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by psd1 4mo ago
This thread has been useful to me, thanks to both of you!
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by psd1 4mo ago
> how many people ... hijacked in the delay that is inherent in understanding systems ... That sounds a lot like the anarchy that I put a lot of unpaid time into. Decision power does not come from elections, it comes from being credible
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by psd1 4mo ago
I assume a 'tumwata is a bottom-bottom-water; im underwata wit de missile; a submarine.
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by psd1 4mo ago
"Techne", I've read, had a meaning of "craft". It referred to ceramics and weaving before, say, the antikythera device. If attic greek had the word "technologist", then a sword maker would be one
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by psd1 4mo ago
Time flies like an arrow Fruit flies like a banana
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by psd1 4mo ago
I miss my E39 530 every time I drive. My next 90s Jag is also going to be a straight-six; the V12 is glorious but heavy.
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by psd1 4mo ago
I like that story. I fixed a microwave door latch with a beer-can shim and some decorative ribbon; we used it another 11 years.
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by psd1 4mo ago
Terminology question - I understood those to be "high-energy" surfaces, because the chains are strongly bound. Is it a typo, or am I wrong?
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by psd1 4mo ago
TFA does specifically call out the lower efficiency of eesm. I guess it was edited after you wrote your comment. Efficiency schmischiency. I see your 3% and raise you the abolition of SUVs. I see your motor-brush maintenance burden with my
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by psd1 4mo ago
> Is ... really so hard? Anecdata: I implement most of my behaviours on a kilo of fatty meat and neurotransmitters. It's not a great stack; it has a massive attack surface. It's also orchestrated by an endocrine layer, which is
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by psd1 5mo ago
Did you populate the motherboard with the most it could handle, or the most you could assemble from a box of assorted sticks? Otherwise, 110MB would hint at a fascinating engineering culture at the motherboard manufacturer.
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by psd1 5mo ago
Localised entirely within your chat window? You're an odd duck, marshray, but you impersonate a good FBI officer.
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by psd1 6mo ago
I was completely wrong about the turnout and I'm not sure how. Point conceded. But ysk your reasoning is circular. They wouldn't have held a second ref because they're bad, they're bad because they wouldn't have hel
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by psd1 6mo ago
> Before WW2, France and England extracted (a LOT of) tax, without doing anything, from Germany If you mean Versailles, there was a little kerfuffle leading up to that, called WWI.
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by psd1 6mo ago
That's one interpretation of the irish refs. I think the more obvious one is that the first result was very close and needed to be clarified. That also fits with the second one being emphatic. You're allowed to think that Lisbon w
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by psd1 6mo ago
It is within the range of physiology. Nobody has pH-neutral skin, and aluminium is reactive.
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by psd1 6mo ago
Politics is indeed toxic to pure curiosity about pure things. I feel that too, viscerally. However. Culture war tropes get posted in even the most abstract discussion, so banning top-level posts won't keep it out. Furthermore, technolo
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by psd1 6mo ago
He is a leader and a political figure. This blogpost is political (as well as sharing a family photo, which is itself imbued with a political message in that context). Engineer archetypes hate politics and refuse to think about it. For most
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by psd1 6mo ago
I've often got value from digging through libraries (in other languages), but I've almost always had the feeling that I'm not "doing it right", or that someone somewhere isn't "doing it right". Logica
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by psd1 6mo ago
You're anthropomorphising humanity. Humans are sapient; industrialists and politicians have intent. But the incentive structure is an evolved system, and that's what selects these people. The result is that humanity, collectively,
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by psd1 6mo ago
TIL! I love old Citroëns, but i never knew about that steering design. Have you experienced that failure mode yourself? How alarming was it? Do you think it's a reasonable trade-off for the benefits?
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by psd1 6mo ago
All analysis should also keep in mind the "who", no matter how logically separable it is. I put this less strongly since boeing contracted MBA cancer and yolo'd the 737-max, but that aside, the civil aviation engineering fiel
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by psd1 6mo ago
Musk has a very spiky character sheet. He is, in some dimensions, extraordinarily stupid, and I believe his ego makes a lot of big decisions. But something that might fall into the genius category is this: building things speculatively, pri
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by psd1 6mo ago
My understanding is superficial, so do knock it down, not it seems to me that tesla insists on vision-only hour self driving, which vastly increases the requirement for ML. Whereas Waymo has a lower sum technology requirement by using both
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by psd1 6mo ago
Heuristically, that sounds naive. Actuaries do not typically think "oh, that's enough data". If Experian could track whether you iron your shirts, it too would show up in your credit score.
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by psd1 6mo ago
I can't think of a time when I've found an absolutist position useful or intelligent, in any field. Free-market absolutism is as stupid as totalitarianism. The content of economics papers does not need to be evaluated to discard a
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by psd1 6mo ago
AI was already better than this in 2020 when your account was created. You must be human, you've failed a turing test. G7 nations aspiring to be Puerto Rico - lol.
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by psd1 6mo ago
> The decisions taken by leadership ... are rarely in the best interest of Europeans ...and you offer America as a counterpoint? A nation predicated on fucking its people over? A hellscape of vulture capitalists, wreckers with MBAs, capr
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by psd1 6mo ago
Counterpoint: biology looks like vibe-coding. I would hate to have nature as a colleague, she's an arrogant fool with a mail-order degree. I'd rather maintain a Jeep than a knee.
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by psd1 6mo ago
I can relate. However. The unspoken rider is "...according to our current understanding". I don't think you have the footing to constrain the future to only what we understand today, especially since we can't reconcile o

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