saulrh

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by saulrh 3y ago
You only see people going on-call with no stress because everyone else burned out and quit. Very simple selection effect. Declaring that things can never be better and that this is fine prevents us from finding useful and meaningful improve
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by saulrh 3y ago
With respect to serialization, failure rates, reliability, safety culture, and response to failures, then yes, I assert that a widely-deployed nuclear reactor design would behave much more like an airplane design than it would a design from
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by saulrh 3y ago
If the number of reactor designs is equal to the number of reactors built IRL, then of course the historical data would fail to distinguish those factors. I went and did looked up some stats from aviation, since that's an industry that
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by saulrh 3y ago
Yes, safe. I would guess that the absolute failure rate of nuclear power is likely a function of reactor design count, not reactor count, and that the current failure rate at reactors is greatly increased by the part where every reactor
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by saulrh 3y ago
Yes, actually, widespread top-down deployment of nuclear power would have been a safe and economical way to transition gracefully off of fossil fuel power starting in the 1970s.
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by saulrh 3y ago
I imagine that a lot of that cost is project and timeline risk mitigation - what happens if people NIMBY you repeatedly and demand ever more insane mitigation protocols and you end up having to move to Antarctica to build a space program fo
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by saulrh 3y ago
Because if you try to depend on the US's nuclear umbrella you end up like Ukraine.
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by saulrh 3y ago
Reproducibility of mechanical objects is only the case in the modern day! It used to be that reproducing mechanical parts was difficult enough that a particularly sophisticated part could be just as locked-down as a particularly sophisticat
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by saulrh 3y ago
It's interesting that motorcycles show a flat and unambiguous 30% fewer fatal crashes when riding bikes equipped with ABS. Which does somewhat support the theory that it's down to a Jevons-paradox-alike effect, given that AFAICT m
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by saulrh 3y ago
Also look into the file formats that the robotics community use, stuff like rosbag and MCAP. These are formally more like point clouds than cinematic video captures and they won't integrate well with the video-processing side of things
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by saulrh 3y ago
Not even slightly. I wouldn't touch a human-safety-critical system like that if you paid me twice what I'm currently making. No, I just would really like it if people didn't die in car accidents, I think that modern controls
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by saulrh 3y ago
To expand... - Improved FEM makes modern crumple zones deeper and smoother - Heavy use of composites dramatically improve the raw amount of energy absorbed by the car instead of the passengers - Better manufacturing methods me
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by saulrh 3y ago
Who ever said that the computer doing the simulation is working under laws of physics that are identical to our own? There are plenty of sets of physical laws that would support such a simulation, and a great many of them are entire computa
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by saulrh 3y ago
> Having nice round numbers is of no benefit to a patient. At our current level of logistical sophistication, the benefit-to-the-patient is that they can get their medications at all. I agree that in a perfect world every prescription wo
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by saulrh 3y ago
> which to me is a little like saying, "We don't know if we'll have time travel and ray guns in six months or 600 years." I wouldn't be surprised by AGI tomorrow, which means I have to consider the possibility. W
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by saulrh 3y ago
The cynic in me says that it was probably priced to cost exactly the same as the expected lifetime expense of treating of the disease.
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by saulrh 3y ago
ADD is not the lack of focus, it's the lack of executive control over focus. You may have a fantastic, nearly inhuman amount of focus, but without any ability to direct it - if you have something engaging to work on you can work on it
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by saulrh 3y ago
Unfortunately, the people in charge of these systems have enough money to hire people to do all of this crap for them. They don't do their own taxes, they don't open their own credit cards, they don't negotiate their own mort
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by saulrh 3y ago
Re-configuring everything so screen sharing works is obnoxious, sure. You know what's way more obnoxious? Every single website having full access to every single pixel and keystroke going into every single application on my entire mach
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by saulrh 3y ago
Sixty thousand ton stamping presses are technically robots :V
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by saulrh 3y ago
My experience is that, at my first job out of college, I found out while learning SQL on the corp dev sandbox (specifically allocated for prototyping and learning SQL) that one of the functions I'd invoked had been part of some special
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by saulrh 3y ago
... Is Apple really getting sued over "having separate buttons for long snooze and short snooze"?
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by saulrh 3y ago
A technology being published does not mean that it is available, especially for technologies that require uptake by the general public. And, well, PGP and GPG have reputations for such awful usability that they _might as well not exist_ as
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by saulrh 3y ago
Perhaps they're trying to impress upon the population that wearing a helmet is an incredibly good idea, literally a lifesaver?
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by saulrh 3y ago
Then extend product codes until every single individual batch - or even every single individual item - has a unique ID. Store information hierarchically if you have to to save space, but we have the technology today to track every single
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by saulrh 3y ago
Being able to demote files from "this is an object on disk" to "this is just another record, albeit a very big one" is a huge win for data architecture. I've seen this implemented ad-hoc in dozens of different insta
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by saulrh 3y ago
The latter. Motor losses are in large part due to resistance in the windings. Going from 95% efficiency to 99% efficiency means 1/5 as much heat output per unit of energy delivered, which means if your motor is thermally limited (which
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by saulrh 3y ago
The BIG change is if this supports high magnetic flux densities, in which case literally everything that depends on magnetism or magnets or electromagnets gets an order of magnitude better - ten times as much power per unit of heat disappea
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by saulrh 3y ago
With advertising eyeballs and third parties in the loop there is nothing that is not "commercial". Do you think that Comcast would have refrained from injecting ads and attack scripts if you'd been browsing Wikipedia or the
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by saulrh 3y ago
Right, I knew I was forgetting something about that. Yeaaaaaah. And speaking of that, let's not forget about downgrade attacks! Removing HTTP is the least worst option in much the same way that you disallow RC4 when negotiating encrypt

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