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by dsign 2y ago
I have lived in two countries. In one, the effects of global warming are devastating: droughts, wildfires, epidemics, starvation, and a sense of hopelessness brought about by intense heat and no air conditioner. In my second country, things
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I've been programming some CAD algorithms during the last two months and found myself buying cheap pens for a cheap plotter (a Silhouette machine), to make geometric diagrams. Can't say that the process is more efficient than a co
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Isn't this a win-win situation? Now we all have an excuse to support outstanding sports people directly. Even better, that excuse can be used the other way if one is in need.
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by dsign 2y ago
Are you commenting on the GP? Because if I had any self-worth, I would 100% strip[^1]. [^1]: As it is, I still dream and go to the gym every day.
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> I’d say the takeaway is that treating everything like a black box doesn’t produce good results (sometimes). And not knowing enough to open the box completely leaves you with a lot of unknowns, surprises, and loose ends. But hey, figuri
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I'm going in a tangent too here :-) . One can say that atheism (with lower case) is a lack of religion. And then there is the meaning you suggest: Atheism as a belief in refuting god. That one is not a proper religion, but more like an
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> What really needs to happen is we need to figure out ways of facilitating friend formation/maintenance in this brave new world of the internet and atheism. We are going to need some new social technologies to really combat this. I
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Careful where you say that :-) In 2002, when I was doing my second year at college, my professor was cool enough to let me submit an animation of the self-balancing insertion algorithm for AVL trees. Those were the years of Macromedia Flash
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I've seen in the last twenty years quite a few papers with novel meshing and remeshing algorithms. A few of them make it to specialty systems like gmsh, less of them make it to CAD and DCC end-products which are readily usable. Of thos
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by dsign 2y ago
I don't know about wind-power stocks, worth taking a look. About energy storage systems, they fall into "risk investment", i.e., something that venture funds would go for. There is risk capital in Sweden but it is a boutique
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by dsign 2y ago
In Sweden, I've been in contact with several companies and associations which are raising small solar farms and selling stocks on them (so, there is a primary market for stocks on renewables). Investment is affordable and transparent a
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"Your excellency, the human was found with a screwdriver. Porting chassis-opening weapons is illegal in California. We demand the maximum penalty of using their carbon to make batteries." Irony aside, there are people already sayi
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> I don't know what great inventions and technological leaps we are going to see in 2030, 2040, or 2050, but what I do know is that the benefits and wealth from them will be captured by the same class that is capturing everything to
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by dsign 2y ago
And the music? Film music for everything popular seems to have come from the same music box. But popular music itself is to a high degree very same. That's not to say that there is no original music anymore. There is a big amount. It&#
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There are also tons and tons of people trying to lose weight, and having an awful time at it :-) . Just three minutes ago I was summarizing 2024 for myself. I did an awful lot of SUP, and tried to lose weight. Results: weight decreased, the
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> You need a legal body in a country if you want to hire someone on payroll there Even this is not strictly true. One can often just register a foreign company with the local tax agency for a direct hire. The most frequent scenario is t
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by dsign 2y ago
I've been of a similar opinion for many years. I have public transport and my office commute is about two hours and half in each direction, but I only need to go to the office once per week, so it's somehow acceptable. But I'
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by dsign 2y ago
And? Two things can be true at the same time. Deadpool Wolverine was 300 million USD to produce. Nobody is going to put that amount of money into producing content for a corner wacko like myself, or Steve Jobs, whom, by your quote, apparent
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by dsign 2y ago
> Audiovisual entertainment is already beyond capacity. We make more stuff than people have the time to consume it. No we don't. I rarely find anything that I like in Netflix, Amazon Prime or HBO. Those services are stuffed with bra
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Unless those artists depended on (free) access to the model for monetization purposes. There have been some AI videos popping up in Youtube and other platforms. Creating a video using traditional CGI techniques is many orders of magnitudes
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by dsign 2y ago
I agree with this interpretation. Plus, I don't think it generalizes that well. In my stomping grounds, there are three circles of trust where people tend to talk about different things: - Outer circle: the weather, dead relatives (yes
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by dsign 2y ago
A couple of nitpicks with this article: - I don't watch movies nor hear music from the in-flight-entertainment system, because I find mainstream American movies less engaging than the flight map :-) (the non-mainstream ones are someti
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This is all well and good. What I don't understand is why there isn't a semi-regular regulation-evading "course of action" for people that can afford it. Say, billionaires. They could build an island in the Pacific and g
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>> I'm gonna be honest, this is much closer to the future that humanity deserves than the AI utopia many of you were dreaming of. My diverse opinion: "this is much closer to the future that humanity deserves, the AI and surv
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Pensions and taxes. I guess that's medicare in USA?
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I guess it's always grey area for Google. But most likely, their contractors are overseas, and they contract their work to a third party in a third country. It's entirely possible that the business has gone full-circle and the sam
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So, Google is examining billion of files from their customers, and reporting said customers to the police automatically, on the basis of a hash match?
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>> involves a feasible plan to actually get there. Most plans never realize exactly--they have budget and time overruns--, and that happens in both infrastructure and software development. So, they are not feasible to start with. On t
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I understand the sentiment behind your question (lashing back in hurt), but not your reasoning. What is it? Do you believe that people can live prosperous lives in harmony with nature, and thus what you perceive as cynicism offends you? O
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How dare they? Mosquitoes are a vital part of the ecosystems. And they should restore the swamps too. Now, that DDT perversion, for that alone they deserve a second flood. Sarcasm aside, I love swamps and I hate mosquitoes, other bugs and c

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