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by ngvrnd 4y ago
Start looking for a new job.
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
I like beating people in concept but not in practice.
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
not just a cost question but a resource availability/energetic cost of resource extraction question. If it takes more and more fossil fuel use to extract the increasingly rare components of the renewables, then renewables may not be ab
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
“Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen.” L. Wittgenstein
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
The AOE lab book is also great if you like guided learning.
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
Ah, just run 'em all under a cobalt-60 source. (joke)
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
Yes, that was the joke.
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
Want to read "Sedenions: a Practical Guide" ("Trigintaduonions", anyone?)
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
My great-aunt Gloria told me at this year's family reunion that she had used machine language (not assembler, she was quick to add) when she started programming.
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
This is a wonderful spin; the author says that they don't believe Tolkien intended this. But it's a fun thing to think about.
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
Maybe, but that would be better than accepting them and then doing this.
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
Would not buy a tesla. There are other electric cars on the market.
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
where your face recently was.
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
Ooh ooh! Now do git.
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
Plato wants a word with that https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLATO_(computer_system)
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
"Now you've got three problems."
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
Also inevitable.
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
The author wrote "uncontrolled growth", not "any growth".
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
Dunno about the pdp-1, but the pdp-10 series machines allowed the registers to be addressed like memory, if I recall correctly- the registers were special and faster than the rest of memory, but one could put machine code in them and run it
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
can be. I never dink, I just update and use it.
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
Ultimately, pursuit of perfect efficiency results in crystalline systems which are fragile. Slack is the ur-antifragility. (efficiency pursued for itself is AN enemy)
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
doesn't necessarily mean they are ACTUALLY measuring anything real. just sayin'
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
when all matter turns to EM radiation, at the end of the universe (arguendo), then time will cease to be measurable, and so will distance.
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by ngvrnd 4y ago
one point which I think some have missed -- the "missing chunk" is probably due to a stroke the patient suffered as a baby; recovery from damage that occurred when the brain is still extremely plastic might be very different from
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by ngvrnd 5y ago
controls unintuitive
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by ngvrnd 5y ago
I vaguely remember someone telling me, a long time ago, that Thomas Reps' PhD thesis ( https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/book/6267325 ) showed that it wasn't practical to build this kind of editor. Perhaps that was
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by ngvrnd 5y ago
it is in fact recommended.
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by ngvrnd 5y ago
"Forever chemicals" perhaps?
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by ngvrnd 5y ago
patience
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by ngvrnd 5y ago
SSC FTW

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