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by ryandvm 5y ago
Probably wouldn't make for a very interesting write-up, but if I were to undertake this project I think I'd start by just scavenging parts from a current gen electric lawn mower. Roughly equivalent power output (I'm assuming)
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by ryandvm 5y ago
May you live in interesting times indeed...
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Peter Thiel is demonstrably a pretty machiavellian character. Since just about everything he does is either financially or politically motivated, I don't take too much from his comments other than he anticipates to gain from them.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I'm fairly sympathetic to the "I don't have anything to hide" argument simply because in most cases it's probably true. The reality is that most people don't have much information worth keeping private (beyond
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Shit. Worse yet, maybe it's just me in the simulation and the rest of you are NPCs. Tough luck for you bastards...
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I think I agree. In the early 1900s New Yorkers were freaking out at the calculations that showed that their streets would be buried in 10 feet of horse shit within a hundred years. Obviously that didn't happen. Technological progress
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by ryandvm 5y ago
> Good conversations don't have to involve a back-and-forth with your ideas always being involved. That's a great point. Generally my favorite part of the comments are all the little atomic nuggets of wisdom that folks post in
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by ryandvm 5y ago
A lot of dev careers do fizzle out as you approach 40 but it's not necessarily due to agism. Speaking from experience, it's typically because around that time a lot of developers start shifting their priorities. For me personally,
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Am I missing something or is this about detecting moving magnetic fields? The researchers waved a magnet over tissue samples. Moving a magnetic field through electrically conductive material generates electrical currents. That seems like
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Huh. Surprised do see such low numbers for 40+ nomads. I would have thought the post-family-raising mid-life crisis would be the perfect kick starter for a nomadic career.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
> Tesla is overall near parity with human drivers in terms of casualty rates Not it is not. It's on parity with human drivers IN IDEAL CONDITIONS. Autopilot is frequently flummoxed by rain, snow, or other high glare conditions. It&#
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> any article that references Fowler should be looked at with just a little bit of suspicion Indeed. I don't doubt he's a very clever guy, but all of my most miserable gigs involved phalanxes of architecture astronauts endlessl
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Agile is like Communism. Sounds good in theory, but it's never actually been used successfully. And every time someone tells a story about it failing the apologists inevitably reply with, "but that wasn't real agile."
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Interesting. I'm a software developer and I've only recently become aware that I seem to be deficient in this area. For example, I can imagine the concept of particular person's face (shape, features, etc.), but there's
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I'll tell you what, it'll aggravate any latent imposter syndrome you may be dealing with...
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Strange take. In 40+ years, I've never needed a gun to defend myself. Nor do I even _know anyone_ that needed to use a gun to lawfully defend themselves. So why should we all have something that A) the lawful uses of such are exceeding
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by ryandvm 5y ago
> Maybe it’s just Stockholm Syndrome, but IMO Go’s “verbose” error handling approach is a feature, not a bug. No offense, but I think it's Stockholm Syndrome. It reminds me of what the JavaScript folks used to say 5 years ago: &quot
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> Nonetheless it is necessary, because it has the benefit of being true. Who cares about truth? Ultimately, if you don't have absolute values handed down to you by magic, every other alternative we can construct are ultimately based
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by ryandvm 5y ago
> The better question is why aren't you having children as often as possible if you think life is worth while. That's a pretty weak "gotcha" as well. The reason I have had 3 children instead of 12 is because it balanc
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Indeed. If you can't tell if the dishes are clean or dirty, they are clean ipso facto.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
The corpus callosum is pretty much exactly a signal bus between the two hemispheres. Granted, it's a 200-million wire bus, but it basically transmits entire "thoughts" between the hemispheres. I think the dream brain interfac
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Immortality in a mainframe sounds great right up until your brain scan appointment is over. "Well Mr Henderson, that's it. We've scanned every synapse and uploaded your consciousness. Now if you'll just step into the vap
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Probably not. Sounds like toenail fungus. I've had it and it is basically only treatable with oral Lamisil - which is nasty stuff, but does work well.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
The Last Question (by Isaac Asimov) is my favorite take on this topic by far. https://www.physics.princeton.edu/ph115/LQ.pdf
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Libby and the bizarre false scarcity model of e-book sharing is the kind of weird crap you end up when you try taking existing laws and paradigms and applying them to the digital landscape. There is absolutely no reason that a kid should ha
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by ryandvm 5y ago
I think you're correct about existing users at large corporations. Converting all those into paid accounts is a no-brainer. However, this will have a massive change on the competitive landscape. For companies that haven't yet adop
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by ryandvm 5y ago
Somehow I never realized until now that the word "discover" taken literally quite clearly means to remove the cover from something. Funny that now it exclusively means "to find something".
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Like paper.
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by ryandvm 5y ago
A worse, and more likely, possibility: What if the money spent reversing climate change could save more lives if spent adapting to climate change?
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by ryandvm 5y ago
That's a great point. However, whereas humans share their experience through the effective, but extremely lossy technology called language; machines can store and share their experience without loss. Sure there are scaling limits, but

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