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by rich_sasha 3mo ago
3d graphics is still mostly polygons, just much smaller? Anyway, I'd imagine the part that is an integral over the surface becomes a finite sum, the post doesn't say but it seems like a reasonable guess.
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by rich_sasha 3mo ago
It's worth adding that conventional wisdom says, you can't time the market. On average, people shifting between cash and stocks to time shocks lose out over just holding a fixed portfolio.
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by rich_sasha 3mo ago
You can add to this that the other parties running against Farage don't really have an upside. Reform is leading the polls somehow and he's quite likely to win - which would give him an argument to say "the voters have decide
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by rich_sasha 3mo ago
Perhaps it's going even faster, and one day will zoom through someone else's stellar system. And they'll rack their brains over what this weird misshaped metallic radioactive object means, where it's coming and where it&
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by rich_sasha 3mo ago
Don't know about other places, but in places I have worked that required sick note on day 1, you could get one via a phone/video doctor's appointment. You could argue that this is accountability theatre, though frankly for so
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by rich_sasha 3mo ago
If you're off sick and need to provide a doctor's letter, at some point it will need to touch your employer servers. Just one example.
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
I don't have definitive first-hand experience. I would speculate that it is one of the less awful ways to go. Mountaineers who had a close brush talk about the struggle to stay awake while awaiting rescue (or before resuming their desc
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
The stepping over the dead bothers me little, frankly. As a mountaineer, it's hard to imagine a nicer end than dying at the top of a beautiful mountain. Beats the care home for sure. What horrifies me is the idea of stepping past peo
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
How about just sort the numbers from biggest to smallest? 2026-07-02 16:45 becomes 2026-45-16-06-02 Bonus points for using a very confusing separator... Maybe {?
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
Despite being such a "household name", rabies is in fact the single deadliest disease in humans. If untreated, results in pretty much 100% mortality. There's a mere handful of people surviving rabies without treatment in reco
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
The ones genetically engineered to get Alzheimer's or the ones engineered to get cancer?
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
It's incredible how high these levels were so recently. Never mind Trump (though I'm sure he's helping). Dropping from near-100% to near-50% in 25 years? Show me any societal variable that changes so quickly. Clearly their pr
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
At some point, if there are enough incentives, you should see businesses and employees moving to lower CoL areas, as you saw the mini exodus from SV to Texas. What exactly is the government motivation for relieving the pressure on startup S
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
I suppose a big change over the past 50 years is that we really boosted jobs that must be done in big cities. Wanna earn a lot of money? Take on a lot of debt and become a lawyer/accountant/etc. But we didn't create more citi
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
This is great - and who would then buy the "full fat" Windows? Who wants the product that works, but also with bloatware, spyware, slower, more expensive and taking up more resources?
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
> Americans would not believe how many "geographical centers of Europe" are claimed there. They have their own weirdnesses. How is Chicago "mid-west" when it is so far east? How is Virginia south?
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
I suppose you can't force people to sell you the license you want. Someone might reasonably develop some land, build flats and only rent them out, no obligation to sell them. But then you regulate what the landlord can and cannot do.
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
Right - but means of production can't be created and destroyed from nothing. Proper centrally planned economies all thought it could and failed. China is much more free at moving them from one place to another, in particular allocati
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
As many comments say, of course they can . They are an illiberal country, very good at semi-centrallised command, semi market economy. They have shown a number of areas where through determination and massive central effort they bridged en
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
I think DRM is frankly a lot more of a consumer education/rights thing than some kind of outright evil. Buy a DVD for X, or "own" a DRM version for Y<X - why not. It's a bargain I'm happy to strike, or at least I
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
Great. Do you have to hand an accessible non-BS description of one of those? I have no biology background, but one ML PoV in-depth description I read of these sounded indistinguishable from BS.
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
It's clear COVID was circulating by then. I remember a story about an American guy in the US, west coast somewhere, in whose Nov 2019 blood samples they found antibodies. IIRC first reports of unusual respiratory disease in China are f
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
I thought the whole "we can guess what you're thinking from an MRI" thing was BS, along the lines: take a small set of photos, image people's brains as they are looking at these pictures, to map to some low-dimensional v
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
Only loosely related, but on the topic of deep historical namings: Mayonnaise comes from, and derives its name, from Mahon on Menorca in the Spanish Balearic islands. That in turn is named after Mago Barca, the brother of Hannibal Barca, &q
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
These Western countries are also still exporting their manufacturing and energy use to China. Meanwhile, Chinese CO2 emmissions are still increasing, regardless of how much renewables they are building. This would mean that the marginal cos
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
To be honest, making sense of finances of fully public companies is often hard, because in practice, accounting is hard. How you account for depreciacion, cost, investment, fixed vs marginal costs is in practice fluid, companies have an inc
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
It cuts both ways. Solar and wind are great but intermittent, and the storage issue seems to be treated as a solvable ergo solved problem. Add a sprinkle of "overcapacity", gas peakers and demand shaping and we can have a fully gr
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
I can still think of many reasons why not.
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
Governments able to topple themselves with 100% natural incompetence, meanwhile, have been invented millennia ago. AI is catching up.
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by rich_sasha 4mo ago
Is the future of software really vibe coded by management consultants..?

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