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by j-pb 5y ago
With all due respect, I think you're blowing that comment on the skewed power dynamic of the U.K. with the E.U., public miss-information campaigns, and inappropriate policies of political leadership, vastly out of proportion. This has
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Of course this doesn't apply to individuals. It's an effect of the cultural feeling of supremacy originating from it's former colonial might, combined with a fairytale like ethos originating from the monarchy. In a sense it i
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The UK is the Dunning-Kruger-Effekt applied to a whole country.
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Quite the opposite. You could handle material that can be handled by any other lab equipment (that's what lab equipment is for) at minuscule scales. People have been producing Chemical- and Bioweapons already with stuff you can essenti
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Really nothing you couldn't do with run of the mill lab equipment anyways.
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by j-pb 5y ago
These microfluidic devices have the potential to be an entire biology lab on your desk. It's like a tiny robot to move droplets around, except that the actuation happens via electrostatic force instead of pipettes and grippers. They ha
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by j-pb 5y ago
Really cool! Love to see the modularity and reusability aspect of it, it looks like a really professional system. If you're interested in the software side of things you might be interested in the paper below, I've seen a lot of w
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by j-pb 5y ago
I've had a similar idea about time. If you imagine the universe as a giant cellular automaton you still have to encode time into the application of transition rules. Unless it's nondeterministic and constantly oscillating, with &q
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Yeah, considering it's mythical status, I found the material rather thin and uninformative :/
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Yeah I found reading it a bit underwhelming considering it's mythical status. There isn't that much material and interesting things like Arc aren't covered.
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Not so fun fact. ROS1 does this to compute hashes for their message format, but they do it wrong, so that every ROS1 system has potentially catastrophic deserialisations going on. It's a wontfix because they'd have to recompile th
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That's what a meme is, as originally defined. A singular cultural trait or idea that replicates.
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Because the complexity these things introduce affect all of us. They make software harder to build and maintain, and they introduce bugs and security vulnerabilities. We should strive for less people overall in software with a better sense
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by j-pb 5y ago
Unicode is truly the herald of complexity hell. How can you make the foundational stuff so complicated. It still needs to be build and implemented. I just want ASCII even though it doesn't even support my native language well. Computer
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by j-pb 6y ago
At 1/8th the cost of france latest nuclear power project, and 3 times the energy output, that's actually a steal.
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by j-pb 6y ago
You admittedly made me change my mind a bit about Vala. Apparently it was ahead of it's time, which is a bit sad. Nevertheless, elementary is the closest thing I know to a working open-source desktop OS, and Vala hinders it's adop
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by j-pb 6y ago
We're not talking about a simple piece of software here but an entire ecosystem which has Vala as it's language of choice. Using a certain operating system comes with the implicit assumption that I'm also gonna write programs
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by j-pb 6y ago
I'd love to use Elementary OS, but their use of Vala is just such a turn off. That language is dead except for a tiny gnome niche. If they wanted the mac devs for their sleek look and feel they could have switched to swift. And if they
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by j-pb 6y ago
Ecological surveys. Disturbing a delicate ecosystem by driving a roomba the size of a bulldozer through it is one of those, "that's obviously gonna fuck things up", things where you just need to look at prexisting scientific
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Reminds me of that TNG episode where they try to terraform a planet inhabited by sentient crystals, ignorant of the delicate and mousy life already present.
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That's not how safety regulation works, where the burden of proof is on the potential offenders side. We don't allow random chemicals as food additives and drugs and recall them if they turn out to not be safe. We show that they&#
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by j-pb 6y ago
Typed cells is a step backwards. ObservableHQs extensive use of JS template literals makes for a much clearer UI and flexible system with a better user experience. I hope that the folks at observable realize at some point that they should b
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by j-pb 6y ago
I heavily suspect that it's overdiagnosed in the US, but heavily underdiagnosed in the EU. I have adult ADHD, and even though I tried to get help when I was turning 20 and started to fail university (I had an average of 1.3 for the cla
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by j-pb 6y ago
I'm not saying that machine learning isn't capable of doing these things (most of the time). I'm saying there's no way in hell you'll get a non compliant blackbox system past European safety laws.
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by j-pb 6y ago
Doubtful. You need provable security and systems characteristics if you wanted to get approval for a household robot in for example the E.U. Higher cognition and task solving? Sure, we can do that with blackbox methods, but everything where
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by j-pb 6y ago
You go out and fix all the library code that uses window then. The web has been paving the cow paths for good reason. There are hills worth dying on, what the common namespace is called isn't one of them.
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by j-pb 6y ago
- I've had the typescript compiler do WEIRD errors on me, depending on configuration, a zero configuration, no brain environment is a godsent - it makes a ton of sense if you don't want to maintain two different versions of the sa
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by j-pb 6y ago
Why does everything have to be as cost effective as possile? I'd much rather have robots in my kitchen and my garden that grow fresh vegetables on my soil, adapted to my preferences, and turn them into dishes that match my taste, than
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morsleben_radioactive_waste_... Yeah because only fuel is highly radioactive... Texas failed to secure their electrical grid, that has nothing to do with renewables. We got renewables ru
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by j-pb 6y ago
Yeah but wind and solar on a european power grid can. A nuclear power plant that's finished in 10 years is not gonna provide you with the baseload to stop climate change. That's only possible with expanding the existing tech we ha

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