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by kragen 1y ago
I'm skeptical about that. Helion in particular might work ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlNfP3iywvI ) but all the other fusion-energy companies' plans are to convert fusion energy to thermal energy and then con
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by kragen 1y ago
> I think it’s remarkable that what was until recently sci-fi fantasy has become a mainstream view in Silicon Valley. I wonder if Tom Phillips isn't very familiar with the history of Silicon Valley, because this is the most unrema
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by kragen 1y ago
Data center cooling towers have to use fresh rather than salt water, but they don't care about bacterial contamination or toxic traces of arsenic, antimony, and fluorine. Agriculture also has to use fresh rather than salt water. I ca
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by kragen 1y ago
"Pour info, j'ai pas la bite qui fouette."
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by kragen 1y ago
WP says that manganese deficiency causes skeletal deformity and inhibition of wound healing. So I'm guessing that you could survive weeks in a severe-manganese-deficiency situation before you noticed any ill effects.
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by kragen 1y ago
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by kragen 1y ago
True!
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by kragen 1y ago
We've had a couple of other recent discussions on dithering: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45750954 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45698323 . I commented specifically about the history
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by kragen 1y ago
Another dithering discussion two weeks later: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45814939
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by kragen 1y ago
In most gradients, the transitions in R, G, and B are at different places.
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by kragen 1y ago
Real MANET systems are not defined by their bit rates, but by their ability to take advantages of whatever opportunities for radio communication exist in a given situation.
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by kragen 1y ago
Radio communication is a critical advantage in actual infantry fights, so it makes sense that it would be useful for cosplay infantry fights.
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by kragen 1y ago
This article really sells short the importance of user groups and even more informal networks, as well as type-ins, in providing software, whether deliberately released by the author to the public or not. Upwards of 99% of the software on
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by kragen 1y ago
Guess how Lockheed Martin's contracts with the Pentagon are structured?
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by kragen 1y ago
Hmm, I didn't realize. Do you mean ~5:1 is better than the miss ratio of artillery rounds, which makes them cheaper? Because I think a small FPV drone is about US$600 and an artillery round is about US$800, but that isn't a fact
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by kragen 1y ago
No worries. I was sort of poking fun at your bringing up ChatGPT as a source (especially in a discussion about epistemic hygiene), but I probably shouldn't have done that.
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by kragen 1y ago
I think what happened was that, when writing in assembly language was a common thing to do, programmers had a clearer idea of what a compiler did, so they knew better than to say "transpiler".
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by kragen 1y ago
Bevels are indeed very helpful for that. Mystery-meat navigation has been a UI design problem for a long time.
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by kragen 1y ago
Apparently nobody has ever said to you, "No, it's not a compiler , it's a transpiler ," which makes you a luckier person than I am. People know less than you think.
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by kragen 1y ago
I see, thanks!
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by kragen 1y ago
If you steal some VAXen, I want one.
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by kragen 1y ago
Yeah, I mean, you either kind of have to do something like protothreads, or break apart the function into fragments at the yield points, converting it to explicit continuation-passing style.
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by kragen 1y ago
BabelJS is the central example of "transpilers"; if BabelJS lacks some purported defining attribute of "transpilers", that definition is unsalvageable, even if there are other programs commonly called "transpilers&
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by kragen 1y ago
Thank you for the link; I've responded comprehensively at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45914592 .
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by kragen 1y ago
The article we are discussing has "Transpilers Target the Same Level of Abstraction" as "Lie #3", and it clearly explains why that is not true of the programs most commonly described as "transpilers". (Also, I
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by kragen 1y ago
On the contrary: it reifies people's prejudices and prevents them from seeing reality, often in the service of intentional deception, which for my purposes is the opposite of a useful purpose in communication. There's currently a
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by kragen 1y ago
No, I don't mean that classifications are a matter of convention and utility, just word definitions . I think that some classifications can be better or worse, precisely because concepts can reflect reality well or poorly. That&#x
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by kragen 1y ago
> Yes, Steam Machine is optimized for gaming, but it's still your PC. Install your own apps, or even another operating system. Who are we to tell you how to use your computer? That makes me very happy.
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by kragen 1y ago
Yes, definitely. And "nice" used to mean "insignificant". But they don't have those meanings now.
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by kragen 1y ago
I wonder whether they want to fuck the Fernández–Guasti squircle, Lamé's special quartic, or both, and whether their desires extend to higher-dimensional sphubes. Possibly their squigonometry just can't handle such curves, and th

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