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by tlb 4y ago
I like the last idea best. It's not an unreasonable amount of work -- every project basically does this on their own now. One or two dedicated people could do a great job.
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by tlb 4y ago
Typical crashes are bad for the body without being very bloody. It's all concussions and subdural hematomas. For max entertainment, robot drivers should splatter blood all over the place when they crash.
783.
by tlb 4y ago
I think it's more entertaining with drivers in them. But sufficiently lifelike robot drivers might suffice.
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by tlb 4y ago
They're measuring efficiency in miles per joule, but really the output of a race car is entertainment. You want the most entertainment per joule. If you make the cars smaller (call the scale s), they have a smaller frontal area by s^2.
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by tlb 4y ago
In battery design, there's always an energy - safety trade-off. The proper role of racing regulations is to prevent a race to the bottom in safety. So I'm in favor of standardizing the battery.
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by tlb 4y ago
"The moon blew up without warning and for no apparent reason." Seveneves, Neal Stephenson
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by tlb 5y ago
The signing of the Declaration of Independence (ie, the US becoming a separate country from England) was kind of a big deal.
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by tlb 5y ago
When I'm typing normally, keys are down for around 60 mS each. Having the software respond at the end of that 60 mS instead of the beginning adds about 60 mS of delay.
789.
by tlb 5y ago
No loss in functionality, but it adds tens of milliseconds of delay when typing. Also, when using Emacs I often press and release the ctrl key without completing a control sequence, like when I'm thinking about scrolling but change my
790.
by tlb 5y ago
Interesting. Where did you move the J key? Was it hard to relearn typing prose with Js?
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by tlb 5y ago
Why a week? Traditional apprenticeships are much longer.
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by tlb 5y ago
I turned it on once for my teenage daughter in a parking lot on a warm day and she was mightily offended. Teslas now have "camp mode" which also keeps the AC on.
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by tlb 5y ago
Teslas also have "cabin overheat protection" which limits the cabin to a survivable temperature when parked (unless the battery is quite low). Still not something you want to subject a child to, but it probably saves some lives. I
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by tlb 5y ago
The abounding skeptics don't seem to have any specific criticisms. Overall it seems like a good idea to reuse the heat-to-electricity machinery and grid connection of existing coal plants, since that's a good fraction of the capit
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by tlb 5y ago
Radiation is easy to detect, and you could imagine deploying them like smoke detectors in homes. I assume someone has done the analysis and decided it doesn’t pay for itself.
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by tlb 5y ago
Since it seems like your work is about a big shift in thinking, it will require people to spend a lot of time before they start to grok the important ideas. So you need to keep them on board long enough for big ideas to seep in. So you need
797.
by tlb 5y ago
If you have high-value info to protect, you are somewhat exposed if other people in your house are sloppy with security. Household shared threat models include: - they download a trojan, it infects your shared printer, and copies all your d
798.
by tlb 5y ago
Microwave ovens run at 2.4 GHz. 4G cellular includes 2.3 and 2.5 GHz bands (among others). So in terms of absorption by tissue, cell towers absolutely have the right frequencies. What they don’t have is the power level to have much effect b
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by tlb 5y ago
Since it looks like a caduceus on a graph, I propose it as a symbol for ethical statisticians.
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by tlb 5y ago
Presumably the results in the reverse direction are sometimes ambiguous, so x1 -> y -> x2. I wonder it there’s a general code improver that tries this transform on every function looking for a shorter x2 than x1.
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by tlb 5y ago
I worked on this problem 25 years ago. It hasn't gone away. In general, performance comparisons are hard to reproduce. For instance, when benchmarking network protocols, often a tiny change in configuration makes a big change in a resu
802.
by tlb 5y ago
I'll claim there's no such thing. Any good business can benefit from having more people than 1. One would have to be deeply eccentric to refuse to hire anyone, even an executive assistant, to scale up the business.
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by tlb 5y ago
Please don't claim disinformation unless there's evidence of intentional deception, which doesn't appear to the case here. Instead, try to add to the discussion. For example, your claim raises the question of why many existin
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by tlb 5y ago
Evernote got slower and buggier every year, until I finally gave up. I switched to Joplin and I like it a lot. It's very fast. It uses markdown syntax with all the features like LaTeX equations. It stores your notes as regular files in
805.
by tlb 5y ago
I don't think there has to be a reason, any more than there's a reason why Americans say "y'all" or "howdy" or "dude". People just pick up habits from each other. Beware of looking for deep reaso
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by tlb 5y ago
Many people working on games have graphic design backgrounds rather than programming, so they're more comfortable with it. A lot of game programming is tweaking parameters, which the blueprint systems provide in a click-and-drag UI rat
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by tlb 5y ago
The value of K for any language is within a constant of K for any other language. To convince yourself this is true, imagine constructing an interpreter for your preferred language in whatever language you are given. You can always prepend
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by tlb 5y ago
They're a major source of spam and abuse if left unchecked. If you make constructive comments with such a new account, they're likely to be noticed and vouched. (See https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and s
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by tlb 5y ago
Are you claiming they have no validity at all? Like if you built 2 teams: one team with candidates that all got 0% on the test and another team with candidates that all got 100%, you'd expect no difference at all in their real-world pe
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by tlb 5y ago
I'm extremely interested in the mind and how it works. The ways that it can work differently under chemical stimulus seems helpful to understanding it better. It hints at a few dimensions of the vast parameter space that alternative (b

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