TaylorAlexander

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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Huh. I suppose I meant that if we as a society decide we don’t want them to charge a lot for drugs, an alternative is publicly funded drug research. “Not making drugs” doesn’t strike me as an alternative solution.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Seems like eradicating disease and illness worldwide is a pretty strategic concern for humanity. I guess it’s like climate change. We can’t beat our neighbors by solving it so who cares, but these feel like things our species is really gonn
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Elaborate on “default alternative”? Aren’t there many alternatives? Why is one a default?
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
To me it seems obvious that the correct solution to this dilemma is to publicly fund all medical research. All other approaches feel like band aids we are forced to implement because we’re simply doing it the wrong way, expecting private co
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Do you have your code publicly available? I was just discussing with a friend it would be nice to add an optional Ethernet mode to my motor controller, but the limitations of this library or other approaches limit the appeal. Also, are ther
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
> "all information is public" Published works, not "all information". It's up to society to decide if we want to prioritize publishers or humanity. I don't believe our restrictive legal regime will persist a
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I disagree that purchasing the book is automatically the “right” thing to do. If someone cannot afford the book, it is my view that society should not expect them to pay. I believe that this view towards knowledge will lead to a wiser socie
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Just to clarify, and it sounds like the answer is yes, this is a problem even with an external 50MHz clock signal?
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Hard disagree that it is inherently "mean" to pirate a book regardless of its status. If you can afford to support someone you should, but IMO we should value most of all unrestricted access to knowledge without shame. Also this b
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I have never had even the slightest luck getting any of the AI services to generate something as specialized as embedded system drivers.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Hah thats right. I did get some parts to try to update the other one you are referring to, but given all my projects it has not made it near the top of the queue yet.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
> My hope is that they'll eventually provide a library of ready-made "soft peripherals" Perhaps they could be more ready-made, but there are loads of official PIO examples that are easy to get started with. https:/&#
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
This is very exciting! For the last several years I have been developing a brushless motor driver based on the RP2040 [1]. The driver module can handle up to 53 volts at 30A continuous, 50A peak. I broke the driver out to a separate module
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I assume “circuit breakers” is a technical term for some automatic system that is built in to the market to activate if some condition occurs, to alter market behavior.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Thanks for the tip this is wonderful!
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Sure but how many millijoules per day is that?
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Well in my case, it turns out the benefits of adderall are extremely helpful. I can’t imagine I’m the only one who at 39 years old still had never tried adderall and also struggled with weight loss, who finds the combination of effects bene
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Notably I started Adderall this year and so far I’ve lost 20 pounds. I’m surprised everyone is so excited about Ozempic when other drugs can give similar results. I don’t even take a huge dose, just 10mg XR, but it seems to keep my appetite
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
> Once AI has replicated and replaced all human based thinking, creativity and task, etc This will never happen.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Well I’d absolutely love to see AI tools to add alt text to images since people can’t seem to be bothered to do it manually. But I assume you mean the post text that comes with the image which, yeah normally people want to have a personal m
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Yeah certainly.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Speaking of foreign investment I believe the Saudis own a large portion of Twitter (or its debt) which is no less comforting.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I have no data but I speculate that since US companies sell surveillance for money, foreign governments just set up shell companies and buy everything they can. We constantly hear about controversies of these companies selling huge swaths o
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
I agree with this! I simply find it hard to explain the shortcomings in a way that people accept, and clear examples like this are the best I can do. But you’ve said it nicely.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
My sincerest hope is that eating animals becomes less popular over the next hundred years such that killing them for medical needs becomes less acceptable.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
tbh I bet plenty of bacon lovers feel bad that a sweet intelligent animal dies to make their meal, and if a perfect copy of bacon could be made without it I bet a good number of them would be happy to switch to it.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Would be nice if a pig didn’t have to die to save a human though. This is not something everyone cares about but some people (like me) do care. Hopefully some day we can advance the technology enough with artificial solutions.
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
It’s ambiguous with software releases but if someone says “which number is bigger, 7.11 or 7.9?” With no other context, I doubt any human with basic mathematical understanding would provide an incorrect answer. That is not an ambiguous ques
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
Cars are vulnerable to attacks on fuel stations, attacks on bridges, dumping a load of nails on the road during rush hour, etc. I’m not sure I’d automatically assume disrupting thousands of car passengers is necessarily harder than disrupti
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by TaylorAlexander 2y ago
> AI closing in on general intelligence That’s what the hype men say, but increasingly I don’t believe it. I read yesterday that most major AI systems cannot correctly answer “which is larger, 7.11 or 7.9?”. Often I read of these strange

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