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by csours 3y ago
Manufacturing is hard. Continuous manufacturing is harder. Continuous manufacturing of a new product using new methods is really really quite hard. Whenever I read about things like this, I wonder why they didn't start by automating on
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by csours 3y ago
Yes, it's very reductive; anything beyond that requires more specific domain knowledge.
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by csours 3y ago
1. Don't do remote calls in loops. That's it.
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by csours 3y ago
> you "just" need the discipline to follow thru. I think "discipline"/"motivation" is difficult to communicate for a few reasons - 1. It's different for everyone. 2. It's the product of intern
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by csours 3y ago
While I do agree, I think there's another effect that runs in reverse of this: I had a goal to get to a certain weight. I passed that goal, but I don't know when. I was putting forth real effort, I was doing all the things you nee
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by csours 3y ago
I upvoted. I don't think you are entirely correct, but I think that you can go somewhere interesting from here. Every position invites the opposite position to exist and gather power.
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by csours 3y ago
There ought to be a law, I tell you
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by csours 3y ago
The first grad student is cheaper. The lawsuit ... ehhh
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by csours 3y ago
Every so often people point out that appliances are throw away crap. I'd love it if a brand just built good stuff - BUT - if they did, some corpo raider would look at that brand value and think about ways to juice it. It really makes m
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by csours 3y ago
Same things with phones. A phone should just make calls, it doesn't need software.
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by csours 3y ago
Autonomous aircraft require a more stringent MEL - the list of aircraft systems that must be working before you take off, and a more stringent reading of NOTAMS - the list of problems in the air and at the airport that the pilots need to be
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by csours 3y ago
I put his nutritional yeast on my popcorn. (along with butter+olive oil, Tony Chachere's, and Tajin) Thanks Bob!
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by csours 3y ago
What if humans had chromatophores like cephalopods? Body language has been around for a good long time Detailed spoken language has been around for a less long time If we had chromatophores what would language be like? We train children to
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by csours 3y ago
One could easily adopt the idea that the history of science is "Some smart guy figured this out" over and over again. The real history of science is: A lot of people became interested in problems and worked on theory and test appa
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by csours 3y ago
In which a more satisfying story "beats" the messiness of true history.
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Core Arguments: > "Six separate impacts In truth, AI technology will have several impacts: 1. Augmentation: AI will certainly augment certain existing jobs. 2. Job losses for non-adoption: new hires will be expected to use this augm
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by csours 3y ago
I have a pad of honest to g-d paper next to my keyboard for this exact reason. Goal for the day: log into a server. Why is that so complicated? hahahahahaha welcome to the corporation.
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by csours 3y ago
Maybe it is the effort and mindset that make the difference and not the outcome.
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Modern farming is rather complex. Subsistence farming can be simple. Dying in childbirth is also pretty simple.
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by csours 3y ago
> That's pretty cynical Yes > and just a way to discard his No > He might have done his laundry at his mom's house Removing his independence and adding making someone else responsible for complexity. It is a beautiful sto
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Yes, people publish studies that never get seen all the time.
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> ... live [..] a life of simplicity, independence, ... Can one live a life of simultaneous simplicity and independence? It is commonly held that Thoreau faked it.
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Pointing lasers at people's eyes causes degradation of visual acuity
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by csours 3y ago
I agree: when you've stopped learning.
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I'm sure there are others, but this reminds me of Stacklands https://sokpop.itch.io/stacklands
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by csours 3y ago
> wonderful collections of weirdness, with no way to discern truth So just like real life, then. To be clear, I believe that objective truth exists. I also believe that people have a lot of stories. I'm from a small town, the size w
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by csours 3y ago
It would be significantly more concentrated in this river water. As far as environmentally friendly, maybe, but not necessarily.
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by csours 3y ago
Before reading, iron dissolving due to higher reactivity (including bacterial action) because temperatures are higher ___ After reading: > "Scientists who have studied these rusting rivers agree that the ultimate cause is climate ch
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by csours 3y ago
> Hundreds of kilobytes is not a lot of information. But how much work is done by my mind when I read the output of the machine? It seems like humans are very strongly soft-wired (if not hard-wired, whatever that means) to try to underst
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Sci-Fi has a lot of 'brain in a box' stories - a personal consciousness is preserved in a computer, stasis box, etc etc. It feels like we're almost at the point where we can simulate a brain in a box to an external observer,

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