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by com2kid 2y ago
> They are not "living in the past". Imagine two gears, one smaller and one larger. The smaller makes more iterations. The gears in the larger aren't rotating in the past, they are merely turning more slowly. I understand
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by com2kid 2y ago
> How do you keep saying this regarding communication through time? You're going on about science fiction. That is my point, if we assume instant communication of information is possible, then communication through time is possible.
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by com2kid 2y ago
> This is ignoring the fact that babies are not just learning labels, they're learning the whole of language, motion planning, sensory processing, etc. Sure, but they learn a lot of labels. > How many homework questions did you
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by com2kid 2y ago
> humans do not need 10,000 examples to tell the difference between cats and dogs, I swear, not enough people have kids. Now, is it 10k examples? No, but I think it was on the order of hundreds, if not thousands. One thing kids do is the
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by com2kid 2y ago
> You are incorrect, no matter what pop science tells itself, these matters are not settled. Causality is one way, or the universe makes no sense. FTL information communication makes sending messages to the past trivial to implement. O
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Entanglement Entanglement does not allow for information to be sent. It is used that way in Science Fiction, but in reality information cannot travel faster than the speed of light. There are some phenomena that do travel faster than
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by com2kid 2y ago
> - 2000: Power Mac G4 Cube (the early grandparent of the Mac Mini form factor), Mac OS X The Next Cube being a very obvious inspiration here. Mac OS X was a needed step, and entire books have been written about its creation. While it ha
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by com2kid 2y ago
> but it was certainly part of Google / Facebook's messaging. It entered the online cultural zeitgeist before that, with Microsoft talking about their interview processes, and indeed early interview books were written targetin
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Exactly, Evangelion is about the end of the world which can only end once. That may make it poignant but it doesn't have the staying power of Gundam or Macross or Pretty Cure where they can keep telling variations of the same stor
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by com2kid 2y ago
Microsoft has plenty of similar stories, perhaps most famously the story of how Xbox was developed. I was lucky to be at MSFT during what might have been the last gasps of when a single person could have a huge impact, and it was something
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by com2kid 2y ago
Ugh I've been to other countries that have such bougie takeout containers, the shit we have here in the US is insufferable by comparison. It is funny, sometimes a new Chinese restaurant HQ'd in China will open up locally, and they
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by com2kid 2y ago
Only if they are 100% bioplastics, and 100% biodegradable in nature, not just in an industrial facility, or else you can end up with the same microplastics pollution problem. Although different chemicals are likely to have dramatic differen
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by com2kid 2y ago
Sadly it looks like DeliveryZero is still using plastic. :( I'd really love to see some companies using non-plastic takeout containers, especially for hot foods. But even with cold foods, every study that has come out has shown micropl
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by com2kid 2y ago
Doing this will involve a dramatic reshaping of how society works. All of the food packaging that is plastic needs to go away. This would entail large shifts in supply chains, how we buy groceries, and economics of scale for certain goods.
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by com2kid 2y ago
FYI your security certs are misconfigured and my ISP won't even let me visit your create.shortbread.ai subdomain. Might want to get that fixed!
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by com2kid 2y ago
Used Herman Miller chairs are around $400, the same price point as fancy gamer chairs. It isn't even splurging, just spending some time looking through Craigslist or Facebook Marketplace. Everyone reading this: Take care of your back!
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by com2kid 2y ago
It is also the libertarian argument: The government shouldn't tell people what to do with their own body. Then again, ideally the government would be hard at working making society nice enough to live in that people don't turn to
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by com2kid 2y ago
GitHub used to have DMs, they removed them, presumably due to spam and harassment.
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by com2kid 2y ago
The main character is not perfect, he has several major personality flaws that break through and screw up his actions again and again. I think taking every thing into account, his actions are consistent with his personality. That said, th
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by com2kid 2y ago
Laundry Files just recently had some novels that involves cool weird dimensions. The last Bobiverse book was about infiltrating a spaceship that is an artificial world. Heck Bobiverse in general has some cool ideas. The Andrea Vernon books
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by com2kid 2y ago
Here is a good article on Tokyo zoning: https://urbankchoze.blogspot.com/2014/04/japanese-zoning.htm... You'll notice that the model is additive instead of exclusionary. Basically if a block is zoned light co
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by com2kid 2y ago
Apple sells hardware at a large profit, they don't need to rely on ad revenue. Google literally cannot release a voice only assistant that solves all of your problems, it would destroy their ad revenue. This is the same reason why Micr
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by com2kid 2y ago
When facing off against an army of ML engineers and psychologists? It is obvious that even adults are suffering negative consequences from social media, and if it isn't obvious, take a look at any of the studies showing the negative im
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by com2kid 2y ago
Here are some authors to try out instead, biased towards Science Fiction - Greg Bear - Amazing science fiction author who builds incredible far future worlds. He is asking questions like "what will humanity be like 10k years in the fut
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by com2kid 2y ago
It is unfortunate, the old windows media stack had a nice drag and drop UI that let you connect different inputs and sinks together in all sorts of weird and cool ways. Back when I used Windows 2000 I was able plug a game console into a cap
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by com2kid 2y ago
Cities in Mexico have people selling different types of breakfast foods from stalls, trailers peddled around behind bikes, even garages that open up and sell food in the morning. China has so many breakfast options (street vendors selling v
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by com2kid 2y ago
> EV charging makes no money. I have a friend running an EV charging company (not in the US). He makes plenty of money. But his company also provides lots of value adds during charging, including onsite dining. Although I imagine America
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by com2kid 2y ago
Induction stoves are almost 2x more efficient than gas stoves in regards to how much of the output energy ends up in the pot or pan. So unless gas is 1/2 the price of electricity where you are at, induction still wins! Oh and because g
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by com2kid 2y ago
As per your original comment > > Yes, rooftop home solar doesn't make a ton of sense at this latitude and especially not adjacent to this much hydro power. Latitude is inclusive of the surrounding area, not just the city of Seatt
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by com2kid 2y ago
> So what? They've invested a large amount of capital in order to avoid low $0.13/kWh residential electricity rates that come from more or less entirely carbon-free sources As per PSE (the power company for the Seattle Metro bu

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