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by ahelwer 6y ago
I'm humbly trying to upgrade from an i5-4670k to an i7-4790k (both of which are 7.5 years old ) and it's a steal if you can find one for $150 + tax used on ebay. Madness.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Many other fields have this same problem with terrible people making foundational contributions. The usual compromise is to rename phenomena that were named after them, not name any new things after them, and let their name drift into histo
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Actually no, nazi action does not have a good side. Nazism is bad, through-and-through. Any benefits it purports to have for the people it doesn't kill is predicated on the murder & oppression of the people it does kill. You are
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by ahelwer 6y ago
...I literally addressed this two comments prior: "There's a difference between supporting nazism and choosing to honor a nazi, sure, but we shouldn't do either." Using von Braun's name isn't "honoring naz
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Are you implying the name could be referring to a different von Braun? Or are you denying that Wernher von Braun was a nazi?
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by ahelwer 6y ago
There's a difference between supporting nazism and choosing to honor a nazi, sure, but we shouldn't do either.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
"His employer of the time" is doing a lot of work for voluntarily joining the Nazi party, later misrepresenting that fact, voluntarily joining the SS, getting promoted a bunch of times, and regularly wearing his SS uniform to work
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Maybe we should stop naming things after a man who was not only a nazi, but a uniform-wearing member of the SS? A future-looking project should leave such things in the past.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
A good & surprising ruling, somewhat restoring the supreme court's prolonged erosion of that right after its establishment by congress in the 1871 Ku Klux Klan act. Qualified immunity is purely an invention of the courts; it should
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Perhaps, but not in the sense that you mean. Stockholm is by all accounts one of the safest cities in the world.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I don't think it can reasonably be called good faith - it arises from a sort of carelessness with the truth, wanting to be embalmed in justification of the worst cruelties of our society at ground level so as not to critically engage w
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Don't forget the city soundscape's public enemy number one: leafblowers.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
It's just a weird feature of the human psyche you notice as you get older. People convince themselves that things they heard about from the news or other people actually happened to them or their friends. Maybe it starts out as a simpl
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by ahelwer 6y ago
The "the local crime rate is apocalyptic" personality tendency knows no borders.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Lol this dude reminds me of my parents who wouldn't let me walk ten blocks home at night in my tiny ass Canadian home town because of how "dangerous" it gets after dark. Never mind the crime rate is literally an order of magn
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Two Pictures of Quantum Computation(ahelwer.ca)
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Alexamenos Graffito(en.wikipedia.org)
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I ended up moving off the 5X because it didn't have enough memory to keep a firefox page loaded when switching between apps. Have a Moto X4 now which works pretty well.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Love too incinerate 150,000 civilians instead of some random atoll with media floating in a boat a few miles away This is just one of many lacklustre attempts at justifying a hideous war crime. From Eisenhower: "I was against it on two
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Prior to this I was using an ergonomic vertical mouse, so I found it very easy to switch to the Kensington Pro Fit Ergo where you use your thumb to move the cursor: https://www.kensington.com/p/products/electronic-
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by ahelwer 6y ago
If you care this much about ergonomics you're probably using a trackball and haven't touched a movable mouse in a decade. I switched four months ago and my small remaining wrist issues are completely gone.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I think the hard part about distributed systems is the combinatorial explosion of possible system states, which is also common to any concurrent program. Really distributed systems is just concurrency on hard mode, where failures are basica
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by ahelwer 6y ago
I guess I'm pretty opinionated about this, but it was odd the author talked about the necessity of changing the way you think without also including anything about TLA+. IMO the "way you think" about distributed systems - if
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Murat Demirbas has an interesting analysis that Bitcoin can be viewed as a Paxos variant with very, very expensive leader election: https://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/03/anatomical-similar...
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by ahelwer 6y ago
You sort of lose your taste for it after a while. Been a vegetarian for five years, have occasionally tried a bite of someone else's meat dish. The blood taste is really strong when you haven't grown used to it. The texture is als
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Reading your other comments you say you have a PhD in biophysics so yeah you know a lot more about this than me, so I'm interested - are there reasons to believe it isn't just a matter of scale (obviously we are talking about expo
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by ahelwer 6y ago
We've known the "why" of protein folding for many years. You can plug your amino acid chain into NWChem and have it spit out the system hamiltonian. From there it's just using the Schrodinger equation to evolve the syste
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by ahelwer 6y ago
Wonder how the weighting will work. If you don't massively overweight smaller coins, you'd just end up holding like 80% Bitcoin & Ethereum with very little of anything else.
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by ahelwer 6y ago
There are a lot of tools in a union's negotiation toolkit. A full-union work stoppage is the most extreme, rarely deployed. Other measures include rolling work stoppages, delaying response to manager emails, not attending meetings with
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by ahelwer 6y ago
If you buy a share of a publicly-traded company you are not "investing" in the company, "contributing capital", whatever. The company does not use your money to build out its infrastructure; generally they don't see

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