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8131.
by api 6y ago
I get the impression archeologists are incredibly resistant to pushing history back or otherwise enlarging it. This resistance seems to go beyond appropriate scientific caution and into the realm of unscientific dogmatism. There was a threa
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by api 6y ago
Seems like the pebbles are much smaller in these. I recall one very mundane but difficult issue with previous pebble bed reactors was pebbles jamming and other mechanical problems with the fuel. These seem like they'd flow like that we
8133.
by api 6y ago
When I say "I have a laptop in front of me," I am describing an understanding of something that is being experienced (sensed). If a Markov text generator outputs this text, it's just rearranging bits. I don't see any evi
8134.
by api 6y ago
I'm gonna put forward the very view that gwern repeatedly argues against: "but... it's not understanding ." So far I see no evidence that this thing or anything else like it has any actual understanding, any model of th
8135.
by api 6y ago
Gwern should train it on his own corpus and see if he can automate himself. :)
8136.
by api 6y ago
Has anyone used Eclipse recently? How does it compare to the Jetbrains stuff? How about for languages like C++ and Go?
8137.
by api 6y ago
A major problem with these laptops are the pathetic displays. 1080p is way behind what's offered these days even on cheaper Windows laptops. Is there some kind of upstream sourcing problem getting decent displays? Are they all monopo
8138.
by api 6y ago
I've had a similar thought about really extreme "social justice warrior" stuff: I've seen it as a kind of unintentional troll that has worked to surface all the racism latent in the culture. Yes, I do think a good number
8139.
by api 6y ago
Another classic case: the fall of the USSR. Gorbachev's Peristroika was not meant to collapse the country. It was meant to open the country up and grow its economy, much like what China did. Neither the leadership of the USSR nor appar
8140.
by api 6y ago
It makes at least some sense if: (1) Some percentage of existing auto makers are asleep at the switch and are going to lose in the long term as the EV revolution gathers momentum. Note that battery prices are still dropping. Also note that
8141.
by api 6y ago
Maybe we can reboot it with dedicated per-route mini-airports with oriented runways that lob electric planes between cities, like high speed rail but without the right of way issues and monstrous capital cost (for a big country with a lot o
8142.
by api 6y ago
Honda, Nissan, and Toyota manufacture a lot of cars in the US, though primarily for the US market. My Nissan Leaf is made in Tennessee.
8143.
by api 6y ago
It's happening on Ice Lake cores. Process node probably doesn't matter.
8144.
by api 6y ago
We still have somewhat of a lead in areas like composites, exotic materials, jet engines, turbines, and aerospace, but they are eroding. We can make good cars, though the majority of the good cars made in the US are made under the managemen
8145.
by api 6y ago
Ice Lake 10nm / 10th gen has a super weird crashing bug too: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-2310 https://bugs.openjdk.java.net/browse/JDK-8248315 No, no, no it is not an OS bug, a
8146.
by api 6y ago
Cache expanded cryptographic keys and tables entirely in registers for one...
8147.
by api 6y ago
Intel is going to start thrashing around now, adding a million features to try to beat ARM and AMD on various microbenchmarks and special use cases. Meanwhile ARM and AMD will keep winning on throughput, price/performance, and (for ARM
8148.
by api 6y ago
The topic was specifically Marxists in Western democracies today. Again, I am not a fan of hard core authoritarian Marxism and would be concerned if these people had real power or larger numbers and serious funding. I was simply pointing ou
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by api 6y ago
Intel may maintain a performance lead on certain tasks that take advantage of things like AVX, though Apple may be able to make up with more cores. AFAIK ARM has no equivalent to the more advanced vector instruction sets of X64 chips. I do
8150.
by api 6y ago
Posting the most offensive examples of gangster rap lyrics to Facebook or Twitter could easily get you banned or at least flagged/shadow-banned if the songs were about killing people, contained a lot of misogyny, etc. Uncensored gangst
8151.
by api 6y ago
Nobody's preventing anyone from speaking. They're just refusing to allow them to use their private property to broadcast it. There are loads of web sites and even entire alternative social networks where you can find as much of th
8152.
by api 6y ago
How many people have revolutionary Marxists murdered in the USA in the last 25-50 years? I'm sure if you dig you could find one, maybe two. If you dig into far right ideologues involved in murders and shootings you will find hundreds a
8153.
by api 6y ago
This is FUD. PPC universal binaries stayed around forever, and that was back when storage was much more expensive. The big reason PPC seemed to die so fast was that Intel rocketed so far ahead of them in performance that everyone switched a
8154.
by api 6y ago
> "If, however, I understand racism as a system into which I was socialized, I can receive feedback on my problematic racial patterns as a helpful way to support my learning and growth.” With stuff like this it can be helpful to cha
8155.
by api 6y ago
Windows has a libc? I often see windows binaries statically linked because otherwise you have to drag along all the DLLs.
8156.
by api 6y ago
There are plenty of startups providing useful functions and technical progress. They are almost universally underfunded. The money goes mostly to what you describe, especially the unicorn chasing money. Unicorns, or at least the ones that p
8157.
by api 6y ago
You are correct, at least as far as current theory and technology is concerned. There must be a conventional carrier signal and the actual latency is the latency of that signal. What entanglement may allow here is a perfect absolutely unbre
8158.
by api 6y ago
Those things are not mutually exclusive. That's like saying farming should not be studied because slaves historically have been used in agriculture.
8159.
by api 6y ago
It was intended as a joke, like the parent.
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by api 6y ago
That already happened. Living cells are nanotechnology. Something loaded with them impacted billions of years ago, and we're currently working on AI and rockets.

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