Symmetry

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by Symmetry 3y ago
So, one the one hand all Earth life depends on proton gradients over membranes in some form or other for energy, as in the mitochondria powering us. But because prokaryotes and archea seem to share a common ancestor but use radically diffe
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by Symmetry 3y ago
I good place to start looking: https://jobs.80000hours.org/?int_campaign=job-board
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Knowing I'm a FUT2 non-secreter has actually been pretty useful to me a few times not having to worry about taking care of people in norovirus outbreaks.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Landing on the Moon isn't easy and making it on the second try is pretty good, it took the USSR tons of tries to finally get a good soft landing. And recently we've seen groups from Russia, Japan, and Israel try to land softly on
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by Symmetry 3y ago
The ice would also be pretty close to the Moon's peaks of eternal light[1] where you don't have to have your solar panels spend half of every month in darkness. So basically where you'd want to live on the Moon if you had to
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by Symmetry 3y ago
During most of the evolution of our genus bright blue or green light meant it was daytime and hence time to be awake. But the red light from fires would often be present when our ancestors were sleeping. It isn't that you should avoi
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by Symmetry 3y ago
I think it's pretty implausible that the main use case for hydrogen will be energy storage when so many important industrial processes require a good reducing agent that's either currently hydrogen generated from natural gas or ca
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Given that even a 1000 meter change in height above sea level only leads to a large but not huge change in suicide rates, I'd be very surprised if a 6 meter change in where you spend half the day would be statistically detectable.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Why wouldn't it be? The cost is pretty trivial in the context of a modern core, though I can see the argument against in 1961. The biggest cost is in using up an instruction encoding, though when looking at that you have to compare t
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Yes, adding search shortcuts is easy but IIRC involved more keystrokes and didn't support search suggestions from history. I also tried some extensions but had my own troubles with those.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
I tried to switch a few times but I can't replicate my custom search experience on Firefox and I really miss browsing without it. On a new tab 'a product' and I've got an Amazon search for the product. 'w topic&#x2
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by Symmetry 3y ago
A general or corporate exec looking at this from outside has no reason to take this groups claims seriously until it's been validated by the physics community. It took years of effort by multiple Noble prize winners to get the US gover
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by Symmetry 3y ago
With AI training, unlike a lot of datacenter work, you have the option to "Make models when the sun shines" and just turn things off at night. That'll push you towards cheaper but less power efficient older node compute but
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by Symmetry 3y ago
If you scroll down past the corny song you'll find the table of contents for a very thorough article. The table sort of looks like footer text to the web page if you don't look too carefully, I almost missed it myself.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
In general it's pretty rare for hardware first companies to put out good software. To me it looks like there are structural reasons for this, hardware requires waterfall development which then gets imposed on software, for instance.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Yes, but you need ROCm which mostly only runs on AMD's professional cards and requires using the proprietary driver rather than the wonderfully stable open source one.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Yeah, I'm actually thinking something like a socket integrator buying an 8 core chiplet from AMD or Intel to connect via CXL or whatever to the ARM/RISC-V/GPU/Tensor cores in the other chiplets from different manufactur
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Plausibly we're headed for a world where feature size decreases stall out but manufacturing improvements continue to lower the price of transistors over time. In a world like that throwing in a few x86 cores even if the dominant ISA s
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by Symmetry 3y ago
I did, there's nothing about including a citation to the original making something fair use. Although if I cite some work using its title like so Person *et al*(2023). "The Unbearable Lightness of Tardigades", *Little C
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Oh, I know. And I continue to be amazed at how much healthier of an engineering culture ULA has than Boeing for just that reason. It would be one thing if it split off before the "out-sourced profits" era at Boeing. I'm no
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Atlas V is also a ULA rather than a Boeing rocket. I'd be much more eager to trust my life to a ULA space vehicle than a Boeing one.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
I know you're pointing at the general class of hardware performance enhancements including branch prediction, hardware prefetching, superscaler execution, pipelining, etc. But out of all of them, if you get a speedup for any advanced
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by Symmetry 3y ago
I can see why you think that, but I think you're wrong. Musk's success in Zip2 and X.com was mostly realizing there was a market opportunity and working long hours personally on the code to get the sites up and running. With Space
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by Symmetry 3y ago
The stickiness felt more natural with the windows changing shape/size slightly.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Was it difficult avoiding using an ESB? I've heard stories about how requirements to use those were listed as an example of an interoperable system in law and then ended up being mandated across DoD for everything.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
The wobble and stickyness made it easier to arrange windows side by side without overlap.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
10 years for the satellites. Any debris coming off them will tend to be smaller, have a lower ballistic coefficient, and deorbit faster.
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Duh, they only detect levels of viral load sufficient to make a person infectious, around 1e6 RNA copies per cc of fluid. And viral load tends to peak somewhere in the 1e10 to 1e14 range, people at 1e6 really have to work at coughing direc
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by Symmetry 3y ago
A transferable monopoly given to artists as a reward for their creation is very capitalist, but I'm not sure you could call that "free market".
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by Symmetry 3y ago
Why do you think it's a gamed number? The official US inflation numbers correspond pretty well to outside efforts to measure them like the Billion Prices Project. Not perfectly with any one official price index but the US publishes a

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