mr_toad

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931.
by mr_toad 2y ago
Despite all the hand wringing, heavy industry uses a lot more power than data centres.
932.
by mr_toad 2y ago
If the US left NATO the remaining members would have even more incentive to stick together.
933.
by mr_toad 2y ago
4chan aren’t modifying the Ghostscript code, why would they care about the license?
934.
by mr_toad 2y ago
From talking to someone in the industry TDD seems to be a popular methodology.
935.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> People trying to ignore politics are like fish trying to ignore water. Like fish, most people do ignore it until it turns foul.
936.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> Raw milk is delicious, my ancestors have been drinking it for millennia. Before refrigeration most milk was made into butter, cheese and other products. Unless your ancestors actually herded the animals themselves they probably didn’t
937.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> Entropy is always increasing in a closed system Only if that system isn’t already in thermodynamic equilibrium. A closed system that reaches thermodynamic equilibrium has maximum entropy. Why the universe as a whole didn’t start out i
938.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> But this is again something that applies to individuals rather than countries. It applies to countries too. It’s the core argument of comparative advantage, and it’s been mainstream economic theory for over 200 years. Your argument i
939.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> Not only crocodiles and turtles are more closely related to birds than to lizards and snakes Most fish (bony fish) are more closely related to us than they are to sharks and other cartilaginous fish. Technically we're all air bre
940.
by mr_toad 2y ago
I think it's a pretty wild idea that intelligence is some sort of threshold, instead of a continuous spectrum.
941.
by mr_toad 2y ago
My human neurons are inclined to wonder if the results hold true for other flying animals, particularly insects, and of course, bats.
942.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> Search is primarily a portal - you know a particular resource exists, you just don't know its exact URL. Kind of like a manual, with an index. RTFM people.
943.
by mr_toad 2y ago
https://www.apache.org/foundation/sponsors
944.
by mr_toad 2y ago
The UK might to think nuclear, if only so that it isn’t totally reliant on a foreign power for its nuclear deterrent.
945.
by mr_toad 2y ago
Saying the vulnerability is in Parquet itself gets more clicks.
946.
by mr_toad 2y ago
I pretty sure that Teams has tanked productivity in some offices. It used to be that arranging a meeting required finding a physical space. Now some people are spending their days in back-to-back teams meetings and never get any actual wo
947.
by mr_toad 2y ago
It’s not public debt, it’s private debt. It’s not a coincidence that Americans are becoming more indebted at the same time as the country is running current account deficits.
948.
by mr_toad 2y ago
Current account (export and import) deficits are offset by the capital account, which is trade in assets, including financial assets (or actual cash). The two balance each other out. You can run a deficit by borrowing or by selling assets
949.
by mr_toad 2y ago
It seems more likely that bad data was involved. There are actually export statistics (obviously errors, possibly fraud) for these islands. Someone probably stuck the numbers in a formula without digging a little deeper.
950.
by mr_toad 2y ago
I think there’s a lot of people who use these tools because they don’t like to read.
951.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> Leftist-anarchists want to keep power to an absolute minimum. Usually relying on a combination of culture and group action to wield just enough power to prevent the growth of unchecked power in the hands of a few. Most anarchists, just
952.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> Further, the Dems didn't offer her as part of an open primary. The only people promulgating this red herring would never have voted for her anyway. > She was a poor public speaker, Compared to Trump? A man known for his incohe
953.
by mr_toad 2y ago
Protectionism is usually about protecting existing jobs and industries. This idea of blanket tariffs to try and kickstart industries is unique.
954.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> They're extreme libertarians/neo-feudalists. The ancient Greeks would have called it Tyranny. All of this has happened before.
955.
by mr_toad 2y ago
Sunlight can be 3-10 times that bright. No wonder the outdoors looks so dirty.
956.
by mr_toad 2y ago
> We have cultures that throw gay people off the roofs, and cultures that celebrate them. And you could take single individuals from either culture and drop them in the other culture, and most of them would happily act and think just lik
957.
by mr_toad 2y ago
FoundationDB supports referential integrity and indexes in a layer on top of the key value store. https://apple.github.io/foundationdb/layer-concept.html
958.
by mr_toad 2y ago
I think the question of whether any ancient society was (as a whole) opposed to slavery is a valid one.
959.
by mr_toad 2y ago
He was the first to mass produce cars. But given that cars and mass production already existed it was probably only a matter of time before someone decided to mass produce cars.
960.
by mr_toad 2y ago
I also doubt the Romans had tools that could have machined a piston with sufficient precision either.

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