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by smolder 1y ago
> No one has come close to solving the problem of optimizing software for multiple heterogeneous CPU's with differing micro-architectures when the scheduler is 'randomly' placing threads. I think this isn't wholly cor
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by smolder 1y ago
You can still buy and build (I do) powerful gaming-capable systems that do not emit rainbow-puke or have transparent panels and other gimmicky stuff like that.
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by smolder 1y ago
They used to complain about that 10 years ago, but apple was just ahead of it's time. Microsoft saw the light and is racing down that path. Soon enough, no computer without user-defeating secret logic and remote ownership will be allow
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by smolder 1y ago
Yes, it's lying with a tiny bit of plausible deniability.
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by smolder 1y ago
But don't delete signal because you might get invited to an inner circle war strategy conversation.
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by smolder 1y ago
There is societal improvement and then there is the huge amount of ego driven waste and externalized harm. Ideally, theoretically, we could have a lot of the former without a lot of the latter. In practice this ratio seems to be getting wor
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by smolder 1y ago
What's clear to me, at least, is that a few cents doesn't represent the actual cost. It's a shortcoming of our economics that we consider such a great and long lasting material so disposable.
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by smolder 1y ago
I would like you to qualify "didn't hold up well". Can you explain how? Can we get more detail?
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by smolder 1y ago
Transparent paper is kind of an old idea. Whether it is commercially viable is the important question.
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by smolder 1y ago
Plastics and other oil-derivative, crucial materials should be the main use of crude oil and methane, not energy. Save the oil to make things that don't have an easy replacement. Replace oil burning with solar, wind, nuclear, etc., and
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by smolder 1y ago
I have had various ways of testing things over the years, too, and like I said, they're not doing a good job. They don't employ experts, they just project expertise to an uninformed audience.
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by smolder 1y ago
LTT is only popular because of youtube in the first place and kind of bad at what they do. I've seen lots of bad methodology and low value content so added them to my "don't recommend" list years ago. More on topic, Floa
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by smolder 1y ago
Inducing regrowth of some cells could be a cure for parkinsons, for example.
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by smolder 1y ago
None of this attack was personal, that is wrong. All was deserved. Complaining about academia without any specifics is one of the dumbest and most well funded and prominent memes in the pseudo intellectual podcast sphere today.
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by smolder 1y ago
Tell me what the careeerists have done to hurt your nonexistant novel approach to any hard problems in science.
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by smolder 1y ago
It really upsets me when i see this kind of hollow rhetoric, which is specifically designed to confuse, and to stear people away from learning and instead make them sceptical of the most honest pursuers of truth.
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by smolder 1y ago
This whole take is embarrassingly ignorant and no one with the credentials has the time to check you. We need people to do real thinking and they need to ignore you.
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by smolder 1y ago
This person is a clown, probably with a paid agenda, and they should be disallowed from saying such dumb things where smart people with useful skills might read it.
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by smolder 1y ago
Your comment is cheap in a way that's embarrassing. You wrote an anti-science rant while failing to meet the standards you complain about.
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by smolder 1y ago
Maybe. I suspect it has more to do with baseline activity level and type of workout, but I could be wrong. I only have 1 body. IME, If I do nothing all day, I'll feel sluggish all day. If I take a 30 minute walk or do some squats, pull
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by smolder 1y ago
I worry that a lot of this conversation around web tech has become shibboleths to gatekeep a dwindling industry. You don't actually need to be an expert in angular or react or whatever unless you are churning out similar things in an a
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by smolder 1y ago
I see this tactic over and over. Overstate the problem your industry faces while you divert money away from solving it. Because propagandizing, buying political support, and so on, is cheaper than being a good actor in your business.
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by smolder 1y ago
I'm skeptical. I don't think they are really battling scams at Meta. There have been scams all over their platforms for a decade or more. This story is about trying to create the sense that they are working hard on the problem whi
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by smolder 1y ago
That's what the video link (PBS SpaceTime) explains. Quite well, IMO.
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by smolder 1y ago
What happens inside a black hole is basically unknowable. We can only ponder the math which leads to ideas like space and time swapping roles once you cross the event horizon.[0] The only thing that comes out is hawking radiation, which is
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by smolder 1y ago
Hollow drums are usually the best drums. If you fill them with stuff they don't resonate as well.
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by smolder 1y ago
IMO, we should stop abusing personal data for profit. What does this bring to the table that doesn't advance the surveillance state? Does it help individuals without hurting them?
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by smolder 1y ago
Yeah, it's something best planned with construction, and a bit pricey, but worth keeping in mind for anyone who intends to build a bunker. :) Also not bad for high efficiency net zero type homes to supplement natural light without too
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by smolder 1y ago
Everyone seems to go for LEDs to simulate outdoor lighting for this kind of purpose, when there is another way that seems much more elegant to me: fiber-optic solar lighting. https://www.shieldenchannel.com/blogs/solar-
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by smolder 1y ago
I don't think that's right except at a radius of a typical planet. At the event horizon of even a planetary mass black hole, gravity is so strong that light cant escape, and the time dilation effect should be the same as for any e

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