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by yayachiken 4y ago
You need to go deeper. What you are describing is not really what the BIV scenario is about. Modelling the BIV directly after the brains we know only serves as a justification in the thought-experiment that a BIV might reasonably exist. But
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by yayachiken 5y ago
You can go even further. All "natural" processes are completely excluded from primary energy use. If you include the energy used by agriculture (as in: photosynthesis) you will get a number that human energy use is something like
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by yayachiken 5y ago
The point of hydrogen is not mainly energy storage but hydrogen is the only viable way to clean up two of the most carbon intensive industrial processes: steel smelting and ammonia (fertilizer) synthesis. Smelting steel requires coal to red
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by yayachiken 5y ago
By definition, the primary energy input and electrical energy output are equal for renewable sources that don't require fuel. So the point is that transitioning from thermal electricity generation to sources like solar and wind already
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by yayachiken 5y ago
By the way, if you liked the old-school "ISP shenenigans and Unix jokes" web-comic genre, make sure to check out https://www.gpf-comics.com/ It's still going, IMO still not stale (without going into spoilers:
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by yayachiken 5y ago
Hackles? http://www.hackles.org/
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by yayachiken 5y ago
It is quite annoying because the defects you can have in the HU inspections in Germany are well-defined and sorted into multiple tiers: * No defects (Ohne Mängel) → pass * Negligible defects (Geringe Mängel) → pass, but owner is expected to
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by yayachiken 5y ago
The problem formulation doesn't really work for n<3, as you cannot safely open n-2 doors anymore. Of course you get semantical problems then. But even then, I don't see your problem here. The invariant is that the chosen door h
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by yayachiken 5y ago
But the probability is not 50%. It is 99% to win if you switch and 1% if you stick with the same door. Imagine you repeat the process multiple times, but the contestant chooses to pick door 1 every time. Would you still assume that staying
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by yayachiken 5y ago
Many of the definitions I found so far explicitly include that to reach an "endemic state", the reproduction number of a disease must be around 1. This implies that local outbreaks may still happen but will eventually burn out wit
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by yayachiken 5y ago
It is not a bad thing to write about basic concepts, but you should put some more thought into your examples. They seem uninspired and too simple for what you are trying to convey. Some examples: The EAFP example in itself is not really wel
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by yayachiken 5y ago
I am glad you found that interesting. If you want to look the story up: The "assembly optimization guru" was Satoru Iwata, who would later become CEO of Nintendo of America, and who unfortunately died of cancer a couple of years a
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by yayachiken 5y ago
As far as I remember, Pokemon Gold/Silver were given to some special assembly optimization guru after the game was pretty much finished. He was able to squeeze out so much memory that the Kanto region of the original games was more or
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by yayachiken 5y ago
RCT and other Chris Sawyer games would be an excellent example for a case study. They are both a product of the limitations of their time as well as Chris Sawyers self-chosen handicap of writing the entire game in assembly. In addition, the
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by yayachiken 5y ago
Your comment made me break down and finally make an HN account. I think I may have the perfect answer for you. Your comments remind me so much of myself, when I was in 7th grade and we just learned that 0.999... would exactly equal 1. Not a