buttermeup

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   by buttermeup 7mo ago

   Obviously we have the benefit of hindsight, but “do heavy objects fall faster” doesn’t seem like a stupid question to me in the same way that “do chimpanzees like crystals” does.
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   by buttermeup 7mo ago

   While that sounds like an interesting tidbit, it also doesn’t appear remotely true based off of the history sections in the wiki pages for microwaves and microwave ovens.
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   by buttermeup 7mo ago

   What are some examples of questions that at first seemed stupid yet became brilliant when connected with other seemingly stupid ideas?
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   by buttermeup 7mo ago

   Not really, although things may be trending in the wrong direction. Pick any “weird” current event and you can find much worse examples in relatively modern history. Just compare whatever you think of to the siege of Leningrad, for instance
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   by buttermeup 7mo ago

   All of these articles about AI’s impact on engineering are so short sighted. Software engineering is a means to an end. The computers need to do something and software engineering is how we’ve traditionally done that. But it should be abund
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   by buttermeup 7mo ago

   In school, we talked about “Dedekind cuts” but we never formalized the definition. Kind of disappointed now because your explanation is very simple and elegant.
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   by buttermeup 7mo ago

   But what if I want to?