jasonwatkinspdx

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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
Yeah, I was very active on the ars forums back in the day, and after the buyout things initially were ok, but started go do down hill pretty clearly once the old guard of authors started leaving. It's a shame because the old ars had a
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
Heh, my all time favorite: https://whatishoth.ytmnd.com
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
Grew up in the midwest and still visit... never seen it. Doesn't even pass the sniff test vs the weather.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
I'd suggest reading David Graeber. Those aren't as categorically distinct as you're assuming.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
When the AS/400 came out circa 1989 or whatever, you could replace an entire mainframe with a box not much bigger than a mini fridge. The hardware is built for high reliability, and the OS and application software stack have a lot of i
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by jasonwatkinspdx 8mo ago
The most simple answer here is the "fields are real, particles are excitation patterns of fields." And that's generally the practical way most physicists think of it today as I understand it. If I make the equivalent of a dou
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
I live in Portland. I've met many people that label themselves antifa. They're just protestors that are willing to be a little more aggro. That's literally it. So when people talk about antifa as if it was the left wing equiv
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
Even the buses for giant communications satellites are still at the single digit kilowatt scale. The current state of the art in AI datacenters is 500+ kw per rack. So you're talking about an entirely different scale of power and neede
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
Eh that's a spaceplane and solid rocket booster shells which I see as categorically different, and an absurd failure on a cost per kg basis.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
Space is basically half the cost of it's competitors on a per kg basis. And while previous experiments like the DC-X existed, SpaceX absolutely gets credit for the first operational reusable rocket stage. And I say that as someone that
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
Yeah, it's sad she went that direction, because her educational videos that aren't agitpop are very good. It's just another example of how the incentives on modern social media pull people towards ragebait and other forms of
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
It's largely fans of Sabine Hossenfelder youtube channel, where some years ago sadly she shifted into just being a grifter selling conspiracy theories about the funding of particle physics. The audience here tends to vastly overweight
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
Not softer, because that'll make it lawn dart, but dry lake beds yes. Edward's AFB is located at the edge of a dry lake bed exactly because it acts as a huge extended runway in case an aircraft under testing has problems landing a
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
Yeah, I stumbled onto J et all after seeing an interesting entry into the ICFP programming contest. So I was on the concatenative languages email list for a bit and knew nsl.com from there. I've always found this snippet interesting:
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
So this is the blog of Stevan Apter. As you might guess from having a 3 letter vanity domain, he and this website have been around a long long time. It's mostly code golf style stuff posted to the J Software and Concatenative Languages
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
APL predates ASCII by a couple years. It originally wasn't even intended as a software language, but rather a uniform mathematical notation in the style of curry's combinators, but more practical for describing non trivial algorit
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
Optimal join order is NP-Hard.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
Yeah, I got screwed by both Sprint and Verizon in turn back in the day, so for ages I've just done T Mobile's prepaid plan with an unlocked phone. Works great, no particular coverage issues, never used enough data to hit any notab
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
I think you're missing the criticism, which is not just that an armed civil war is extremely unlikely even given everything happening in the US, if it did happen, it would not splinter the US regionally. The divide here is urban vs rur
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
If you're a bus driver in Singapore denied the right to protest, strike, and otherwise organize for better pay and conditions, you might feel a bit different about how free Singapore is economically.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
My elementary school showed the Disney movie about this at least once a year.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
Apparently he urinated on the shoes of a secret service agent just as a flex.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
Years and years ago I shared a cubicle with a woman named Tracy. A couple times a month Tracy would get lunch at the Mongolian BBQ place down the road (all you can eat stir fry that has nothing to do with Mongolian food for anyone unfamilia
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by jasonwatkinspdx 9mo ago
Yeah, Reforged was received very poorly so they basically end of life'd the franchise. There is a thriving community with a couple different choices for servers to play on. So I'm sure there's a fix for your mouse speed issue
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by jasonwatkinspdx 10mo ago
I think that second issue is definitely a thing with kitchen appliances, where having a touch interface, or phone app, is initially seen as "oh hey this is the next generation cool thing" when consumers are buying. Then they get i
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by jasonwatkinspdx 10mo ago
So in the Fully Charged video about this ship, the shipyard CEO just casually mentions the customer is looking at having 40 MW at each end.
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by jasonwatkinspdx 10mo ago
You're making a sweeping bad faith representation of progressives yourself. It can simply be the case that your accusations of hypocrisy are wrong, because your entire characterization of the discussion/position is wrong. I'm
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by jasonwatkinspdx 10mo ago
You're attributing views to me I do not hold. And frankly, you characterization of those views makes clear you're not interested in actual answers. The primary issue with gentrification in historically black neighborhoods is that
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by jasonwatkinspdx 10mo ago
Because it is about race. Please read the article I linked in another reply to you. My neighborhood was prosperous when it was systematically stolen from the black people who built it. They literally razed a thriving business district. And
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by jasonwatkinspdx 10mo ago
It's because in the US historically black neighborhoods have a unique history of racism and disinvestment. Here's an article about what happened literally where I'm sitting: https://kingneighborhood.org/wp-con

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