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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
I think the nuance is that money is made up, not that it is imaginary. It is an abstraction that lets you live in a society that will let people be cold and hungry without feeling too bad about it.
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
Where I live and with the kind of driving I do it actually feels safer because I get less tired on longer drives. This is long straight semi rural driving though. I don't use it on tight roads or in traffic. Be interesting to see the s
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
When they were doing the original scans the resolution was set by the diameter of the turbines, the logic being that they would probably be the only thing intact if it hit the water at speed.
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
Too be fair, so do a lot of human drivers. Something about motorbikes makes them difficult to perceive. Not sure if it is car pillar design, not expecting to see them there (a prior of just looking for cars) or just a small frontal area.
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
My only advice if you can't stop seeing things as wrong is to broaden your perspective a little bit. Everything is wrong really and most people really do try their best given the circumstances. What seem like stupid decisions are usual
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
A big thing with Japanese folk tales that is a bit of a jump for people with a European perspective is that they have no moral lesson. They are just a bunch of things that happen. It is fun to watch western audiences come up with theories a
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
Carried both my kids like this. They loved it. So much more convenient than a pram, you have both your hands free so great for shopping etc.
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Monte Carlo Geometry Processing(youtube.com)
135 points by salty_biscuits 4y ago|17 comments
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
I agree, it is an old man rant. It is funny the lack of insight people have in their own intellectual journey. When you are a neophyte, of course all the old guard have all this intuition that you admine. Then when you are experienced every
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
I worked for years in a business providing support services for maintaining the distribution network to rural areas. The distribution network was run at a loss by the government. Please look at the numbers and stop reactively responding.
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
Interestingly enough, Alan Turing is originator of the study of reaction diffusion equations in biology https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/The-chemical-basis-of-...
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
Then don't do it. Grids are expensive. Microgrids and storage seem like a winning plan.
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
Aren't you kind of paying them to learn directly by doing language agnostic hiring? More that you can't expect them to be productive quickly, but that goes for any hire right?
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
He is only BMI = 24 though? What crazy redefinition of obese is going on there.
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
The usual argument is that the scaling of the power wrt height is wrong (people aren't spherical basically). I don't buy it though. So many people say they have a high BMI but "they just lift weights". If you aren't
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
> The economics of how power generation works. Power generation has massive economies of scale and single-person initiatives are unlikely to be able to compete. The only "in" for a small player is remote/rural where the co
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
I'm a mathematician too, and it doesn't make sense to me. It seems somewhat arbitrary depending on the application, i.e. I think it is a type problem. We use an Int to mean something special about array elements. I'd be happi
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
I'm not arguing that the natural numbers should start from one, rather that the usual path for developing the natural numbers starting with set theory is that zero is the size of a set with nothing in it. In maths they always talk abou
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
Where 0 is the cardinality of the empty set, i.e. some empty collection. Not a convincing argument.
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
"our profession is in trouble" Or the world will shudder at the Byzantine monters we can pump out day after day
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
But a submarine doing what a submarine does is a tautology. What people are really grasping at is can a machine be human? And pinning down what it means to be human seems very important to ruminate on. Can machines think? Cogito, ergo sum..
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
I only had a quick look, but I would guess the slicing is what makes it slower than you would expect. Julia copies on an array slice, but you can use the @view macro or do some loops with a preallocated array to make it faster.
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
Haha, yes I thought so but my experience on hn is any humor gets misread so just felt like I needed to clarify in case anyone thought I was a monster who goes around punting monotremes.
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
"Get a kick" = "enjoy", not a literal kick.
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
"Sadly, if any insight for the "why's" was there after all, we don't have a method to extract it anyway." This has been my central frustration with working in ML. People always expect a "why" to exist
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
They are super cute and I always get a kick whenever I see one on a walk. No idea why they are named after "the mother of monsters", early Europeans must have been on another planet https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
I think I need to be more long form because people are getting the wrong idea. Desalination from seawater is almost never required, brackish sources are more common. For this multistage flash distillation is the cheapest option, reverse os
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
This is a good point but a sad situation. Without a functional state there are many other problems as well.
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
This isn't high tech stuff. People all around the world know how to make clean water. It doesn't require specialised equipment or knowledge. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_sand_filter
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by salty_biscuits 4y ago
Fresh water cost $1 per cubic metre. The availability of fresh drinking water in some countries is a political problem not a technological one.

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