miltondts

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by miltondts 5y ago
Given CO2 emitted today doesn't have an immediate impact, 2C appears impossible at this point: https://www.ecowatch.com/greenhouse-gases-paris-agreement-26... This is just for the CO2 already in the atmosphere. Add to
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by miltondts 5y ago
Are there people in HN dedicated to identify and stop this type of activity?
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by miltondts 5y ago
Research code is highly volatile: the details and architecture changes a lot. It is much more important to invest the time into writing more experimental code and validate it with e2e functional tests that don't need to change, than to
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by miltondts 5y ago
Extremely unlikely to wipe out all humans. I agree. Current civilization, I'm not so sure. For the reasoning: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IESYMFtLIis
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by miltondts 5y ago
> if you've colonized say 20 stars, what disaster could possibly end your civilization? Unfortunately, war with another civilization.
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by miltondts 5y ago
> ... but I don't play that role any more. I was thinking of going into that field. Can you expand a bit on why you left?
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by miltondts 5y ago
Totally agree. While AlphaFold 2 is a tremendous achievement, to me the major drawback is the blackbox approach. It means it is very difficult to know when the model is outputting garbage and it also doesn't directly lead to new insigh
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by miltondts 5y ago
A quick google search seems to confirm that fasting can indeed help with depression: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12603-013-0344-9 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article&#
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by miltondts 5y ago
Recently I watched One cut of the dead. One of the few comedies that surprised me in the last ~10 years.
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by miltondts 5y ago
"serious blind-spot though" Historically I think you are correct. The barbarians at the gates could topple any elite before this one. However, I think there is an even bigger blind-spot in the general population: technology. We ha
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by miltondts 5y ago
Yes, that area (Jacobabad[1], Sukkur, ...) is not habitable without the use of AC/underground dwellings. [1] - https://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/science/swelterin...
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by miltondts 5y ago
If you press them hard enough they'll start spouting stuff like: - "We engineer for maintainability/extensibility/scalability!" Except that unlike with performance, they generally don't have any numbers to back
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by miltondts 5y ago
Where exactly is it claimed that it displays thousands of frames per seconds? The purpose is to show how fast the program is. This is standard practice in benchmarks. You show an FPS counter that doesn't correspond to the frames the mo
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by miltondts 5y ago
Not the same hardware (i7-8565U) but it should give some ballpark estimates. xterm: $ time cat enwik9 real 4m32,750s user 0m0,032s sys 0m21,799s gnome-terminal: $ time cat enwik9 real 1m37,299s user 0m0,030s sys 0m13,300s Curiousl
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by miltondts 5y ago
Another good demonstration of how incredibly slow software is. Not 2x or even 10x, but rather 100x-1000x. Courtesy of our best practices. Zero regards for the user, CO2 or anything like that. Use libraries, frameworks and abstractions for e
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by miltondts 5y ago
Maybe because those are examples of people that didn't have any significant work that can be admired? We remember the works of Euclid, Plato, Socrates, Newton, Shakespeare, the Wright Brothers, Einstein etc. I imagine none of these peo
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by miltondts 5y ago
> That's interesting to consider a code walkthrough as different than a code review. How would you describe the differences? The code review process I'm familiar with is: open a PR, wait for a couple of reviewers to comment on
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by miltondts 5y ago
Code reviews are not very good: - Most style issues should be caught by automated tools - Most functional issues should be caught by tests (written by another person preferably) - To bring someone up to speed on your chosen style, pair prog
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by miltondts 5y ago
Did you take into account the warming of the oceans? They have 3 orders of magnitude more mass than air (1.37 × 10^21 kg vs 5.1480×10^18 kg), and take much more energy to heat per mass.
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by miltondts 5y ago
> “We must redefine our way of life and consumption.” Judging by our failures so far, there is absolutely no chance of this happening on the time frame needed to have the desired impact. It would take a mobilization similar to the WW2 ef
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by miltondts 5y ago
Better that than Soylent Green.
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by miltondts 5y ago
> Which software exactly is functionally the same yet consumes more resources? Can you give some specific examples? Here is one concrete example: visual studio startup and debugging. Source: https://youtu.be/GC-0tCy4P1U
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by miltondts 5y ago
Yes, I should have typed "clean code". It's exactly what you and also what the parent said. It's about patterns/architectures/abstractions that we consider to be good/beautiful, but with very little regard
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by miltondts 5y ago
Yes, but that is not what I meant. I meant that the difference in power between the most powerful and the least is growing. The counter to that, seems to be rapidly disappearing. Without a negative feedback, and with greater automation, the
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by miltondts 5y ago
It appears that significant social change, only occurs when things get really bad for the majority of people and a revolt, or threats of it are raised. Otherwise what seems to happen throughout history, is that people gain power and use tha
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by miltondts 5y ago
Yeah, all this concern with scalability, portability and clean code, has created quite a dystopian software world. A world where software can barely fit in a single machine and can only scale up. In many cases, this software doesn't ev
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by miltondts 5y ago
I'm talking about capability, not theoretical properties. Can any current so called quantum computers actually perform any computations faster than a classical one? To be called a quantum computer, I would expect they should, but last
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by miltondts 5y ago
"They can’t outperform classical computers at useful tasks" Then calling them quantum computers is a marketing stunt. A quantum computer is something that can factor an integer (or a similarly quantum task) that no classical compu
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by miltondts 5y ago
I agree with your first sentence. The Juice Media are satirical journalists, but as far as I can tell all the satire is contained to the presentation, not the facts. The Daily Show is not independent, so putting them in the same bag as The
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by miltondts 5y ago
Find news that are published independently. For example if you want (mostly) Australian news that are funny, see https://www.youtube.com/user/thejuicemedia

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