jojobas

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by jojobas 10mo ago
It wasn't for fur, they ran a long-term selective breeding experiment just to see if they can pull it off.
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by jojobas 10mo ago
The whole publication model is broken, not just the incentives. It used to be researchers eager to share their new findings with the few hundred people that could understand them, now it's throngs of PhD students grinding their way to
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by jojobas 11mo ago
This guy invented a spec?
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by jojobas 11mo ago
So twists of training data procurement bring us the best of doing the needful through Africa.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
Elementum to the rescue, all atmos/4k you can find.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
Setting up the toolchain that's not Arduino IDE is a prohibitively high bar for a school child that wants to blink leds.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
So far nothing prevents you from spending $100 to set up LibreElec on an RPi and leave the TV offline and dumb.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
Chinese coal power outgrows renewables still. A Western country with already cleaner energy destroying whatever remains of their manufacturing only to be moved to China and powered by mostly coal is not only treason of its own citizens but
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by jojobas 11mo ago
It can, especially when some other countries commission a new coal power plant every week.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
Any other motivation forfeiting citizens' interests are perceived as treason, therefore immoral, so yes.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
Slave labour is very inefficient. It was found to be more beneficial to lure non-citizens with temporary working visas.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
Liberalism means no state-enforced classes but doesn't promise forcing everyone into the same class. Commies promise the latter, but in fact enforce a class structure of their own.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
Funny you should ask, but yes, communism is evil. Whenever somebody promises a classless society you can be sure they're about to enslave, kill and torture people in great numbers. I guess if I have to explain it I might as well not bo
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by jojobas 11mo ago
> What makes 1950s Korea evil? Soviet occupation. Korea was supposed to be unified and elect a government back in 1950, Soviets made sure it didn't happen because they had no chance of winning. That and, you know, the whole invasion
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by jojobas 11mo ago
So, piecemeal cede every bit of land to the evil? Like Trump wants with Ukraine now? If you exclude the outliers like Campuchia and Nazi Germany, even the most benign commies are always way more deadly than the most ferocious fascists.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
How is nuking Japan different from nuking Korea? Everybody agrees that forcing Japan to surrender with nukes was much better for everyone involved than a ground invasion.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
It was way too late, look up Operation Unthinkable.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
s/DRPK survived as a people/Kim dynasty survived in power/g. Sure it was a correct thing for Kims to do, millions of Koreans be damned.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
You must be somewhat right, however only 4 gets biased up: In [18]: n = 10000000 In [19]: tally = [0,0,0,0,0,0] In [20]: for i in range(n): ...: tally[(random.randint(0,9)+ random.randint(0,9))%6]+=1 ...: In [21]: tally Out[21]:
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by jojobas 11mo ago
Isn't it inevitable for some cases of inheritance? A superclass does something basic and doesn't need all parameters, child classes require additional ones.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
Sounds like a bit more complicated odds-and-evens. Rather than mess with pi and circles, you could just cast 0-9 fingers and get mod 6 + 1.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
AI replaces nothing. A consultant or developer is not replaced with AI, he becomes more powerful with AI. An IBM consultant with AI is still way ahead of Johnny Startup with AI.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
Wikipedia says their PC revenue was twice Apple's by 1984 at $4 billion/year. Not bad for a side hustle? My understanding is that clones were a net positive, just like widespread Windows/Office piracy is a net positive for MS
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by jojobas 11mo ago
DEC went down the drain, Xerox is 1/1000 of IBM's market cap. IBM made its own, superior by its relative openness, personal computer that ended up running the world, mostly maintaining direct binary compatibility for 40+ years, ev
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by jojobas 11mo ago
With an extra-long bent torso?
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by jojobas 11mo ago
Introducing GoalpostMover-3000.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
Without a precisely timed neutron initiator you'll get a fizzle. Either way, gun-type bombs require highly enriched uranium. A simple reactor can be literally just brickwork of natural uranium and graphite. Reactors are much much simpl
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by jojobas 11mo ago
Does anyone address the fact that a black hole will be falling towards the center of the earth at 1g? How do you handle a black hole?
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by jojobas 11mo ago
It's much easier to make a fission reactor than a fission bomb, and much easier to make a fusion bomb than a fusion reaction. They are not even that similar.
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by jojobas 11mo ago
That's more Necrophagist kinda territory.

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