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by dguest 22d ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuiK7jcC1fY
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by dguest 22d ago
Fixing the municipal waste system seems like the "add another system" school of engineering. As someone who works in poorly organized, poorly funded projects, I generally subscribe more to the "remove the problematic part of
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by dguest 23d ago
Unfortunately it wasn't just the public: it caused so much uproar within the experiment that two of the highest ranking members resigned their posts [1]. I was a bit dismayed at the reaction within the physics community. Experiments
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by dguest 23d ago
Beyond a "cool fact", this is the only reason that physics works, where I'm defining physics as the human study of physical laws, not the laws themselves. If we couldn't neglect higher moments systems from planetary moti
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by dguest 24d ago
These arguments tend to ignore that a reusable thing is often just a lot better at whatever it does. You can put a few liters of milk in a reusable bag without triple bagging it. You don't have to worry that it will split open and spil
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by dguest 24d ago
I think the GP was suggesting that their reluctance was more about someone taking their idea. I still think it might suggest a problem with academia, but the summary would be closer to "I don't want to live in a world where someon
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by dguest 28d ago
Are there examples of anyone discussing this and reaching other conclusions? We've come to the same conclusion in our organization and while it felt like it needed to be discussed and stated, I've never heard of anyone coming to a
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by dguest 29d ago
It's embedded in an explanation as to why computer science at the time seemed to have such a strong local character, despite all the homogenizing influences. He partly puts blames on the founders of the field who were "confusing&q
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by dguest 1mo ago
Reminds me of the Edsger W. Dijkstra quote: Alan M. Turing thought about criteria to settle the question of whether Machines Can Think, a question of which we now know that it is about as relevant as the question of whether Submarines
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by dguest 1mo ago
Kind of interesting to think about why an American libertarian think tank would be writing articles about Europe. Is it just to give Americans talking points against whatever europhile they might encounter, or does Cato actually care abou
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by dguest 1mo ago
Stick your feet in a bucket of water. My colleague does it: it's magical.
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by dguest 1mo ago
> the French government [1] have said that cooling a room .. more than 15 degrees ... can trigger “thermal shock.” ... This ailment is mysteriously absent from the United States... Leaving aside that this kind of insinuation makes the a
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by dguest 1mo ago
Brought to you by an American libertarian think tank [1], no less. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cato_Institute
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by dguest 1mo ago
There's a lot more when it comes to Starlink: - The obvious political point: that ISP is subject to laws in a country that is testing its legal framework and diplomacy in new (some may say unpredictable) ways. - The first rule of publi
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by dguest 1mo ago
There are two smaller empty regions in the east that are filled with a whole lot of mountains. I suspect covering them might be more expensive.
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by dguest 1mo ago
This is also a nice map of beautiful places in France (if you like mountains and nature). Maybe also some places that aren't beautiful but are at least cheap.
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by dguest 1mo ago
FCC: high standards are unfairly prejudicial against subpar infrastructure. > The Carr FCC said last year that the gigabit goal “may be unreasonably prejudicial to technologies such as satellite and fixed wireless that presently do not s
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by dguest 1mo ago
There are people who don't want a perfect font, they want a new one every few years. The rest of us just don't want it to be distracting.
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by dguest 1mo ago
arXiv preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16541 note that whereas many preprints will be verbatim the same text, this one seems to be slightly different but it describes the same research.
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by dguest 2mo ago
That's fair, it actually has nothing to do with money. It's just saying that if $IN is more efficiently converted to $OUT, more $IN will be consumed. The original paradox was $IN = coal and $OUT = work, i.e. more efficient coal us
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by dguest 2mo ago
A huge coal power plant belching smoke probably looked pretty cool, maybe even majestic, the first time you saw London back in the Victorian Era. That's before the entire city became saturated in soot, you developed respiratory problem
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by dguest 2mo ago
Well consuming more jam per unit time would still be supply and demand, you have to spend more on jam overall because you can buy a cheaper jar.
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by dguest 2mo ago
Supply and demand says when something is cheaper (or produced more efficiently), people will use more of it. But the critical part is that it doesn't say people will spend more on it. Jevon's paradox is a special case of supply
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by dguest 2mo ago
Yeah, once you dig into economics, technology and science of the era it often feels like the big discoveries were inevitable. That doesn't make these people any less great, it's just to say there are many more great thinkers that
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by dguest 2mo ago
You don't even need add blocking for most open source software: the threat of forking backs a culture where the software is just there to to its job and not to sell something. I started using the f-droid app "store" recently
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by dguest 2mo ago
> Nobel prize winners are the smartest people on the planet I wouldn't go that far. They are not dumb and they like to promote their ideas. They can probably give an above-average take on most things. There are millions of other n
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by dguest 2mo ago
Yeah and I should say it's still awesome! I just used the "share offline" feature to get it on my friend's phone last weekend (we were trying to chat on a mountain with no internet). It works like a charm and isn't
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by dguest 2mo ago
David Graeber goes into this a lot in "Bullshit Jobs". Farming will keep you very busy (as a few people have pointed out), but it's mostly caring for projects you personally own. As the title of the book suggests, Graeber is
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by dguest 2mo ago
Maybe it's not going to get any better. LLMs were trained to do two things: - Mimic human language (and logic, since that's part of what we express with language). This includes code written by humans. - Write code to solve proble
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by dguest 2mo ago
They had this in Korea when I was there a decade ago! It works fine, but people's reaction on hearing this is always interesting, ranging from: - enthusiasm: that's awesome everyone should do that - skepticism: that seems like a t

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