jl6

43 ms·

871.
by jl6 3y ago
> Remaining curious about the speaker’s perspective, where it comes from and what it means to them, is always the best policy. I wouldn't advocate that people with delusional beliefs should be ignored 100% of the time, but it's
872.
by jl6 3y ago
Just remember gas plants run continuously at the rated capacity whereas wind capacity factor is 30-40%, so a like for like comparison probably involves storage.
873.
by jl6 3y ago
> developers have to pay to clean up those sites i.e. more cost, which gets passed onto buyers/renters. Different entry point, same result. Plenty of brownfield sites do get redeveloped, particularly in city centers, but they don’t
874.
by jl6 3y ago
England has always been run for the benefit of the landowning and homeowning class, in whom the greatest portion of political power, wealth and status are concentrated. This has been the case for at least 1000 years. This is not a "1%&
875.
by jl6 3y ago
It's not "character" that Britain is mainly attached to, it's greenbelts. Difficult to build -> undersupply -> high prices/rents -> low incentive to improve.
876.
by jl6 3y ago
As a conspiracy theory, this still lies beneath the surface of hard evidence, but perhaps is now upgraded from benthic to pelagic.
877.
by jl6 3y ago
How do we kill hyphae so that they don’t continue doing that penetrating thing after we eat them?
878.
by jl6 3y ago
There have been many Wikipedia forks, but all have failed, because 99% of the work is in doing uncontroversial stuff that most people are fine with, and 1% is in controversial "captured" areas. If you fork the whole thing in the h
879.
by jl6 3y ago
Proven, IMHO, by the ease with which many atheists have fallen into alternative faith-based belief systems. 21st century America is increasingly atheist, but no less religious.
880.
by jl6 3y ago
The sun would be a good hiding place for planet 9: https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007APS..4CF.E1013P/abstra... Life deep within a sun-engulfed planet could perhaps survive for a while.
881.
by jl6 3y ago
Hobby programming on a passion project is a fun game, but real-world programming jobs usually come bundled with a bunch of programming-adjacent non-fun activities.
882.
by jl6 3y ago
You might be interested in this review of choice-supportive behavior: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5723021/ I recognize a lot of this in “fan” communities. Where people invest a lot of time&#x
883.
by jl6 3y ago
Always great to see someone who’s found their passion. This guy proves that it can be truly anything .
884.
by jl6 3y ago
Besides being a great result, the quality and clarity of the technical writing here is excellent.
885.
by jl6 3y ago
Personally I think it is right to respect the reasonable wishes of the recently deceased, but there’s a time limit on everything. Eventually, the deceased pass into history and become fair game. There’s no sharp boundary, but 10 years isn’t
886.
by jl6 3y ago
Usually we’re talking about things like the author’s private notes and rough drafts, which they may well wish to keep around while they are alive (because they are useful).
887.
by jl6 3y ago
What do you mean?
888.
by jl6 3y ago
Absolutely - you don’t even need to venture far into the murky territory of psychological tendencies to observe that the male and female experience is massively shaped by obvious biological differences. These differences are what give rise
889.
by jl6 3y ago
As a further anecdotal observation, I believe elite programming (but not mainstream programming) to be an autistic spectrum trait. Males are diagnosed with ASDs in a 4:1 ratio over females.
890.
by jl6 3y ago
Spot on. “Computers are for boys” is exactly the socialization I’m talking about. “So when Ordóñez got to Johns Hopkins University in the '80s, she figured she would study computer science or electrical engineering. Then she took her f
891.
by jl6 3y ago
Not quite - the question is posed with a historical context that has since changed. It is certainly the case that history lacks female authors, but that’s not so true today. Writing is one discipline where women have substantially levelled
892.
by jl6 3y ago
This can also happen without a change of ownership. 1. Launch good product 2. Get good reviews 3. "Optimize" the design to use cheaper, worse components 4. Sell it under the same name 5. Coast on those good reviews and enjoy the h
893.
by jl6 3y ago
Presumably the moon was already in a desecrated state due to the presence of Gene Shoemaker's ashes sent there in 1999.
894.
by jl6 3y ago
It is perhaps an opinion more than a fact, but an opinion that is likely widely shared by people who have done both. Computer assembly languages are not conceptually complex in the same way that higher level math is. The difficulty of assem
895.
by jl6 3y ago
Clapping isn’t fascist. But clapping is noise-adjacent, which is distress-adjacent, which is oppression-adjacent, which is fascist-adjacent, so actually clapping is fascist. The logic of American polarization. It is not unique to the left
896.
by jl6 3y ago
I assumed it was a well-intentioned alternative to loud clapping to help avoid distressing neurodivergent people, or, if there are no neurodivergent people in the room, to show solidarity with them, or, if solidarity was never in question,
897.
by jl6 3y ago
1866 was shortly after the publication of Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev, which popularized the word nihilism .
898.
by jl6 3y ago
To be fair, that’s a pretty fancy toothbrush!
899.
by jl6 3y ago
I don’t think the screenshots (that it uses as training data) contain enough useful information on what makes a game enjoyable to play, to make this an immediate threat to game designers.
900.
by jl6 3y ago
Are you suggesting #2 is sufficiently unlikely to occur naturally that it becomes a likely technosignature of an alien race whose programmers got so fed up with calendrical calculations that they megaengineered their planet’s rotation as a

More ›