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by inasio 2y ago
All, or at least most of Valve's games used to run natively on Mac, and now they don't (even on Intel Macs)
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by inasio 2y ago
It would be nice if it was again possible to run it in current Mac OS. The original Half life still lists Mac OS but with incompatible information (newer versions of Steam require recent versions, but HL only runs on old 32 bit OSX)
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by inasio 2y ago
I heard bidding got pretty heated between the Onion people, cards against humanity, and the pinboard guy
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by inasio 2y ago
The Mac is a weird counter example here, the move to 64 bits resulted in many games with official Mac ports (e.g. most of Valve's: Half Life, Portal, etc) no longer being able to run on modern versions of OSX
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by inasio 2y ago
One thing that always kills my suspension of disbelief in SF movies/books is when ships arrive at asteroid belts and it's like driving through a hailstorm. Space is soooooo empty
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by inasio 2y ago
The first author of the preprint [0] discussed by Scott Aaronson (Stephen Jordan) is also the maintainer of the quantum algorithms zoo [1], which tracks all of the quantum algorithms that have any kind of advantage over classical ones. It&#
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by inasio 2y ago
My car doesn't have a CD player any more, but I still have a Minidisc player in the glove compartment with a maybe 20 discs that provide a guaranteed nostalgia trip (each disc has 20-50 songs with a very specific set of eigenvalues fro
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by inasio 2y ago
Bring back the six wheeled car!
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by inasio 2y ago
The tarahumara in northern Mexico are famous for running very long distances (men and women have won several ultramarathons, often running with handmade sandals), they are also known for hunting deer by running them to exhaustion (more for
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by inasio 2y ago
Plus the potential availability of the parent that had already mastered it
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by inasio 2y ago
One other very cool thing here is that this new treatment represents a whole new family of drugs (very sophisticated at that, per Derek Lowe's assessment). I thought back in the late 2010s with integrase inhibitors (e.g. dolutegravir),
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by inasio 2y ago
Keep in mind that you have be to registered and pay a fee to vote, but from the sound of this they don't verify names. The total tally here is of less than 4,000 votes. It's not surprising that people game this, the economic gain
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by inasio 2y ago
See Neal Stephenson's latest, Termination Shock. Eagles trained for drone hunting, with 3D-printed claw protections
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by inasio 2y ago
I heard a rumour that you can find repurposed project Orion technology in 2-star motel ACs
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by inasio 2y ago
It's been amazing to see how it's affected sailing and other water sports over the past 2-3 of decades. Cuben fiber sails, Carbon-fiber hulls, hydrofoils on everything; something happened and then inflatable paddle boards were eve
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by inasio 2y ago
Free startup idea: Restomod an old Porsche/Mustang into electric and keep the rumble and feel of a big V8. Needs: Engine sounds, haptic seats, and a few small modifications (e.g. clutch pedal, gear stick)
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by inasio 2y ago
Matt Levine has covered this several times in the past, worth reading. From memory, the Purdue family had put away their money in legally sheltered arrangements, so even an unfavorable decision (to the Sacklers) would likely not be able to
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by inasio 2y ago
I enjoyed the FAQ on resolving conflicts - basically don't be a dick, resolve the few conflicts that may arise by friendly consensus (or at worst flip a coin)
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by inasio 2y ago
When looking at industrial optimization problems, it always appears there's an insane amount of money left on the table (e.g. nurse scheduling in healthcare, train/cargo ship optimization, etc). In my experience there are always u
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by inasio 2y ago
Nitpick: Figure 2 should have been loglog, rather than semilog-y, I would love to see more details rather than the near vertical line (graph is Cumulative geo-located BSSIDs as a function of the number of API queries)
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by inasio 2y ago
From a 2014 Wired article [0]: "The average shot length of English language films has declined from about 12 seconds in 1930 to about 2.5 seconds today" I can see more real-world impact from this (and/or Sora) than most othe
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by inasio 2y ago
Nice article! I used to have a similar "friend" I liked to chat with and impress him with our modern marvels, not quite Benjamin Franklin though, I read a ton of pirate books and this particular Malaysian gentleman was pretty impr
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by inasio 2y ago
I feel the opposite way, at least from the point of view of absorbing information. I often have a hard time with podcasts and often youtube videos because I feel I could have read the info there in a few minutes vs watching/listening t
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by inasio 2y ago
Reading between the lines (the institute gave the research team two days to leave..., their students’ incomplete experiments were now “impossible to save"...), it sounds like this was not a planned move or reno. One possibility could
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by inasio 2y ago
There are a bunch of weird things in the article. HIV typically has three phases: acute for first 6 months (most contagious, perhaps cold symptoms), chronic for up 11 years if untreated, or much longer if under treatment, and then AIDS. Per
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by inasio 3y ago
Our local hackspace occasionally gets donations from Amazon, often very random things. One time we got a box full of these cow magnets. They're pretty strong, have mostly been used as fridge magnets though
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by inasio 3y ago
I don't think Whatsapp gained anything by preventing this, if anything they gave people a little momentum to switching to another app. The one that clearly benefited was Apple, and I don't thing Whatsapp/Meta did it just to b
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by inasio 3y ago
I'm sure there's an argument to justify making it super complicated to move your Whatsapp content from IPhone to Android, but at the time I was having to dump the Whatsapp DB to recover the last messages from a dead relative it su
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by inasio 3y ago
I don't know about the AI aspect, but this sounds perhaps related to probabilistic finance simulations (Black-Scholes, Heston, etc). I've heard rumors that these types of simulations account for an obscene amount of compute at AWS
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by inasio 3y ago
Next, intergalactic weaponization ala 3-body problem

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