knuthsat

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   by knuthsat 5y ago

   Flaxseed is superior. Drinking 20g of it will make even abysmal conversion rates sufficient.
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   by knuthsat 5y ago

   I found that opening a company in one of the most bureaucratic countries in EU (Austria) was very easy. I did everything online, from my personal immigration to founding an LLC. The only in person meeting was for establishing a permanent re
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   by knuthsat 5y ago

   Best return on investment is most definitely finding new ways to produce energy and new ways to sequester greenhouse gases. Anything else is a minor dampener to an exponential process. Getting rid of Bitcoin is absolutely nothing compared t
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   by knuthsat 5y ago

   Global warming above 2°C will happen just by the nature of n-th order effects. Trees burning, methane stored in tundra getting released can have decades of CO2 equivalent emissions compared to 1 human civilization year. Bitcoin has a small
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   by knuthsat 5y ago

   It's interesting that mainstream religions of this world never deal with collective guilt on an individual level. It's always a catalyst that cleanses everyone from individual sin. We just don't have societal mechanisms that
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   by knuthsat 5y ago

   But at this point, human emissions are irrelevant. The n-th order effects that will happen from an already predicted temperature increase will obliterate any savings. The tundra in Siberia holds methane equivalent to 100 years of 2020 emiss
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   by knuthsat 5y ago

   Facts related to the atrocities committed during his rule. The current sentiment does not really tell how the future will look at the events. Russians have monuments that praise the rulers that were ruthless and brutally destructive towards
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   by knuthsat 5y ago

   I'm pretty sure that you needed ideology to convince people to go to these incredibly long wars. It just gets washed away by other explanations given by the historians. I mean, does Russia have memorials of their leaders? Germany also
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   by knuthsat 5y ago

   This is the current sentiment yes, but time will shed a bunch of facts. I personally find Napoleon and Julius Caesar as completely uninspiring figures. Their accomplishments are worthless but for some reason praised from the perspective of
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    I think it’s the way history works. Napoleon was pretty horrible, yet even the enslaved Dalmatians forgot what he did and praise him for building roads. I’m pretty sure Hitler will have a similar public image to Napoleon in a few hundred ye
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    The comment you link just describes the plot through the eyes of someone who didn't like the film. There's no refutation of anything that film states.
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    Yeah. I'm always amazed by individuals that seem to accomplish so much and it looks so effortless. Like, let's say Donald Knuth. I just feel that I do not have his direction, purpose and motivation and I have no idea how to get th
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    Investigative tactics are pretty brutal. They talk with you so that you incriminate yourself but are very affirmative during most of the conversation but then start confronting you. The mental fatigue makes a lot of people just admit the cr
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    One other way to prove these algorithms is by writing them in z3 prover. You write a simple one that is 100% correct and then you prove equality for your optimized one or find an example that will show inequality.
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    Check Austria. Without any expenses a dev with a US salary will pay more than 40% in taxes and social benefits. Let's say you have 250k EUR, 12% of it you can take without any taxes (given no expenses, which is ~25k EUR), but then on 2
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    Knuth has a nice book on Surreal numbers. https://www-cs-faculty.stanford.edu/~knuth/sn.html This interview is excellent https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPn2AdMH7UQ He wrote the book in less than a wee
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    Reasonable as in highly unlikely. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4594046/ More than 95% of successful animal studies fail to progress further from human trials. There's obviously a great ne
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    withouthotair.com goes through this scenario of future being fully powered with renewables and it's just not possible. China cannot meet it's energy demand increase even with building nuclear plants at a massive rate.
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    I'm not sure if I just can't find this information or if people exploiting government aid are just silent about it. These things happen because there are people who are trained to exploit these situations. But there are definitely
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    I think Bitstamp exchange offered a payout in gold bars for some time (there's no taxation on acquired gold in some countries). The exchanges are definitely in on it. From trading bots, to price volatility. Pretty sure there's ins
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    If this is true, what might the reason for it be? Maybe there would be too few boys in schools if requirements for girls reduce?
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    It's estimated there's 1300G tons of methane stored in tundra. 1300 * 10^9 is about 100 years of 2020 CO2 activity. 13 * 10^6 is 100/1000 years of 2020 CO2 activity, I guess.
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    yeah, the n-th order effects like the siberian ice melting away into methane emissions equivalent to 100 years of 2020 CO2 output will just completely obliterate any efforts at mitigating new emissions.
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    Another interesting exercise is generating a uniformly random string of length N of a given regular expression (that has no limits on number of characters).
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    I did record it with qd...q and repeated it with @d @@
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    Yeah, just recently I had to edit text like this 'name1', 'name2', 'name3', to: 'name1': Enum.Name1, 'name2': Enum.Name2, 'name3': Enum.Name3, by the time I f
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    Gumroad does something similar for years.
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    Interesting, whenever I failed it was between 320kbps and uncompressed wav. I know that I did a blind test about 10 years ago and could distinguish between ~192kbps variable bitrate and lossless audio with my left ear, mostly influenced by
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    I live on the 5th floor and have 160kg of weights + barbell on my balcony. Got that during corona when all the gyms closed. I do squats, deadlifts and overhead presses. I mean, I wouldn't do it if the building (and the balcony) isn&#x2
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    by knuthsat 5y ago

    It's interesting that Penrose tilings are also using several copies of hypercubes that, when projected to 2D, tile the space, aperiodically. [0] I always wondered if one could do something to tile cones aperiodically. [0]: https:&#x2F