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by gshubert17 7d ago
(Link worked for me ...) This “Tier-1 language” engineering status for Rust means giving internal teams a paved path from local development to production: secure toolchain builds, productive developer tooling, quality workflows, deep platfo
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by gshubert17 1mo ago
Susan Stepney's web page https://www-users.york.ac.uk/~ss44/cyc/p/fbug.htm describes a Fortran bug urban legend, in which when DO I = 1.100 was used instead of DO I = 1,100 Mariner I, a spacecraft bound
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by gshubert17 11mo ago
3 times as long (6 years for the Senate vs 2 years for the House)
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by gshubert17 1y ago
Alas, net zero carbon is not peak heat. It’s peak carbon dioxide. It’s peak rate of temperature change due to greenhouse gases. Global average temperatures will continue to rise past 2060 (or whenever we get net zero). I’m not sure what the
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by gshubert17 1y ago
Edit: Two responses, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44252450 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44252408 , seem to be dupes. As rickydroll states, the time stamps and id numbers show it to be the
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Joshua Clymer on "How AI might take over in 2 years"(twitter.com)
1 points by gshubert17 2y ago|0 comments
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by gshubert17 2y ago
Written or printed out at 3 digits per centimeter, 202 trillion digits would make a string about 670 million kilometers long -- or about the distance between Earth and Jupiter.
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by gshubert17 2y ago
See: http://literateprogramming.com/cweb_download.html
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by gshubert17 2y ago
My oops too. The extra 1 argument belongs with range, as you have it here.
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by gshubert17 2y ago
Since the first element in range() will be 0, should the last line be ...? return prod(1,range(n+1))
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by gshubert17 2y ago
Solar-powered railgun accelerating rocks to lunar escape velocity in directions chosen to make the desired delta-v. Speed the moon up or slow it down or change whatever other orbital elements you please. This would work better to change the
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by gshubert17 2y ago
Both manufacturing corporations and mutual investment funds are ways to aggregate smaller amounts of capital into big enough sums that large factories or investments are possible. I don't think it's necessary to rely on multi-bill
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by gshubert17 2y ago
Would taxation of intellectual property reduce rent-seeking behavior? Any idea how it might be implemented?
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by gshubert17 3y ago
Just before the section on Moore's Law, it says this about silicon purity: > Electronic grade silicon (EG-Si): 99.9999999 pure ('nine nines pure') Thats one impurity atom in every 10.000.000 silicon atoms. I believe that s
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by gshubert17 3y ago
Estimates range from about 1 T$ [0] to 4 T$ [1] or 5 T$ [2]. [0] https://www.britannica.com/event/World-War-II/Human-and-mate... [1] https://moneywise.com/life/lifestyle/financial-facts-a
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by gshubert17 3y ago
A Visa fact sheet [0] claims 276 billion transactions in a 12-month period, which would be less than 9,000 per second, but still an impressive figure. Fedwire, the settlement system operated by the Federal Reserve, processed 196 million set
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by gshubert17 3y ago
archive.org: https://web.archive.org/web/20240116022603/https://www.popul... also, originally published in 2023
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by gshubert17 3y ago
I think that individuals who care about meaningful, non-deceitful content, will have to create their own parallel net in which content can be sanity-checked and fact-checked. Fast, free, or fact: pick any two. The current internet is fast a
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by gshubert17 3y ago
Indeed, Neal Stephenson in _Anathem_ (2008), in describing an alternate world (in which his "reticulum" is our "network") wrote "Early in the Reticulum—thousands of years ago—it became almost useless because it was
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by gshubert17 3y ago
If Congress were interested in policy changes, would a tax on plastic (to cover recycling, cleanup, and future medical costs) be a way to go?
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by gshubert17 3y ago
I toured an NCAR (National Center for Atmospheric Research) facility in Boulder around 1979; got to sit on a seat on their Cray-1. So yes, weather and climate calculations.
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by gshubert17 3y ago
Required minimum distributions start at about 5% (not 10%) at age 72, and increase with age. But your general point stands. RMDs will add to one's tax bill, by regular tax brackets and having up to 85% of Social Security benefits taxed
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by gshubert17 3y ago
The last sentence said something about a computationally stable (model/state) of society. I suppose such stability would be helpful in looking for a sustainable economy or society. But I'm not clear either, on what that sentence m
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by gshubert17 3y ago
Possibly the "Limits to Growth" report (1972) by Meadows, et al. They used a simple model of resources, population, economy, pollution, etc. Some would say an over-simplified model. The report sparked a lot of controversy. I am no
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by gshubert17 3y ago
If Google didn't index this guide, how would people find it?
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by gshubert17 3y ago
"Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist" Attributed to many people, including Kenneth Boulding, https://quoteinvestigator.com/2019/07&#x2F
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by gshubert17 3y ago
I've had the same Medicare advantage plan with Kaiser in Colorado since 2019: My monthly costs for Kaiser, and then for Medicare part B: 2019: 370.50 135.50 2020: 360.50 144.60 2021: 294.50 148.50 2022: 236.50 170.10 2023: 236.50
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by gshubert17 3y ago
What happened to the rotation rate around the beginning of 2019, to cause the big change in the slope of the UT1-UTC line ( https://crf.usno.navy.mil/ut1-utc )? After adding 5 leap seconds in 11 years, no leap seconds have b
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by gshubert17 3y ago
The key is that this phenomenon was well known and predictable. First get the date right, then wait until local noon for the sun to be at its maximum altitude. The Egyptians had long had excellent calendars, so they could use past records t
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by gshubert17 3y ago
There are interesting opportunities in some niches. Twenty-five years after I got an MS/CS degree and had worked as a software engineer at various places, I was looking for something different. A public charter school in Colorado had j

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