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811.
by jl6 3y ago
A great retrospective. I have nothing but praise for this game. It’s a standout example of how great art transcends its medium. Despite the technical limitations of the mid-90s, it’s still a beautifully drawn, beautifully scored joyful expe
812.
by jl6 3y ago
The supply chain risk elephant in the room is that bad-quality LLM-derived contributions could be kept out by the same rigorous review process that keeps out bad-quality human contributions. Now where did I leave that process? I'm sure
813.
by jl6 3y ago
Excellent use of silicon.
814.
by jl6 3y ago
There’s a trillion dollars waiting for whoever can figure out how to put a terabyte of VRAM on a GPU.
815.
by jl6 3y ago
Presumably doesn't apply to the cold archive tiers where a great deal of the cost is retrieval/egress?
816.
by jl6 3y ago
The title is misleading, at least on the IQ claim. The underlying study was observational and did not claim causation. Medical journals and their associated media summaries are awash with low-certainty studies that get de-nuanced and overhy
817.
by jl6 3y ago
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/octopus-and-squid... Fish are out, cuttlefish are in.
818.
by jl6 3y ago
Would have been more effective just to spray the enemy with hallucinogens.
819.
by jl6 3y ago
The ultra-wealthy do have a disproportionate impact on resource consumption and carbon emission (lots of air travel, fancy cars, large houses and more) but it’s not 10000x like their wealth might imply. Their companies might be responsible
820.
by jl6 3y ago
At the macro level, everybody got rich from burning fossil fuels. A thousand or so billionaires who got extra rich doesn’t really make a dent on the activities of the other billions of people.
821.
by jl6 3y ago
Could be small, hard to track, coming in unknown numbers and unknown times. Maybe most get shot down but some get through.
822.
by jl6 3y ago
Stormfront pushes white supremacism in a generic way, Kiwifarms targets individuals by name (and address and date of birth and…).
823.
by jl6 3y ago
It’s true that there is nothing which should work in theory, and yet mostly does in practice.
824.
by jl6 3y ago
Actual street furniture on a street should probably be put in a museum, as streets are absurdly cluttered with posts, lights, cables, signage and adverts, each of which is terribly important to someone, but which adds up to oppressive distr
825.
by jl6 3y ago
I wonder how widely the isotopic signature method could be applied. Precious metals don't tend to ever get thrown away. Could we trace the flow of all gold and silver throughout history? Could we tell the difference between "clean
826.
by jl6 3y ago
(Godmanchester, Manchester, Chester) is a Matryoshka Settlement of length 3. Is there one of length 4?
827.
by jl6 3y ago
It’s probably not overt corruption. It’s probably because in this kind of large system, there is a strong demand for validation and assurance at all levels, which is usually achieved by hiring experts* to write reviews, recommendations, and
828.
by jl6 3y ago
Are you listening, Factorio devs?!
829.
by jl6 3y ago
The ultimate brutalist website is a bare Apache directory listing. Functional, raw, ugly, with the structure exposed for all to see.
830.
by jl6 3y ago
Early in my career I worked on a Very Important and Very Serious project. Boy was it Important. Serious too! At least, that's what everybody said. My part was translating some ancient programs written in an obsolete proprietary actuari
831.
by jl6 3y ago
I imagine that billing for the electricity usage will be the power company’s distant second concern behind the mechanical stress of hanging unauthorized devices off a cable that was not designed with this scenario in mind.
832.
by jl6 3y ago
I would love to get more information on the cost implications of this generational doubling. Are we going to get this “for free”, or does it come with, say, twice the power usage, or a requirement for tighter tolerances on physical componen
833.
by jl6 3y ago
> according to an analysis of more than 350,000 top 40 hits Wow, that's a lot of "top 40 hits". More than 134 new "hits" per week for the last 50 years! Are these really all "popular" songs? Because tha
834.
by jl6 3y ago
That attack article puts forward a dubious scenario where parts of multiple copies of a file become corrupted in different locations and you need to recover the original using both of the damaged copies. If you find that sort of thing hap
835.
by jl6 3y ago
Much faster: yes. While matching LZMA2 compression ratio: no.
836.
by jl6 3y ago
"almost" and "comparable", but xz (lzma) still compresses at a higher ratio, which is still a highly desirable feature. If the decision was being made today, a good faith debate could be had over whether the distro packa
837.
by jl6 3y ago
The format is fine, and zstd would be a downgrade in terms of compression ratio (which is the main reason xz is chosen for its current use cases). The lesson to learn here is not about making technical improvements, it’s to do something abo
838.
by jl6 3y ago
Depends if you are the kind of libertarian who acknowledges that there are limits to what can be privately owned, or not. If you recognize that the sea and the air are fundamentally socialized resources, then there is no Libertarian solutio
839.
by jl6 3y ago
Worth noting that this dumping is usually done during periods of high rainfall, to avoid sewage backing up through toilets into households. It’s not villains pulling a lever because they’re evil. The fundamental problem is a lack of investm
840.
by jl6 3y ago
> Maybe there's a better term for this. Seems to be the rule used in Coco .

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