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by tuatoru 3y ago
This is Nikola Tesla the engineer, not the corporation.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
That is right and proper. This is one of the many ways in which first-worlders who claim to care about the climate refute themselves, that they do not press for coutries like yours to be developed as quickly as possible, leap-frogging over
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by tuatoru 3y ago
N=1, but visceral fat starts building up sometime after age 40 anyway. About 52, in my case.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Wow, that's confidence!
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by tuatoru 3y ago
I agree with the trendline for PV prices in Wright's law (cumulative production) terms, and the idea that electricity storage has its own Wright's Law curve. Handmer glosses over a few things, though. First Amdahl's law, and
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Indeed. It's nice to hear of a person with actual values in this day. It's not a value unless it costs you something in some possible situation. That's why it is called a value: holding to it comes with costs. For approximate
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by tuatoru 3y ago
They will also spend longer on their phones than interacting in person.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> traditionally suppressed adult lifestyles It's a Chesterton's Fence issue and an individual vs social harm one. Maybe, just maybe, those traditionally suppressed lifestyles were suppressed because those societies had memories
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by tuatoru 3y ago
There is an "undernutrition" hypothesis. Back in the day when we were all doing enough work (men, women, children) to need over twice our base-metabolic-rate number of calories per day, and eating whole foods, particularly red and
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> scenario that tries to show some absurd conclusion about a moral theory So, the trolley problem? "Philosophy is bunk".
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by tuatoru 3y ago
I am always surprised that anyone ever used Amazon for anything other than books. Since 2010, other than e-books. Even with e-books, I only ever go there after identifying it as a last resort.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Cue Gerald Weinberg quote:- If architects built houses the way programmers write software, one woodpecker could bring about the collapse of civilisation. -- although the problem is managers, not programmers.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
How is that possible? Companies are completely sociopathic. Whatever they say, they're only saying that to get people to buy their stuff. Shame cannot work.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
In Branston Pickle, the third word, "Relish", is silent. So silent that it is omitted from the label.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
That is certainly where the economic incentives appear to be.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> Most of the improvements apparently come from training larger models with more data. OpenAI is reportedly losing 4 cents per query. With a thousandfold increase in model size, and assuming linear scale in cost, that's a problem.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
No experienced C programmer is going to misunderstand u8 in a declaration.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
If you use "Getting Things Done"-like triage, you know that it goes into the pile of things that you deal with when you have a solid block of time. Not just a spare couple of minutes. Edit: when you do get to it you can then make
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by tuatoru 3y ago
It helps people who are thinking, "I have two minutes, can I deal with this now?" In the example the answer would be no, because I'm expecting a response, and just reading my email would take all that, so there is no time to
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by tuatoru 3y ago
I try to be polite, in a work context at least. I preface the email with "2 minute read; 3 questions to answer" or some such. I don't write many emails these days though.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Huh. At this very moment I am listening to Jonathan Blow's talk to DevGAMM four years ago, which has this kind of glitch as a recurring motif. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko&t=2729s
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Nice explanation! It's the second order effects.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Long ago I worked in places where the CEO did exactly that. "Management by walking around" (it even had the abbreviation MBWA) has fallen out of favor, though. People just don't walk any more. This was about 1000 people.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> I've known a few company owners long time ago who ... swore on their lives they will not fire the managers for bringing them bad news It needs to go further. Fire everyone who says there are no problems. If there are no problems,
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by tuatoru 3y ago
> To cut to the chase, I see two main planks to your thesis, which I will return to as we go through the content, and which are both erroneous: > Software development is a reducible activity, and can be measured with reductionist to
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by tuatoru 3y ago
All the actual talking has shattered into a million tiny droplets, sparkling unseen, and evaporating into the morning air... Also: "only paid subscribers can comment on this post". It's not even ironic.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Has anyone tried, you know, asking women why they don't go into STEM courses, and having graduated, why they don't go on to work in the industries?
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by tuatoru 3y ago
Yeah, I've got a bookshelf full of books to re-read, from 'A Theory of Justice' to '1Q84' and much besides.
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by tuatoru 3y ago
I understand that the point of an abstract is to tell a researcher in the field whether or not the paper is worth reading. I don't think the authors of this paper understand that, though. My reaction was "well, that's two min
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by tuatoru 3y ago
So what is that in Manhattan Islands?

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