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by borissk 3y ago
Interesting. Why do you think it's not being done?
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by borissk 3y ago
Anyone have a spare invitation code?
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Rare Earth: Why Complex Life Is Uncommon in the Universe(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by borissk 3y ago|0 comments
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by borissk 3y ago
The big advantage of turning out a child like yourself is you can support them very well. A lot of top performers in sports, business, politics, etc. had a parent who did the same thing and was able to massively help them from a young age.
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by borissk 3y ago
Hmmm, there are only two desktop processor vendors. Is AVX-512 at all available on mobile? From the two desktop vendors AMD has AVX-512 support on all their AM5 CPUs. Intel has support of AVX-512 on all 11th gen CPUs and on some 12th gen CP
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by borissk 3y ago
>> Better to at least learn enough about how to do it yourself so that you can verify that you're not getting screwed even if you hire it out The problem is we live in a very complex civilization and it's impossible to learn
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by borissk 3y ago
Hmmm, if you don't want to give your personal details to get a quote, why don't you provide a fake name, temporary email and phone number and made up utility bills?
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What Languages Dominate the Internet?(restofworld.org)
5 points by borissk 3y ago|2 comments
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by borissk 3y ago
No, the different multiverse hypotheses are something different. The size of "our" universe is unknown, we can can see a sphere with a diameter of 94 billion light years. How much is there beyond that sphere is a research topic. N
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by borissk 3y ago
>> No sign of them giving up in the fossil record. Actually there are signs in the fossil record that dinosaurs weren't doing very well even before the K–Pg extinction.
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by borissk 3y ago
I've read somewhere that we're the second wave of multi-cellular organisms that evolved on Earth - coming from worms, fish, tetrapods, etc. But there's evidence of an earlier evolution of multi-cellularity, those poor things
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by borissk 3y ago
Maybe we're already launching them - getting rid of all the microbes in a complex machine, like a Mars rover is almost impossible (without destroying electronics and other vulnerable parts on board).
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by borissk 3y ago
>> The number of atoms in the entire universe is around 10^80 This is incorrect. It's an unsolved question in modern physics if the universe is finite or infinite. Even if it's finite most theoretical physicists believe that
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by borissk 3y ago
Digital currency can be a powerful tool in the fight against corruption. But the people in power in Kazakhstan are probably not that interested in using it.
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Animals are also plants [video](youtube.com)
1 points by borissk 3y ago|0 comments
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by borissk 3y ago
Are you being a racist towards homo naledi? They were humans, just like you and me :)
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by borissk 3y ago
Aren't both virtual and non-virtual particles non-real - in the sense that they are both excitation/waves of/in a field. With virtual particles just being smaller waves.
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by borissk 3y ago
Fun fact: the Higgs boson is the only particle in the Standard Model that has inherent mass.
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by borissk 3y ago
Sabine Hossenfelder is the worst science communicator ever.
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by borissk 3y ago
India slowly joining China, Russia and Turkey as a dictatorship...
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by borissk 3y ago
Android Go is usually installed on phones with little memory and storage, but not with slow SoC. E.g. Motorola Moto E30 has a faster processor than G22, but is sold with Go because it only has 2GB RAM and 32GB storage.
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Ask HN: How did Apple manage to prevent Chinese phone makers from running iOS
1 points by borissk 3y ago|2 comments
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by borissk 3y ago
Don't think so - CPU and GPU are far more important for the speed and fluidity of UI than flash write speed. Yes, if the storage is full it can kill both the performance and stability of Android, but devices with slow SoC are slow even
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by borissk 3y ago
And yet millions of new phones sold in India, Africa, South America and Russia have only A53 cores.
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Dell XPS 17 9730 laptop review: GeForce RTX 4070 multimedia monster(notebookcheck.net)
1 points by borissk 3y ago|0 comments
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by borissk 3y ago
SoCs that have only A53 cores are terribly slow. Recently played with a Motorola Moto G22 phone with a Mediatek Helio G37. The phone has a nice design, 5 cameras, enough RAM and storage (4GB/64GB), but the UI is laggy and slow, install
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by borissk 3y ago
Hmmm, what do you mean by work? http://ai doesn't open in a browser for me, while http://offshore.ai/ does work.
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UMD Study Finds Brain Connectivity, Memory Improves in Adults After Walking(sph.umd.edu)
93 points by borissk 3y ago|21 comments
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by borissk 3y ago
Think there's plenty of evidence that the countries in which the average person sees a doctor more often have higher life expectancy.
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by borissk 3y ago
"ruthless, scientific focus, on the null (/failure) cases" means you're not going to build anything of value ever. There is risk in every startup, innovation, new technology, etc and a big part of making those work is la

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