urthor

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by urthor 5y ago
See this is the thing. People thing 10 billion dollars is a lot of money. My view is that 10 billion dollars is nothing. My view is that the total OECD investment in fusion R&D should be 10 billion. A year. For the next 50 years. The
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by urthor 5y ago
Realistically, Russia just wants to cause chaos in Western Ukraine whilst rolling over the parts of Ukraine in the East where they have popular support. Russia doesn't want to take areas it doesn't have popular support in. It jus
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by urthor 5y ago
They don't give a shit. Realistically, in a conflict, anyone who cannot materially contribute to the conflict is a liability. Every single military, the world over, is heavily trained to ignore civilian casualties. As long as it's
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by urthor 5y ago
Not a new problem. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- People have talked a lot about how this is morally wrong. It's more morally pretty wrong for a long time. Copyright complaints shouldn'
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by urthor 5y ago
Miranda's work on it is truly one of the most herculean efforts I've encountered.
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by urthor 5y ago
Instead of buzzwords and trends, more accurate to say: "Communicate all your ideas using narrative form. Embed your ideas in motifs, illustrate them with visual icons. Explain their worth by using existing context." The reason b
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by urthor 5y ago
We're realistically at a very good point in time to avert some of the worst case scenarios, I fail to see your point? We definitely want to be looking at technologies that have a high ROI for emission reduction in the next 10 year span
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by urthor 5y ago
Suggest Pharo, that's the Smalltalk continuation effort that is the most successful. Well updated with traits and other modern paraphernalia.
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by urthor 5y ago
Any customer who actually cared enough to bother to circumvent, is too savvy to be taken advantage of. It's a filter for idiots. One of the unfortunate things you'll realize about the (FMCG) advertising industry, is that most of t
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by urthor 5y ago
Elon is just strange. He... does not seem like he would be as successful as he has been, to hear him talk. I haven't researched him much if at all. But I genuinely wonder how much of his success is simply the fact he had the seed capit
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by urthor 5y ago
I mean isn't half of it that everyone has a chronotype? Shouldn't you just have a fixed, later bedtime. To maximize REM sleep etc?
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by urthor 5y ago
What is important is having a fixed bedtime/wake time so your circadian rhythm settles in. How much sleep you can get in a night? Lucky dip, sometimes you just can't. Matthew Walker's book is the one I'd go to. Always
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by urthor 5y ago
Pretty much. The only difference between Jobs and the others is that Jobs made more stuff that consumers like, and was more successful. Humanity loves a successful megalomaniac. They just despise the also-rans.
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by urthor 5y ago
I disagree in the very strongest terms. We barely have any concept of how education has penetrated our society, to a far greater degree, now than fifty years ago. We as a population are FAR more educated, far less ignorant, and generally sp
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by urthor 5y ago
Bash truly shouldn't be used for a bunch of scripting tasks. Quite simply I don't think you should ever start using shell scripts in your code base in any capacity Eventually you're going to reach something you just don'
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by urthor 5y ago
The flip-side is that producing that manual was the work of 10 people. Writing those things must have been an enormous endeavor.
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by urthor 5y ago
The sheer insanity that are shell scripts is something I don't see talked about often enough. Bash is absolutely wonderful as CLI driver. It's truly an awful scripting language). And yet, I see many, many projects with huge, enor
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by urthor 5y ago
Pretty sure it's just the red light jumpers. Stick a QR code on the front of the bikes, and put some AI cameras at every traffic light. Problem, solved.
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by urthor 5y ago
All this is doing is redirecting data you already submitted to a website to Google? I don't see any of this as particularly new or revolutionary. Except the implementation, user data was already being hoovered up. Now it's just
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by urthor 5y ago
A lot of good answers have dealt with various individual problems. I want to address the meta-problem: Academia, as an institution, does not have a close connection between the factors that make it money (students paying $$$) and high quali
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by urthor 5y ago
It's more that they've cheated a bit. 8 socket NUMA is a bit of a silly one, but it has been around in enterprise tech for a LONG time.
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by urthor 5y ago
Elitism is driven by ego and self actualization though. I think there's a lot of people who are highly, highly motivated to work on tough problems with competent co-workers. Those emotions are less driven by the domain itself, and more
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by urthor 5y ago
The thing is, exercise still reduces appetite. It raises the blood sugar levels as the body supplies the muscles with carbohydrates, and triggers a complementary response in appetite hormones. Finally, and most importantly: Exercise release
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by urthor 5y ago
That's the thing, I think a lot of those are, if not solved, problems where there's a lot of really well established good solutions that exist. I could, I guess, tackle them. But I've got an appreciation that what's alr
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by urthor 5y ago
"I did my job well, everything was running smoothly." Too smoothly. We got 20% layoffs for doing a good job! Cost savings.
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by urthor 5y ago
Out of curiosity, why did Macintosh fall behind in the late 80s? Why didn't they charge ahead and achieve dominance in the 90s?
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by urthor 5y ago
As one of the 99%. What are some of these problems exactly, that me and my extremely large toolkit of cool things I can curl from Github can't solve? Because I'm not a genius. But I'm real good at stapling together some usefu
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by urthor 5y ago
...we fixed this, right? Good ole fellas at Red Hat yeah? And by kicking and screaming until corporate sent us some Macbooks. ...right?
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by urthor 5y ago
Is this unironically true? Couldn't you... just fib? And learn it in a weekend?
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by urthor 5y ago
Unlikely to, soon. If I could flash Android hardware I would... one day. Phones are battery operated. Performance per watt is mission critical.

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