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by scratcheee 4y ago
You're right because internal combustion engines are so inefficient that more than 50% of energy is wasted before it can even contribute anything. But in terms of useful energy leaving the engine it's a different question. Once yo
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by scratcheee 4y ago
Things may change when(if) our machines get smarter than us. Currently we're constantly expanding the complexity of our systems, but since they don't understand their underlying purpose, they can't help us manage that complex
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by scratcheee 4y ago
Agreed that patting someone on the head and telling them they're a good boy despite their nazi views isn't the right move, though that's pretty clearly a strawman of what's being suggested here.
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by scratcheee 4y ago
To just convey ideas? Of course it's not necessary. To convince someone to change their world view? This is nowhere near _enough_, just a small start. They were not talking about couching every fact or snippet taught in physics class g
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by scratcheee 4y ago
>as a result of that, the world's population has been growing and growing At first yes, but not recently, now the opposite is true, if anything. We haven't had exponential growth since the 60s and are currently headed towards a
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by scratcheee 4y ago
The way the psychology of gambling has entered the games industry has indeed produced more money, but at the same kind of costs that the gambling industry has always created. I don't advocate for killing this new gaming industry, just
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by scratcheee 4y ago
The parent comment explained pretty well the advantages over __LINE__ imo. Crafting macros is often black magic, but using them shouldn't be (if they're well crafted). Having an implicit rule in your macro that it cannot be used t
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by scratcheee 4y ago
>Most developers that release iOS software seem to be doing ok with those “unreasonable” rules. Surely given survivorship bias that means very little though? If you did a survey today of living people you'd discover a 0% death rate,
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by scratcheee 4y ago
The only way to avoid all-eggs-in-one-basket is to convince everyone to have hybrid everything (ie a gas boiler _and_ a heat pump, and their own personal generator), which would be insanely expensive (note: having mixed infrastructure of el
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by scratcheee 4y ago
The isolated content processes shouldn't have access to the other processes memory. There might be shared memory regions, but it seems unlikely they'd store the keys to the kingdom in shared memory.
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by scratcheee 4y ago
Yeah, and to simplify further, the atmosphere's got a fixed amount of methane-removing capability, and as we exceed this capability it can't absorb methane any faster, so the ratio of methane that gets absorbed starts dropping eve
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by scratcheee 4y ago
I disagree, it is in fact a very polite and fair minded way to respond to claim you find dubious. If anything they were being more polite than later in the comment when they suggested the claimed results should be impossible (though that&#x
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by scratcheee 4y ago
liquid nitrogen would require better insulation at the least, since its much colder. I suspect they're also taking advantage of the fact that dry ice is solid, so they're effectively sand-blasting the track (rather than merely pre
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by scratcheee 4y ago
Rail lines have more than 10x the throughput though, so you need vastly less of them to do vastly more work. A city with enough roads for 100% car usage is approaching not being a city anymore, just an unending suburban hellscape, but a cit
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by scratcheee 5y ago
It's possible that it might be deterministic, but there is not currently any basis for certainty other than the fact that so many things we've seen turned out to be deterministic that it feels like everything "should" be
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by scratcheee 5y ago
The attack surface is large, so even if you've mitigated all the known vectors, there may be more you didn't know about. I wouldn't blame you for just accepting the risk, situationally I might do the same, but it _is_ a risk.
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by scratcheee 5y ago
That would be more compelling if their success was more directly coupled with their technical design. Unix is not technically incompetent (certainly given the needs of the times it was designed in), but its real success now is largely based
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by scratcheee 5y ago
Quantity is a quality all of its own. Being able to identify many such compounds very quickly implies some new threat models that are a bit disturbing. Of the 40000 substances identified, perhaps one of them has another interesting characte
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by scratcheee 5y ago
I disagree with your interpretation. Would it be better if nobody had access to easier ways to produce new and innovative nerve agents? Yes, of course it would be better. Do I prefer a world where only state actors can build nerve agents, v
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by scratcheee 5y ago
commercial fusion as in the sense of the title is probably meant to mean "making profit", so significantly harder than just sustained fution, which will likely be obtained much earlier. But it doesn't really matter, for now t
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by scratcheee 5y ago
In my experience status is not that reliable, but that doesn't change the result, as you mention at the end. >And even if my status is green but I happen to still be busy for some reason, a chat notification is a chat notification.
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by scratcheee 5y ago
You're right, but I think they were making a different point in the title than that the pressure of war would lead to unwise decisions (though they may have been going for both at once). They were also pointing out that the internet is
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by scratcheee 5y ago
Why does the concept of "public domain" actually matter though? It's clearly a legally frought concept, and nobody actually believes in public domain itself as an ideal (as far as I know), its just seen as a means to an end,
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by scratcheee 5y ago
Plenty of multi-threading in browsers, but multi-threaded layout is rare, as I understand it. Mozilla made an attempt with Servo, but their first attempt got too complicated and they dropped Servo before the second attempt got anywhere ( h
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by scratcheee 5y ago
I agree they must be taken into account, but the obvious counter is to take the cost of energy storage into account for solar/wind, which currently weakens its position significantly. Long term that cost will go down, but it's alw
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by scratcheee 5y ago
To be fair, the equivalent solution for the name field example would be solving it by insisting everyone specify how many names they have before letting them enter their name - there's a reason that isn't the recommended solution,
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by scratcheee 5y ago
Yes, but context is key. Denoising can on average improve the result, but sometimes it will be wrong. Spotting when it goes wrong is potentially a difficult task, but generally the difficulty scales pretty clearly with the difficulty of und
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by scratcheee 5y ago
Exactly my thoughts too. I'm fine with a simple noise-removal pass, but if the AI is context-aware, what's to stop it saying "hmm, this brain would look more like a normal brain if I remove these tumors". Obviously, they
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by scratcheee 5y ago
They explained that in the retrospective. The code _does_ work the way you describe, _except_ for the latent bug that caused the networking thread to get stuck in an infinite loop, which it was never supposed to do, even when errors occur.
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by scratcheee 5y ago
They're using efficiency in a different (and certainly confusing) sense. Their gas guzzling car example explains their thought process: humans, whilst hunting, are running hot. They're inefficient at the task of maintaining themse

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