Symmetry

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by Symmetry 1y ago
I'm definitely in category 4 by default, though I can do category 2 with concentration. But I don't really feel like it's a problem? If things have colors and surfaces then your view of one object can block your view of ano
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by Symmetry 1y ago
They're children were taught in schools that ensured that they learned English but many adult immigrants never learned to speak English. Carnegie Steel used to try to avoid having too many workers with a common language as part of a s
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Do they need this? Modern LLMs are trained on text in many languages and even if I throw medieval Gallician poetry at them[1] they can handle it. [1] https://genius.com/Qntal-vedes-amigo-lyrics
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by Symmetry 1y ago
They've allowed for a huge expansion of the use of herbicide but drastically reduced the use of insecticide. I'd much rather have the former than the later.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
And before GMO essentially all modern strains were created by accelerating the mutation of plants via the application of x-rays.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Partially it was that stainless steel was cheaper. A bigger issue was that making large carbon fiber structures takes much larger than with steel and so it would really have eaten into their iteration time. But also while the strength to
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by Symmetry 1y ago
I wouldn't have counted on the new administration continuing to go to bat for the funding needed for Kennedy's vision without Kennedy's martyrdom.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
As the article you link says: > The high p-n junction built-in voltage (4.9V, compared to 2.8V in SiC) and short carrier lifetimes limit the advantages of bipolar diamond devices to only ultra-high voltages (> 6kV) and low switching f
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Impractical on Earth given existing technology, but there are a lot of bodies in the solar system which have enough gravity to make them worth while but where they're small enough that the materials needed are ones we have right now.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Very interesting conversation I'm still listening too. One bit I disagreed with is that I still think that an LLM's context is more like a person's sensory memory[1] than their working memory. The way that data falls off th
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by Symmetry 1y ago
It's a topic of research but the need for durability combined with the amount of sensing we want makes it a hard problem.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Deforming solid objects. Breaking twigs to set lengths, chopping vegetables, cracking eggs.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
tldr is an incredible tool and 95% of the time I'll quickly find what I'm looking for there instead of having to search through the man page.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
There are actually thousands of Spots out in the world, mostly doing industrial inspections, now.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
I've been happily running xmonad as my window manager from within Gnome since (checks git) 2011. Is there a reasonable way to run Niri inside one?
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Touch sensors are a thing. A spin off[1] of a company I used to work for uses pressure sensors embedded in rubber to get a pretty robot and sensitive sense of touch, though the granularity is low and it doesn't do lateral force. [1] h
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Yes, the 80286 used microcode and so instruction took several cycles. That's what the article was gesturing at when it said "But another reason was that more complex instructions took longer for a chip to execute. By keeping them
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by Symmetry 1y ago
A big issue is that neither seem to have developed photosynthetic life[1] and without a lot of oxygen in the atmosphere they don't have an ozone layer. That means that UV light penetrates further and breaks up water into its constitue
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by Symmetry 1y ago
It's interesting that this article places the boiling of Earth's oceans much further in the future than Wikipedia's Timeline of Earth's Future. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_far_futur
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Gonathan Goff wrote bunch on what you have to work with in terms of what you can extract from Venus's atmosphere. While metals would need to be imported if you're going to pick some place in outer space to live its hard to do muc
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by Symmetry 1y ago
The Venusian atmosphere at that altitude is super dry, only a few score ppm of water making it much drier as Earth's Atacama desert. So while that water vapor is extremely acidic in terms of raw ppm its not too far outside the limit o
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by Symmetry 1y ago
That was a big deal in the 19th century. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedestrianism Crazy things like people walking 1 mile every hour for 1000 hours, grabbing bits of sleep within those hours.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
That would definitely be possible but if humans had the kind of molecular nanotechnology that could do that I'd be much more confident in our ability to whip up some phages to counter the threat.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Cyanobacteria reproduce rapidly in sunlight and their numbers are mostly kept in check by viruses. If you bred a species that didn't have any existing viruses there would still be amoebas, flagellates, etc which would use the extra fo
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by Symmetry 1y ago
SemiAccruate reported that NVidia had been dipping its toes into manufacturing its products using Intel's fabs several months ago, I'd assume that that's related.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
On Ubuntu 25.04 I use this to get ROCm up sudo apt install hipcc rocm-smi rocminfo clinfo This won't get the newest, shiniest ROCm but it's fine for my purposes.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Those are essentially the reasons that Intel has always(?) had open source GPU drivers and AMD has been supporting open source since around 2009. As a result I think most people would recommend AMD cards for people interested in gaming on
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by Symmetry 1y ago
I eagerly await the day when they do away with the distinction between ".cpp" and ".hpp" files and the textual substitution nature of "#include" and replace them all with a proper module system.
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Of course exposure to a disease will make your body more able to deal with that particular disease. The question is whether it will make your immune system stronger in general like your muscles, or whether it tends to be depleted like your
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by Symmetry 1y ago
Something can't be both chronic (persisting over a long time) and acute (coming all at once). But some diseases can be both chronic and severe, like AIDS.

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