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by mecsred 4y ago
So if the cost changed to zero, and the benefit stayed the same, would that not change the "best fit"?
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by mecsred 4y ago
Even if we could go back 120 years, just knowing it's possible to create aircraft doesn't do much without the domain knowledge to build one. FTL may or may not be possible via physics we don't understand. Until we have that p
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by mecsred 4y ago
For solid state machines I think nearby humans would crash first!
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by mecsred 4y ago
I also don't have a compsci background, but wanted to develop my programming skills at work. The book "The Pragmatic Programmer" was recommended to me, and I feel like it made a big impact on my code quality. Particularly whe
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by mecsred 4y ago
Claw. Bucket. Reinforced net. Submersible ROV. Trained sea life. Anything that's not a magnet.
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by mecsred 4y ago
You say this like it's a solved issue, but you're still debating with yourself in the footnotes.
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by mecsred 4y ago
I'd say we're about 20 years away from commercial fusion.
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by mecsred 4y ago
That's like saying you've broken RSA because you can cause controlled reads. All you have to do is send the encrypted message to the intended recipient and wait for them to decrypt it.
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by mecsred 4y ago
Why make the transition so dramatic? Write one project in Rust, see how it feels. How much did you learn, from which challenges? Complete a competition with your solution in Rust. How was your performance, what benefits did the language off
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by mecsred 4y ago
A problem here is that it's not a simple logical deduction being converted to "thick abstract math". The math is the proof. A formal proof is necessary to verify the deduction.
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by mecsred 4y ago
Please read who you are replying to. I am not the poster of that comment and said none of those things.
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by mecsred 4y ago
Basically every comment about the legitimacy of the ruling is immediately followed by a comment rebuking it. If you think it's the dominant opinion you may need to reflect on that. No one brought up LGBT rights and labor politics as fa
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by mecsred 4y ago
Same here, only if you wrote in pencil, you were not allowed to appeal grading. So you had to write C from memory _in pen only_ while learning the language. There were students who pointed out the grading was wrong on their code, the TA an
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by mecsred 4y ago
If I met a marine biologist that managed to construct their own shark, I would probably trust their shark knowledge more than their peers.
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by mecsred 4y ago
I heard a few places in the USA basically tried that during the peak of COVID-19. Wonder how that worked out for them.
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by mecsred 4y ago
That was an interesting read, thanks for posting that. However, in the write-up the TSB cites several sources of human error and a _lack_ of automation such as rail circuits as key factors.
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by mecsred 4y ago
I was fully with you up until the final couple sentences. Anyone who's been in a gym knows it's not a sterile place. Again anecdotally people I have met specifically from going to the gym would go while mildly sick 100%. Justified
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by mecsred 4y ago
That's the point of the analogy. Use of pesticides in some part allows us to have stable and cheap access to food. There are similar ethical arguments to be had about restricting pesticides.
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by mecsred 4y ago
Without antibiotics we could cultivate more resistant humans. That's probably not a situation anyone wants, pencillin was huge for a reason. Now looking into alternate forms of resistances while still enjoying modern treatments, theres
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by mecsred 4y ago
Next time anyone asks me for a time estimate on building something, I'm going to hit them with "well its been about 15 years since I started tinkering, so let's start there"
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by mecsred 5y ago
"Intelligence is not the best predictor of job performance" (McClelland, D.C. 1993) Not sure why you would use a paper as a "standard reference" when flaws in its method were identified almost 3 decades ago.