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I'm at the Pizza Yurt, I'm at the Taco Bill
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> "internal feelings" I've often thought of using the words "internal reactions" as a euphemism for emotions.
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Is it at all possible that we will ever find a frozen dinosaur? If not, why not?
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I visited Los Alamos earlier this year and talked to a retired materials scientist at the visitor center. He said that we have lots of books about the science and scientists that worked on the bomb during WWII, but very little mention of th
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I helped a co-worker evict a guy who had been missing and short rent payments on and off for over a year. Less than a year later the evictee passed away living rough on the street and unsheltered. His wife had divorced him a while earlier,
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Money = power coupons International Law = game theory
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I don't think humans will ever domesticate another animal. The amount of culling required is just too horrifying. I don't think there will be any new[1] dog breeds for the same reason. 1. New meaning actual new breed, not just new
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// if you've found this comment oh god i'm so sorry
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> " You probably can’t tell me how much electricity your home is using right now, and may only come within tens of dollars of accurately predicting your water bill. But neither of those bills are all that scary, because you assume t
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That was the first heavy gas I could think of - can you think of anything we could make in situ? How bad would siloxane gasses be? Might also be useful for Mars * * Maybe not in real life, but in my imagination
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What if we gave the moon a sulfur hexafluoride atmosphere?
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https://blackmesa.com/resonance-cascades As many of you correctly assessed, we're actually a real company in the Boston area. We're working hard to assure and secure vaccine and other biological manufacturing prod
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> propagate errors found and fixed 2 years ago Ahh! Yeah, we need better value functions. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41188647
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Kind of related topic: Using libraries is a pain - Is there any evidence that people are using LLM coding tools to write library functions instead of importing libraries? How would we tell? Can you think of second order effects from this?
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My first law of robotics in production environments: 1. In order to effectively deploy real robots to solve real problems, you have to foresee and fix any problem that may occur in 99.5% of scenarios. As automation is added in series, the
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When I finished this, I felt like I should have been taking notes as I read it. But then, how could I be sure that the notes were trustworthy?
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> 600Mi/1000KM range, 9min charging We're still doing this? Capacity by weight and volume, and efficiency per distance are much more meaningful. Charging is mostly a function of input voltage.
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"We need team players" feels like a pill being used purposely for it's unpleasant side effects.
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Commenting to follow this. There is a step like this in ML. I think it's pretty interesting that topics from things like economics pop up in ML - although perhaps it's not too surprising as we are doing ML for humans to use.
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I had a high school English/Literature teacher who used to dismiss the class by saying "Go play in the street, children!" They also said "Don't watch anything that tells you how to feel." Anyway, I feel like th
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Yes, SAFe does attempt to deal with this issue, but it's like moving food around on your plate - it's still there, and management still wants to tie activities to budget. Whatever framework or philosophy or concept you use, it get
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> "Conclusion If developers want the freedom to write software in sensible ways, they need to enter the market directly as either founders of companies or freelancers instead of through the comfort and convenience of existing compan
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIUrvoIdsU0 Eager Space - Good NASA, Bad NASA > 1:17 "How can an organization that is so great at science be so terrible at creating a new launch system?" > 2:33 "What go
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I wonder how this would interact with neutrinos? It seems like a quark core would be predominated by the weak interaction, so it might be more opaque to neutrinos.
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> "oxygen shroud-gas" Do they call it MOG instead of MIG? Although it's Chlorinated Rubber, not metal, so maybe it's CROG.
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You ever think about a plate of shrimp and then someone says "plate of shrimp" randomly? - Repo Man (1984) > "I'm reminded of the Oxygen Catastrophe - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Oxidation
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It would be funny if we were doing the whole song and dance just to amuse the electrons. If the turbines are 50% efficient, then the heat load on the cooling towers would double, which I have to assume is WELL within design limits. You have
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Water? Same place it was going
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I wonder if there's going to be a social cycle where every 80 years we have to FAFO why authoritarianism is not such a good idea after all. It's easy to say something like 'War am Bad", but are you willing to be civil to
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Good Advice is Contingent Someone wrote a post that I can't find right now with a title like that - good advice accounts for the target's personal situation. Good advice is not a list of winning lottery numbers, it's a descri

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