akiselev

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by akiselev 4y ago
I still think it's useful to separate out the working middle/upper class from the true "aristocracy" (for lack of a better word). A professional in the middle class can save up and buy property until they can live off pa
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by akiselev 4y ago
Uranium glass is even more fun: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uranium_glass Glows under UV!
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by akiselev 4y ago
There's another dimension to this story: the machine itself was so over-engineered [1] it was like using Kubernetes to host a static site with a single HTML file. They had CNC machined parts when they had the capital to injection mold
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by akiselev 4y ago
Conquest by Hugh Thomas, probably the best book on Cortes' conquest of the Mexica people (Aztecs) and my gold standard for non-fiction - it's got almost 200 pages of notes and sources, for example, and most of them are available
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by akiselev 4y ago
I have mixed feelings on AI: on the one hand I'm afraid for many industries like copy writing, graphic design, etc but on the other hand, I'm slowly watching some of the most annoying parts of being a software engineer evaporate.
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by akiselev 4y ago
> The standard highway speed is 15mph over the speed limit here in CA. Depends entirely where in California. LA is a good 15-20 mph over, San Diego is more like 10-15 mph over, and the South Bay Area is more like 0-5 mph over (which dr
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by akiselev 4y ago
See the Strong Towns article "The Growth Ponzi Scheme" [1] and the ASCE Infrastructure Report Card for more concrete data [2]. The gist is that we've funded the construction of our infrastructure nationwide without accounting
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by akiselev 4y ago
Agreed. It will always be pre-programmed GPS because it’s the only way for a tractor to get an absolute position and heading without a star tracker and a sophisticated dead reckoning system (expensive gyros and accelerometers) or an elect
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by akiselev 4y ago
Computer says no.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Note to self: Use ChatGPT to immediately respond to any support request that aren't from existing users so that potential customers have to perform the Turing test. Plot twist: the chat bot is also running the Turing test. If the poten
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by akiselev 4y ago
I've been wondering this since machine learning first became blew up in the 2010s and I guess this is as good a place ask to ask as any: is there some sort of law/theory/conjecture/whatever that states that neural networ
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by akiselev 4y ago
> case in point: these paintings have such striking similarities with (later) Byzantine icons (frontal representation, oversized eyes, stylistic choices for representing hair etc) there is no doubt they are part of a common cultural spa
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by akiselev 4y ago
Once I thought I had a title, So clever and so true, But Dang changed it 'fore anyone could sue. My title was so simple, Just a statement of the facts, Yet Dang liked the title from the clickbait hacks.
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by akiselev 4y ago
> One interesting thing about the Beluga: the pilots very often fail to land them and have to do multiple attempts! They're likely just doing a fly by for a visual inspection of the runway since it's not a major public airpor
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by akiselev 4y ago
I don't think it's the goats! I think it's the salinity found in parts of the Zagros mountains and this video was probably recorded in the Lake Urmia watershed. Pistachios are especially salt tolerant so they're the only
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by akiselev 4y ago
You call it "appealing to authority," I call it "standing on the shoulders of giants." It's philosophy for god's sake. There is no authority [callback]. You can cherry pick which parts you believe and it doesn&
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by akiselev 4y ago
The distillers grain that is left over from biofuel production is fed to cows and makes up a significant fraction of all cattle feed. If we stopped, that corn would still be planted but beef would get more expensive.
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by akiselev 4y ago
No, ancient Egyptian civilization was always been dependent on the Nile not just for water but for the flooding that brings eroded trace minerals and deposits them along the basin. That's why we have so much material on ancient Egyptia
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by akiselev 4y ago
> You process literal pounds of ADP to ATP and back to ADP, every day. That's exactly my point. Some percentage of that ADP and ATP will be lost and the adenine/ribose broken down or reused for something else - cells are mes
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by akiselev 4y ago
Well of course, biocompatible 5G chips are no joke! They'd be crazy to give that kind of IP away.
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by akiselev 4y ago
ATP requires adenine and ribose. The former requires nitrogen fixed for the grass by microorganisms and the latter requires glucose for the pentose phosphate pathway. Adenine might also be recycled by the mitochondria which would further co
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by akiselev 4y ago
That's the edgy layman's philosophy, aka nihilism. It's a branch of philosophy most philosophers don't take very seriously, if at all.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Spotted the absolutist. That’s how you tell the difference between a philosopher and theologian.
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by akiselev 4y ago
Wait until you see the Airbus Beluga [1] or Boeing Dreamlifter [2]! I recommend going to the Davis-Monthan Air Force Boneyard in Tucson, AZ [3] and the nearby Pima Air & Space Museum [4] to see all the other big baddies. [1] https:&#x2
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by akiselev 4y ago
> Is the environmental impact actually significant enough to warrant consideration in this circumstance? Abso-fucking-lutely! *Smack* The answer to that question is always a resounding yes when we're talking about massive indu
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by akiselev 4y ago
It is now, but lobster used to be considered trash food only worth feeding to prisoners. When they die, all the stuff in their digestive tract almost immediately starts spoiling the meat so it wasn’t until canning in the mid 19th century di
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by akiselev 4y ago
iOS > Settings > Accessibility > Live Captions (beta) > Toggle Live Captions
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by akiselev 4y ago
Mitigating that environmental impact is what makes rare earth mining so costly. China is quickly learning that environmental remediation [1] is much more expensive and their appetite for destroying their environment for profit is quickly di
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by akiselev 4y ago
They need seismic isolation regardless of where they build. Cutting edge fabs require such precision that a poorly shielded USB port can cause enough noise to create problems, let alone the vibrations from distant earthquakes. (Source: prev
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by akiselev 4y ago
> The last 2 or 3 years were not a great time for the individual. The 'community' was stampeding, morality and freedom of choice went out of the window, and it didn't matter who got hurt. Everyone needed to do what they w

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