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by eloff 4y ago
We will decarbonize. The only fossil fuel we have in massive abundance is coal, and it’s already not economical for electricity generation. Natural market forces could get us there alone. The problem has always been that it doesn’t get us t
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by eloff 4y ago
Yes there’s a conflict of interest. No, it does not necessarily invalidate the result. Claiming that it does is actually quite insulting to the scientists involved. Making that claim without even a cursory examination of the study design is
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by eloff 4y ago
I think dairy in a lab would probably beat meat in a lab to market. It seems like a simpler problem. I think we will almost certainly move beyond both in the next thousand years, maybe even the next hundred. You’ll get your wish.
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by eloff 4y ago
Are you kidding me? One large mountain? That can’t be true. Why are we collectively losing our shit over climate change when we should just blow up some coastal mountains? This seems eminently doable and a lot cheaper than just moving every
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by eloff 4y ago
But not the same memory operations. Unless your code fully saturates the memory bandwidth, which is rare, you get some gains here.
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by eloff 4y ago
In reality you never have a finely tuned load that uses all the resources all of the time. Processors spend a lot of time waiting for memory, so hyperthreading allows for better utilization of compute. It’s rare to have a workload that bene
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by eloff 4y ago
Sorry, I should have said they’re not safety problems. The commenters below got it right. Memory safety bugs are very different, because whether or not they affect the functioning of your software, they’re a ticking time bombs that could co
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by eloff 4y ago
Rust doesn’t though. But it does make it much harder to leak memory than C. You need to create a cycle between reference counted objects versus just forget to free something. Not that it matters as much as people think. Memory leaks aren’t
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by eloff 4y ago
The plastic doesn’t really end up getting recycled. It gets burned, dumped, or shipped overseas where mostly it gets burned or dumped. Plastic is mostly not economical to recycle. Recycled PET is more expensive than new PET and structurally
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by eloff 4y ago
That’s ridiculous. We recycle all kinds of things. It has little to do with entropy, a lot more to do with can we make the process cheaper than starting from raw materials. With plastic the answer is mostly no so far, but these enzymes have
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by eloff 4y ago
Japan is already in this position. I don’t think the change is about weapons.
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by eloff 4y ago
That’s also how I manage my weight. After a while you don’t necessarily need to count everything, you get pretty good at just estimating. I know if I have some drinks, I tend to go over budget and I compensate by trying to have a subsequen
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by eloff 4y ago
Their rename functionality definitely saves me time, but I’d guess maybe only about half an hour per month on average. It saves you more in stronger typed languages and if you rename things across files a lot. I work on smaller code bases.
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by eloff 4y ago
Did you miss the bit about grades?
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by eloff 4y ago
When the good students are Asians and the bad students are minorities, I can see this being canceled pretty quickly as being a racist policy. It makes sense to my engineer’s brain though. Why wouldn’t you want a meritocracy.
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by eloff 4y ago
Does it? Maybe indirectly. The stock price of a company doesn’t directly translate to its power in the world. But even then the cases you’re talking about are probably not black and white. So the answer is likely a further “maybe partly, ma
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by eloff 4y ago
For me it’s github copilot. It produces bad code frequently and often code that looks good at a glance, but is bad. So I treat the output with extreme prejudice. However, I think it saves me a few hours a month on average. Maybe not 100 in
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by eloff 4y ago
You have to invest the money you don’t intend to spend now.
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Demo of nuclear plant postponed due to inability to buy Russian uranium(markets.businessinsider.com)
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by eloff 4y ago
He’s not. Elon already offered him the position and he turned it down.
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by eloff 4y ago
But is it? We can detect things about the chemical makeup of the atmospheres of extra solar planets. Our own atmosphere is broadcasting the likely presence of life, plus near certainty of industrial civilization. We could detect that up to
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by eloff 4y ago
That's just not going to happen. You could put 5x panels on the ground plus batteries and still have budget left over compared to launching it into orbit.
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by eloff 4y ago
The mainstream media has been pretty soft on SBF. Maybe because they saw him as one of their own?
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by eloff 4y ago
I voted no, because, well the world will be more interesting if he's at the helm of Twitter. Also it's good to have one more media outlet run by a right leaving individual in a world where most lean left. Maybe he's the chose
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by eloff 4y ago
That seems like a non sequitur. You want to explain what you were thinking here?
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by eloff 4y ago
I think that's the question with fusion right? I think we've already answered that we can do it in the affirmative. I think that will happen too eventually. It's a question of technology, engineering, manufacturing, and scale
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by eloff 4y ago
Space based solar is dumb. Let’s be generous and say you can get 2x output by having 24/7 sunlight, and that somehow we can beam it down efficiently enough that it’s a wash with gains from not having clouds or atmosphere in the way. Th
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by eloff 4y ago
Of course it's possible, we've already established that much. The question is can it be economically competitive with solar and wind plus storage? I think that could take a while depending on how many resources we dedicate to it.
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by eloff 4y ago
I didn’t read the article, but you could also write one about why you should never say never or why pessimists tend to be wrong in the long arc of history. My dad is fond of talking about how his Astronomy professor said we’ll never be abl
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by eloff 4y ago
I don’t even think initial talent is normally distributed. Take Usain Bolt, for example, he’d be a far outlier in a Pareto distribution for sprinters just on the basis of his natural heritage.

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