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by btilly 2y ago
There is dust between us and most stars in the Milky Way that blocks them from view in visible light. Therefore we can only see a fraction of the supernovae in the Milky Way. It is substantially easier for us to see supernovae in other gala
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by btilly 2y ago
On performance, you're acknowledging my point without recognizing how important it was for switching back in 2008. Using the web, particularly JavaScript heavy parts of the web like Google's business suite, Chrome was a significan
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by btilly 2y ago
The answer is because of how much (or little) background is needed to understand each concept. For example people don't develop intuition into what an exponential with a complex power should be until after have been introduced to it th
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by btilly 2y ago
As someone else who lived through those days, I have to disagree. First, JavaScript performance was not an afterthought, it was a big deal. Second, Chrome's sandbox was massively superior from a security point of view. In a world full
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by btilly 2y ago
I dislike this feature. The stated use case is to avoid injection attacks. However the primary reason why injection attacks work is that the easiest way to write the code makes it vulnerable to injection attacks. This remains true, and so i
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by btilly 2y ago
In the same thread Tao commented https://terrytao.wordpress.com/2025/03/26/decomposing-a-fact... which shows work from Andrew Sutherland that got the 100k limit after about a day. As impressed as I am with th
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by btilly 2y ago
Most of the outliers look like, "Someone was willing to spend large amounts of money." Another outlier was Deep Blue. Estimated cost of about $10 million. Its estimated strength was matched by top end PCs about 9 years later. Your
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by btilly 2y ago
Huh. The article claims at least an order of magnitude more SLT modules than the reference I found. I think it is still quite a bit less than the smartphone, but that makes global compute at least closer. Still, 55 years of doubling transis
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by btilly 2y ago
I wonder how the compute power of a current high end smart phone compares with and IBM 360? I know the graphics chip is better. A current high end smartphone has around 10 billion transistors. From https://gunkies.org/wiki
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by btilly 2y ago
I first remember the term when Oracle ported themselves to Linux, began submitting patches, then began pushing Oracle on Linux to enterprises. Oracle's big reason for doing so was because they could charge more for Oracle on Linux, and
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by btilly 2y ago
The problem with this plan is that the tariffs are likely to cause inflation. (Because now prices have to include the tariffs.) In a period of inflation, people are unwilling to buy bonds of any kind, including Treasury bonds, unless they h
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by btilly 2y ago
I'm arguing for the hypothetical possibility that an Objectivist could have hypocrisy on this. The argument that any individual Objectivist actually does requires a tremendous amount of additional information. I do personally know some
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by btilly 2y ago
One of the major reasons why there are so many low effort gotchas is that her message is so emotionally uncomfortable for many. Facing what is legitimate in her criticisms is hard. And so people only consider her views long enough to come u
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by btilly 2y ago
The fact that it is a good explanation, doesn't mean that hypocrisy is missing. It is quite common for us to do things for one reason, while actually being motivated by a second, unacknowledged, reason. For example consider this case.
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by btilly 2y ago
The central problem of Objectivism is that they tie their logical conclusions into emotional knots. You can see this in their use of loaded language such as "theft". The problem is that this causes them to believe that their concl
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by btilly 2y ago
Accepting assistance is perfectly in accord with her philosophy. You can verify her position from https://courses.aynrand.org/works/the-question-of-scholarshi... . She views taxation as theft. Those who agree and advoca
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by btilly 2y ago
Ah yes. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left-brain_interpreter for more about this. As one neurologist put it, listening to people's explanations of how they think is entertaining, but not very informative. Virt
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by btilly 2y ago
> The fact that you can reason about intelligence is a counter argument to this The fact that we can provide a chain of reasoning, and we can think that it is about intelligence, doesn't mean that we were actually reasoning about in
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by btilly 2y ago
You are giving a fully partisan version from one side, while ignoring the partisan view from the other. Not entirely your fault correctly stating what the other side thinks, in terms that the other side will agree with, is an extremely hard
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by btilly 2y ago
Voting for a party explicitly demonstrates at least acceptance of if not outright support for its platform. You don't get to absolve yourself of support for kicking puppies because the FooBar party also includes a modest tax cut in it
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by btilly 2y ago
My kids loved that stuff when they were young.
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by btilly 2y ago
In all known physical processes, the baryon number is conserved. Particles with a positive baryon number are the heavy particles in matter. Think protons, neutrons, and so on. Particles with a negative number are antimatter. Think antiproto
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by btilly 2y ago
Derek Lowe also did chlorine trifluoride: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/sand-won-t-save-yo... .
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by btilly 2y ago
Men like me also don't replicate by ourselves. Does that mean that we are not alive?
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by btilly 2y ago
You factor N! into N factors, and look at the smallest of those factors. t(N) is the largest that the smallest factor can be. Here are the best factorizations going slightly beyond the part of https://oeis.org/A034258 that
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by btilly 2y ago
Out of curiosity, I wondered how tight these bounds are. Consider the case of 300,000 which Terry has put a lower bound of 90,000 on, and would like a bound of 100,000 on. If a perfect division of factors into equal buckets could be achieve
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by btilly 2y ago
I got most of the way to a PhD and only saw y-dot in one differential equations course.
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by btilly 2y ago
We still mostly use Leibniz' dy/dx notation. Newton's fluxions and y-dot (a dot over the y) notation are largely forgotten. The Hooke debate gave us a great quote from Newton. "If I have seen farther than others, it is
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by btilly 2y ago
The author of the shell script was probably Doug McIlroy. See www.leancrew.com/all-this/2011/12/more-shell-less-egg/ for more.
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by btilly 2y ago
But "can't fully account" does not imply "aren't a major factor". I would look at the paper in more detail, but it is not available to me.

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