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by Zanni 6y ago
Clearly I need to read Permutation City . And watch Devs , even if it does devolve into action.
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by Zanni 6y ago
MSR was started by Nathan Myhrvold who recruited Rashid. Well, "started" may be ambiguous here. Nathan proposed it. https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/people/nathan-myhrv...
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by Zanni 6y ago
Okay, this is wonderful, but there's an obvious, nagging question that hasn't been addressed--what happens if they run the simulation ahead of present time? We know they have fine-grain control over the speed of the simulation.
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by Zanni 6y ago
I just read "There Is No Antimemetics Division," and I was blown away. Really exhilarating science fiction that feels at once hyper-modern and yet retro in that it's more about ideas than characters. Very reminiscent of Ted C
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by Zanni 6y ago
Or, as I've seen in consumer bill-paying software, a confirmation dialog with extra info (given that the erroneous payment was two orders of magnitude unexpected): "Your last payment to Verizon was $78.98. Are you sure you wish to
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by Zanni 6y ago
Agreed. As is "The Terrible Secret of Space," also by The Laziest Men on Mars. Even more delightfully absurd (IMO), but never achieved the meme status of AYB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_CoY0sBb1M
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by Zanni 6y ago
And I'll assume you've never driven an EV, because almost everyone who has purchased an EV will never go back to an ICE vehicle. An EV purchase is a ratchet. Hybrids make a lot of sense for some people today , but battery elect
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by Zanni 6y ago
I have the exact opposite impression. A few months ago I was directing a stage play, planning to shoot it with a high-end camera and stream it to YouTube via OBS. But I ran into two problems. First, I couldn't get a live feed from my c
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by Zanni 6y ago
The first comment on the article is better written and more credible than the article itself. Yes, selective enforcement sucks, but it seems the author's own neighborhood board asked for more enforcement? And, yes, over-sensitivity can
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by Zanni 6y ago
The efficacy number is about preventing cases of Covid-19, but in fact, even the "low" efficacy vaccines are extremely good at preventing severe illness and death. Once we get everyone vaccinated, we should be good. https:/&
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by Zanni 6y ago
That's a delightful anecdote to kick off a computational challenge.
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by Zanni 6y ago
That was my thought. There's a feature in Teslas to set the max charge, and normal usage is to put it at 80%-90% capacity to improve battery life. But that hidden range is still there, and you can access it if you're planning a lo
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by Zanni 6y ago
I'll go along with you that defunding is a form of ipso facto deplatforming and therefore bad. I think it's trumped in this case by the advertisers rights to free association (and Google's desire to attract advertisers). But
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by Zanni 6y ago
But that's not the case at all. The dictionary that defines rape is still up and still ranking in Google search results. There's just no advertising allowed on that page. And you could argue that Google is being overly-puritanical
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by Zanni 6y ago
In the spirt of the article, maybe it would help to think of football as a turn-based game, rather than a real-time game. Most gamers have a marked preference for one but can still appreciate the other.
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by Zanni 6y ago
If they're prevented from entering a competing vertical (electric charging), doesn't that guarantee a conflict? They'd be putting everything into protecting their existing vertical (oil and gas).
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Visualizing countries by share of Earth's surface(visualcapitalist.com)
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by Zanni 6y ago
It's not really a mystery if you understand who the customers are. Tesla's Supercharger customers are Tesla owners (for the most part), and Tesla has a vested interest in keeping them happy. Other charging stations are mostly inst
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by Zanni 6y ago
Ted Chiang's Stories of Your Life and Others is the best, single-author collection of short stories I've ever read. If you like that, you might also enjoy The Lifecycle of Software Objects , an absolutely heartbreaking novella
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by Zanni 6y ago
Well, Westworld via Romeo and Juliet. It's from Friar Laurence's speech to Romeo, just before he marries Juliet, warning him against excess passion.
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by Zanni 6y ago
In a thread about Peter Norvig solving AoC problems in Python, you bashed on 1) Peter Norvig, 2) AoC and 3) Python. You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but your comment reads like someone jumping into an enthusiastic conversati
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by Zanni 6y ago
This is very cool. Some minor nits, since you seem to be open to feedback here: 1) Received (not Recieved) 2) represents (not repersents) 3) I have a random late night buddy because I sent no texts between 12 and 3am. 4) The "Good mo
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by Zanni 6y ago
It's "essentially all freeway" except the origin and destination. Watch the first few minutes of the video. Yes, it's impressive.
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by Zanni 6y ago
I disagree. Even with insurance, it can be impossible to know how much you're going to pay in advance. I had a surgery a few years ago, and my insurer sat me down in advance and told me what was covered and what wasn't--the upshot
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by Zanni 6y ago
Oh, man. Hard to watch the sequence starting at 1:56 without wondering when the robot is gonna take that guy's hockey stick and beat him to death with it. Do you want a robot uprising? Because this is how you get a robot uprising.
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by Zanni 6y ago
There's a chapter in one of the Great Brain books where their family is the first in town to get an indoor flush toilet. Everyone else is agog--why would you want a filthy, stinky outhouse inside your house?
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by Zanni 6y ago
On the issue of the door handles not extending, when should they extend? My understanding is they extend when the car is unlocked, but there's no reason to believe that the car unlocked itself after the crash, or that the first respo
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by Zanni 6y ago
Thank you for introducing me to "lithobraking." What a wonderful euphemism for "crashing into the planet" (albeit a controlled crash, or, as you say, engineered for survival).
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by Zanni 6y ago
What's missing from this article is that this has to be a single prong of a multi-prong approach. You're right that this sort of language is going to flop with a technical audience, and, in fact, we've all seen these sort of
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by Zanni 6y ago
Those J1772 stations are useless unless you've got hours to kill. They charge at under 20mph--usually 18mph, but sometimes 12mph. And, in my experience, fully half of them are broken at any given time. The supercharger network compares

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