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by jl6 1y ago
A net positive birth rate is still concerning. 8.2 billion people is a lot . All of the world’s problems, from energy sourcing to food production to climate change become harder and harder as the population continues to grow. It’s easy to
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At high temperatures and pressures, some substances are neither liquid nor gas, but a fluid with properties of both. Whereas most people work to live, and prefer boundaries between the two, worklife is an intertwined way of being. Brunch wi
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The richest people I know don’t have work-life balance, they have a supercritical work-life fluid.
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Are you perhaps thinking of Babylon 5? But yes, the low budget is part of the formula for success. Without a ton of money, they had to rely on wit and creativity. Most shows now have comparatively gargantuan budgets, and it goes on big sets
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It'll be worth it if the backlash is what brings about an end to "genocide inflation". Seriously, just because you don't like something, or even if it's really bad, doesn't make it genocide.
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Fair point, but I also think initial exposure to things you don’t yet understand is a useful step towards understanding them.
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There’s a (very slim) chance this one is being preserved at the bottom of the Indian Ocean for whoever invents submersible scanner drone swarm tech to find it.
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Maybe that’s how models trained on luxury, bountiful H100s feel when being quantized and run on the near-barren earth of consumer CPU inference.
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The example videos look very short, maybe 1-2 seconds each. Is that the limit?
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Sure it does! Investment in all those things creates demand. Real estate: demand for houses means demand for house building and maintenance. Crypto: demand for chips and electricity (yes, this is super-dumb demand for dubious benefit, but d
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by jl6 1y ago
Investment is a form of demand though. When you invest in a startup, the money is spent on wages, rent, equipment, supplies, etc., all of which circulates into the economy. Investment is a transfer of wealth to doers, in exchange for a chan
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More investment money available => the net must be cast wider to find investment opportunities => riskier opportunities get funded. Is it a net good or bad thing to try riskier stuff? Maybe some moonshots pay off, maybe a ton of money
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There is surely a balance to be struck to get some of the benefits of global trade, without creating a dependency that can be exploited to create leverage against you.
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I think my answer was larger than the box you drew for it, and now you’ve sealioned yourself into a very weird corner where you seem to think the existence of male and female developmental pathways is somehow negated by edge cases.
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George W Bush spoke with an acquired (some may say feigned) accent that led his detractors to call him dubya . They probably thought it was just a funny way of disparaging a political opponent, but what the southern ear heard them say was
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by jl6 1y ago
That sounds not so much more “woke”, but more like classical left-liberalism, sticking up for the disempowered and disadvantaged, regardless of identity group membership.
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IIRC correctly, Clippy’s most famous feature was interrupting you to offer advice. The advice was usually basic/useless/annoying, hence Clippy’s reputation, but a powerful LLM could actually make the original concept work. It woul
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by jl6 1y ago
Hacker News / Tweaker Buzz?
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If you’re going to assume something, assuming neutrality seems the more dangerous assumption. Chesterton’s gene.
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The middle ground is usually to buy shares in your employer. In this case it seems like it’s the BBC who have hit the jackpot, so I guess the real winner is… the British public?
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Falling upwards - truly a comrade of the space programme.
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Presumably they can determine this for items directly imported, but for all other cases (such as a made-in-the-USA product that is built using made-in-China tools, or from made-in-China components), surely the cost impact on the final produ
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by jl6 1y ago
Every boy racer thinks “look at me, controlling the vehicle easily at 90mph! I’m clearly amongst the high-skilled group!” but the skill that actually matters is reaction time to sudden unexpected hazards (and consequent need for stopping di
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by jl6 1y ago
Naturally every footgun is guaranteed to be safe as long as you use it right :) I wonder if a safer default would be to start searches at the current directory rather than the root directory?
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> for the primary purpose of helping other programs know where to find stuff Potential footgun to make a program rely on this to locate, say, a shared library (as in one of the examples), if there’s a possibility that someone has smuggle
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by jl6 1y ago
The Gini coefficient of the UK is about the same now as it was then: https://equalitytrust.org.uk/how-has-inequality-changed/ What has actually changed? A whole bunch of other economic malaise, but also perceptions, am
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by jl6 1y ago
It would be interesting for reproducibility efforts to assess “consequentiality” of failed replications, meaning: how much does it matter that a particular study wasn’t reproducible? Was it a niche study that nobody cited anyway, or was it
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by jl6 1y ago
I think most people would be better off just putting Kiwix on their phones: https://kiwix.org/en/applications/
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I have never felt loyalty to an employer but have often felt loyalty to a manager, and in turn to my own teams. Mutual loyalty between humans is a natural outcome of mutual trust and respect, which every manager should be striving to cultiv
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Why should the simplicity of the definition (which, by the way, is what sex means in mammals generally, not just in humans) mean that the testing has to be simple in 100% of cases? I’ve already described cases where it isn’t. That doesn’t c

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