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by walleeee 3y ago
*Goldman-(Hodgkin-)Katz equation
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by walleeee 3y ago
The pathological incentives pressuring people to behave in this way must be distinguished from the (perhaps idealized) job itself, as well as from actual people's actual behavior, which is not homogenous. When we describe things as you
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by walleeee 3y ago
Another correction here, we have had functioning MSR since the 50s and thorium MSR since the 60s.
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by walleeee 3y ago
Thanks, good point. It looks like induction furnaces are already in wide use, though they have some tradeoffs. By the way, I like your writing on your site.
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by walleeee 3y ago
In response to all the nuclear power discussion in this thread, see thorium molten salt. We have had the technology since Oak Ridge in the 70s. We ignored it because the existing refinement infrastructure is conveniently "dual use&quot
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by walleeee 3y ago
Seems more parsimonious to explain aggressive optimisation everywhere as contraction pains. Efficiency and optimization as the obsession of a society aiming to rescue itself from encroaching constraints within a historically successful but
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by walleeee 3y ago
To be fair, there is such a thing as spatial autocorrelation (from geostatistics), the term autocorrelation does not necessarily imply the varying dimension is time
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by walleeee 3y ago
FWIW, you're not supposed to chew it thoroughly, even if you're a smoker. You're supposed to gently bite once to break it open, then tuck it in your cheek or under your lip for a while, and repeat as necessary. Chewing like n
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by walleeee 3y ago
> Also, in most cases for scientific computing, Mac users are using stuff like Remote SSH in VSCode to work directly on hardware that is running the code, which is pretty much always Linux. This might be true for extremely demanding task
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by walleeee 3y ago
I agree that it doesn't help to call it evil or invoke the devil. I don't agree that there's not much to improve on. > the advertisers don't care one bit for the well-being of the consumers, but can you imagine a real
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by walleeee 3y ago
> > For some reason, a lot of smart college students end up with the idea that “solving hard technical problems” is the best thing they can do with their life > Well it's better than fucking up the world at least. I think ther
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by walleeee 3y ago
Precision is important. Hyperbole doesn't help anyone, but neither does calling the comment entirely false. Underpaid subsistence workers do produce a huge portion of goods consumed in western nations. Engines of automated slaughter
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by walleeee 3y ago
Saltwater intrusion is a serious problem and likely to get more serious with time, as water demand continues to rise with population and residential/commercial/industrial use
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by walleeee 3y ago
Which wouldn't be so bad if we didn't have a massive, unaccountable complex of public and private actors building surveillance and discrimination into the structures of governance. The fact that this is all extremely baroque and o
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by walleeee 3y ago
I would contest the notion that a lack of religiosity must magnify discontent with death. Also it remains rather difficult to "opt out" of a protracted, likely intubated decline, at least in the US. Moreover there is no opting out
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by walleeee 3y ago
I also like his point (in conversation with Sean Carroll) that we have rigorous proof that the notion of explanation can't be formalized, yet explanation is at the core of the scientific endeavor anyway.
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by walleeee 3y ago
> People who say this don't understand that Mars colonies aren't about pragmatic, resource-optimized decisions. On the contrary, many of us agree very much with this. Mars is not a practical goal at the moment and it doesn&#x27
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by walleeee 3y ago
I don't think that typology lines up with what I'm getting at, but thanks for the reference, I had not heard of it before
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by walleeee 3y ago
Idk, if we're working on a remote machine already, it's not the student's first day. The bar to basic editing with vim is pretty low. Mode switch with i and esc, :x to save/exit, navigate where your fingers already are,
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by walleeee 3y ago
Agreed, good points. I guess I still wonder whether these are needed for an introductory assignment. A vim/ssh workflow seems more future-proof than any particular IDE. As an instructor maybe it would make sense to do the first assignm
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by walleeee 3y ago
What does vim lack that one might need to complete a basic programming assignment?
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by walleeee 3y ago
I don't think some lingering hope of promotion is the likeliest motivator for people who pour themselves into relatively poorly compensated work. Many people take pride in something for its own sake, and/or for the value it provid
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by walleeee 3y ago
Good article. This same critique applies equally well to technology in macrocosm. We need to ask: - how does it really work? - what are its dependencies? - what are its failure modes? - what are its side effects? - why are we doing it this
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by walleeee 3y ago
The tragedy and irony is that even if every "reasonable person" wants the right things, with some combination of socio-technical inertia, incentive misalignment, power maximization, and ignorance, sprinkled with unreasonableness o
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by walleeee 3y ago
I worry that though your theory may accurately describe some people, 1) it is nearly impossible to test, and 2) an equally parsimonious (and likely equally untestable) theory, it seems to me, is that uncertainty is uncomfortable. Misplaced
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by walleeee 3y ago
Any environmentalism worth its weight in words is consciously humanist, with the recognition that human life is not possible without nonhuman life. That is to say, humanist without the ideological blinders Andreessen wears. For humanism (fo
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by walleeee 3y ago
> My perception from computer science is that it should be harder to submit papers, because there are too many authors who simply rarely produce good papers and are clogging up the conferences with endless resubmissions until they get re
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by walleeee 3y ago
While in principle I agree fossil fuels aren't required, in practice it is much more difficult to convert transportation, manufacture and extraction than most realize Also suspect modern agriculture's conviction that the crop is a
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by walleeee 3y ago
Your point is also true. I would contest the notion that mine is misleading, given that the parent asks, "where are the fossil fuels?"
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by walleeee 3y ago
Solar panels cannot currently be manufactured, distributed or repaired at any serious scale without fossil fuels.

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