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by Symmetry 5y ago
Parachutes? The one RCT we have on parachutes failed to show any statistically significant benefit from using them when jumping out of plane. Hardly settled science. https://www.bmj.com/content/363/bmj.k5094
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by Symmetry 5y ago
> xmonad itself can’t run with modern Gnome That's not really true. I use the gnome-flashback sesson and have an .desktop in ~/.config/autostart that runs xmonad --replace after I log in. It's true that logging in w
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Arm was one of the CISCiest of the RISC processors at a happy medium in instruction complexity that gave them all the simplicity of regular sized instructions while still getting the job done in fewer instructions than a more ideological RI
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by Symmetry 5y ago
I presume that's for particular benchmarks where syscall overhead is significant. Which is certainly true for some real world applications but not for others.
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by Symmetry 5y ago
No, but the cost is still predictable. If you want a concrete patio then the process of making the cement for it will have produced a ton or so of CO2 given current technology even though you never touched the fossil fuels involved. If yo
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Using radars with only distance and relative speeds data, no direction at all, to identify equipment has a long history in the military. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radar_MASINT#Non-Cooperative_T... Humans come in gr
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Most cows grow up on pasture land before being moved to feed lots for bulking up before slaughter. My sense is that the US could sustain about half of its current beef production just with pasture grazing.
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by Symmetry 5y ago
My understanding is that CUDA has a lot of optimized libraries for common tasks, think BLAS, that don't currently exist in OpenCL/Vulkan Compute.
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Unfortunately there would be no way for the USSR to know that they weren't going there to nuke Moscow from the south where there weren't any radars looking. I'm not sure if that was ever seriously considered on the US side b
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by Symmetry 5y ago
I thought the military money was promised but never ended being provided, making it doubly tragic.
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by Symmetry 5y ago
As a NVidia shareholder I'm relieved at this. ARM is clearly less valuable as part of NVidia with all the conflicts of interest that entails than as an independent company. NVidia talked about synergies but they could pursue all of t
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Also I thought that Sentinel was doing most of the near Earth asteroid work. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentinel_Space_Telescope EDIT: Oops, I was actually thinking of WISE but found the wrong thing Googling. htt
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by Symmetry 5y ago
I think there's a case to be made for banning level 2 and 3 autonomy entirely as too likely to result in distracted people not paying attention in general. But given that we have decided to allow them having lawsuits against car compa
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by Symmetry 5y ago
It behooves me to use widely accepted terms if I want to be understood. The early Islamic Central Asian efflorescence benefited a lot from being able to draw on both India and Europe for inspiration as well as possibly the high degree of n
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Aristotle was part of the incredible flowering of math and philosophy in Ancient Greece between 600 and 300 BC or so. There was a similar flowering in western Asia between 750 AD and 1050 AD or so. The one doesn't contradict the othe
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by Symmetry 5y ago
That's hard to answer. The philosophical, mathematical, and scientific flourishing in the the silk road cities of central Asia in particular during the Islamic golden age seems to have ended in the 1000s. Some people blame the influe
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Western philosophy maybe but Western science owes its early foundations to al-Biruni, al-Khwarizmi, ibn Sina, etc. That all began to fad in the 11th century as the Islamic equivalents of the gnostics eclipsed the equivalents of the scholas
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Ostrich also evolved from the dinosaurs and has its own unique taste. I bet it varied though probably the range of bird meat tastes is a good place to put our first guesses.
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by Symmetry 5y ago
That does seem to be changing now that we've all been vaccinated, though. It seems that training your immune system to recognize the virus leads to symptoms developing earlier in the course of disease, below the ~10^6 copies/mL t
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Reminds me of that FDA reviewer who refused to approve any drugs on the grounds that risk couldn't be completely eliminated.
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Oh right. I was having trouble getting Cyberpunk to work nicely with Wayland when it came out and switched to X where it worked, baring some background sounds. I should revisit that and switch back to Wayland and see how it does. Note: t
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by Symmetry 5y ago
It's not a matter of differences you need a stopwatch for, it's that the times plausibly vary between a second and years.
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by Symmetry 5y ago
It depends. Covid is a high k disease, a few people end up infecting hundreds in an afternoon, many people fail to infect the spouse they share a bed with. Partially that's behavior but partially it's people achieving very diffe
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by Symmetry 5y ago
You can't really give a time like that. People with detectable levels of covid might have anywhere between 100 and 10^14 viral copies/cc in fluid samples taken from them depending on their immune system and stage of progression.
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Why do that when you could send it somewhere where parking is cheap? The behind anti-cruising laws is to prevent cars from jamming up popular locations, if you send it somewhere other than your destination block then the law is working.
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Having their own grid has some serious downsides as they found out last February but the upside is that they get to run things so that their installed base of renewable power is larger than the backlog of projects waiting for approval which
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Probably not, people would "notice the bodies piling up in the corner" and change their behavior if friends and relatives start dying and you'd see that in terms of how full restaurants are, etc. It's not like the Hunan
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Yeah, a cache line is 64 bytes. If you care about putting data that's used together adjacent you're assuming that objects a lot larger than 64 bytes are the most common case but I'm not at all sure that's true. I woul
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Indeed: https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/ed-msg.en.html >Note the consistent user interface and error reportage. Ed is generous enough to flag errors, yet prudent enough not to overwhelm the novice with verbosity.
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by Symmetry 5y ago
Yeah, that is something that could go wrong in the US system.

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