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by eutropia 6y ago
I generally am a fan of strongtowns, but I found the analysis from Yglesias more satisfying: https://www.slowboring.com/p/roads-and-bridges The gist is: the rescue plan includes some pork, but throws a lot of money at
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by eutropia 6y ago
What is your setup like? I’m planning on switching to VFIO for my next rebuild, and was curious as to how stable the setup was.
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by eutropia 6y ago
Here's a more recent paper (March, 2021) which cites the above paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.04689 "Predictive Coding Can Do Exact Backpropagation on Any Neural Network"
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by eutropia 6y ago
Prometheus Fuels looks cool, but (yeah, standard HN comment) their website is janky on firefox. Fusion + Syn Fuel is definitely in the playbook to reverse climate change.
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by eutropia 6y ago
> Ubiquiti’s stock price has grown remarkably since the company’s breach disclosure Jan. 16. After a brief dip following the news, Ubiquiti’s shares have surged from $243 on Jan. 13 to $370 as of today. By market close Tuesday, UI had sl
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by eutropia 6y ago
Interesting, in a way: asking to delete the tweet has likely given it far more audience than it originally had. Streisand effect, maybe?
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by eutropia 6y ago
Smells like computer generated text, GPT-3, anyone?
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by eutropia 6y ago
There’s no dichotomy here. We could collect the unpaid taxes and reduce spending.
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by eutropia 6y ago
As someone who enjoys abstract art, I'd like to have a print of this. It's very pleasant. But I'm pretty sure most art dealings are just money laundering.
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by eutropia 6y ago
I started trying to explain water flow / pressure by doing dimensional analysis (comparing the units) and I just confused myself. Count me among those that don't understand.
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by eutropia 6y ago
This got me thinking about treating a surface with Black 3.0 paint and printing astrophotography images on top of that, but I wouldn't know how to get a large format printer to safely print on top of the treated material.
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by eutropia 6y ago
> I remember reading that distributing a video games to an XBox One via internet releases more carbon into the atmosphere than distributing the game via a Blu-Ray. Without a source, I'd have to say that this smells incorrect -- I wo
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by eutropia 6y ago
This is why no TV in my house ever gets access to the wifi. If I must update it, it gets a temporary guest network.
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by eutropia 6y ago
The various links to the talks by the head of the ARC/SPARC project in this comment thread talk about the size of the fusion reactor, as does wikipedia: > ARC is a 270 MWe tokamak reactor with a major radius of 3.3 m, a minor radius
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by eutropia 6y ago
How does FTL imply time travel?
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by eutropia 6y ago
It's hard not to throw your hands up in the air and say "Well, if it turns out there's a black ball then I guess humanity just wasn't meant to make it" when the only realistic defense against the apocalyptic risidua
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by eutropia 6y ago
Can someone offer some insight as to what gravitational wave physicists hope to find that would be in the realm of "new physics"? So far the most radical thing about this catalogue of BHMs seems to be another orthogonal measuremen
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by eutropia 6y ago
> and vast ...* [citation needed] Fraud does happen. But it doesn't happen enough for it to be worth setting up an entire bureaucracy to prevent it. Especially if that bureaucracy undermines the value of the program for everyone wh
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by eutropia 6y ago
I'm no expert, but my understanding is that Fabs like stable weather patterns and climates so they can more easily regulate the cleanrooms. Knowing nothing about Austin's climate, of course, I'm assuming that it's reliab
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by eutropia 6y ago
Trees are a buffer, not a permanent sequester. Planting trees buys time, but it's not a gigaton scalable solution. Eventually those trees die and rot and rejoin the natural carbon cycle. That's what's so fucked up about the
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by eutropia 6y ago
why though?
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by eutropia 6y ago
I worked at Intel in 2012 and 2013. Back then, we had a swag t-shirt that said "I've got x86 problems but ARM aint one". I went and dug that shirt out of a box and had a good laugh when Apple dropped the M1 macs. Back then,
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by eutropia 6y ago
Explain to me the good decisions that go into one’s parents being preferentially offered mortgages at favorable rates because of their zip code or skin color? I would never tear someone down for hard work or taking risks — but some financia
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by eutropia 6y ago
I think it's still a troll question. "What if Tesla or GM or Ford or Volkswagen ... " Then people would sue the company for damages and their stock would take a hit. Done. In China, this has nothing to do with Apple and every
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by eutropia 6y ago
I’m morbidly curious: what was their tech stack?
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No. We’re witnessing the results of infrastructure lock-in with a risky business model. Parler’s Ops team should have known this was a possibility and planned for it. Anyone can cancel your cloud service at any time, subject to the terms y
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by eutropia 6y ago
No, because “it’s just like, my opinion, man.” In all seriousness, my issues with it are my own, and if you don’t get the same tone from reading the first few paragraphs: that’s totally ok. So I don’t think I’d be able to make a strong case
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by eutropia 6y ago
I'll just ask then: what's the other side? what is "my" side? why would "all the institutions" push one side versus the other? You're essentially just insinuating a conspiracy without providing a valid alt
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by eutropia 6y ago
"Pushing a narrative" is a pretty hilarious way to put it when you also say "the media, all governments, and tech companies" were the ones doing it. It implies a conspiracy to paint the picture differently than it was, w
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by eutropia 6y ago
I repudiate the tone and style and not the content. For whatever reason, the author comes off as "other and separate" from the problematic system, rather than an earnest participant interested in improving the system. Seems to la

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