zackmorris

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by zackmorris 10mo ago
> It's kind of why I think sentient life is incredibly rare. They just found the building blocks of life in asteroid Bennu: https://science.nasa.gov/mission/osiris-rex/ https://physicsworld.com&
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by zackmorris 10mo ago
*90% so far.. I've only been working with AI for a couple of months, but IMHO it's over. The Internet Age which ran 30 years from roughly 1995-2025 has ended and we've entered the AI Age (maybe the last age). I know people wi
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by zackmorris 10mo ago
This is great! I started programming on an 8 MHz Mac Plus in the late 1980s and got a bachelors degree in computer engineering in the late 1990s. From my perspective, a kind of inverse Moore's Law happened, where single-threaded perfor
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by zackmorris 10mo ago
A mechanism for harm could be that glyphosate disrupts the gut lining barrier and flora, which can cause or contribute to leaky gut, a loose term for digestive waste and foreign bodies entering the bloodstream. Those bodies can cause chroni
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by zackmorris 10mo ago
Boyhood did it the same year: https://x.com/hitRECordJoe/status/1378933672687067140
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by zackmorris 10mo ago
Ya I used Rails on an aging project for about 6 months and there was so much magic behavior that we couldn't effectively trace through the code, so debugging even the simplest issue took days. Also the happy path mostly ran fine, but w
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by zackmorris 10mo ago
Yikes I didn't know that! I haven't actually used it yet hah. For a bit of context, I come from writing blitters on 8 MHz Mac Plusses, so I have a blind spot around slowness. Basically, that nothing should ever be slow today with
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by zackmorris 10mo ago
I couldn't agree more. I'll probably switch from React to something like ArrowJS in my personal work: https://www.arrow-js.com/docs/ It makes it easy to have a central JSON-like state object representing what
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by zackmorris 10mo ago
Oh hah, thanks, I don't usually make mistakes like that! I guess the two were wired together in my brain.
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by zackmorris 11mo ago
Ya I really like their airship to orbit concept. I asked AI about lift to drag (L/D) ratios in plasma at 10,000-17,5000 mph (5-8 km/s) and it suggested that lifting bodies achieve between about a 1:1 and 3:1 L/D ratio. If we
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by zackmorris 11mo ago
I think of it like limits in math. The rate at which we'll be out of work is much higher than the rate at which prices will fall towards zero. A performative/underemployment economy keeps everyone working not out of necessity, but
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by zackmorris 11mo ago
Here's another one: Manna - Two Views of Humanity’s Future, by Marshall Brain. It's a fairly light read, just 8 chapters: https://marshallbrain.com/manna1 I think I've internalized these stories enough to com
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by zackmorris 11mo ago
I just want to say that it's refreshing to stumble onto someone commenting in the same style that I do. Where most people see things that are good enough, hard to fix or innovative, I see things for their fatal flaws, how they should h
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by zackmorris 11mo ago
I'm not a frontend developer, I knew about ::before and ::after, but just learned about adjacent sibling combinator +, general sibling combinator ~ and :has() after reading your comment. Maybe every character in the text could be wrapp
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by zackmorris 11mo ago
This is maybe the first dataset I've seen that clearly illustrates how margin (profit) is inversely correlated with value to humanity. Other than Ports, the top 7 highest-margin industries (stock/crypto exchanges, stock exchanges,
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by zackmorris 11mo ago
This deserves an answer. Cash and assets are phantom wealth, the kind that celebrities lose after their first big break when they forget to pay their taxes and everything gets repossessed. Real wealth is majority shareholder control of the
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by zackmorris 11mo ago
This is great! I remember a turning point for me when I was feeling very low at the height of the War on Terror and jingoism appeared to have taken over the world. Just before the housing bubble popped and politics would swing the other way
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by zackmorris 11mo ago
I regret writing this comment. It might not make sense to younger people, but for me growing up in the 1980s, there were many decades of tech stagnation where basically all alternatives to internal combustion engines were suppressed. And th
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by zackmorris 11mo ago
Axial flux motors are such an obvious and simple to build design that I don't understand why they aren't used more commercially. I've mainly seen do-it-yourself projects to build them for home windmills etc. - divergence - Th
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by zackmorris 11mo ago
Before being considered for submission to arXiv’s CS category, review articles and position papers must now be accepted at a journal or a conference and complete successful peer review. Huh, I guess it's only a subset of papers, not
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by zackmorris 11mo ago
I always figured if I wrote a paper, the peer review would be public scrutiny. As in, it would have revolutionary (as opposed to evolutionary) innovations that disrupt the status quo. I don't see how blocking that kind of paper from ar
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by zackmorris 1y ago
It bugged me that lithium-ion battery listings only state 300-500 charge cycles, so I did a deeper dive with AI and found these batteries for a better comparison: O($/Wh) D(Wh/kg) D(Wh/L) P($) E(Wh) M(kg) Vol(L) V(V) C
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by zackmorris 1y ago
I just heard about this post, so did a quick search and currently it looks like Sriko is the only company providing affordable sodium-ion batteries. They appear to be within about half the energy density of lithium-ion batteries. I used AI
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by zackmorris 1y ago
I did a quick search for "smallest C virtual machine" and found this 16 opcode implementation in 125 lines of C: https://www.andreinc.net/2021/12/01/writing-a-simple-vm-in-l... Discussion: https:&#
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by zackmorris 1y ago
This is great! I always wanted a GNU Octave transpiled to other languages. Octave could be embedded as a C library for some time: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9246444/how-to-embed-the... https://
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by zackmorris 1y ago
Good stuff. The main misconception is probably due to me not remembering the "other genes" part. I read it in an article and it clicked so immediately that I took it for granted and didn't save it. I still can't find it,
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by zackmorris 1y ago
I'm definitely outside my wheelhouse but I've been thinking about this lately. I heard that CRISPR can only cut segments that match a pattern, so if there are other genes between the ends that are cut, then those are lost as well.
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by zackmorris 1y ago
This is really interesting, and I'm surprised that I had never looked at JIT compiling as self-modifying code (SMC). Also that I had never heard of copy-and-patch. There are whole classes of problems that can be more easily solved with
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by zackmorris 1y ago
Ah cool, thanks for that! Oh man, that was about 3 lifetimes ago. I'm on linkedin (every couple months hah) if you ever want to chat. It was a fun project, but we released it just in time for the Dot Bomb to wipe us out. Our last month
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by zackmorris 1y ago
A little bit off topic but: GL_LINES doesn't have a performant analog on lots of other platforms, even Unity. Drawing a line properly requires turning the two endpoint vertices into a quad and optionally adding endcaps which are at lea

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