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by voldacar 5y ago
got any cool stories?
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by voldacar 5y ago
This thing has so much soul. Its physical design is intentional; its form reflects its structure and function. Supercomputers now are just big racks with maybe a cool graphic printed on the side, which makes me kind of sad.
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by voldacar 5y ago
> Is it user hostile to prevent the user from killing someone? yes
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by voldacar 5y ago
Makes a little more sense when you consider what the #1 disliked video is. Clearly google is really in touch with their audience and their desires here
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by voldacar 5y ago
Sure. My argument: - A search engine is good when it provides results that are useful and what you wanted. - Seeing pinterest links in google search is not useful and not what people want (just read this thread) - Therefore, by making pinte
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by voldacar 5y ago
There is something deeply antihuman about flat design. It's hard to describe exactly how, because it sounds silly when it comes out of your mouth, but I really believe this is true on some deep, pre-verbal level. They make me feel ment
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by voldacar 5y ago
You have made the internet worse hope it paid well
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by voldacar 5y ago
> The paid version last i saw was not available through an institutional license. Does your institution have mathematica? In mathematica you can query WA directly, and it gives you as much (or possibly more, from how it seems to behave f
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by voldacar 5y ago
Physical slime molds have already been used in an experimental model to optimize road networks: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S03032...
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by voldacar 5y ago
Unfortunately, I think this is probably the correct answer
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by voldacar 5y ago
You are committing the fallacy of the seen and the unseen here. Nuclear power could be literally 10x as dangerous, and it would still cause far less harm to humans than existing non-nuclear sources of energy, and that's when you ignore
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by voldacar 5y ago
if Oracle made games
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by voldacar 5y ago
At that point, why even do the astronomical calculations? You could just do them and throw them away, or rebrand as an AI therapy app
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by voldacar 5y ago
it feels like the more higher level APIs we add, the shittier and more annoying software becomes
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by voldacar 5y ago
It's a predicament when someone who has different politics than you gets elected? Are you saying that you've just solved politics then? Should you be our king?
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by voldacar 5y ago
I highly recommend giving the book "Where is my flying car?" a read. It is a very idiosyncratic and unconventional book, written by an engineer rather than an academic. He goes into great depth about how the FAA and NRC basically
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by voldacar 5y ago
I see this C++ coroutines thing as a desperate cry for real AST macros, but the godawful syntax of c++ just can't really make that work. And besides, people would complain even more if everyone made their own version of coroutines. May
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by voldacar 5y ago
I have some astrological services to sell you
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by voldacar 5y ago
The situation? This is a disease with a mortality rate less than an order of magnitude greater than the flu. If I told you a few years ago that we would be shutting down the economy, forcing people to wear masks and submit to biometric trac
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by voldacar 5y ago
Could you give some specific examples?
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by voldacar 5y ago
For someone who wants to die constantly, you seem very concerned about taking good care of your body and health. Not insulting you, I know how weird and contradictory humans can be. It's just interesting.
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by voldacar 5y ago
dietary cholesterol has a negligible effect on blood cholesterol levels. Almost all cholesterol in the body is endogenously created
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by voldacar 5y ago
>was seen by whom?
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by voldacar 5y ago
> an attempt to enforce the GPL to a company "located in China" I'm not entirely sure what you mean by this. Companies in certain areas shouldnt have to follow the same rules as the rest of us? The GPL doesn't mention
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by voldacar 5y ago
I was about to leave a snarky "glide ratio = 0" comment until I saw the note about the ballistic parachute. Wish they included the effective altitude though. I assume it would be effective from a lower altitude than the Cirrus, as
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by voldacar 5y ago
> I think the practical solution is companies like frame.work & valve making open hardware and creating software shims like proton Right. I admire them certainly, and I'm thinking about getting a framework laptop myself, but we
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by voldacar 5y ago
Well people have already made decently fast homebrew computers with FPGAs. The problems are threefold: - To what extent do you interop with existing (closed?) hardware, vs trying to recreate the world from scratch. Do you implement usb, pci
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by voldacar 5y ago
That's hilarious "Cancel culture is just a moral panic, also this guy got cancelled for his views And That's A Good Thing"
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by voldacar 5y ago
IMHO, there is a particular clarity of thought in Bastiat's writing that makes him superior to Anglosphere classical liberal authors, at least as far as economics is concerned.
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by voldacar 5y ago
I'm talking about our own PMC, not the Saudis. This comment from the recent Facebook "whistleblower" sums up this flavor of moral sentiment pretty well: > “I don’t know why it went down,” Haugen said. “But I know that for

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