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by smolder 7d ago
My phone is not that old but it stopped getting OS updates and I stopped considering it a way to do anything banking related when my bank declared that my phone OS was too old to run the app.
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by smolder 7d ago
Yeah, this is a frequent failure of science communication. Misleading clickbait overselling a paper that made real progress in some capacity. I'd be more interested in hearing the truth of the matter and about the researchers passion f
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by smolder 7d ago
Mass damper systems were really important in cars too before we had deep simulations of structures. Putting some loosely coupled weight in some spot to keep the whole thing from vibrating was a breakthrough.
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by smolder 17d ago
I think what they're getting at, and is valid, is how the speed/torque relationship is similar to voltage/amperage. There's nuance which can separate those ideas.
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by smolder 18d ago
Archive.org. I watched the whole of Norm Macdonalds "cancelled" (in the "cancel culture" sense) show/podcast on there. Oddly, he died a few days after I finished it.
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by smolder 18d ago
That's a pretty decent example IMO.
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by smolder 19d ago
As someone familiar with electrical impedance, I don't like this article. It's trying too hard to sound smart.
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by smolder 19d ago
They probably have, hence the matching thing.
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by smolder 19d ago
I've watched whole video series from their archives. What are you doing to get throttled?
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by smolder 19d ago
I could see it being a Zuckerberg "charity" thing motivated by a need for training data, so, yeah.
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by smolder 19d ago
Anyone with a lot of data has to carefully apply limits to not get bankrupted by frontier AI people with residential proxies scraping the shit out of everything.
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by smolder 20d ago
Stochastic murder, like selling oxycontin.
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by smolder 27d ago
I agree that Thiels ideas are on weak foundations. The idea of "the antichrist" is especially silly when you go back to historical sources. Scholars have said it's not a person, but a category. "The antichrist" is j
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by smolder 29d ago
The art is in knowing how to write software that doesn't perform like shit without doing all the work of measuring and refining. If you can save $100k in hardware costs in a couple days by just knowing what you're doing, that opti
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by smolder 1mo ago
They became NSC, no such company.
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by smolder 1mo ago
Automated control of every major component of the circulatory system should be coming up in the future of medicine if society doesn't implode first. Stabbed through the heart and lung? Plumb in an artificial blood pump and gas exchange
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by smolder 1mo ago
You can't mention that there are pros and cons and not mention that the cons vastly outweigh the pros, with any credibility.
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by smolder 1mo ago
Does the stratigraphy department of the international union of geological sciences have such thorough knowledge that they can make predictions about this stuff on geologic timescales? Getting any kind of truth from commercial oil companies
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by smolder 1mo ago
The deep earth isn't all that well studied, so while we know a fair amount about plate tectonics, there could be hidden factors influencing that action in ways we can't anticipate from recorded history. Who's to say there are
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by smolder 1mo ago
Boring technology is great for making things in certain niches. This argument gets used a lot to encourage Java for every purpose, which comes from a myopic view of the landscape of languages. Advocates of many languages use the "least
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by smolder 2mo ago
I don't think so. I've seen things that say fructose has worse effects than sucrose in terms of spiking your blood sugar or whatever but that's minor compared to the overall impact of any sugar. Sugar is sweet because we were
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by smolder 2mo ago
The smart tv formula gets applied everywhere. Make it cheaper by making more money through annoying/spying on customers.
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by smolder 2mo ago
Shrinkflation is all over. Burger buns at fast food places were more dense 20 years ago. The small burgers had 1/8th pound patties instead of the current 1/10th pound. It's hard to find a product that hasn't gotten worse
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by smolder 2mo ago
I know an 80 year old who was a commercial truck driver for decades and still has a strong mental map for a pretty vast area. Anecdata, but I find it interesting.
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by smolder 2mo ago
Can you be more specific about what S178 you're referring to? There were several results.
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by smolder 2mo ago
Right. A workforce can contain a workforce, as a set can contain a set.
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by smolder 2mo ago
Or measles
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by smolder 2mo ago
No, it doesn't. Different algorithms can vary pretty wildly in performance based on the design of the hardware they run on. For instance cache sizes can make one implementation of a sort on a certain sized dataset faster or slower than
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by smolder 2mo ago
On the bright side, you could live much longer if you went near a black hole. Though, that's according to everyone else's reference frame, not yours. Also, the gravity probably wouldn't feel nice. So, I concur.
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by smolder 2mo ago
Luck of the draw that they weren't lizard people on pangea, making that prediction.

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