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by smaddox 6y ago
There's also leverage/margin (i.e. borrowing to buy stocks). With higher volatility, investors might be less willing to use leverage, resulting in less total demand, which results in lower prices. When stocks drop, excess income a
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Building/refurbishing lead acid batteries wouldn't be all that difficult immediately post collapse. Solar panels can also be refurbished. For poly silicon cells, it's mostly the contacts that degrade, and you can improve that
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I finally finished reading the three relevant papers. This is absolutely brilliant. This isn't my area of expertise, but to me this looks like the future of OS design. I would love to use this as my base OS, if/when it can be brou
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https://sneakysnake.io/ Browser-based endless arcade multiplayer snake game with mobile support. For some reason, it always seems to run smoother on mobile than on desktop. Browsers make it basically impossible to get a smo
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by smaddox 6y ago
Why is this downvoted? This is one of the most well reasoned and we'll articulated comments I've seen on this topic.
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I think the standard end to that sentence is "to destroy our democracy."
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Breaking an 80 line function into to 8x 10 line functions does not necessarily make it easier to test. Most of the time it just adds unit testing busy work, for no clear benefit. This becomes more clear if you imagine you wanted to test eve
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No, that is not for a specific case of high performance... It's for the non-specific case of keeping the code clear, understandable, and bug-free. The style was chosen for these reasons, not because it is more performant. It just happe
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> but it is also doubtlessly less oppressive to foreign populations ... So I assume you're counting Uighurs as non-foreign populations? Perhaps you should rethink your perspective.
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1917 people died from COVID-19 yesterday in the US, alone. That's a 9/11 of deaths every 36 hours. It might not be as deadly as was first feared, but it is deadly.
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The range of light wavelengths that can reasonably be used for computation is in the hundreds (or thousands) of nanometers. Even the most optimistic approaches for confining such light to small areas, plasmonics, can only realistically give
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Silicon photonics has a lot of potential, but not for replacing transistors. I wish researchers would keep their claims of potential impact in the realm of possibility.
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Atomic bombs, yes. World wars... I guess you could make that argument, but it's a stretch. There were basically world wars in antiquity. Atomic bombs also pretty much put an end to world wars.
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I don't understand this attitude. It's seems to essentially be "it requires thought, planning, and effort, and therefore is impossible." Was this kind of mindset as common when the world irradicated Small Pox and Polio,
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> [...] Bitcoin, a legitimately valuable commodity [...] Huh?
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Good luck inventing something new and better without first understanding what already exists. In my experience it's much more efficient to master what already exists, first, noting down any novel ideas as they come to you, and then mov
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High temperature superconductors provide more stable resistance-free conduction than traditional superconductors. If both are cooled to liquid helium temperatures, that increased stability translates to being able to sustain a higher magnet
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Rust's borrow checking algorithm has been formally proven for a subset of the full language. Although this is one of those places where intuition is adequate to show the value, i.e. of enforcing exclusive mutability. After all, the int
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by smaddox 6y ago
Interesting hypothesis. There certainly is at least some truth to it. On the topic of Zig, he seems to ignore that Zig provides several unique "runtime" features: * unlimited comptime code execution * error sets and error return t
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by smaddox 6y ago
Don't forget, even within individual atoms, the overwhelming majority of the space is a vacuum.
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The irony is that this phrase predates the Torricelli experiment, in which he used a glass vial and mercury to produce a vacuum, and the eventual discovery that the vast majority of nature is a vacuum (outside of the atmosphere of planets
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What's the break down of average human caloric intake from animals vs. plants? Is calories from animals close to the same fraction (77%)? If so, then changing from animal to plant diet wouldn't reduce the land requirements much.
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Variable refresh rate monitors don't solve hitching due to variable computation. In order to render an animation smoothly, you have to know precisely when a frame will be displayed ahead of time, so that you can render the simulation p
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As far as I can piece together, Casey Muratori first described the approach in an early YouTube video in 2005: https://youtu.be/Z1qyvQsjK5Y The basic approach certainly existed far earlier, though. Early "graphical&quo
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I've been a financial backer of Zig for several months now, and plan to continue, because Andrew and the other contributers are pushing language design in directions that no other language is. That being said, Zig's comptime is no
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Looks like a very promising alternative to things like Apache Airflow.
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I agree with both of you, to a degree. Playing a single player video game is unlikely to help you build relationships with others. And yet never stopping to enjoy life in all its variation leads to a pretty empty life, too.
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Wolfram actually touches on this near the end of his fairly recent blog post discussing recent advancements he and his collaborators have made on this topic: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-m
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The way I solved this in my own (not finished) web-based spreadsheet app is to have a scrollable div positioned over the canvas and to size the transparent div contents to the width/height of the sheet. Then I register scroll event han
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SpaceX has been using 3D printed rocket nozzles with graded alloy compositions in production for years.

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