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by akiselev 3y ago
Yeah modern incineration is a totally different beast with flue gas cleaning systems [1]. Before wet scrubbers [2] and some other clean air technology reached mass production - largely in the 70s iirc, because of EPA & California Air Re
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Because educational institutions aren’t in the business of selling education: they give that away for free. Seriously, walk into any university campus and into a lecture hall, sit down and take notes. No one will stop you! No one will
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A California Landfill Became a National Historic Landmark(atlasobscura.com)
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by akiselev 3y ago
They're called landfills because of the method used to dispose the garbage: digging out a trench, covering the garbage with dirt, and compacting it to prevent rodents [1]. The land is literally "filled in" with garbage. Befor
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by akiselev 3y ago
I didn’t say it was fictional, I said it wasn’t very common outside of fiction.
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by akiselev 3y ago
That kind of dramatic industrial espionage just isn’t very common outside of fiction. Uranium enrichment really is that difficult due to the precision required to build gaseous centrifuges and the nasty hydrofluoric acid chemistry involved.
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Because I view myself ABSOLUTELY not as some kind of AI luddite, but I honestly belief that this is one of the very few credible extinction threats that we face, and I'm counting NEITHER climate change nor nuclear war in that cat
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by akiselev 3y ago
> Ok but that means there would be more such objects, for every level before mastery right? What levels of mastery? Roman historians didn't write much about the ins and outs of their metalworking industry so we don't know ho
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The Tragic Story of the Berberovs, a Soviet Family Who Raised Lions at Home(vintag.es)
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by akiselev 3y ago
That's actually what gave me the idea in the first place: I think the knobs resemble practice sprues [1] or jig holding points. The holes would likely have been cut using premade templates so the builders just used a different side pat
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by akiselev 3y ago
That map looks exactly what I would expect it to look like if it was passed on from master to apprentice metalworker as part of a graduating project. These wouldn't have been products sold to customers and traded, they would have been
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by akiselev 3y ago
According to [1] the growth in smart phone market penetration was closer to 15-20% than 40% but definitely non-negligible over that time period. I assume smartphones are significantly likelier to have a battery accident than dumb cellphones
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by akiselev 3y ago
Sort of - it's more accurate to say that the order Perissodactyla (containing horses) shares a common ancestor with the order carnivora labeled #4 in the picture. Both of them share a common ancestor with artiodactyla (even toed
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by akiselev 3y ago
> A CBS News Investigation has discovered similar incidents have been happening much more frequently in the skies over the United States. The FAA verifies the number of lithium-Ion battery fires jumped more 42% [sic] in the last five ye
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by akiselev 3y ago
Yes that's what hydrophobic/hydrophilic zones are for! Your quote is literally from the "Hydrophobic effect" section of that wikipedia article under "Driving forces of protein folding" that explains exactly wha
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by akiselev 3y ago
What are the chances that their copy is more useful than CommonCrawl? It’s been the target of SEO for decades - are they even capable of separating the good content from the crap anymore? Google may already be terminal
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by akiselev 3y ago
The article fails to mention a major hypothesis that immediately came to mind when I saw the object. Wikipedia agrees [1]: > It has also been suggested that they might have been an object to test the skill of a metalsmith, perhaps as pa
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by akiselev 3y ago
Accelerating cancer is the last thing we need.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Protein folding in modern organisms depends on hydrophobic/hydrophilic zones [1], disulfide bonds formed by cystine [2], chaperone proteins [3], and who knows what else that evolved over billions of years. On top of that, all cells fro
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by akiselev 3y ago
tl;dr: Living organisms polymerize amino acids using ribosomes which are complex machines made up of proteins and ribosomal RNA (i.e. see 16S in prokaryotes[1]). This creates a chicken and egg problem in early evolution because only simple
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by akiselev 3y ago
First evidence of hominids goes back almost six millions years [1] and first tools over three millions years ago [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ardipithecus [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#x2F
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by akiselev 3y ago
I think that's moot: based on the universal approximation theorem [1], a big enough model is indistinguishable from the human brain, regardless of whether the mechanism of action is fundamentally the same or not. I believe this applies
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by akiselev 3y ago
Based on the current pace of development, it's on the roadmap for 2055.
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by akiselev 3y ago
You guys don’t find the ampersand a little too wibbly wobbly and neurotic?
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by akiselev 3y ago
Twenty Twelve and W1A for modern British government too.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Can anyone share any use cases they've found for ChatGPT plugins? Maybe it's because I don't have access to the Browsing plugin yet but the only use I've found for it was writing Wolfram Alpha queries for me like last we
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by akiselev 3y ago
In my experience at least, most of the best content is not produced due to financial incentives. I'd go so far as to say that those financial incentives slowly but surely erode everything they touch, whether it is Youtube influencers c
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by akiselev 3y ago
Not if they had to share with each other.
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by akiselev 3y ago
Pinecil is a great soldering iron, especially the 88W v2, but it definitely doesn't compare with a fixed temperature inductive Metcal. I haven't found any soldering iron with a PID loop that does, simply because there is zero dela
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by akiselev 3y ago
One of the worst parts of the experience is no one can quite put a finger on what's changed. With Ritalin and several other psychiatric drug, people can tell when someone is turning into a zombie and their feedback can help auto correc

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