drewm1980

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by drewm1980 1y ago
I have the opposite gut feeling about LLM's; I think they're going to break down the barriers to adopting new programming languages, since they'll lower the cost of porting code dramatically. The code in a language's sta
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by drewm1980 1y ago
It's good that you repented and at least tried to do something good with the money, but it would have been even better to donate it to an environmental organization with better judgement than you have. Proof of work crypto mining was a
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by drewm1980 1y ago
I mean, not everyone spent their decade on distributed computing. Some devs with a retrogrouch inclination kept writing single threaded code in native languages on a single node. Single core clock speed stagnated, but it was still worth buy
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by drewm1980 2y ago
Did you read the article? The section about "alarmists" and "troublemakers" is directly relevant to your take on the use of the word "Nazi". Some people have been calling Musk a Nazi for what, a decade? They so
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by drewm1980 2y ago
I put whipped soy milk on my vegan homemade pumpkin pie last night and it was great. Do not miss dairy, and am thankful for modern food innovations that are helping us get past the suffering and environmental devastation of dairy.
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by drewm1980 2y ago
No mention of how cruise ships are essentially entire cities powered by fossil fuels that dump their waste directly into the ocean?
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by drewm1980 2y ago
Grapes are for luddites! Seriously though, my grapes are so reliable at cropping compared to tomato plants I think it would be more interesting to engineer grapes to be tomato-like.
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by drewm1980 3y ago
I've got 99 reasons to be vegan, but shark extinction... is yet another one.
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by drewm1980 3y ago
You can probably find an IDE plugin that inlines the assembly for a c function. Most ids can show the assembly side by side with your c code so it wouldn't be that much of a step. To fulfill your vision you would also need a decompile
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by drewm1980 3y ago
There actually is such a thing as reversible computing(?) that keeps around enough intermediate values to run the code backwards to the inputs. Not sure what it is actually good for. Not to be confused with time travel debuggers, though the
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by drewm1980 3y ago
Are your discerning charcuterie board lovers open to new flavors, or are they going to demand 1:1 indistinguishable replicas of specific dairy cheeses? My favorite locally produced moldy nut cheese (Omage) does not have a flavor or texture
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by drewm1980 3y ago
These currently burn leaded gas. This company is building machines that will barf lead into the air you breathe and onto the crops you eat.
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by drewm1980 3y ago
Poor, persecuted, POTUS? He led an attack on the capitol to try to overturn his loss in the election. The "meaningless political prosecutions" you refer to is the legal system failing to function at a basic level and throw him in
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by drewm1980 3y ago
3M highest level protection earmuffs are great. Electronic noise cancellation is a silly gimmick IMO.
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by drewm1980 3y ago
Same. This is about meat, although since a lot of our land is used to grow feed for livestock, subsidies for plant agriculture are indirectly subsidizing inefficient animal agriculture.
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by drewm1980 3y ago
IIRC you're really not suppose to do this. A pressurized pressure cooker is not something you want to drop accidentally.
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by drewm1980 3y ago
It's not just the convenience. Pressure cookers are way more energy efficient than boiling a big pot of food on an electric stove. If you're using an electric air conditioner to re-extract that heat from your house, the savings ar
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by drewm1980 3y ago
Some founders are legitimately in it for the long haul and treat working for the company they founded as their career. I don't know how common they are, but I was lucky to work for one for about a decade.
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by drewm1980 3y ago
I have had to learn to make do without cut and paste it's so flakey in Reddit. I gave up on editing posts before hitting send.
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by drewm1980 3y ago
Tesla's cars (and private automobiles in general) are not a compelling vision, they're toys for rich people. I looked it up. About a million Teslas have ever been manufactured. Round the population to a power of 10... 10 billion p
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by drewm1980 3y ago
You're being sarcastic, but it sounds like you agree with the authors about the situation we're in, and the desirability of building the sustainable utopia ~before we're forced to shut down our civilization and die off.
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by drewm1980 3y ago
We need a president to declare transitioning of fossil fuels to be a national emergency and also a matter of national defense, and set the military industrial complex to work actually building a sustainable supply chain for energy and mater
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by drewm1980 3y ago
Electric and hydrogen fueled airplanes are progressing. There are also futuristic ideas about powering the planes with ground or space based lasers powered by solar. Zeppelins still scale really well, and ships can use sails again. I believ
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by drewm1980 4y ago
I also feel that not building world-destroying robots should be something we should be able to reach consensus on. My current favorite world-destroying robot photo is from the battle of Lutzerath: https://i.redd.it/bonkanv0x
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by drewm1980 4y ago
If your grocery doesn't have locally produced, affordable, delicious vegan junk food by now you should be pissed off at the people producing your food and demand better.
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Your animals are pets, not a food production system. Those animal farming practices will not scale to feed 8 billion people. Most ~humans are not receiving the standard of care you claim to be providing your animals with. The idea that cont
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by drewm1980 4y ago
IMHO going vegan is the only practical strategy for reducing the impact of your diet. You have no practical way of knowing most of what's going on in the supply chain for most products, or their true carbon footprint, but overall, the
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by drewm1980 4y ago
> Do you argue against people legally consuming marijuana because the cartels skin people alive? Skinning people alive is not vegan. Humans are animals too. > Do you think life in prison or even the death penalty should be on the tabl
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by drewm1980 4y ago
> I know how fucked up industrial farming is. That doesn't mean eating animals is immoral. These two things are intrinsically tied in practice. The utopia where well cared for animals feed 8 billion people does not exist, and cannot
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by drewm1980 4y ago
Indeed, your professor was starting under the assumption that our civilization will not collapse. If you want to know what happens when the resources your civilization is built on run out, you're probably better off asking a historian

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