peterashford

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by peterashford 7d ago
People mythologising Apple design will never get old
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by peterashford 8d ago
Expecting a corporate to police itself is, obviously, a joke
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by peterashford 8d ago
This is what I came here to say.
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by peterashford 8d ago
I'm sure the behavioural point is correct, but surfactants effect oils in a way that water does not. Water will not be as effective
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by peterashford 23d ago
Ahh... I took "published" on splitting the atom to mean the scientific write up of having split the atom - which was Rutherford - rather than the looser meaning - having just written about the idea in general. My bad.
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by peterashford 1mo ago
What makes you say their government is corrupt? And how do you imagine this change effecting their chances of employment? Capitalists thumbing through their list of Places to Exploit and they get to Naoero and exclaim "That's too
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by peterashford 1mo ago
Einstein? Rutherford, I think
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by peterashford 1mo ago
Yes. Not that it was ever up for sale, obviously
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by peterashford 1mo ago
fortunately, it's not a consumer product
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by peterashford 1mo ago
Well, Adam Smith was a true Scotsman, and he hated rent seeking and I'm pretty sure he'd hate neoliberalism as well. You're taking a strawman of the parent post. Their point was about people espousing dogma. You turned that
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by peterashford 1mo ago
Its not the literal intent, obviously. It is the consequence, however
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by peterashford 1mo ago
Traditionally, this has been the solution to mass inequality
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by peterashford 1mo ago
Yeah but this is the entire point of Neoliberal economics: enabling rent seeking behaviour to allow Capital to accrue wealth by virtue of being the biggest pile of wealth. It's ultimately not sustainable: the reductio ad absurdum of th
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by peterashford 1mo ago
She's a philosopher in the same way that Erich von Daniken is a scientist
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by peterashford 1mo ago
I buy 3D assets. I bought some just recently. AI assets are currently bad. They look ok but the topology is awful
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by peterashford 1mo ago
It's not bias, the results are unusable
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by peterashford 1mo ago
In my experience using Claude code for Go and Java code, I've seen little advantage for one language over the other in the LLM agentic context. I did a little experimentation with Zig which was less successful. Presumably to do with t
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by peterashford 1mo ago
Ayn Rand and the Austrian school aren't philosophers
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by peterashford 1mo ago
I think the philosophy is post-hoc justification of their actions.
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by peterashford 1mo ago
Seems to have a very narrow focus in terms of variety of music covered
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by peterashford 1mo ago
QED
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by peterashford 1mo ago
I don't think that comment was necessary. What do you gain by denigrating the Arts?
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by peterashford 2mo ago
So, larger batteries, then. Or produce hydrogen from excess wind power in the summer as a chemical battery.
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by peterashford 2mo ago
I meant anything like "IStatusChangeEntityCreationManagerFactory"
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by peterashford 2mo ago
"the language. Or the standard libraries"
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by peterashford 2mo ago
Scott base in Antarctica (NZ's scientific research base) is installing wind turbines and batteries and getting rid of diesel generators.
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by peterashford 2mo ago
So, everywhere, in a Capitalistic society
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by peterashford 2mo ago
Show me where IStatusChangeEntityCreationManagerFactory is in the language. Or the standard libraries. Or anything like it
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by peterashford 2mo ago
what has that got to do with what we name the field?
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by peterashford 2mo ago
I've been using the Vector API in Java to get some massive speedups for flowfield generation. There's no guessing with that approach - if the hardware supports SIMD, you get it.

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