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by wyager 1y ago
This is a great strategy for ensuring that you don't have any kind of technological economy
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by wyager 1y ago
Is it also why American companies pay multiple times as much as whatever alternative market you're thinking of?
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by wyager 1y ago
Leaving the company is a very strong signal that your objections are serious and not idle complaints.
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by wyager 1y ago
> Why do CS doctoral candidates have such a fascination with typesetting? Why does anyone care about typesetting? Probably because they spend a lot of time working with text and have therefore developed a level of taste. Just because the
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by wyager 1y ago
Nice, thanks.
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by wyager 1y ago
I have a project where I want two properties which are not inherently contradictory, but don't seem to be available together: 1. Huge compression window (like 100+MB, so "chunking" won't work) 2. Random seeking into comp
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by wyager 1y ago
I did some digging into the identity behind the Cure Dolly character after finding the videos quite helpful. There is what I recall being a fairly credible trail of evidence that the proprietor is formerly associated with the Silver Sisterh
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by wyager 1y ago
There was a while, early on, where (at least in the areas I used it) the modal Uber driver was a college student or a (semi-)retired person looking for something to do. Generally polite, fluent in English, upwardly mobile or already success
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by wyager 1y ago
Lots of people abuse the legal system in various ways. They don't get a free pass just because their abuse is technically legal itself.
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by wyager 1y ago
Ironically, the quality of Scott's work has taken a markedly sharper nosedive in the last decade than the quality of Yarvin's work.
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by wyager 1y ago
This would probably fall in the $100 range if comparable to other ECP5 dev boards like OrangeCrab.
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by wyager 1y ago
Solid state/matsci is 90% driven by corpo/DoD R&D, not academic "accepted mechanisms of scrutiny and peer review"
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by wyager 1y ago
It's weird to me how it often seems like the US and China are the only countries capable of mega-scale tech infrastructure like this (and even then, only in some industries). Can you imagine Wal-mart's website going down for multi
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by wyager 1y ago
"accepted mechanisms of scrutiny and peer review" have produced very little value in physics for 50+ years. We've picked all the low hanging fruit we can reach with that epistemic framework. We should probably expect future d
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by wyager 1y ago
P-p interactions are not an issue but we do have high enough field intensities in high bandwidth fibers to run into p-f nonlinearity issues.
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by wyager 1y ago
We already regularly run into optical nonlinearity issues in submarine cables. The instantaneous EM fields generated in high bandwidth fiber are sufficiently strong to cause nonlinear interactions with the fiber medium that we have to corre
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by wyager 1y ago
CS and math should be a solid basis here. To be honest I don't remember at all where I picked this stuff up - a lot of it comes from random disjoint fields like optimization theory, graph theory, etc. which impinge on econ all the time
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by wyager 1y ago
> I have little interest in humouring the idea that all of this boil down to an optimisation problem... I do have an economic degree by the way I hope your degree was "economic" in the sense that you didn't pay much for it
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by wyager 1y ago
> No, it is a resource allocation problem. There are finite resources to allocate. If you can't conceptualize this, there's literally zero chance you can think about this in a productive way. > I think there is something wro
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by wyager 1y ago
If you stop "rich inheritors" from existing, this moves you away from the knee of the optimization frontier and you're certainly even worse off as an old person. If you can't conceptualize this as a constrained optimiz
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by wyager 1y ago
> Maybe instead we should try investing in this area (reducing the burden on services) This doesn't require any investment or technological development; it just requires making rational-but-politically-nuclear policy changes reducin
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by wyager 1y ago
> I think if you've put in 40-45 years for the man, you should be allowed to have some good 10 years for yourself. Who do you think would "allow" this? God? This is a resource constraint imposed by reality itself catching
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by wyager 1y ago
Do the "science teams" you're imagining happen to be world-class experts in power generation and particulate medicine and ecology? My friends are more generally competent (and less harmfully biased) than the modal person
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by wyager 1y ago
> While technically true, that's not who the article is about. It is, in fact, what the article is about. The entire article is just denying the existence of a middle ground position or the fact that there's a constrained optim
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by wyager 1y ago
> Do you really think your friends are qualified to have the opinion Yes... most of the friends in question (MechEs, as I mentioned) work in power generation, petroleum engineering, etc. Not sure what your friend group looks like. > W
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by wyager 1y ago
This article reads like it was written entirely by GPT (it even has the tell-tale em-dashes), but besides that, the core contention of the article seems obviously false. There is, in fact, a position between "I support aggressively ner
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by wyager 1y ago
> Apple is too expensive On literally what metric? Even if you do the most naive comparison of compute and storage, Apple now comes out ahead much of the time, to say nothing of differences around quality, display, controls, etc.
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by wyager 1y ago
> reverse the ban on using the data for health insurance Right now, health "insurance" is transparently a subsidy scheme where the healthy subsidize the unhealthy. I wonder, if "insurance" companies were allowed to op
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by wyager 1y ago
Clash is awesome, IMO by far the best extant HDL. I semi-recently used it for this ADAT fiber optic audio codec https://github.com/YagerICS/adat-codec
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by wyager 1y ago
I often find them handy for locking down admissible states at compile time. Maybe ~10 years ago in a processor design class, I wrote some CPUs in Haskell/Clash for FPGA usage. A nice thing I could do was write a single top-level instru

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