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by yarg 4y ago
> You're right about the politics, but life is far more resilient than you're giving it credit for. Life's a house of cards, and we're kicking the pillars - chemicals that have never before existed are interfering wit
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by yarg 4y ago
Not quite. It works based upon the 100% certainty that whatever you are, at some point you will cease to be. On average, regardless of what you are, you are in the middle of your life or existence (some very high variance here). In order to
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by yarg 4y ago
Multiple issues here: > I'm not sure why we're talking about atrazine in an article about the different chemical, BPA. It wasn't a top-level comment, further down the comment tree the subject can diverge - I responded to a
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by yarg 4y ago
It's a disturbing question - one that's hardly going to get fair and objective consideration in out society. Neither the right wing nor the left have the ability to be objective enough to look into this without coming to whatever
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by yarg 4y ago
Yeah, and it's even worse than that - full feminisation of male frogs. https://www.nature.com/articles/news021028-7 https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.0909519107 It's not often t
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by yarg 4y ago
Graal has an LLVM back-end: https://www.graalvm.org/22.1/reference-manual/native-image/L... Then use the WASM back-end for LLVM. Probably won't work though.
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by yarg 4y ago
The Lindy effect states that the expected lifetime of a thing is proportional to its current age. That includes the expectation that something young will be (on average) half way through its lifespan.
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by yarg 4y ago
We cannot rely on experts when we lack the minimum expertise to identify them. I've seen this play out in companies; businessmen in positions to promote technical people, often making some very poor decisions.
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by yarg 4y ago
And each an every plant susceptible to the same strain of the same disease: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panama_disease .
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by yarg 4y ago
This sort of thing can be useful for white-hats.
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by yarg 4y ago
Oh, can we also have public profiles of job dissatisfaction and burn-out levels under given CEOs?
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by yarg 4y ago
The WHO dismissed the "Covid is airborne" theory. They toed the CCP party line - recommending against halting international travel from China, even as the Chinese locked things down domestically.
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by yarg 4y ago
A malicious forged change in a CI/CD chain could cause problems.
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by yarg 4y ago
Can this functionality be implemented as a peer-to-peer (or federated) service? I'm assuming it'll depend on breaking down questions into hierarchical sub-questions that can either be recomposed locally or in another homomorphic c
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by yarg 4y ago
This reminded me of the fact that you can charge an electric vehicle by towing it. Apparently Ford's got a patent: https://www.motorauthority.com/news/1132920_ford-patents-cha... On what pretty much amounts to rev
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by yarg 4y ago
I still can't believe that Facebook trademarked a prefix. (I'm not surprised they tried; but surely they should have failed.) The metaverse will succeed if it breaks free of the walled gardens; a federated distributed internet - c
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by yarg 4y ago
100% not - but it sure does bubble up in price (due to speculation). Gold is malleable, and non-degrading. It can be readily converted between blocks for storage, and other forms required for function purposes. It does not degrade - it will
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by yarg 4y ago
The fact that this case even needs to be made is insane. There's a degree of nobility in the ideal of "no child left behind" - but childhood potential is not democratically distributed. The smartest kids in schools should not
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by yarg 4y ago
One nice thing that can be done with pure functional programming (not sure what - if any - languages or runtimes implement it) is the caching of the results of expensive calls. If there's any escape hatch to a method/function ther
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by yarg 4y ago
Just to expand on this, the solution is the problem is a probabilistic integral across infinitely many three-body problems. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-body_problem Actually, the gradient function is the probab
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by yarg 4y ago
Not necessarily the middle. It's gravity (approximately an inverse square law) operating across the probabilistic distribution of the locations of the system.
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by yarg 4y ago
It's not that they feel that which they never touch - the probabilistic waveform will experience gravity according to its distribution. It means that (like with relativity) you end up dealing with some rather nasty intractable calculus
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by yarg 4y ago
The only way that we can live without error is by residing entirely within fully explored and understood domains. This eliminates both growth and progress.
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by yarg 4y ago
/* I used to be able to do this without a compiler */ for(;;){ int i = values[0]; if(i == values[i])return i; values[i] ^= values[0]; values[0] ^= values[i]; values[i] ^= values[0]; } /*
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by yarg 4y ago
I never did; though even my employers acknowledged that I was undervalued - albeit as I walked out the door. I wasn't joking though - I haven't been able to work for years and have no real hope of piecing myself back together. (Mu
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by yarg 4y ago
Yeah, at some point I'm going to need to accept that I'm too burnt out to code anymore.
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/* Not sure if this is correct, but there should be a solution along these lines will explode if the array contains values outside of 1...n also, invalidates the array */ int v = values[0]; for(;;){
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Though it helps if you design your software in a manner which allows for drop-in replacements to non-scalable parts of your design.
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Take a look at trophy hunted species: when we slaughter the largest members of a species, the individuals get smaller generation after generation.
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by yarg 4y ago
Yep, and good luck using a debugger against race conditions (or any other time sensitive bugs).

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