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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Your body is not an abstraction. There will be parts of your body that will come in contact with acidic distilled water before it diffuses. But even in aggregate there were some studies showing increase in muscle cramps and heart disease in
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Please, do not drink distilled water. You’re not going to die because you also get ions from food but it certainly doesn’t help.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Constructivism seems obviously* true to me, and these Aleph arithmetics do in fact seem like a fever dream, but I’m not qualified enough to provide the exposition you’re asking for. To me real numbers exist, but only as approximation functi
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Not that big of a mountain, for a thing to exist it has to be implementable, and only computable things are implementable or else they would not “fit” into a universe.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
I think it’s a “if all you have is a hammer” situation. In my experience and from talking to different therapists CBT is ill-equipped to deal with existential problems because it doesn’t embrace them or helps patients learn from them. Exist
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
One potential problem with this approach is that a person might not actually fear driving a car but dying in general, and this fear spills over into all parts of life. I don’t think you can CBT your way out of it.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
I think it’s the other way around, CBT and SSRIs is not the last resort but the first. These techniques can help acquire the basic life skills of operating in anxious situations, but they’re a prosthesis. You can use this prosthesis to tack
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
As a programmer this looks unusable because of all the overloads implied.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
I don’t see anything particularly neoliberal about that comment? If anything it’s version of slightly misguided Zen Buddhism. There’s a communist version of every tired refrain you listed (but with more jail time and gulags), so I don’t see
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
On individual scale you’re right, but on the collective level I think both you and GP are right, it’s a feedback loop. Places become poor for different reasons: shifting economic realities, fall of the previous civilization (eg USSR, which
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
We're from different memeplexes, but both of our assumptions are equally unearned. But if we're talking about a second industrial revolution it won't be like the first one, because: - There will be more carbon in the air, hen
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
There will be no follow-up species besides those we evolve into and/or create. We're going to inherit the observable universe to ourselves. Even if we go through a couple of apocalypses on the road to it, it's really hard to
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
I don't see anything wrong with humans wanting to control the climate to turn it back into the ice age that we're used to. I just wish we'd be honest about it instead of appealing to naturalistic fallacies.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Why would Gaia try to sequester carbon back into the ground? It’s useful to her (but not to us).
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Breville Infuser or Bambino Plus for people who don’t want to DIY nor break the bank.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
DF64 is $350. Haven’t tried it myself (I have a Sette), but if I was buying now I’d go for DF64, flat burr is nice.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
I had high hopes for this new renderer, but it’s still not good enough. There’s a single frame lag when scrolling, it might not be noticeable to some people, but I do notice and it’s very annoying. There’s an issue opened: https:/&#x2
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
I used to believe in the “sum is greater than the parts” bit, in the context of emergence etc, but then I’d realized it’s at odds with basic information theory: where does the information go? what computes these behaviors? To me the answer
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Ah yes, another classic apocalypse prediction! Goes something like this: - Identify a problematic trend - Extrapolate into infinity - Assume nothing will be done to correct it - Apocalypse! It’s very popular among journalists and experts, d
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
You’d only do that if you absolutely have to, eg when you’re very constrained by battery or you do actually need real time guarantees. Getting a device with Wi-Fi, BLE, GPS, logging, camera, etc working on a RTOS is just unreasonably compli
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
There’s nothing wrong with this, RPi is a great platform for hardware startups because it’s one of the very few platforms with a good, well-documented Linux distro, a million HATs for easy prototyping, and a community to help you out. It wa
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
I know, but my point is that the price doesn’t scale with machine and helium costs, but with labor costs and the level of insurance racket a particular country has. Obviously it’d be great if we didn’t require helium supply chains to make m
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Full body MRI scans are only expensive in the West, outside the west you can get one done for $250. This is a labor and regulatory capture problem and not a technology problem and will not be affected in any meaningful way by better superco
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
You’re right of course, IoT is edge computing because it’s treated as company’s edge, while we can’t say the same for end users’ phones and computers.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
I think that ship has sailed. “Edge computing” is a well established phrase at this point. When I need to refer to the scenario you’re describing I usually say “local computation”.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
wow, what a blast from the past! we used it at my first job over 10 years ago.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
I actually used to run it years back, but it unfortunately hasn't been updated very much since.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
As I said above, it's stuff like Cake, which is an advanced QoS scheduler that helps eliminate bufferbloat (very relevant for home networks). Additionally, eBPF and XDP will soon be integrated into standard firewalls, which should spee
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
There’s this class of devices: https://www.servethehome.com/cheap-intel-pentium-n6005-4x-2-... I have one of them, they’re great. I haven’t checked hardware support on FreeBSD as I run Linux so please do your own research.
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by fellowmartian 3y ago
Yeah I’m waiting for a good open source Linux-based firewall, it’s way overdue. Linux has surpassed FreeBSD in terms of networking, at least for the home/SMB router use case. I’m talking about Cake, eBPF, etc. I’m currently running Mik

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