rthomas6

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by rthomas6 3y ago
In python I do horrible things like the following when nobody else is going to see it: [[[foo(x) for x in y] for y in bar_vec if baz(y)] for bar_vec in bar_mat if bar_vec != []]
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Just dropping in to plug physical media. 4k Blu-Ray is always higher quality than streaming, and Blu-Ray almost always is. I'm talking noticeably, obviously better in terms of both picture and sound quality. Also, nobody can take it
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by rthomas6 3y ago
That's basically what StumbleUpon was, and it was great while it lasted. You clicked like on stuff you liked, and it would show you more stuff that other people who liked similar things liked. If someone could make something like that
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by rthomas6 3y ago
I think people already lived there and collectively decided to found a city where they were. Rich out of towners swooping in and buying local land hasn't worked out well for the locals historically.
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by rthomas6 3y ago
This is exactly what I want in a car, unironically. I really dislike car culture. I think it is ruining America. This is like wanting a bus to be fun and exciting. Why are daily driver cars supposed to be fun? We are spending all our infras
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Could it be a small black hole orbiting the sun?
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Let me know when the Culture Minds are ready
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by rthomas6 3y ago
I regret including Palestine and Afghanistan in my original comment. I didn't mean to be disingenuous. I should have included more countries like Argentina, Kenya, and India that aren't politically charged. My main point is that 5
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by rthomas6 3y ago
That's the number Wikipedia gives for 2021. It's sourced from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Maybe the data is self-reported and Palestine fudged the numbers? Maybe it's accurate for the time period and just su
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Personally I would like to see us go below countries like Afghanistan (4.0), Argentina (4.6), Kenya (5.3), Iran (2.4), Israel (1.9), Palestine (0.9), or India (2.9). And preferably as low as, for instance, Spain (0.6), or even Japan (0.2).
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by rthomas6 3y ago
> Something that's not obvious from most of the published pics is that the rotary subwoofer was using an entire hotel room to serve as an enclosure. IE, you're not going to easily get loud bass at 10Hz without an enclosure, and
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by rthomas6 3y ago
> nobody really wants FPGA fabric on a CPU. Not true... Xilinx sells a lot of their Zynq, MPSoC, and RFSoC chips. Though I guess those are more CPU on an FPGA.
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Part of the answer is that people now are forgetting just how much goodwill Google had with the tech folks around the time Google came out with Chrome. It was open source! You could easily run it without Google! It was a titan squaring up a
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by rthomas6 3y ago
What is causing the drought?
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Wow, the Arizona area is disappointing to say the least. All that sun and almost no solar power.
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Why not just tax carbon emissions?
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Even better: a very high tax on the assessed unimproved land value of all privately owned land. This removes the ability to speculate on real estate entirely, which, if you think about it, maybe shouldn't be allowed in the first place,
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Maybe. I think we're going to buy time with geoengineering, but it won't solve everything or actually fix any core issues.
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by rthomas6 3y ago
I was holding out on joining the wave of doomerism that pervades everyone's mindset so thoroughly nowadays, but I'm starting to be won over. Between economic things like this and the apparent infeasibility of carbon capture (meani
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by rthomas6 3y ago
I don't think that was implied, but yes! I'd rather be homeless at 20 than homeless at 70. Wouldn't you? At least I'd be less likely to die from a fall. At least I'd be more able to defend myself/run away.
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by rthomas6 3y ago
> I'm still noodling on what that ideal program could be, outside of the obvious graphics processing. Basically any kind of big linear algebra workload. Things where you have a big vector/matrix and you need to do some operatio
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by rthomas6 3y ago
> Subsistence farming works great until a drought. Maybe we should do this by default and fall back onto the global supply chain when there is a drought.
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by rthomas6 3y ago
If you smoke a few Marlboros in a cleaning staff outfit, get some Walmart shoes, get a $30 phone, and get a mop and bucket, I feel like it might work pretty well.
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Oh no!
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by rthomas6 3y ago
It's almost like, having a true fixed supply, land is a separate class of economic good and shouldn't be seen the same way as everything else. Georgism ftw
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by rthomas6 3y ago
We see that. Pets and wild animals that live around humans are also increasingly obese. From a quick search: https://www.livescience.com/10277-obesity-rise-animals.html
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Also the metabolic syndrome/obesity epidemic. 40% of US adults have obesity. By 2030 about half of US adults will, and in 29 states more than half of adults will be obese. We see obesity becoming increasingly normalized. People feel po
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by rthomas6 3y ago
Same with anxiety
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by rthomas6 3y ago
You can get a mortgage without a credit score. It is called manual underwriting.
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by rthomas6 3y ago
> the cameras are the perfect way to nostalgically capture the low-fidelity look of the 2010s Am I old now? Is 35 old?

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