jasamer

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by jasamer 3y ago
> Another thing is that trying to take away creative jobs from humans and giving it to robots while the menial ones (like data entry, manual labor, household work, etc.) are still being done by humans is an insult to humanity itself. I d
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by jasamer 3y ago
I don't think a simulation needs to simulate anything real. Eg. if I have a program that runs Conway's game of life, that would be also be a simulation, but there's nothing "real" it references against. In other wor
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by jasamer 4y ago
Afaik what makes fusion hard is maintaining the conditions that allow fusion to occur. Because of this, it’s quite safe - if anything goes wrong, it’ll just stop working.
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by jasamer 4y ago
Probably, but the amount would be tiny. ITER is trying to generate 500 megawatt from a half-gram of hydrogen.
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by jasamer 4y ago
This animation was super smooth on even the slowest iPad. The point of it is: they were going to do a skeuomorphic animation, and they put the effort in to do it right. It's a level of polish that I really appreciate, even though it is
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by jasamer 4y ago
The page turn animation was truly excellent. I have seen a few other apps/sites try to copy it, some of them did it pretty well. But one detail I’ve never seen anyone else do: the text of the curled page is “distorted” in 3D, as one wo
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by jasamer 4y ago
It’s a question about ethics, I think it’s implied that legal consequences are not part of the consideration. But even when including possible jail time in your consideration: if you think that saving two lives at the cost of another is wor
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by jasamer 4y ago
And raw potato vs cooked potato?
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by jasamer 4y ago
I don't think #1 matters, because it runs again once it's in a valid state again. Your test will fail while in an invalid state, but that's to be expected. As the author explained in another comment, it initially generates th
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by jasamer 4y ago
This tool doesn't run all the tests, only the ones affected by the code changes since the last run. It figures out which tests to run by initially running all tests, and storing the code coverage of each test. It doesn't need to r
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by jasamer 4y ago
I folded his hydrangea design recently, following a video tutorial[1]. It is amazing. The finished model is a beautiful fractal flower. The folding steps aren’t terribly hard to do, but robinhouston‘s description - „magical and startling“ -
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by jasamer 4y ago
But the bullet will still hit the plane following you at roughly 1700mph (you could say, the plane will crash into the bullet at that speed, but it‘s the same result), because it‘s also moving at Mach 3.
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by jasamer 4y ago
Do base your believe that Factorio is under-optimised on anything specific? The Factorio devs regularly put out blog posts on the optimisations they have done, like [1][2][3] (and many others), and they have done so for a long time. This gi
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by jasamer 4y ago
Factorio's visuals support that take. I feel bad when the trees next to my coal power plant go brown and then die, and the initially beautiful blue lake next to the spawn point turns into a disgusting brown-green. In the later game, dr
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by jasamer 4y ago
Touring completeness is about accurately simulating any Turing machine. Not approximately simulating one (what would that even mean?), or simulating just some of them. When we say something is Turing complete, there’s always an implicit “if
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by jasamer 4y ago
Lidl tried to switch to SAP, keeping their own processes and customising SAP to fit their needs. After seven years and 500 million euro spent, the project was cancelled and they went back to using their old inventory system. So, in this cas
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by jasamer 4y ago
There are efficient ways to compute x^n. Eg. you want to compute x^8. Instead of multiplying x eight times by itself, you can do ((x^2)^2)^2, which is just three multiplications. To be fair, I’m not sure whether similar optimizations exist
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by jasamer 4y ago
The plan seems to be to have the gyrotron that generates the drilling beam on the surface, so the electronics don't have to withstand any heat at all. The "only" need to manage to get a beam that's clean enough that it r
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by jasamer 4y ago
Why not just go for: Peter: "My number is [X]." Sandy: I know the answer!
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by jasamer 4y ago
The author does not state that people "disagreeing" with crypto are toxic, just that a subset of anti-crypto people are toxic. (Same applies to some pro-crypto people).
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by jasamer 5y ago
I live close to a smaller stadium and recently rode past it while a game was being played. The number of police deployed there was insane, I estimate a ratio of 1 police per 10 visitors. The first thought that went through my head was that
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by jasamer 5y ago
If you get past the fancy custom scrolling part of their website, it also mentions flax and switchgrass as other plant species that could be used in "climate solutions".
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by jasamer 5y ago
Trees‘ natural purpose isn’t to sequester as much CO2 as possible either.
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by jasamer 5y ago
I used the JS Date API for the first time a few months ago, and wrote something like date.getYear() + "-" + date.getMonth() + "-" + date.getDay() in the hope of getting something like "2022-1-4". The a
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by jasamer 5y ago
> They also require ... absurd amounts of space. I'd have thought that nuclear requires the least amount of space of all energy sources.
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by jasamer 5y ago
1. Apple announced that they will release an App for Android that detects when an AirTag travels with you. I don't think it has been released yet, so currently, nothing prevents you from tracking Android users. 2. The iPhone can detect
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by jasamer 5y ago
One of NSO’s previous exploits targeted WhatsApp, so they seem quite capable of using “normal” apps to get their spyware on your phone. Apple’s Apps are better targets of course because those are on every phone. https://www.ft.co
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by jasamer 5y ago
Apple will allow you to stay on iOS 14 and still receive automatic security updates. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/09/psa-you-dont-have-to...
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by jasamer 5y ago
I'm not arguing that these aren't real problems, but neither are unique problems of the the client side scanning solution. It's the same or maybe even worse with server side scanning. I'd assume FB, Google & co have
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by jasamer 5y ago
The CSAM scanning solution allows law enforcement to do one thing, assuming they have full control over the image hash database: find people who have multiple photos that are already known to law enforcement that they upload to iCloud. How

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