andrewla

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by andrewla 3y ago
Attribution seems to be largely due to changes in surface albedo. One thesis is dust from the Sahara [1], the other (from the QT) appears to be reduced sulfur emissions due to fuel composition changes [2]. Just a shallow reading seems to in
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by andrewla 3y ago
Increasingly it seems that P=NP is not really all that interesting of a problem from a practical perspective. The progress made in various NP-Complete problems, SAT especially, shows that the vast majority of problem instances tend to be so
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by andrewla 3y ago
Sure, but how often does one look at one's payslip? The money gets deposited in your account. I don't know about the UK, but the amount that gets deposited tends to vary because of small issues, so a different number on my bank st
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by andrewla 3y ago
I don't feel like this is the opposite. The feeling that you are overpaying taxes because of all the boxes you have to leave blank is part of the same theory. Every time you're asked "are you using any of your land for agricu
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by andrewla 3y ago
The unnecessary labor and expense is the point in this model. The argument is that taxes are bad and people should be a strong check on the government that is attempting to tax them. The more explicit and painful the process is (the theory
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by andrewla 3y ago
The steelman case for opposing "auto-filing" or having the IRS provide tax preparation is that the intention of requiring everyone to file is that all citizens should be directly aware of the amount of taxes being assessed and the
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by andrewla 4y ago
I can't answer for OP, but for me, I just don't. I prefer an entirely offline password manager, and that's the way I use mine (I use enpass). Except for backing up to the cloud, it does not really use the network. When I need
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by andrewla 4y ago
Yes -- this seems like it would be significantly more useful if it divided between "vanilla Javascript now supports this or similar functionality natively" vs. "if you're getting rid of lodash and use these functions, th
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by andrewla 4y ago
I loved Dune, and while I don't think all the original sequels were as strong, I enjoyed them all and have reread them several times over the years. I slogged my way through the first couple of his son's work, but I read the first
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by andrewla 4y ago
Well, maybe "no reason" is a bit strong. Organizations cannot be engineered to be compassionate; compassionate individuals can make an organization more compassionate, but the bottleneck will always be finding people who are compa
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by andrewla 4y ago
As more applications migrate to xdg, I have simply taken to having my .config directory be a git repository. Inside that directory I have a “dotfiles” subdirectory that has managed versions of my home directory dotfiles which I symlink in.
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by andrewla 4y ago
Alife is a huge field, and systems as old as Tierra demonstrate self-replication. The concept by itself is not revolutionary, but I am not aware of any examples specifically in Conway's game of life. The question for me is more whether
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by andrewla 4y ago
Thanks so much for the reply! This clears a lot up, and I'm happy to see that my basic understand was not too far off. I don't completely buy into the notion that this needs to be soup-to-nuts; that the T2 / MFM / Ulam s
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by andrewla 4y ago
Sure, but not really the policy outcome that people are thinking of when they talk about solving the "homeless problem". The guy passed on in the subway car next to his own feces is not going to be helped in any way by these polic
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by andrewla 4y ago
The homeless debate, especially around housing, has become a nightmare of semantic creep and rising metricism [1]. Metricism is the tendency to focus on measurable things; in principle a noble goal, but more often than not you can't ac
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by andrewla 4y ago
From reading this, it appears that the pattern is not self-replicating in the sense that it can spawn a generation of descendants. Rather it just makes a copy of itself and then dies. The pattern in the video in this article, on the other h
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by andrewla 4y ago
From what I can see, there are two (three?) things being interwoven here in a way that I find quite perplexing. First, there is a "T2 Architecture" which appears to be an attempt to build a new computer architecture from scratch,
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by andrewla 4y ago
There are any number of speculative designs that are naturally fail-safe, but none of them in operation (outside of test facilities). I'm not a betting man, but I would wager a significant amount of money that by the time IMSR becomes
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by andrewla 4y ago
Hindsight is 20/20 and all. How many other problems were identified at Fukushima and other reactors throughout Japan that were considered to be equally or more risky? If you cannot answer this question then how can you conclude that th
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by andrewla 4y ago
If this roadmap is accurate for the present, the types of qbits here are NISQ qubits, so not useful for any sort of generalized computation no matter how many they have. Which is to say that Osprey has 433 qubits, so should be capable of 86
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by andrewla 4y ago
> it was absolutely preventable, and they had the means to do so. This is not that interesting an observation by itself. For example, they could have shut down and decommissioned the reactor. What I believe you're trying to imply is
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by andrewla 4y ago
Yes, agreed, this method can work, but it isn't magic. I kind of lumped that in with "cost cutting", because in almost every case it results in a lower quality of service. Supply and demand operates on the margins; even thoug
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by andrewla 4y ago
This is assuming that hotels are making enough money to be able to afford to pay more. If margins are thin, they have to increase prices or reduce expenditures in order to get more money. A hotel is not a license to print money; it has to c
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by andrewla 4y ago
> Since the width of the operands are known ahead of time Not so for loops and accumulator constructs.
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by andrewla 4y ago
It seems like if you did this you would need special syntax for accumulators and loops; there you cannot (necessarily) use static analysis to determine the proper types.
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by andrewla 4y ago
Interestingly they offer a "lossy" mode, which is something I've been thinking about a lot recently. In reality, the decoding of all image formats (that I'm aware of) is completely lossless (i.e. deterministic), even for
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by andrewla 4y ago
I need more elucidation on that. Why can't you use the natural numbers? You can construct them even within the constraints of ZF. Is it just that you can't use it the same way as a set in all cases? It seems like you could define
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by andrewla 4y ago
I'm generally aligned with constructivism and intuitionism, but I don't quite get finitism. To me it seems that even without this axiom, it's clear that there are infinite objects in the sense of an unbounded set. Practically
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by andrewla 4y ago
> the best way to lose and maintain weight Why is this "better" than GLP-1 agonists or bariatric surgery or non-surgical procedures? All of these are accepted procedures approved for use by medical board around the world.
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by andrewla 4y ago
The problem is that Cauchy sequences are too powerful. The intuitionist/constructive version of "rationally approximable" requires a procedure to approximate a number to any requested degree of precision, but cannot guarantee

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