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by bsder 7mo ago
Nope. Don't believe you. And the reason I don't believe you is because my family two generations back milked cows just like you claim. And everybody in the family boiled their milk religiously . Folk wisdom was "boil the m
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by bsder 7mo ago
This is probably a stronger reference: https://juniperpublishers.com/jdvs/JDVS.MS.ID.555822.php Overall, though, the nutritional content is "mostly" unaffected by UHT. B1 and B12 drop roughly 10-20% for both
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by bsder 7mo ago
> [1] Real estate is generally a good investment and will hold value or appreciate in the long term, because supply will adjust to demand shocks to rescue values Real estate is NOT supposed to be a good "investment" and only
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by bsder 7mo ago
> Just build more housing. Also "Wipe out a whole boatload of techbros who artificially inflate prices". Nobody is talking about that part of the equation. Austin was one of the places a lot of tech folks flocked to when every
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by bsder 7mo ago
> 35% of Americans rent their homes. And they almost invariably rent from investors. Therefore if more than 35% of homes are owned by investors this drives down rent. If less than 35% are owned by investors rent goes up. This only holds
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by bsder 7mo ago
The problem with O(n^2) algorithms is that they are fast enough to get into production and slow enough to explode in production.
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by bsder 7mo ago
In the US, the frackers will switch back on if it continues long enough. The Saudis have been trying very desperately to keep the price of oil below the threshold where that occurs.
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by bsder 7mo ago
> The whole of France is eating quite a lot of unpasteurized cheese. If done correctly, it can be quite safe. "If done correctly" is doing a lot of heavy lifting. The "classic" processes are generally done for exactly
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by bsder 7mo ago
> destroys 90% of vitamins Gonna make you cough up a reliable citation on that one. The kombucha folks don't seem to have a problem with vitamins of aseptic purees after processing and generally seem to have converged to aseptic as
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by bsder 7mo ago
Presumably because he is a Cornell alumnus from 1990. The article is at cornell.edu .
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by bsder 7mo ago
> Don't worry! It'll only get better, as the amount of ouroboros training data explodes. Well, the AI can at least be constrained to "the code actually compiles, runs, and produces the correct output." The number of i
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by bsder 7mo ago
Automation to water the plants is okay. Automation to determine that the thing watering the plants has failed is crucial. This is especially true if the system is some form of setup in which there isn't a bunch of soil to buffer a co
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by bsder 7mo ago
> They often ended up stuck because the newest group we've gotten is very adverse to office hours when ChatGPT exists This has been true LONG before AI. I can count the number of students who ever attended my office hours on two
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by bsder 7mo ago
Everything not mRNA failed. Sometimes miserably with bad effects, and those effects have all been swept under the rug. Some of the vaccines gave people lifelong sensitivities to the adenovirus vectors. I can go on and on. We got damned
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by bsder 7mo ago
Tradeability. In real life you can just buy the card . That sets a hard upper limit to the losses. Whereas gacha games and lootboxes are notorious for unpublished, ridiculously bad odds for "desirable" things with no way to o
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by bsder 7mo ago
Erm, Brexit, anyone? You thinking that astroturfing only happens for US politics is dangerously naive.
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by bsder 7mo ago
IIRC, the issue was never how often the DVD-R/W could be rewritten. The issue was the fact that everybody assumed that the DVD-R/W discs had roughly the same lifetime as actual DVDs and that turned out to be woefully incorrect.
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by bsder 7mo ago
That is conflating two VERY different numbers. 60% is percentage of reported workplace injuries . 9% is of all adults . That makes me suspect that the total number of RSI cases is much larger right now than from back in 1990. This
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by bsder 7mo ago
> everybody had carpal tunnel syndrome and then just one day it all went away. It didn't. It just became a routine thing to be diagnosed. When I had wrist surgery for an accident, every single data entry person at the hospital (a
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by bsder 7mo ago
> Direct responses, with care given, are also in a better position to alter working theories as any other evidence emerges. The problem is that "mental illness" is a career limiting diagnosis. Security clearance personnel have
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by bsder 7mo ago
Yeah, if you want something that's somewhat obscure, pull up Cody and Waite "Software Manual for the Elementary Functions". And, lo and behold, the ASIN implementation is minimax.
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by bsder 7mo ago
> Don't blame the ISA - blame the silicon implementations That's true, but tautological. The issue is that the RISC-V core is the easy part of the problem, and nobody seems to even be able to generate a chip that gets that
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by bsder 7mo ago
> we already have results which show that the distinction between stack and heap is artificial and phony. That's not really true on modern architectures. The "stack" is a way to time-alias memory and, on modern architectur
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by bsder 7mo ago
> While I agree with your sarcasm, this proposal is a least bad scenario: no enforcement is worse as there’s less incentive to respect the lights. I disagree. This is acknowledging that these are revenue products rather than safety enha
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by bsder 7mo ago
Also missing from the discussion is that it is easy to prove that an N95 mask works because the effect is so dramatic. The fact that the efficacy of a surgical mask is more difficult to prove does not mean that it doesn't work .
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by bsder 7mo ago
We now know the comparison: https://theconversation.com/did-swedens-controversial-covid-... Elderly in Sweden got hurt really badly while the very youngest didn't have the education losses seen elsewhere. However, Swed
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by bsder 7mo ago
> As a European I'm always baffled how Apple got so much market share among the actual techies and power users in the US. Linux, historically, was terrible and then some; lots of us simply want to get on with life and not dork with
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by bsder 8mo ago
> Bold claim. From my gut feeling this must be incorrect RAM flips are common. This kind of thing is old and has likely gotten worse. IBM had data on this. DEC had data on this. Amazon/Google/Microsoft almost certainly had d
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by bsder 8mo ago
> They'd save themselves a fortune if they stopped releasing bad software I doubt it. I suspect the number one tech support call is "I forgot my password" and everything else is a long way below that. I'll slag on
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by bsder 8mo ago
> Most people are unwilling to spend a few thousand dollars on a project that accomplishes nothing other than costing them a few thousand dollars. So we're curious what Brandon White was thinking. 1) You vastly underestimate the per

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