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by twic 1y ago
Depends on the index. The usual ones are indeed market cap weighted, and so adopt the overvaluation of bubble stocks, but there are indexes which are weighted otherwise, in an attempt to avoid that. One example is the RAFI fundamental famil
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You could have them be Cambodian wines, dated according to the Kampuchean revolutionary calendar. That way, you even get a year zero.
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Teh Guardian used to (?) publish puzzles by Chris Maslanka which were like this, and, as i recall, pretty good. There are a couple of books collecting them: https://www.worldofbooks.com/en-gb/products/the-pyrgic-pu
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Better yet, mix fifteen of the bottles together to do this, then pocket the other one. It's free wine!
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I wonder if this would work better if it played a little jingle on every connection, rather than showed a picture.
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by twic 1y ago
The frequency of the flicker of this particular candle flame is ~9.9 Hz. From TFA: > the dimensions of the fuel source are defined by the size (diameter) of the candles and possibly their proximity Candles vary in size, so other candle
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by twic 1y ago
That is a photo of the dinoflagellate that this new thing lives inside. I don't think you can see the new thing in this photo, it's too small.
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by twic 1y ago
Indeed. This is a cool discovery, but there is absolutely nothing shocking about it. Endosymbionts with reduced genomes are well known, and this is just an extreme case. This new thing is in no way "a new category of life, suspended so
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by twic 1y ago
On the one hand, sure. On the other hand, the original issue he's complaining about is: > Copilot in Agent mode diffs become hard to comprehend #260436 > Steps to Reproduce: > 1. Try vibe coding like activity > 2. See how
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I strongly suspect there is heterogeneity here. An outer party of "genuine" rationalists who believe that learning to be a spreadsheet or whatever is going to let them save humanity, and an inner party who use the community to con
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From another piece about the Zizians [1]: > The ability to dismiss an argument with a “that sounds nuts,” without needing recourse to a point-by-point rebuttal, is anathema to the rationalist project. But it’s a pretty important skill to
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by twic 1y ago
There's a variant of this that argues that humans are already as intelligent as it's possible to be. Because if it's possible to be more intelligent, why aren't we? And a slightly more reasonable variant that argues that
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At some point in the future, there won't be more people who will live in the future than live in the present, at which point you are allowed to improve conditions today. Of course, by that point the human race is nearly finished, but h
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Other way round, i think. The original form had a lot of weird practices which actually worked. The form most common today is just lip service.
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by twic 1y ago
There's some funny square bracketing in here. > “We don’t do things like that here at all. So, Vauxhall [MI6] will almost never outsource meaningful intelligence work to the private sector,” they said. That one explains that "V
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by twic 1y ago
Oh crikey, yes i did, thank you! That's what i get for opening dozens of tabs, i suppose. I'll copy it myself.
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So you synthesize gold in a bath of mercury. Gold and mercury form an amalgam. Isn't amalgam solid? The amalgam in my teeth certainly is. So will you get nuggets of it clogging up the mercury pumps? Apparently not, because the physical
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by twic 1y ago
There's some funny square bracketing in here. > “We don’t do things like that here at all. So, Vauxhall [MI6] will almost never outsource meaningful intelligence work to the private sector,” they said. That one explains that "V
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by twic 1y ago
It's more about the density of hipsters than Londoners per se. Lots of Londoners go to Canvey Island for a holiday, but you probably won't get oat milk there, because it's not that kind of Londoner. Bristol and the West Count
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I think the company was a bet that if you make a good enough meat substitute, then meat eaters will switch to it (sometimes), and that's a huge total addressable market. I would say that bet has not come off. But that's hindsight
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And not only that, but you can use a special-purpose optimiser for a different domain and somehow get great results!
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I recently finished eight years at a place where everyone used multicast every day. It consistently worked very well (except for the time when the networks team just decided one of my groups was against policy and firewalled it without warn
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I think i would call that a 60 degree a turn. A 120 degree turn would be quite something!
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Until then, as it happens, an old colleague of mine is working on a JS library to paper over the cracks: https://github.com/davidje13/tty-typesetter I haven't used it in anger so can't vouch for it!
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y = Computed(lambda: calculate_y(x())) How does this instance of Computed know that it depends on x? Does it parse the bytecode for the lambda? Does it call the lambda and observe which signals get accessed? In my homebrew signal fr
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I think you need a place with cheap rents that is within striking distance of places with very expensive rents. Artists can afford the former, but their customers (literal art buyers, or culture vultures of various other kinds, media execs,
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Java has a bunch of code which looks like it's trying to do the right kind of escaping for msvcrt vs cmd.exe: https://github.com/openjdk/jdk/blob/jdk-26%2B1/src/java.base... But i would be lyin
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I love that the navy wasn't covered until 2021. So although the president can't send in the troops, Trident is a-ok!
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How come integrated graphics is in the CPU, rather than being part of the chipset? For an actual single-chip SoC, i suppose it has to be, but even my Ryzen 5 7600X has graphics. I would have thought resources on the CPU would be at a premiu
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So it's like the Middle of Lidl without the Lidl?

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