Symmetry

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by Symmetry 4y ago
It's well known that lack of sunlight can cause depression (seasonal effective disorder). And it's well known that lack of sunlight causes lack of vitamin D. But retrospective studies like this won't show (low sun -> low
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by Symmetry 4y ago
There are some behaviors that society wants people to avoid. In most cases where you want to stop a behavior you have to be careful to not make it seem normal, with "It's bad but common" being the second worst message you ca
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Too bad the Romans only used five vowel sounds and left us with an alphabet that has trouble expressing the however many sounds English has.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
> No one in their right mind would use the word "solvency" to describe this. No, you absolutely can. They were balance-sheet insolvent but cash-flow solvent from when they took the money until when people found out.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Clustering certainly has some advantages on low power cores but I wouldn't expect them to go with SMT on lower power cores. Adding SMT doesn't cost much die area but it adds a ton of difficulty to validation. I'd say for li
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by Symmetry 4y ago
I believe ARM's newest little cores do the same thing, two cores sharing an FPU and L2$.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
For people who don't know this stuff, like myself a few years ago: When a uranium atom is hit by a neutron some of the will split immediately releasing new neutrons but some of them will go into an unstable state and then split some pe
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by Symmetry 4y ago
More that employees who show up to work drunk or high can be easily fired and replaced, while more normal warehouses usually start the shift with people who just don't show up and are stretched enough as it is.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
If they can get people buying stuff on Amazon to type the URL into their browser instead of searching for "Amazon" in google and clicking the add that pops up they probably save more money than it costs them.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
They pay a lot more than the average retailer, which is why they feel they can work their employees so hard. I think they also tend to see less employee on employee violence.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
I meant that lying was more acceptable on police applications because police, in the course of their duties, often have to lie whether its telling a suspect that you have proof of their guilt and they just need to confess or using boilerpla
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Not as common as viral or bacterial disease, but fungal infections kill over a million people every year.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Yes, but if you admit everything in your application process then no leverage! And if you're in the habit of admitting things then if some foreign agent get you to commit some indiscretion in the future you might also admit that rathe
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by Symmetry 4y ago
That's been my impression with myself and several friends going through the process. The defense establishment is looking for honest people without drug abuse problems, not people who've never tried a joint. But I understand the
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by Symmetry 4y ago
One highlight of working at LL as a radar software contractor was getting to go to the regular lectures they had on various topics related to the lab's activities. But of course the big downside is not being able to talk about what al
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Now that the two big Thinkpad pointer stick patents have expired I wonder why more laptop makers aren't incorporating them?
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by Symmetry 4y ago
That's not the way the law works in the US. People are legally responsible for hitting something in front of them but not for getting read ended after slamming the breaks. Partially this is why the Tesla system is so trigger happy ab
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Spectre is essentially intrinsic to any out of order CPU that uses caches and needs to be addressed at the software level if you have information that shouldn't be leaking within a software process. Meltdown never affected AMD CPUs in
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by Symmetry 4y ago
We still seem to be missing an equivalent of explicit memory formation, serializing digested perceptions into working then short term and long term memory. The however many thousand tokens in a GPT's buffer can span a much larger span
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Leakage power will rise all else being equal, but there are plenty of things designers can do to counteract that for reasonable costs.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
That might be revisionism from the perspective of the history you get from Disney movies but I don't think Mann is at all out of mainstream history here and I think you're doing him a disservice by comparing him to your friend. I
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Also, green hydrogen involves things the fossil fuel industry has experience with, like long pipelines.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
I don't think you can realistically get 3 strangers to squeeze into the back of a normal passenger car.
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Buses are as large as they are because the driver's time is valuable. If self-driving cars were cheap you could a bunch of 8 person van/busses on the road that give you most of the environmental/traffic benefit of a bus but
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by Symmetry 4y ago
It's complicated to say. It makes getting stuck in traffic less bad as you can do other things, so that tend to increase it. But it also means less traffic consisting of cars cruising around looking for a parking spot in places where
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“Blue Light” creating capacity for nothing (2007)(theoryofconstraints.blogspot.com)
151 points by Symmetry 4y ago|78 comments
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by Symmetry 4y ago
I've recently liked the metaphor of science as a four stroke engine. Unstructured observations -> hypotheses -> structured observations (experiments) -> confirmed hypotheses. I think that unstructured observations of new pheno
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by Symmetry 4y ago
I've come to increasingly accept it over time? I mean, I'd really like it if my_function() and myFunction() just weren't allowed in the same section of code but if you allow the user to have both it's probably better th
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by Symmetry 4y ago
It seems that for militaries without the budget for helicopters or real tiltrotors like the Osprey a hybrid electric quad tiltroter as a replacement. There are a lot of drawbacks, of course, but I'd think the ease of maintenance and e
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by Symmetry 4y ago
I was wondering "why just two props" when reading this, thanks. Because they're reusing an existing airframe makes a lot of sense, even if a lot of benefits from electric airplanes come from adding more, smaller props.

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