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by detrites 4y ago
Just found PEfI's 4th edition online and looked through it. It's beautifully laid out with clear illustrations, summary tables and well-explained text. I'm not usually tempted to buy a hardcopy but this looks super handy.
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by detrites 4y ago
I've seen this site before, it looks really good but is there a downloadable/PDF version?
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by detrites 4y ago
Agree, it's not a system that would work as I described it - for me it just raises interesting questions. One way it could be modified would be if doctors had a cap on patients, couldn't refuse to treat their existing ones, and co
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by detrites 4y ago
Sure we do, as soon as anything degrades or completely stops working, whether a product or service, we ditch it and/or it is worked on until it's fixed. Whereas with medicine, people will sit there and let the system slowly and ag
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by detrites 4y ago
Whether true or apocryphal, there exists this intriguing idea that in China's past, they had a system of medicine where doctors were paid a salary when the client was in good health, which immediately ceased if they fell ill. What&#x27
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by detrites 4y ago
> But if you live in a battery powered world, your entire game lies around navigating between sleep and wake states on the chip. Is this true of every chip, or are there eco-systems where it's documented better, or less of an issue
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by detrites 4y ago
Surprised this hasn't been ported to JS, at first glance it already looks 90% done.
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by detrites 4y ago
Capitalism is in free-fall as a result of its own successes pursuing perfect efficiency. There will surely be disruption, but I think its silly to assume humans can't overcome it. We always have.
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by detrites 4y ago
> We already produce multiple times more food than what we will actually consume It's funny, your comment seems very naive to me. :) For example, it misses all of the problems subtleties - and so, its potential solutions. Eg: Where
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by detrites 4y ago
Agree, and as a sibling suggested, I think we're already experiencing the beginnings of it. But there's no reason a global economic model can't be built around perpetual surplus. (And strikes me as a much easier proposition.)
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by detrites 4y ago
Thanks, I should've been clearer - I was agreeing with that.
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by detrites 4y ago
It's interesting as I've observed this phenomenon too - some people end up getting what they've dreamed of, the ability to do whatever they like, and the experience seems to bring them to a kind of deep unhappiness. But, and
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by detrites 4y ago
I can't fathom how we all went ten years without knowing this stuff.
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by detrites 4y ago
Oh that's easy, if you freeze time with quad-phasic, flux-capacitance, dilithium crystal matrices, then when they break down from the heat, the excess energy is dissipated into the reversed output of a toroidal sub-space containment fi
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by detrites 4y ago
I don't get why folks find this depressing. If everything can be done by AI and robots - humans won't need to do "work" for all of our needs to be met. Ie, we can all go on perpetual holiday and/or work on things we
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by detrites 4y ago
> What scientist is going to want to write JS when they can choose Python? One who has a reason to? All languages have their strengths and weaknesses. Popular languages have a positive balance. JS is great for the web, and there's s
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by detrites 4y ago
Are there any plans for a REPL? And thanks for bun! It's been impressive and inspiring to watch.
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by detrites 4y ago
An unexpected plot-twist for out-of-work digital artists, they can reboot their careers ...in online security testing.
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by detrites 4y ago
Doesn't seem to be wobbling itself up to Mach 0.8 - do both claims belong together?
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by detrites 4y ago
Another relatively simple format, that is apparently additionally superior to PNG in terms of compression and speed, is the Quite OK Image format (QOI): https://qoiformat.org/ (And OT, but interesting, regarding their acron
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by detrites 4y ago
Great answer, thank you. The issue of regarding humans as AI-persuadable entities is certainly one to be carefully considered. Indeed, if it were to occur in the truest sense, we'd never know it. Another view is any AI we give birth to
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by detrites 4y ago
Thanks for being here to answer questions. One possibly difficult topic others also may be interested in, after reading Claude's responses in the article, is: what does "harmless" mean? For example, if asked to help the user
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by detrites 4y ago
Could you elaborate? I know little about this tech, but suspect there may be size/performance trade-offs.
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by detrites 4y ago
This is a handheld device that allows for the rapid quantitive detection, in a surface material, of all elements in the periodic table up to Uranium. LIBS (Laser Induced Breakdown Spectrometry) works by zapping a small portion of inspection
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Z-903 LIBS Analyzer(sciaps.com)
3 points by detrites 4y ago|1 comments
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by detrites 4y ago
Follow the link I included - LIBS is now handheld (in the same XRF form factor, weight etc), quite a competitive space now, many handheld XRF manufacturers have LIBS versions available.
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by detrites 4y ago
Indeed. I was surprised to learn some time ago that there are already several kinds of handheld, effective "tricorders" in existence at least as far as scanning the surface of an object or compound. There are two main varieties ty
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by detrites 4y ago
So why then would he choose to speculatively buy more crypto when he doesn't have to? It comes across as contrived. Is it really just to make that same point that's already been made ad nauseam? Yes, it's quite volatile - we
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by detrites 4y ago
Whatever your views on BTC, this is a strangely arbitrarily unfair application of only the negative side of speculative volatility. He could just as legitimately state that due to his early investment at $100/BTC, it effectively would
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by detrites 4y ago
sigh It was said in jest, in response to another comment also said in jest. That aside, the apparent "empty space" on the either side of a number is in reality consisting of infinite zeroes. Just because we typically choose to &

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