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by oliveshell 4y ago
Yeah, ammonia is very common in industrial refrigeration, especially big specialized systems that need tons and tons of refrigerant, as illustrated by this famous accident in which 30,000 lb. of the stuff was released: https://ww
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by oliveshell 4y ago
My use of the word "extremism" may have been slightly misleading; by "extremes" above, I don't mean "ideas or movements popularly considered extreme", but rather literal extremes in the space of possible
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by oliveshell 4y ago
I completely agree-- and, upon re-reading, it wasn't entirely fair of me to cast your comment as representing an "unhealthy extreme", so I'm sorry about that. That's what I get for trying to make a nuanced point ha
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by oliveshell 4y ago
I'll admit here that I was biased by the apparently dismissive tone of your initial comment. This is a fair point that I agree with.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
I'm sorry if I didn't communicate clearly. I think extremism is obviously very clearly unhealthy by definition. I have yet to encounter a single scenario in my entire existence wherein the fully-to-one-side-of-any-spectrum-you-mig
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by oliveshell 4y ago
And with your comment, we now have both unhealthy extremes represented, viewpoint-wise. We need not spend all day tearfully mourning how Earth once was, yet we also clearly shouldn't tarmac the whole thing and turn it into a Costco. It
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Strongly agree. It’s been eye-opening to see how often otherwise very bright, highly technical people stumble at this sort of critical thinking hurdle.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
> Faster performance today means longer lasting tomorrow. Exactly. I use a 2nd gen iPhone SE, and a big reason I bought it was that it had the then-beefy A13 chip despite being a “budget model”. It’s now nearly 3 years old and still fee
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by oliveshell 4y ago
It's okay, we'll always have this: https://www.navytimes.com/news/your-navy/2019/05/14/the-navy...
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by oliveshell 4y ago
I looked into this a while back, and there's simply no feasible way to construct an airship from known materials that could sustain a vacuum of the necessary volume without being crushed by atmospheric pressure. You can keep reinforcin
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Yes [1], mostly the episodes that involve Kaitlin Olson's character, Dee Reynolds, who aspires to a career in comedy, herself inventing and portraying racially insensitive characters within the story of the show. I'm not the typ
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by oliveshell 4y ago
> It is the ACT of actually writing that forces you to think what you are doing. This is incorrect. Everybody is different. As an ADHD sorta guy, I write much, much better if I can walk around and get my blood moving while dictating comp
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Replying to myself to apologize to all future readers for the absolute hash I made of the above comment. I distractedly typed it out while doing something else and didn't realize how unintelligible I made it sound until it was too late
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Honestly? I get it. What you say about AI is true; however, from where I'm standing, it seems there is still too much greed-driven, mindless "no problem; we'll simply brute-force the problem of inventing a machine that does
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by oliveshell 4y ago
No, but I do think that both of these things are revealing to us just how bad highly technical people and highly intuitive and empathetic people are at properly communicating with one another. (It is a broad generalization to assume that th
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by oliveshell 4y ago
If you do decide to burn a candle on occasion, in case the following wasn’t obvious: Keeping the wicked properly trimmed to ~1/4 inch makes a huge difference in keeping soot emissions down. There’s a reason store-bought candles always
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by oliveshell 4y ago
The article mentions that AMC does not actually own the rights to several of their most well-known shows (Mad Men is owned by Lionsgate and Breaking Bad is owned by Sony).
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by oliveshell 4y ago
These are all reasonable statements! I don’t doubt that it’s possible for a human-engineered thinking machine to develop a subjective self-experience. It just seems clear to me that, if such a scenario arose, I would have absolutely no ide
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by oliveshell 4y ago
I don’t believe it does— not yet, at least. Their “world” is staggeringly different from our own at present, and in important ways. For example, the AI models we have now will happily run forever if supplied with external power. That sound
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Evolution per se isn’t the important part. I apologize if my wording gave you that impression. The only reason our brains exist at all is to control our bodies. There are no conscious entities we know of that are just brains in vats. Why
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Okay, this is fascinating. The fact that “schizophrenia is rare or nonexistent in hunter-gatherer populations” is particularly interesting. I had no idea this was the case. Clearly there is much more research to be done, but I feel like the
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by oliveshell 4y ago
I’m happy to “leave the door open,” i.e., I’d love to be shown evidence to the contrary, but: If the entity doing the cognition didn’t evolve said cognition to navigate a threat-filled world in a vulnerable body, then I have no reason at al
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Heh, sadly those only work on tempered glass and this was acrylic. It appears the bonded seams between acrylic sections failed.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Possible? Maybe. I believe we know enough now, however, to conclude that it’s astonishingly unlikely.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
> Maybe the booing in person and Dave Chappelle's comment about the booing being pending civil unrest spooked Elon a bit One can only hope.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
>Their video model will be very good in a the future if the current release pattern keeps up It appears they’re abandoning the video-only approach: https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/07/tesla-appears-to-be-turn
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by oliveshell 4y ago
If we’re talking about the Bahamas being unable to catch a break, there should be mention of the nasty direct hit they took from hurricane Dorian in 2019, from which some areas are still recovering. The storm basically sat still over Grand
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Amen. I still see plenty of HD video these days that’s so bit-starved, it looks worse to me than a good DVD.
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by oliveshell 4y ago
Yep. For those who haven’t heard it, there’s an old joke that goes something like: “What do you call 500 lawyers at the bottom of the ocean? A good start!” Yes, it’s tasteless, but it gives the context within which I interpreted the paren
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by oliveshell 4y ago
I believe they’re referring to the KitchenAid stand mixer, a piece of equipment that’s known for being stoutly built. [1] (I know several people who’ve had theirs for decades.) Sadly, anything other appliance branded KitchenAid is basicall

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