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by rictic 4y ago
We are still discovering exploitable petroleum faster than we are burning it. Peak oil is going to be peak demand for oil as solar wind and batteries continue their exponential price performance improvement curve. Unsustainability is a terr
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by rictic 4y ago
We absolutely can do math in the face of some probability of being wrong about our proofs (and the proofs of our proof systems, and our proofs of the consistency of our logics, and so on). I know this because we do, in fact, do math and som
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by rictic 4y ago
Ah, I thought you you were talking about the urn after the balls had been drawn. Still, I've been to enough magic shows, been fooled by enough subtly-wrong mathematical proofs, been utterly convinced that my program's behavior was
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by rictic 4y ago
What's surprising about that belief?
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by rictic 4y ago
I get some scam/phishing/malware emails sometimes from an account I've only ever used to sign up for comcast.
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by rictic 4y ago
The amount of art that people want in their lives is much larger than the amount that's there now. Artists who are willing to direct their talents towards satisfying others' desires for art will find the world is very positive sum
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by rictic 4y ago
Desktop PWAs and "open as own window" shortcuts help a lot with this, letting you (from a UI perspective at least) run a web app as though it was its own application rather than within the browser.
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by rictic 4y ago
> This means that whenever we decide to throw the switch to multi-threaded WebAssembly, essentially no code needs to change as all of our logic is already written in a concurrent-friendly manner. We simply reap the benefits of a multi-th
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by rictic 4y ago
To rebut someone's argument you must address the argument and not just talk about them and their motivations From your comment a reader will understand that you think they're just memorizing and interpolating and that you disagree
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by rictic 5y ago
Many benchmarking systems face measurement issues that make it difficult to produce solid results. Any given run might not be running on the same hardware, the same OS, built with the same compiler, running with the same runtime, with the s
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by rictic 5y ago
That's a comforting narrative, that good parents couldn't end up with terribly behaving and out of control children. I think that good parenting probably does greatly reduce the chance, but it would be surprising if it totally eli
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by rictic 5y ago
I use it all the time, it's significantly improved my productivity. It's a little like pair programming with an incredibly eager junior developer who has read a lot of the documentation of every popular API in the world. I need to
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by rictic 5y ago
7% a year means doubling every decade, 3% means doubling every two. Fossil fuel efficiency isn't moving at nearly that rate. If current rates continue, battery powered jetpacks should be compelling within 60-120 years
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by rictic 5y ago
If battery tech continues to improve at current rates then certainly electric jetpacks will be possible and practical, if there's still demand (and we don't destroy ourselves one way or another). Without doing the math though it m
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by rictic 5y ago
Sometimes people misunderstand the basics of their full time work yes We've all seen that person, and almost all of us have at times _been_ that person And unfortunately, given the replication crisis, there is no reason to assume that
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by rictic 5y ago
since both comments in response read it the same way, I suppose I was unclear I was arguing against mocks, and for only using fakes when you really have to, for hermeticity and performance
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by rictic 5y ago
most of the bugs are in the joints of the system, not in the components it's much easier to write modules that are internally consistent, much harder to be globally consistent across modules. mocks ensure you only test for internal con
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by rictic 5y ago
how do you pay them?
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by rictic 5y ago
<non-judgmental> PHP and Python were both released in the 90s
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by rictic 5y ago
Graphics cards and neural accelerators have continued an exponential improvement in performance per watt dollar, which is the intuitive thing that people often mean when they say Moore's law.
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by rictic 5y ago
Life is more than just commute time. When commuting further distances you have more options of where to live and where to work.
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by rictic 5y ago
> it has not improved the lives of anyone meaningfully, traffic is as bad as its ever been The latter does not imply the former. If the increased infrastructure means that more people can live and work in an area, then even if the traffi
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by rictic 5y ago
Don't forget closing costs and the opportunity cost of investing the down payment (which regulations basically require to be like 20% now I think). But yes, I agree that that's the history, that if you're in an area for a few
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by rictic 5y ago
Some people key off the shape enough that they wouldn't follow a wrongly-shaped detour sign, so you wouldn't fool everyone, but you'd absolutely fool a lot of people. I expect I'd be one of them.
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by rictic 5y ago
PoS validation does not have to include any more power than a bitcoin miner has.
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by rictic 5y ago
With Ethereum at least, it's proof of work leading up to proof of stake, so you'd have to break proof of work to create a fake early history, so the initial stake has to be legal within the proof of work history of Ethereum. Unsur
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by rictic 5y ago
If starship is cheaper per kg of cargo then SpaceX will just refuel starship with other starships as planned
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by rictic 5y ago
Needing to push through people who are trying to scam you is very unpleasant for many people. Others get a kick out of it, I get that, but it just not being a part of the process at all is a big win for me.
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by rictic 5y ago
Yes. The 2->3 change was not engineered to make migration easy, and as a maintainer of a large and project that people have built on top of this is something that both current and potential users will judge you on. Not speaking from a pl
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by rictic 5y ago
And Daisuke Amaya did all of Cave Story too. Some really wonderful games come out of single vision, single execution

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