's the democratically elected off
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So A* is the most optimal search algorithm under the specific constraints it specifies. You can't do better. However, sometimes the specific domain you are searching has other constraints that can be exploited to do better than A*. An
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
I would absolutely bet on the Death Star knowing the exhaust port issue exists. Just because some 1% chance that a new Jedi comes along actually happens doesn’t make it a bad bet.
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
Isn't that exactly how markets work? Isn't that exactly the whole point of capitalism? If people with money want strawberries, they buy more strawberries. Price of strawberries goes up. Farmers who could choose to grow strawberrie
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
When I was writing a game engine and doing a multithreaded resource loading system using job queues, I was concerned about TLB shootdowns, but was unable to really experience the issues with them. I tried both regular IO and mmap and was un
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
You probably want the kind of private equity funds that do succession transactions. Small slow growing businesses tend not to actually need capital very often, so there isn't exactly a huge market for investing in them. On the other ha
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
I think the lock in with audio is significantly lower than with graphical applications. You can even tell this by the fact that there is a universe of plug-ins that work across many DAWs due to having somewhat standard interfaces. The cultu
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
It’s not that insane. If pay is low then companies can afford to hire more people to do the same amount of work, leading to overall more employment and then presumably less homelessness.
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
In many companies people are working on the wrong thing most of the time. It's so endemic that many people don't even see it. When people ask questions like "Why does it take X engineers to run twitter?", well that is th
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
It's possible that I misremembered 0.4% as 4%. As I said, it was long time ago.
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
I remember long ago reading an argument that information technology has not actually increased productivity. I really wish I could find a source for this now, but I just can't seem to find it anywhere on the internet. Here it is anyway
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
I’m not really a fan of the syntax in the article where you multiply the unit with the value. I much prefer your user defined literal approach. But is there any way to make it so you can introduce a new user defined literal for a new compos
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
I don't think it's an age thing, just maturity. A type of maturity that develops much more slowly while being in the education system.
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
I'm not going to claim that all externalities are priced. There is certainly a lot more that we could do. But many of them are. The cost of the calories, the tools, the training, the property, and the marketing are certainly all priced
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
So if I have some wood, and I create a chair out of it, would you would say that nothing of value was created? Previously we had some lumber worth $10 and now we have a chair worth $250 dollars. Where did the $240 dollars come from? Was it
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
> S - What we’re just doing here, really, is designing a ride at Disneyland. Little did they know...
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
The main reason often cited for China’s downfall is demographic collapse. They have too many old people and not enough young people. It’s potentially possible that automation can solve this problem but China’s economy has relied on relative
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
The whole “measure it the way they used to” meme implies that you believe in the website shadow stats. Well you might want to know that shadow stats doesn’t actually recalculate inflation using old methodology, it adds some constant factors
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
At the start of the article my assumption was that the reason to do this was to save power. After all, the big glass front is not very thermally efficient. Regular fridges like you have at home have much more insulated doors. But then we fi
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
I purchased a home assistant yellow and my experience was anything but “ready to use”. You have to build the damn thing, which isn’t hard per se since it’s ultimately only 3 actual components, but it still took me some time and felt complic
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
I think that this stat still rises to the level of being actively deceptive though. Most people are going to take the term "Hydrocarbon emissions" to mean C02 emissions, even though it's referring to a different thing.
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
Education just doesn’t really scale. There haven’t been technological advances in education that have overwhelmed the student teacher ratio in terms of effectiveness. On some level we just have to accept this.
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
I am starting a private high school and this is exactly how we plan to assess students. Not the LLM part though. Not only do you get a good sense of what they know, but you get a chance to give real individual feedback about what they need
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
Sounds to me like in-person really was faster for this company. You more quickly arrived at the point were the company fell apart, which was clearly inevitable.
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
I don't know if I agree. Perhaps in 99% of pages you want the latest version, but I think in 99% of requests you want an immutable thing. Generally speaking web pages are made up of vast numbers of immutable resources.
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The rediculoussness of the energy use of transport is especially noticeable when you are driving a Tesla which by default shows you a dial of power consumption and generation in kW. When rolling down a hill with regenerative breaking, the c
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
So there is a difference between meat that was farmed in a manner that is no more carbon unfriendly than vegetables, and meat that is not. We could have marketing campaigns for “green beef” and I’m suprised we don’t. It seems very strange.
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So we could agree that the methane is irrelevant because it would be emitted anyway by the rotting grass. And we could also agree that clearing forests is a different thing than farming meat, which we could separately campaign against and p
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
No, this isn’t always the problem. People are not fungible resources. You can’t simply turn a programmer from Google into a Lithium miner by paying more.
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by Negitivefrags 3y ago
Can someone explain to me how beef actually contributes to climate change more than any other food activity? If you have a big open plain full of grass, does it change how much carbon is emitted if a cow eats it versus being left alone, dyi

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