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by WJW 2y ago
Not really though. Whether they should continue to exist into the future should depend on if the expected positive value of their services in that future exceeds the expected damage from having a big meltdown every once in a while. That som
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by WJW 2y ago
I run it without any modifications from the default and it has been working quite well tbh. I'm pretty far from being a "power user" of obsidian though, it's literally only a note taking tool for me.
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by WJW 2y ago
Thank you for writing the book! I'm currently almost done with the first part (doing it in Haskell because why not) and every chapter I encounter situations where my "clever hack" turns out not to be so clever in the light of
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by WJW 2y ago
You think engineers in other industries won't sometimes choose the more exciting option when a boring but well-understood one would do the trick? That's definitely not true in (at least) mechanical and electrical engineering from
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by WJW 2y ago
Don't use Java then. The Java bits are just an example, you can write it in any language you want.
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by WJW 2y ago
Player of Games was the first Culture novel I read and I enjoyed it a lot. I still sometimes go back and reread it and have found new perspectives each time. Would definitely recommend.
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by WJW 2y ago
Yes, through electrochemical means. It's not super energy efficient though, it'd be much better to not put it into steel in the first place if you want to make batteries out of it.
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by WJW 2y ago
Humanity could easily afford to provide proper healthcare and schooling for every person on the planet if we didn't spend so much money on our collective militaries too, but "we" don't. Getting everybody (or even a minor
609.
by WJW 2y ago
A CPU is really just a fast interpreter for machine code.
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by WJW 2y ago
You can be "less risky" than a restaurant while still having dismal chances of success though. Nobody who starts a business expects that it'll be bankrupt within a few years, yet statistically some 90% are. The worst cases ar
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by WJW 2y ago
I wish I could upvote this twice. Many people only consider monetary cost as "cost" because their own time is basically free. But when you have to pay for any extra time spent on "fixing" IRC to become business capable,
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by WJW 2y ago
Fair point. The higher level languages have been leaking back down into assembly.
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by WJW 2y ago
Do you mean a conditional jump? Because assembly doesn't know about loops. And recursion is basically a jump too, even more so if you manually do the TCO. They are literally equivalent.
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by WJW 2y ago
This does not answer my question, unless you also have proof that the amount of cases of the ISS crew having to take shelter is also increasing exponentially. Since the astronauts went back to work after 1 hour instead of moving back to Ear
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by WJW 2y ago
This is the biggest answer. IRC is in that most terrible of spots where there are too many users with too many different clients to ever universally adopt new features anymore, while being old enough that many desirable new features have be
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by WJW 2y ago
How can you possibly tell that from something that happens regularly anyway?
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by WJW 2y ago
A starlink satellite has a life expectancy of only about 5 years anyway, and that is WITH station keeping ion thrusters. Anything smaller than a starlink satellite will likely have an even shorter lifespan due to having worse mass vs surfac
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by WJW 2y ago
Ya but the article is about a conveyor belt, which arguably has even less flexibility than even a freight train.
619.
by WJW 2y ago
Now now gentlemen, play nice. There is enough UB for all of us :)
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by WJW 2y ago
> Moving the hand dryer in the men's toilet at Uxbridge's Crown and Treaty pub to a "more sensible position".[14] Finally!
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by WJW 2y ago
Both Turing and Von Neumann machines (and the lambda calculus by Church) were designed to be minimal implementations that were still powerful enough to be provably complete in a mathematical sense. Mother Nature is under no such constraints
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by WJW 2y ago
I can assure you that if you develop a system to accurately place objects (bombs, say) on top of people and post the code on the open internet for everyone to see, the government will indeed have some critical question for you.
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by WJW 2y ago
I was just thinking about that haha. I'd think she's kinda the opposite of a rust lover though. (did you know the game + expansion are available for 4.99 on Steam and it runs out of the box on linux? Just saying)
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by WJW 2y ago
Most modern military vessels could spot them, but typically the air warning radar has its filters configured such that satellites are excluded (as they are not interesting targets for most naval vessels). This also heavily depends on the ex
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by WJW 2y ago
Phased array antennas are indeed usable antennas for radar purposes and many modern radars use them. That said just having a suitable antenna is not enough for having a radar system, you also need sophisticated equipment for both transmitti
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by WJW 2y ago
That's a nice mechanic and many games have something equivalent to that, but if you can merely pay a resource tax to have everything working perfectly again then it's not friction in the sense that the article is talking about. Th
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by WJW 2y ago
Doubtful tbh, at least in the context of the article. The problem for games that simulate war (or any other environment with "friction") too closely is not that the AI is not good enough, it's that such environments are just
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by WJW 2y ago
> What about event planners, nurses, military officers? As a Dutch ex-Navy officer, we just called this "friction" as everyone had read Von Clausewitz during officer training and was familiar with the nuances of the term. Milit
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by WJW 2y ago
What I was getting at with both points: - Gun control in almost any country is WAY stricter than in the US, and people in the EU are absolutely fine with the government interfering heavy-handedly in that subject. There would be riots in the
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by WJW 2y ago
Looking outside in (from the EU), even the democrats are quite a bit further to the right than even some of the parties we label as "radical right" over here. Even Bernie Saunders (the most left-wing democrat I can think of off th

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