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by lisper 3mo ago
> attempting to build nuclear power plants results in big increases in electric rates Largely due to the costs of complying with draconian regulatory regimes.
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by lisper 3mo ago
The problem is that stopping nuclear activity has ancillary effects -- like increased carbon emissions -- that are potentially much more harmful than the radiation. The results of technological decisions are never independent of one anothe
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by lisper 3mo ago
> it would have been very hard for them to imagine the direction that _technology_ would go. That writing (scrolls and ink) could expand into something like the internet and smartphones Our reality has already vastly surpassed main strea
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by lisper 4mo ago
A trivial counterexample to what? The antecedent of "one of the easiest" was "ways to accidentally create nondeterministic output." One even the most charitable reading I can muster that still seems to me to presume so
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by lisper 4mo ago
Sure, but that is a completely different issue. People have mutually-conflicting goals on occasion. That is a Thing That Happens, but it is a very different phenomenon than being surprised by the obvious fact that putting a time stamp o
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by lisper 4mo ago
> the accidental part is that you suddenly made your build non-reproducible But that's exactly what I don't get. How can that be considered "accidental"? How can any thinking person not realize that putting the buil
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by lisper 4mo ago
> There are a shocking number of ways to accidentally create nondeterministic output when doing C/C++ development. One of the easiest is to use the builtin __DATE__ and __TIME__ macros to stamp a build with the time the compiler was
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by lisper 4mo ago
That is one of the best, most profound and prescient videos I have ever seen.
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by lisper 4mo ago
I want a robust field of competitors that allows supply to rise to meet demand, and I would like the USA to be one of the competitors. I would like the people who do the work to earn a living wage. I do not want to benefit from overseas s
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by lisper 4mo ago
Now if only we could make RAM chips too.
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by lisper 4mo ago
> Nowadays carriages are split between 'normal' and 'quiet'... And the number of quiet carriages seems to have increased over time... It's like there are forces in society which try to prevent people with differe
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by lisper 4mo ago
What was your friend's name? If they were working on robotics in that time period we probably worked together.
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by lisper 4mo ago
The space program is not about science. It has never been about science. Science is just the excuse, the window-dressing. What it's really about is military power and sending money to the right congressional districts. Source: I wo
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by lisper 4mo ago
What is it like to feel ill? What is it like to eat vanilla ice cream? What is it like to fall in love? What is it like to solve a math problem for the first time? What is it like to wonder what something is like?
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Investing Is Compression(arxiv.org)
3 points by lisper 4mo ago|0 comments
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I Gave ChatGPT a Body [video](youtube.com)
3 points by lisper 4mo ago|0 comments
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The Apple Ad That Broke Microsoft [video](youtube.com)
8 points by lisper 4mo ago|2 comments
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Alberta Separatism(en.wikipedia.org)
4 points by lisper 4mo ago|0 comments
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Orania(en.wikipedia.org)
6 points by lisper 5mo ago|2 comments
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Hitler as a Unit of Measurement(hermitome.wordpress.com)
4 points by lisper 5mo ago|1 comments
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by lisper 5mo ago
Check your interlocutor's user name and it will make more sense.
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by lisper 5mo ago
Good grief, what a useless argument. Isn't it obvious that this could trivially be converted to a non-static array if that's really what was needed?
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by lisper 5mo ago
> One can rewrite their books in modern language and notation or guide others to learn it too but I never believed this was the significant part of a mathematician work There's yer problem right there. Good pedagogy is hard and hig
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by lisper 5mo ago
> preparing for the outcome How exactly do you propose to prepare for Europe becoming uninhabitable?
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by lisper 5mo ago
The problem is that by the time it becomes incontestable that the scientists were right, it will be much, much too late to do anything about it.
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A Robot Just Became a Monk at a Buddhist Temple in South Korea(smithsonianmag.com)
2 points by lisper 5mo ago|0 comments
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If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies(ifanyonebuildsit.com)
16 points by lisper 5mo ago|14 comments
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by lisper 5mo ago
Pretty sure the second sentence was meant to be ironic.
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by lisper 6mo ago
> It would surely sell more if people would actually explain what the game is And even more if figuring out how to buy it wasn't a challenging puzzle in its own right.
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Why North Koreans Don't Revolt? (and Probably Never Will) [video](youtube.com)
1 points by lisper 6mo ago|0 comments

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