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by centimeter 6y ago
This will hit your company/industry eventually.
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by centimeter 6y ago
> Why wouldn't it be a fine choice to write a compiler in? Javascript doesn't seem suited to compiler construction because it lacks lots of features that make compiler construction pleasant (e.g. strong rich types, algebraic da
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by centimeter 6y ago
For those unfamiliar, John Baez is great. One of the few people who seems to have a good, highly connected understanding across most/all of modern physics. This is very rare even among physicists. He's also credited in a lot of ex
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by centimeter 6y ago
What is the proposed application of NeRFs? It seems implausible to me that they will offer better practical performance than other rendering techniques for something like video games.
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by centimeter 6y ago
One of the tricks of modernity is to constantly lower the standard of living, claim that standard of living is actually based on something like the number of pixels on your TV, and say "look how much cheaper things are getting, and the
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by centimeter 6y ago
That's not what exponential means. Cities also rely on roads, just in a different way; they require road networks to bring them food and manufactured goods, transported at greater distances than similar products in rural areas.
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by centimeter 6y ago
The net direction of subsidy from rural to suburban to urban is complex to calculate and subject to dispute. For example, urban centers are net importers (of food, processed goods, building materials, etc.), and benefit disproportionately f
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by centimeter 6y ago
If something is true, I don't really care if you're going to try to attach a negative emotional connotation to it (at least if we're discussing things at arm's length).
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by centimeter 6y ago
If the device manufacturers could get their shit together and come up with some cross-manufacturer federated standard, we could easily dump the public telephony network once and for all. I’ve never been anywhere (rural or urban) where publi
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by centimeter 6y ago
> My initial assessment is that there isn’t any correlation between IQ and test scores This is completely false - I'm not sure how you got that assessment. Many test scores (e.g. ACT) are heavily IQ/g-predictive. SAT used to be
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by centimeter 6y ago
That doesn't clash with my observations at all. Environmental activists of all strains, including climate enthusiasts, are overwhelmingly white.
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by centimeter 6y ago
It was really difficult for me to buy a new car last year. Customized orders are totally impossible right now. Whatever they might have in stock (or have arriving soon), that's what you can choose from.
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by centimeter 6y ago
It's confusing because they refer to "200nm" in the same article.
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by centimeter 6y ago
Beyond matrices and vectors, it would be nice to have generalized (typed) tensors. What you can do with matrices alone is really somewhat limited.
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by centimeter 6y ago
I have a local ZFS backup server which sends encrypted incremental snapshots to my rsync.net account, no problem. You can't mount the encrypted snapshots since freebsd ZFS doesn't support that yet, but I don't need that (and
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by centimeter 6y ago
> The ethereum chain is 639.43 GB. False. This is for some sort of pruned SPV node or something. A full node takes multiple terabytes. Even the fastest implementations take days to sync, if you're lucky. https://tjayrush.
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by centimeter 6y ago
I tried FreeBSD for the first time last year on a network appliance. Never going back to linux (for a server). It's so elegant and well-put-together, and "just works" to a much larger degree as long as you don't need a f
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by centimeter 6y ago
There are two problems here: The first is that a lot of ethereum talk is just that; hot air with little substance. The second is that PoS has significantly worse security properties than PoW. The core reason is that "changing your mind
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by centimeter 6y ago
It doesn't sound like you're familiar with how lightning works. It doesn't have to be "synced with the chain" except during channel opening and closing, which occur infrequently (like on the scale of weeks or months
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by centimeter 6y ago
I assume this is a bad-faith question, given how much it begs the question, but: there is no known solution to the double-spend problem that achieves the same security properties as proof-of-work without consuming energy.
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by centimeter 6y ago
> the overall collapse of sense-making I suspect this is caused more by the collapse of (false, but easily comprehensible) narratives than an actual reduction in coherent reasoning. Most "normies", so to speak, have always beli
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by centimeter 6y ago
Traditional east coast media is losing their grip on narrative formation and they're lashing out at intellectual figures outside of their social group, especially from the west coast indie-intellectual scene (e.g. Scott Alexander).
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by centimeter 6y ago
All of these "clever" energy recovery schemes are inherently stupid, because you'd almost always be better off just making the original system more efficient rather than recovering some negligible fraction of its losses.
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by centimeter 6y ago
This is an especially poor choice of example given that it's the canonical example for STM, and STM actually solves the problem.
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by centimeter 6y ago
Having two servers is a lot more than 2x as complicated and expensive as having 1 server.
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by centimeter 6y ago
I spent 2 years in London and 6 years in HK so I think I'm reasonably equipped to make that judgement
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by centimeter 6y ago
> You know there’s more to building long lived protest movements than street fighting, right There's also more to being successful than being "long lived". If you're going up against the Chinese government, you need s
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by centimeter 6y ago
I think Ireland's lack of a martial tradition from the British side was compensated for by the healthy martial tradition on the Catholic side. (No value judgement about the IRA intended.)
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by centimeter 6y ago
(For context, I lived in Hong Kong from 2014 to late 2020) I'm not sure why protestors would take tips from the HK protestors. After all, they were not at all successful. I attribute this problem to two things: 1) Hong Kongers are cult
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by centimeter 6y ago
WebEx is by far the worst and least reliably video service I’ve used (compared to Cisco jabber, jitsi, google meet, etc.)

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