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by bmer 3y ago
Why is brain:body ratio correlated with intelligence?
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by bmer 3y ago
> "It is not Sweden's task to continue this investigation." > Ljungqvist said the main task had been to establish whether Sweden or Swedish citizens were involved in the attack, which he said had taken place in internat
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by bmer 3y ago
It seems to me that OSDev.org is unnecessarily married to the idea of "low level == C": https://wiki.osdev.org/Languages Would be interesting if someone with knowledge (e.g. David Chisnall) could help clarify whet
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by bmer 3y ago
(I'm curious about this story, as I am unfamiliar with it.) Why did that generation of core (Bulldozer) suck? What was it that AMD needed to do to fix the problem? (Links to relevant stories would be sufficient for me!)
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by bmer 3y ago
The trouble with your utopian thinking is that we do not have an education system that reliably equips people to make rational decisions, nor do we have information hygiene rules that help reduce noise so that people can make rational decis
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by bmer 3y ago
Any resources that you'd recommend for learning such things?
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by bmer 3y ago
Yeah, but those aren't world-changing, paradigm-shifting revelations. Arguably, they're just ruts the world got caught in. Hopefully we'll be out soon.
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by bmer 3y ago
Where do you work? Is it normal to be able to afford to bling out like this on new employees?
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by bmer 3y ago
I think this is a weak comment that misuses the term science. > The author, directly or indirectly, lumps politicians like Bill Clinton and for-profit business like Scripps into the “science” boat, which in my opinion, is bad reporting.
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by bmer 3y ago
Yeah, no. That's not going to happen even if we discovered room-temperature superconductors. The simple reason is that few of humanity's "ills" have to do with scarcity of anything but knowledge, motivation, and kindness
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by bmer 3y ago
Is it the dominant mental model, or the dominant marketing model? After all, marketing must appeal to "techies" too, not just non-techies.
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by bmer 3y ago
You probably ought to be more skeptical about nuclear fusion than quantum computing, to be perfectly honest: https://lucian.uchicago.edu/blogs/atomicage/2022/12/17/clean...
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by bmer 3y ago
I often see this thrown around, that the youth today are being peddled some nature-worshipping fantasy, when the "hard truth is that nature is a cruel entity, tamed forcefully by the work of our forefathers". It kind of ignores th
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by bmer 3y ago
> We also don't necessarily know how more people raises GDP per capita. Maybe it's a situation where having basics in place fosters more people who are healthier or something and maybe in some countries that pattern is not what
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C Is Not a Low-level Language (2018)(queue.acm.org)
293 points by bmer 3y ago|396 comments
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by bmer 3y ago
I'm a native speaker, and it's far from obvious to me. Whether it is "hostile/divisive" depends upon tone, something which is utterly lacking through this medium. For what it's worth, when I first read the comm
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by bmer 3y ago
Perhaps because it is generally well accepted that you can maintain stable profit margins with a fixed employee count, but increasing profits with a fixed employee count is not possible beyond the maximum potential of that fixed set of empl
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by bmer 3y ago
Re: food, I don't disagree, but how do we get decent food? It's hard enough to find decent food if you're an adult. For example: sugar is commonly used in the food industry to help make everything taste better, including sa
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by bmer 3y ago
It's not the tech itself that is the problem, and I think viewing it as the problem would lead one to miss a key trio of problems, that is equally applicable to books. The problem has three interrelated parts: a) we do not value de
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Three Myths About Renewable Energy and the Grid(e360.yale.edu)
3 points by bmer 3y ago|0 comments
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by bmer 3y ago
> Why would you say that? lol. I'm not entirely sure if you do have a misunderstanding, which is why I asked the question. I'm trying to figure out why you think "carbon capturing" is equivalent to "being able to
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by bmer 3y ago
I'm not sure if I can blame the BBR, when it seems that 1) those doing the recount were remarkably inflexible about the deadline (what matters more? the deadline, or the recount, especially when it is being disrupted?) and 2) those who
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by bmer 3y ago
Okay, so I looked this up on Wikipedia. And I suppose my next questions would be: * "why were those managing the recount so inflexible about when the re-count had to be completed by?" * "why wasn't there any middle groun
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by bmer 3y ago
Why is a private company in charge of maintaining this list, versus the state police, or a federal agency in charge of census keeping?
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by bmer 3y ago
Storage is not the unsolved problem. While I cannot say that I have personally done the calculations in detail, I can say that I have engaged with people who have done the calculations, and spent a lot of their life doing those calculations
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by bmer 3y ago
The best way I have to understand why it has been so hard to shift to renewables is: so-called "growth proponents" are the actual "degrowth proponents" who are completely okay (and would prefer) billions of people dying.
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by bmer 3y ago
I think you might have a very fundamental misunderstanding on how thermodynamics works? The maximum theoretical efficiency for a combustion engine is about 50%. We'll probably struggle to hit 40%, and that too only after a fair bit of
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by bmer 3y ago
So...why weren't all the votes counted???
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by bmer 3y ago
What's this about Rickover and Shoreham? Wikipedia doesn't say much, and at least nothing in connection to Rickover? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greg_Palast#Energy_companies
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by bmer 3y ago
Wow, this is extremely depressing. Am I just crazy? Do others not wonder that if pigs and humans have remarkably similar biology, then this increases the chance that pigs and humans might also have similar mental features? (I'm not c

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