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by geertj 5y ago
Now that we've shown that we can do this (we = humankind), I wonder what's needed to scale up the JWST design by 10x or 100x or 1000x...
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Yup. And as such that source is ineffective in convincing someone not already convinced.
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by geertj 5y ago
> https://endthefud.org/PoW Hardly an unbiased source (has "The best links to articles debunking Bitcoin FUD " as the subtitle). I read through some of the links and they are all high on big words and philosoph
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by geertj 5y ago
What is the problem with PoS that you speak about?
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> Pricing electricity so low that bitcoin mining is profitable during peak hours is absurd. Electricity is not just a discretionary commodity, it serves an essential need enabling our modern society. It makes no sense to increase electri
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by geertj 5y ago
I work in tech and have been on keto for the last 5 months. Mental energy and clarity are definitely up for me, and I lost 30 lbs. I struggled a bit about a month ago to keep up. My wife and I started using the diet doctor app (not affilia
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by geertj 5y ago
> Will we? I am not convinced. Not everywhere, and likely not in America. In Europe it’s not as unthinkable. Climate regulations are having real impact on people’s lives, and yet there is support for them. Spun by the right politician as
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by geertj 5y ago
> We recently had a conversation discussing the fact that we could eradicate hunger and the need for clean water globally, but for a whole host of reasons we have not yet done it. It depends at what level you mean ‘could.’ Yes, agro-tech
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by geertj 5y ago
> What's scary is that the whole thing was designed to be unstoppable. It’s only unstoppable within the game theoretic model of crypto itself, not within the larger societal context. Once Bitcoin power consumption enters the common
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by geertj 5y ago
> But they're interesting because they are laws - because there's some structure there, because the same causes consistently have the same effects. Superdeterminism denies all that. There can be structure without cause and effe
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by geertj 5y ago
> But it is the team, as a whole, where this expertise resides. Not one member of the team who happens to have a particular role and title. Which is why I made the distinction between accountable and responsible. I totally agree that it’
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by geertj 5y ago
I am speaking from experience, and no, I am not superhuman. As a PM it is quite common to understand customers (meaning, customer use cases) better than they understand them themselves. The domain is complex, and customers try to find solut
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by geertj 5y ago
> Why should that responsibility solely come from the product manager? It should not, but the PM is accountable. GP put it nicely, effective PMs know better what customers want than customers themselves. This keeps iterations fast as PMs
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by geertj 5y ago
Well, I don’t know of any physical law that allows you to choose anything. Whether or not you believe QM is normally deterministic or super deterministic, you have to believe in something outside physics to make all of us not a necessary ou
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by geertj 5y ago
Honest question, why did you have to go ad hominem? If you look at her papers she’s obviously well versed in QFT and GR. You may disagree with her philosophical views but making the case that she doesn’t understand QM doesn’t pass the smell
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by geertj 5y ago
I think these consequences are only conspirational if time is an independent variable? What if everything, the entire universe’s past, present, and future ‘happened’ at the same time, as a self consistent solution of some kind of underlying
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by geertj 5y ago
> Related: Is there some option I can pass to make it clear that the data on the server will never change and thus no possible write-to-read or close-to-open consistency issues can arise? As far as I know the NFS client does not support
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by geertj 5y ago
(PM-T for Amazon EFS, AWS's native NFSv4.1 file system) Performance turning NFS is difficult mostly because the information on how to do it isn't readily available. The two things that most people run into: - 'Close to open&#
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by geertj 5y ago
Besides the modified Kwikset, he was also unable to pick the Bowley lock.
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by geertj 5y ago
That is a great skill. I’ve been calling this ‘respect for working software.’ There’s tons of benefits. First it improves your decision making with respect to evolving this piece of software, as you are now less likely to embark on a unnece
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by geertj 5y ago
Obligatory link to The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité: https://ncf.idallen.com/english.html
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by geertj 5y ago
> If Pat's recent performance at VMware is any indicator...I wouldn't put that much faith in his ability to turn things around. His track record at VMware was also my major concern when deciding whether to invest in INTC stock
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by geertj 5y ago
> It's not going to happen. Especially with x86 I share the sentiment that it's unlikely that Apple will go back to x86 any time soon. But if/when Intel has a leading node, it think it is actually /likely/ Apple
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by geertj 5y ago
PM at AWS, writing on my own personal behalf. Sorry to hear that you had a bad experience. That's definitely not the culture that I'm experiencing every day or that we hold ourselves to. Our goal is to deliver a ton of value to cu
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by geertj 5y ago
I agree that we don’t know. But there is also evidence that quarks are fundamental. Based on all our measurement, they are point like particles with no internal structure or size.
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by geertj 5y ago
The Sidewalk network has a very low bandwidth of 80kbps with a cap of 500 MB per month. I doubt that it will incur extra cost for most people. Is your concern about the principle of sharing bandwidth or are you worried about the actual cost
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by geertj 5y ago
> A solid brick of compute would have to run pretty slow, square chips have the surface area for heat removal. If we’re talking science function anyway, could it be a superconductor at room temperature? Or would it be impossible to build
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by geertj 5y ago
Genuinely curious, could you say why logic and dram on the same chip are incompatible?
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by geertj 5y ago
Interesting tidbit about lunar orbits: due to mass concentrations in the lunar subsurface, there are only 4 stable low lunar orbits.
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by geertj 5y ago
Actually that’s not totally accurate. The native IO model in the Win32 subsystem, I/O completion ports, is indeed completion based. But the NT kernel does have a scalable readiness model too, limited to sockets, that people have used t

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