mikedilger

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by mikedilger 6y ago
I'm not at all down on New Zealand. I love it here and always have. I think you've misunderstood my humor. I consider myself a New Zealander. It was self-deprecating.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
> How do you figure this? Is the US approach courageous? Cowardly is too strong for what I meant to say and I take it back. I meant it in an 'avoiding fighting' sort of way, choosing to not stand up and fight for one's rig
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by mikedilger 6y ago
As an American living in New Zealand I can attest to the fact that the Labour government led by Jacinda Ardern made mostly good moves by treating COVID seriously and thus winning re-election in a landslide. I cannot say if her decisions he
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Wow, something is wrong with uMatrix. I have uMatrix with 1st party javascript disabled by default. Yet this site says "Please disable JavaScript to view this site." To be sure, I curled the source and hosted it elsewhere, and
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by mikedilger 6y ago
> Today, we are starting to bridge the gap between pen and paper proofs and computer science: it is called formal verification. I was involved in formal verification at UC Davis back in 1993, and I'm sure it started before that. And
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Life that has been continually evolving as the environment changes is much more likely to develop into a super threat than life that has been frozen for ages and is waking up into a world that it is not optimized for. Anthrax outbreaks have
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Nov 3 - Election Day Nov 7 - News media called a winner (this is not an official act) Dec 8 - Deadline for resolving election disputes Dec 14 - Electoral college casts votes Dec 23 - Deadline for receipt of electoral college votes Jan 6 - C
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by mikedilger 6y ago
It's terrible! We have a plague of cute fuzzy bunny rabbits too. And we've been smothered in niceness by our PM. Help!
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I think it's a failure of leadership. I believe that stupidity is and has always been widespread and in normal times the more intelligent ideas have the widest subscription, even among the stupid. But when leaders fail to [be open, be
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Joe Rogan makes an apology and a retraction: https://www.instagram.com/p/CFSYnUFA8Fb/?igshid=z7u5pv3sjemu Given the vast amount of conversations he records and releases, it doesn't seem suprising in the leas
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Fair question (I've upvoted you). Here's more detail on the person that started it: https://heavy.com/news/2020/09/jeffrey-jeff-acord/
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by mikedilger 6y ago
(Washington, left-wing activist, forest fire): https://www.kiro7.com/news/local/police-arrest-puyallup-man-... (Oregon, arsonist, forest fire) https://thepostmillennial.com/arsonist-arrested-after-
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Sunlight is spread-spectrum. This is focused at the frequency that makes water molecules vibrate - which is why we use it for ovens.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
This would be better if there were a physical-only method to factory reset the CPU, instead of blowing fuses.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I woke up my dog to take a picture of her and see how this AI does. It ranked her as Unsettled (100%). Yep.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
There does not need to be a written contractual relationship to invoke tortious interference. The followers clearly intended to support Owen financially, not Patreon itself, so there is a financial relationship between them. But given that
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by mikedilger 6y ago
PGs presents a closing hope in the imagination of the aggressively independent-minded. There is hope but no assurance that doesn't turn towards sustained decline. The dark ages happened. Leonardo DaVinci lamtented that in 1400 he knew
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by mikedilger 6y ago
How did you determine the general scientific consensus?
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Identity as a noun is problematic and IMHO usually reflects miscomprehension. Identity is a relationship. The identity function maps something onto itself. Authentication checks if the current entity is an entity you remember.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Identitfier systems will always be distributed in that even in a world where it is entirely centralized, someone can create another one. Now it's distributed. The power is in your hands.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I've dug further into this and have become less impressed. I'll leave just one example (I had many but I won't hog this space). Apparently this is "high end science journalism". Kai Kupferschmidt tweets this "S
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by mikedilger 6y ago
This author is mostly on to it. However, I'm hearing the dog that is not barking. We hear about listening to the science when it comes to COVID-19 and climate change. I totally agree. Why not also listen to the science when it comes to
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by mikedilger 6y ago
You are correct that it breaks down into co2, but it is not part of the long term problem. The CO2 from methane breakdown was sourced from the atmosphere in the first place. And it goes back into the atmosphere. It's part of the perman
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by mikedilger 6y ago
The world has been reducing greenhouse gas emissions since at least 1990 when it was 6 trillion tonnes of CO2e per year. We're currently at about 4.4 trillion tonnes of CO2e per year. We have an ambitious goal of getting down to 1 tri
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Meat production produces methane, not CO2. People yearn for simpler data and try to create equivalence (CO2e), but you cannot simply combine them without a loss of understanding/meaning. Methane is much more potent, but also more trans
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by mikedilger 6y ago
It's the same reason that news media is so enraging.
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Rust developer Location: New Zealand Remote: Yes Willing to relocate: No Technologies: rust, postgres, linux, git, html/css/webassembly, PHP, Vulkan API Resume/CV: on request Email: mike@mikedilger.com Passionate about rust (
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by mikedilger 6y ago
rust (default settings, amd64) gets 0.501782303180000055
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by mikedilger 6y ago
Those are immune to the sampling rate bias, but they are lagging indicators. Based on the recent widespread failures to socially distance (e.g. George Floyd protests, campaign rallys, etc), I suspect those lagging charts will start trending
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by mikedilger 6y ago
I stand corrected.

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