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by cameldrv 3mo ago
Writing RPL on my HP48 as a young teenager influenced the way I thought about programming significantly. RPL IMO is underrated as an educational tool. It introduces the stack based concept, but also the "everything is an object"
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by cameldrv 3mo ago
Not a great move for SpaceX IMO. Things that get installed on airplanes are very expensive and people expect them to last 10+ years. If the equipment can only be used with a single service provider, and they have a track record of just do
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by cameldrv 3mo ago
Most people just go to sleep at a time such that they get enough sleep and they get up some time after sunrise. Our bodies naturally wake up with the sun. The modern clock defined world messes with our biology, and daylight savings helps
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by cameldrv 3mo ago
Most people also prefer to wake up a bit after the sun rises. Daylight Savings approximates having the sun come up at the same time each day. People do not want to wake up in the dark.
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
There is a lot of black art stuff in jet engine manufacturing, but if this article is supposed to be reassuring to Americans, it's not to me. They're saying that China was 21 years behind on the previous generation of engines, an
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
They were really slow though. It took minutes to boot up a game from the 1541. I never had one but my friends did, and one of them had a "Fast Load Cartridge", which I believe just replaced the software on the drive and on the c
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
Arbitrage baby. Rent the movie from the studios, and then sell it to your customers! Before they know what happened, the sheriff is coming to evict them from the house they thought they bought, but you can just pocket the difference!
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
Yes, but you’re paying with your data unless you’re hosting with a provider you trust or self-hosting.
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
> If you didn't take the time to write it, why should I take the time to read it? This is the fundamental problem. You have to look at the equilibrium. When you submit a PR, you're asking for some of my time. I have to figur
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
Great article. I agree money and time are significant issues here. I’d just add something else I’ve noticed with social organizations, that people used to run them more often, and one form of compensation they got was status in the communi
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
The general environment in the 60s and 70s was extremely dirty. Every once in a while when I’m out with my kids, a classic car will roll by and I’ll admire it, but then my kids will hold their noses at the awful exhaust smell. That used to
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
It really never was that big of a problem. People make a big deal that it lasts 30,000 years, but there are many other types of waste, such as arsenic, lead, cadmium, etc, that will literally never go away, but we don't make people pu
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
The environmental movements of the past 60 years have been extremely successful, certainly in the U.S. The ozone hole problem has been essentially solved, acid rain has been essentially solved, mass scale water pollution like rivers catchi
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
The question I’ve seen here is responsibility. If you submit a PR that means that it was your best effort, and you’re willing to stand behind it to some degree. With AI, some people, when the scathing review comes back, just say “haha loo
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
I think the issue is that the tarriffs just don’t really matter anymore because the panels are so cheap that they’re dwarfed by the “balance of system” costs — installation, racking, inverters, cabling, etc.
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
It's really not a public company at all in the sense people are accustomed to. The super voting shares plus the 3% rule for a lawsuit plus the arbitration clause make Musk almost totally unaccountable. It certainly should not be incl
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
These incentives are IMO a significant part of the political problems we are having around the world and even the general decline in mental health. Just on a personal level I’ve found it hard for example to get YouTube and Facebook to stop
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
Notwithstanding the merits of this case, I'm against the concept of unlimited time deed restrictions on property. Dead people should not be able to decide what living people can do with land or any other property indefinitely. That&#
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by cameldrv 4mo ago
Do people think those numbers are correct? 920 million a month for 110,000 GPUs is $11.61 per GPU hour. That seems very high to me.
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
Something like a bridge is easily possible with the gravity of our planet. If gravity were twice as strong, we would still have bridges. Orbital rockets are only barely possible (with practical, known chemical propellants). If gravity we
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
You often see them “monetizing the brand.” That’s a nice way of saying “betraying customer trust.” They buy a company that’s known for high quality and then cut the quality. They can keep charging the high prices for a while until people
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
It’s very probably not deceit, it’s just biomedical research jargon from the original paper that was written for a scientist audience that didn’t get translated to a lay audience language for a sciencedaily/press release format.
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
It correlates reasonably well with 4 of the big 5.
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
I think the definition of vigorous is roughly 75% of max heart rate. HIIT would generally be more strenuous than that. Roughly speaking for a lot of people, running faster than about a 10:00/mi pace is probably vigorous. In the WHO r
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
The environments of various bets have varying degrees of "control" from insider trading. I wouldn't say that sports is more controlled than most other environments. Point shaving scandals are certainly as old as college spo
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
He's an extraordinarily bright guy. He can get a lot more done in two years than most people, and he can get up to speed with a new organization and a new task and be productive much faster than most people. My impression with no insi
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
Not at all. Saying that science does not yet explain some observed phenomenon is precisely how one starts to make scientific progress. Saying that qualia don’t exist because they are “magical” is like someone telling you lightning doesn’t
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
Chalmers’ claim is that the fact that it really exists and the fact that we can talk about it are unrelated and basically a coincidence, which I think is completely absurd… If you really believe in qualia IMO you have to bite the bullet an
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
It's wonderful that the American elite has broadened as much as it has in the past 70 years or so. With it though there was some load bearing social infrastructure that got demolished. When it was a little club, you had to think of yo
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
Having integrity in elite colleges helps society. If people graduate from these places by cheating, and they see others graduating by cheating, cheating becomes a norm in elite society. If students are observed to be honest, and those tha

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