hailwren

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by hailwren 4y ago
> Overall, the lighting is still necessary, it's just not as efficient as it could be Yes, and the completely fixable loss in efficiency has a significantly greater impact on our consumption than the entirety of cryptocurrency yet I
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by hailwren 4y ago
1. Pedantry but long term energy storage isn't really a thing. consumption is more or less supply > Results from EIA’s 2015 Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS) show that televisions and related peripheral devices—such as di
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by hailwren 4y ago
No, it's not outdoor lighting @ 0.85%. It's only the waste from outdoor lighting. Outdoor lighting is far higher. [1] But now we're playing a game where you tell me the thing you like and the things you don't like and I
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by hailwren 4y ago
The environment claim is total bs. Crypto uses 0.5% of global energy supply. It's beaten by things such as residential television use, and only the wasted light from outdoor lighting (0.85%). It's also the only time that people tr
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by hailwren 4y ago
In order for this line of thinking to explain the statistics, either (1) Rust would have had no users over the time period or (2) more than the loved percentage of new users like the language (mean goes up). It's pretty trivial to see
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by hailwren 4y ago
Yeah, rocks was a bad example. The gas used by armored cars to move cash around is a good example of similar economic cost.
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by hailwren 5y ago
Judicial elections also directly introduce lobbying into the judicial branch. Successful judges now have to pay for their campaigns and more money tends to equal more success in elections.
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by hailwren 5y ago
This article is almost criminally flawed. The author makes some horrible assumptions and presents shoddy data. Even if we assume that the latent space model is "correct" (we shouldn't), they don't present anything like v
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by hailwren 5y ago
Another good allegory is that, in the US Air Force, the flight crews considered most dangerous are those with the highest collective rank. Sure, the young crews are learning but the old ones still think they know it all and have often forgo
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by hailwren 5y ago
Seems like FB has about $55b on hand, but their market cap is ~$800b vs Bytedance's highest valuation of $425b. Without taking into account fiscal responsibility, it's in the realm of possibility that FB could buy TikTok with cred
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by hailwren 5y ago
Right, if anything -- coffee consumption has only gone down because we've moved on to more efficient stimulants. Either higher concentration/lower cost artificial substitutes or prescription drugs. Hardly the best example of Ameri
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by hailwren 5y ago
Woah, it's a meta-analysis. So, you're definitely not going to get a good summary in 10 words. Early use of cannabis was correlated with worse outcomes, but those who started later in life were still associated with deficits in th
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by hailwren 5y ago
To be fair, not a single communique of theirs has led me to believe that English is their first language.
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by hailwren 5y ago
The trick with O and hash tables is to remember that they're amortized O(1). Imagine a bag with the cost of resizing sitting inside it. Then, spread the cost across all inserts. There are always more inserts than the cost of resizing,
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by hailwren 5y ago
There's something fundamentally satisfying to the human psyche about understanding a set of rules and optimizing actions against them. I think it hits that 'feeling smarter than something' nerve. We've probably lost some
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by hailwren 5y ago
This is podcast is an advertisement by a man who is actively selling his technology to the US government. It's about as reliable as a founder seeking seed capital for their new AI product.
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by hailwren 5y ago
Given that CDPR are in Poland, I guess we can say it didn't work?
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by hailwren 5y ago
You can overfit your data by coming up w/ a model that is very specific to it. Consider an n dimensional data set where one variable is a boolean. A researcher might notice that the True and False cases are different enough to warrant
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by hailwren 5y ago
I haven't used C#, so I can't comment on the IDEs there. However, it's surprising to me that you can get a better experience than VScode + rust-analyzer. It feels like magic when I use it.
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by hailwren 5y ago
Are there any good resources for design patterns in Rust? I've gone through Rust by example and am writing mid-size rust programs now but would love to check my work against the experts.
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by hailwren 5y ago
Unfortunately, this would incentivize bad behavior on the part of disreputable merchants. Dark ui patterns would abound in some parts of the internet.
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by hailwren 5y ago
Of course the reason given isn't "I got caught by my wife", it's "I don't know how that charge got there, it must be ... fraud". Payment processors are required to maintain a certain chargeback rate with t
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by hailwren 5y ago
The problem has never been payment providers' morality. Porn payments come with significantly higher chargeback rates than traditional payments. If someone can find a way to stop red-handed husbands from claiming credit card theft when
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by hailwren 6y ago
I argue that Clojure née the functional programming community writ large capture a peculiar local maximum. I used to subscribe to the “functional = better” camp until going to MIT. I challenge anyone to find a cutting edge CS paper* that is
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by hailwren 6y ago
Yes, these are common. However, it's important to ask yourself why they're common. They're usually chosen because of cheap real estate and car buying being a destination event. i.e. we buy cars infrequently enough that we val
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by hailwren 6y ago
There are two threads here. The first is that it would not be surprising to learn that describing the way that proteins fold is a very hard thing for humans to understand. See i.e. 4CT [1] and its computational proofs. The second is that ex
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by hailwren 6y ago
All the replies are offering advice, but the one piece of advice I wish someone had told me at the beginning of my migraine journey was to not stop trying to fix them. There is an insanely long list of drugs that "work" but will p
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by hailwren 6y ago
Is it possible to spread a virus without an infection? It seems like other than being a surface, any ability to spread would be predicated on also testing positive for the virus -- wouldn't it?
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by hailwren 6y ago
I needed to rewrite this. I mean something like if I select an individual, uniformly at random, after conditioning on industry and Harvard degree I would expect the salaries of most of the individuals in both industries to be about the same
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by hailwren 6y ago
(for Harvard grads) is the important part there.

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