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by mjhay 3y ago
PFAS exists everywhere in the biosphere. It's impossible to clean all that up.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Basically to model anything on a sphere (usually the Earth). Spherical harmonics are orthogonal functions on the sphere, just like Fourier modes are orthogonal functions in normal space. They solve Laplace's equation on the sphere. Gra
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by mjhay 3y ago
Seattle actually gets less rainfall per year than any major city east of the Mississippi. It's just overcast and misty/drizzly a lot in the winter. Summers are bone dry.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Stuff involving room-temp superconductors would be about the last thing I'd ever want to fabricate.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Yes.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Vertical farming is just a concept that makes no sense. It requires a lot of electricity in practice because there is not enough incident sun, building costs, and then there's the soil. Why not just build a greenhouse, or just a regula
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by mjhay 3y ago
His relatively young death was such a tragedy. Von Neumann's intellect really was superhuman.
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by mjhay 3y ago
I've had one negative experience with a Parisian ever - everyone else has been very friendly - and I'm a dumb American that maybe knows a couple dozen French words.
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by mjhay 3y ago
How fast can they be reticulated?
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by mjhay 3y ago
"People claim thing I like is bad, so they must be making it up."
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by mjhay 3y ago
Even an electric car has big embedded CO2, but CO2 isn't everything. Other environmental impacts - mining and fabrication of the batteries, steel, etc. Then, there's tire dust - one of the biggest sources of toxins and microplasti
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by mjhay 3y ago
Unstructured recursion is incredibly tricky to reason about in terms of stack/heap use and termination, IMO quite a bit moreso than imperative structures. To me, it reproduces most of the same problems of gotos. There are techniques of
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by mjhay 3y ago
Vintage Americana is big in Japan. I understand that has created a market for very high-quality jeans as vintage American jeans are harder to find and modern American jeans are of far lower quality.
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by mjhay 3y ago
In a similar and even darker vein, the animated sketch show Monkey Dust is also fantastic.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Stay classy, HN.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Maybe you were doing a CS PhD or something, but PhDs in most fields are not a good good way to maximize earning potential, especially when taking into account lost potential wages and the time value of money.
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by mjhay 3y ago
It can't be worse than Amazon's own AWS documentation.
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by mjhay 3y ago
I hear the jury is still out on "science."
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by mjhay 3y ago
You obviously have absolutely no clue how research PhDs work. Most PhD students are pretty much done with classes after the first year or two. They get their PhDs through research (often writing their own grants) or the vital function of te
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by mjhay 3y ago
No we would not. El Nino makes things warmer overall, but it's never been this hot before, despite El Ninos always being a thing. Acting like this is all due to natural variability is delusional at this point.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Good point.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Ah, so just like the US then!
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by mjhay 3y ago
They didn't innovate anything. Submersibles have been around for a long time. The technology is mature. Their innovation was using completely inappropriate materials and cheaping out on safety.
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by mjhay 3y ago
Yeah, no shade (or pun) intended.
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by mjhay 3y ago
But enough about shitty university mottos,
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by mjhay 3y ago
> Async programming is the area I would like to see the most improvement, especially in the standard library. > So much concurrent and parallel Rust code relies on third-party libraries because the standard library offers primitives t
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by mjhay 3y ago
There's plenty of liquid fuel stoves around, although butane/propane is probably more common. I like them because the fuel is cheaper and more available, and you can reuse the containers. The downside is they must be "primed&
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by mjhay 3y ago
Full service isn't so fun when you're in rural areas outside of working hours. I've been in a couple of dicey situations in Eastern Oregon due to closed gas stations.
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by mjhay 3y ago
This is a particularly, uh, interesting example with Teslas, given the number of people that have been burnt alive in battery fires, unable to escape (e.g. [0]). However, the Tesla electronic door things are much cooler than mechanical latc
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by mjhay 3y ago
That does erode the long-term customer loyalty, which is disastrous in the long run. However, that is of no concern to executives that make these kind of decisions.

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