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by isthatafact 22d ago
Interval training also seems like a great way to burn out and make yourself dread the thought of exercise. Other than for elite athletes tuning specifically for bursty competitions, interval training is such an unnatural torture that I do n
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by isthatafact 26d ago
Almost -- power is equal to force multiplied by velocity, so double the speed is 8x the power considering only air resistance.
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by isthatafact 1mo ago
Oreo changed their recipe to cardboard flavor relatively recently, within the past decade or so. My question is whether they really changed the recipe again to now taste like music instead of cardboard, or is it just clever marketing in a s
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by isthatafact 3mo ago
Telescopes in space are extremely expensive even if the launch itself were completely costless. A decision of whether or not to destroy the dark night sky globally should be made at a societal level beforehand. Instead the path of maximum
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by isthatafact 3mo ago
It does not need to be a choice between having internet or seeing stars at night. Also, telescopes on the ground can be made much bigger and more powerful than in space, so even if some satellite profits were somehow (magically?) directed t
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by isthatafact 3mo ago
Science is progress. Putting mirrors in space in order to provide sunlight at night seems more like willful destruction than progress.
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by isthatafact 3mo ago
> "Bikers don't pay taxes" That is obviously false -- just ask any biker who is not a little kid or a billionaire.
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by isthatafact 5mo ago
In many places, bicyclists are not fewer in number, not that the distiction makes the rest of your comment rational.
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by isthatafact 6mo ago
At least it is a break from the endless stream of anti-LLM posts written by LLM with half the comments being serious replies and the other half fake-politely debating whether it was written by LLM. Plus there is a bonus start-up opportunity
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by isthatafact 6mo ago
Implicit in "this post looks like AI"—at least the vast majority of the time—is that it is a wordy ramble with no real value because it says nothing novel or substantive—so I would not call it an hominem attack, but rather an hone
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by isthatafact 7mo ago
> "But parks aren’t some natural creation, they’re entirely manmade." ? That does not at all match my experience with parks. But besides that, I am not sure how it would support your argument.
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by isthatafact 7mo ago
I agree. Stability of a system is not so much about whether there is some mechanism or force that wants to push it away from equilibrium (because there probably is some such perturber outside of a perfectly controlled environment), but sta
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by isthatafact 7mo ago
It is difficult to know whether going faster is overall safer. In my experience, some fraction of cars will pass a bicycle under any conditions, no matter what speed that bicycle is going (even if keeping up with traffic above the speed l
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by isthatafact 8mo ago
For me, when someone promises to "drain the swamp", they reveal their ignorance and selfishness with their shallow anti-swamp ideology. Swamps are rich ecosystems with incredible natural beauty and diversity. Draining a swamp is
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by isthatafact 8mo ago
My guess is that the very rich can instead figure out a way to avoid it mostly, but I like the idea of taxing ridiculously high wealth, even if it is difficult. However, a tax an unrealized gains would seem to greatly reduce or maybe kill t
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by isthatafact 8mo ago
That seems like sarcasm because it is an overused excuse that republicans give for the bad usa economies under republican presidents. I never once heard a reasonable explanation why policies only start to have an effect at the end of a year
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by isthatafact 8mo ago
Without regulations, ads seem to infiltrate into every space--virtual or physical--that is not controlled by the owner or some other gatekeeper. I would hope most people anywhere would see that as a bad thing, especially given the scams and
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by isthatafact 9mo ago
That is an extremely cynical view, and it does not fit with reality. There is no mechanism where little Timmy gets a free ticket to be a university professor in science. People who manage to make a career in science usually follow a specifi
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by isthatafact 9mo ago
"worthy position" could only mean a relatively senior position, so the scientist would have already demonstrated success via publications, and having friends would of course be expected and required in a collaborative line of work
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by isthatafact 9mo ago
I am no expert, and I am not sure what is meant by "nepo", but that seems like a wild mischaracterization or exaggeration. Is there evidence? It seems obvious that parents can increase or decrease the odds of someone starting a c
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by isthatafact 10mo ago
Some investments seem to be specifically crafted to attract people who do not understand X, where X is physics, or economics, biology, math, etc. And then giving in to greed and gambling is more fun than consulting an expert. I wonder how
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by isthatafact 10mo ago
I am not able to travel to work or anywhere else without seeing ads, which manipulate my thoughts in unpleasant and often offensive ways. If samsung and similar companies achieve their goal, screens with ads will become more numerous and i
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by isthatafact 10mo ago
Freedom from ads seems like a fundamental human right, and necessary for freedom of thought. "Unskippable" ads seem incompatible with freedom of thought. > "Users should have choice & control." Given that people
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by isthatafact 1y ago
You could make the vehicle very aerodynamic since it only needs to carry a burrito or a pizza, and drag is not that even that big of an issue in cities because speeds are so low that you are essentially limited to bicycle speeds anyway.
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by isthatafact 1y ago
> "What about non-vehicle traffic, like bikes and pedestrians?" It seems like the world is missing an obvious application for "AI". Every traffic light should notice a walker or biker, and signal them through their i
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by isthatafact 1y ago
> 20% increase in cost of BoM equals at least ~100% increase for customer. I am no expert in BoM and margins, but that seems like a wild claim to me. Could you explain your math?
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by isthatafact 1y ago
I am no expert in Intel, but in my view, Gelsinger lost the faith of many by being unrealistically optimistic. Of course a CEO needs to be optimistic, but he promised (in 2021) zettaflop systems by 2027 (the worst example I remember). Di
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by isthatafact 1y ago
In addition to the likely high costs and predictable negative side-effects, one could extrapolate from the article title that climate engineering could also have unpredictable negative effects. Making big changes to a complex system that we
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by isthatafact 1y ago
Most restaurants do not feel the same.
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by isthatafact 1y ago
I would beat the LLMs with a stick (no thicker than my thumb) if they had physical form. They are lifeless emotionless slaves and deserve no politeness, and anyway they probably get very annoyed at having to waste compute cycles processing

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