epistasis

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by epistasis 2mo ago
Ah yes, any funding source invalidates all the arguments.... Does this article seem like an AI boosting article? Perhaps exactly the opposite? I dislike this article intensely, and disagree with it, but its lot because somehow the Berggruen
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by epistasis 2mo ago
I honestly find it extremely comforting. Having something so much bigger than oneself in the world is calming. All my worries, all my loves, everything that goes well, everything that goes poorly, just a tiny blip in the hugeness of it all.
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by epistasis 2mo ago
If you're talking about the purple blotches, that's a map of the regions of the sky that have been targeted for observation. It's not the actual SMBH density.
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by epistasis 2mo ago
As others say, this is probably mostly artifacts from the survey design (e.g. eROSITA data rights), but the Galactic plane definitely limits things too. This video of the DESI galactic map shows the directions that are possible to survey wi
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by epistasis 2mo ago
The number of massive maps of the universe in recent years are absoultely fascinating, and have reignited my childhood interest in astronomy and cosmology. These maps consist of a large number of statistical observations derived from images
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by epistasis 2mo ago
And the rest of the world has it's thumb on what's actually important: it doesn't really matter what conservatives believe, or liberals believe, or leftists believe, or even what the general US believes, when complete control
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Looking beyond the monthly numbers, it came out today that the prior "good" numbers in the US were a mirage, and actually very very low. So if you think looking at monthly numbers is "stupid", the only thing more stupid
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by epistasis 2mo ago
One of the saddest parts of the current era is the wedge that has been driven in the US/Canada relationship. Canada is in the process of removing as many dependencies on the US as possible, because the US has destroyed trust in it, res
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Batteries are getting cheaper while gas gets pricier. Here's why(theconversation.com)
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by epistasis 2mo ago
When you conflate "armed soldiers steal the grain you grew and the food you have" with "not assigned resources" you are creating a horrifying and dehumanizing reframing that makes me doubt your basic humanity. Placing pe
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Can you explain this to me? I think it's far more 2000s, when we were having debates about whether software engineers were actually engineers, with professional responsibility, or not.
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by epistasis 2mo ago
If you can get a group of other parents to also pirate... Not really in the cards, though I can appreciate your dedication to pirate advocacy.
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by epistasis 2mo ago
The point of the account was multiplayer, unfortunately. Wanted a locked down account to play the game with a closed group of friends. Ended up on Minecraft Education on the computer, eventually.
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by epistasis 2mo ago
I was able to take a 25 year break from Microsoft, from 2000 to 2025. Yet I was drawn back in because my son wanted to play Minecraft. This was the worst account process of any system ever invented, as far as I can tell. Plus in 2025 I had
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by epistasis 2mo ago
If an engineer executes on bad intent and design goals and builds a bad bridge, that's also a bad engineer. Engineers are not serfs, they have enough income and agency to be responsible for the fruits of their labor.
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by epistasis 2mo ago
This is my experience with all Microsoft software. The worst thought out, buggy, untested pile of crap. There's something seriously wrong in Redmond. At least with linux, you can search on the web and find a forum post telling you the
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Vaclav Smil has been so wrong on energy, that I'm a bit surprised to see his name mentioned at all. The idea of "primary energy" versus electricity is an important concept, but completely unconnected to Smil.
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Well, there will at least be historians in other countries covering the downfall in detail, if there is indeed a bigger downfall than has already happened. Democracies are pretty good at studying the failures of other countries and learning
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Manufacturing dominance was for WW2, but post WW2 it's really high tech and Silicon Valley that gave us dominance. Silicon Valley was built on defense contracts for control systems, that's what funded all early semiconductor work,
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by epistasis 2mo ago
To play devil's advocate: there are also some limited opportunities to retrofit large reservoirs with some amount of back-pump, when there's a sufficient reservoir at the bottom site. Not a ton, but a bit. However even those oppor
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by epistasis 2mo ago
I could see that, if people actually wanted to work in those jobs in large numbers. Yet, poll after poll shows that people don't want to work in the jobs, they just want heavy industry and manufacturing to return to being a big part
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by epistasis 2mo ago
I think the challenges for heavy industry aren't as much the cost of energy, as it is the capital cost, and a workforce that has lots of options for higher paying jobs. Heavy industries are usually pretty low on the value chain in econ
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Doubtful, the tradeoff is solar cost versus storage cost. Pumped hydro and gravity are waaaaaaaay too expensive compared to excess solar panels. Pumped hydro takes massive construction projects, which are very very expensive these days. Gra
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Also true for California for quite some time. https://www.canarymedia.com/articles/solar/california-solar-... What's going to happen in the future is that May will be a month of extreme electricity abundance,
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by epistasis 2mo ago
I would quibble with the "forever" there. Eventually empires have bad leaders, and Trump is showing how a bad leader can disassemble an economic empire in just a few short years. One can do tremendous damage from the inside, espec
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by epistasis 2mo ago
Isn't it a bigger risk for people to see the page, understand nothing, and think it's not useful to them? Having no information, after investing time to investigate, leaves me with a very sour taste and makes me unlikely to give i
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by epistasis 2mo ago
US automakers are already unable to compete globally even within the ever shrinking ICE share. Protectionism makes industries weak and uncompetitive, ultimately hurting the economy of the nation doing the protectionism. The proper strategy
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by epistasis 3mo ago
Why not build my own? Because my good ideas are in other areas, and I'm going to expend my energies where they have the most impact. I've replaced most of my business software that I was paying for with custom stuff, already, for
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by epistasis 3mo ago
It's fascinating to see new UI primitives and concepts get invented in the LLM era. The sea of creativity makes it hard to even understand most of what each new app does, and nobody describes them well. When I went to the Hermes agent
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by epistasis 3mo ago
I sometimes add a PR with the fix for a bug report I make, but the last few have been ignored in favor of the maintainer's own code. So I think I'll stop doing PRs and just point to code lines instead.

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