TchoBeer

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by TchoBeer 4y ago
The short answer is yes, except a tiny minority who require a filter that can filter the tiny guys. But it's a whole discourse.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
No, that would be silly. "The Naked Eye" is what normal human eyes can see without aid. There is a lot of grey area there, but microscopic creatures that you can only see with specialized equipment invented in the past 100 years
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
I can't speak for most of them because I haven't used them, but I know that TexMacs doesn't use LaTeX under the hood.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
There are tons, literally hundreds of Chinese-Americans and Chinese-Europeans and Chinese immigrants living all over the world who do research, and their work is not at all suspect. The reason why Chinese papers are suspect has to do with t
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Yeah, the obvious reason why funding spaceflight yields useful technology is that we also fund e.g. laser technology. We can fund science research without also spending billions of dollars going to the moon.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Additionally, an underwater civilization would make Humanity more resilient to some kinds of extinction events, if you care about that.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
1) many Mars advocates want to colonize Mars to provide more resources and land to alleviate overpopulation. In that regard, it being of Earth does not matter. 2) even if it does, the point of GP's counterargument is not "if you w
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
alternatively, I'd rather die being shot into the sun than starve to death on a barren wasteland.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
ngl some kind of long term space or underground storage solution sounds like something worth attempting.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Whether Julia took it from Rust or Scheme, or Rust took it from Scheme or Scheme took it from somewhere else, my point was that Julia did not invent this notation (this kinda sounds like an insult but it's actually not at all), and it&
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Because Fortran is still top of its class at number crunching
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Then you haven't been paying attention. It's always been like this.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
iirc this is notation that they adopted from rust.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Then we can invest in practical applications instead of spaceflight, which is ancillary.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
The moon has no atmosphere and is much less dense. Mars has some advantages which can potentially make it self sustaining in the long future.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Modern Fortran is a really nice language, I have a lot of fun with it. Wish that map filter reduce were more standard parts of the compilers, but I guess it wouldn't be Fortran if new standards didn't take a decade to get good com
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
Aw man, is that true? Can I not get Nvidia's proprietary drivers on Linux, at least?
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
I've said this for so long. The horrible mismatched incentives that ad money has wrought is disasterous.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
I can't tell if this is sarcasm but I found it funny either way.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
slight tangent: I've been looking to upgrade an old AMD card and I'm looking at Nvidia cards, is there a way to know which cards are compatable with Linux and which aren't worth looking at?
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
yeah, I struggle to see how training AI on illegally gotten data is legal.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
I don't want you taking my car because I need to use my car and only one of us can use it at a time. Intellectual property can be endlessly copied without anyone losing anything. This is not a defense of IP theft (and it's pretty
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
AI art they clearly does not. It does not 1-1 recreate source material, but if we didn't have human artists anymore and replaced them all with the current stock of AI we would have no more developing art movements. It is wholly uncreat
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
If we don't know how the human body works, then surely we don't know that melatonin is better or worse for the body than not taking it. Perhaps it is worse, or perhaps it is better, but either way it has at least one positive effe
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
I don't think we know any of that. We know many of the mechanisms through which neurons act but not all of them, nor do we know that we can simulate a human brain on a computer.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
note that a spacecraft which can continuously accelerate at 1g would require an insane amount of energy. Relativity is indeed weird.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
You're assuming that birth rates would remain the same, when that immediately feels like it would not at all be the case.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
What's going on by Israel-Egypt
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
I don't see why psychotherapy should be reserved for fairly edge cases. On the opposite, I think that mental health is even more widely applicable than physical health.
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by TchoBeer 4y ago
seems about right actually.

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