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by hyko 6y ago
People build things without understanding the underlying principles all the time, e.g. the steam engine. You could probably make the case that building things has helped our understanding more than our understanding has helped us build thin
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by hyko 6y ago
Looks like I am one to engage in Internet diagnosis!
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by hyko 6y ago
Two blokes wonder why the same highly educated women who want a safer world for their children don’t want to push four babies out of their vagina. Edited to add: “Dr Nickerson and Dr Solomon found, in fact, that the third-child deterrent ap
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by hyko 6y ago
you’re being manipulated That’s true of all culture. To a great extent the suspension of disbelief requires your effort, not theirs. It can be hard for analytical people to fully engage with something as flimsy as fiction: the more sophis
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by hyko 6y ago
Sounds like a completely made up figure.
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by hyko 6y ago
Yes, I think what you’re saying makes sense.
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by hyko 6y ago
convincing people to adjust their thermostats and wardrobe That’s the missing chasm in the plan: how are we going to convince people to abandon luxury (real or perceived), comfort, and status in the name of efficiency? Especially when we’
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by hyko 6y ago
Well, live and let live :)
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by hyko 6y ago
I can tolerate pretty cold environments, but why should I have to? The outdoors are the reason we invented the indoors. “The potential energy savings are huge; the costs are almost nil.” This is a complete fantasy. What’s actually happening
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by hyko 6y ago
I am keeping an open mind, which is why I refer to a consensus and not a fact. We have reasonable evidence that this is likely not a synthetic virus: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9 Given that, we hav
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by hyko 6y ago
There already is a consensus on the true origin of SARS-CoV-2.
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by hyko 6y ago
Hydrogen? Obviously there are some cooking techniques that require flames, but heat is ultimately fungible when it comes to pans etc.
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by hyko 6y ago
Not quite right, as 11.1 is already out in beta.
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by hyko 6y ago
People were hired before LinkedIn and they will be hired long after LinkedIn. LinkedIn has incredible lock in though, far beyond mere network effects; they have convinced many people that you might miss out big time if you leave. In a soc
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by hyko 6y ago
In case anyone is worried about getting free LASIK eye surgery from this at night, the effect seems to dramatically roll off at very low brightness levels.
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by hyko 6y ago
“To be honest, digital tech is a small fraction of your emissions compared with, say flying even once a year” Move along, nothing to see here.
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by hyko 6y ago
No. You can only cross a rubicon that actually exists. The world has always been too complex for any of us to understand. Edited to add: if you find the modern world unintelligible, wait until you study the prehistoric one upon which that m
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by hyko 6y ago
Because perfectly good alternatives don’t exist? i.e. glass is far more expensive to produce and ship, it’s heavy and brittle etc. Glasses are great, and have some wonderful properties, but so do the the various plastics–they’re responsib
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by hyko 6y ago
Not really. it’s just harder to prove it means that this is not like asbestos. When the harmful effects of asbestos were first learned, sick and dead people showed up and then a relationship between asbestos dose and illness was subsequ
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by hyko 6y ago
Sure, because hot water is a known carcinogen. We’re in the grip of anti-plastic mania, to the extent that when heavy metals are discovered in a beverage container, the focus is inevitably on microplastics . Since we’ve no idea who manuf
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by hyko 6y ago
Yes, exactly. The people responsible for that work will be the ones to fix it. Note how the designers were notified of the flaw without having to be there when it was discovered, because that was someone else’s job.
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by hyko 6y ago
I think you’ve misunderstood the point I was making; humans need to work in teams, and that means hand offs, communication, delegation etc. If you can’t ever cooperate with anyone else because of incentive structures, then your organisation
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by hyko 6y ago
Where do things like pride, responsibility, and empathy fit in this model of incentives? Good people want to do a good job. An engineer designing a bridge doesn’t need to use it every day to be incentivised to do a good job; designing a bri
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by hyko 6y ago
I'm currently on-call[...]Not by choice, by necessity. I have no familiarity with the code base, I have little idea what it is doing (and yes, I've asked) It sounds like you’re being asked to do a job without the tools you nee
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by hyko 6y ago
If your teams don’t give a fuck about the quality of their code, why would they give a fuck about the quality of their production support?
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by hyko 6y ago
This “skin in the game” reasoning is nonsensical. Highly competent and passionate engineers don’t avoid mistakes because they’re bummed out about being woken up in the middle of the night with the consequences of them. That thinking is just
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by hyko 6y ago
“if you’re not on-call for your code, who is?” Someone whose job it is? The people who designed your car don’t have to change the oil in it. The more I think about it, the more I realise it’s just motivated reasoning because people like doi
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by hyko 6y ago
Follow this advice by left-aligning your text please :)
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by hyko 6y ago
This should never have gotten past ethical review. It’s the sort of shit that gives the word science a bad name. And the payoff was...what, exactly? We already knew that ARHGAP11B would promote a bigger brain size and neocortex folding, s
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by hyko 6y ago
No thank you. Baby monitors should not be connected to the internet, rely on machine learning to make decisions for you, or rely on push notifications to gain your attention. Keep them simple, local, reliable, and dumb AF. In this use case,

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