salynchnew

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by salynchnew 24d ago
Yeah, it's not like the few remaining small, family-owned Indiana farms (which are either very specialized away from corn or basically lifestyle businesses at this point) are benefitting from this in a meaningful way.
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by salynchnew 28d ago
https://neveragain.tech/ is still up.
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by salynchnew 29d ago
It is kind of funny and sad that in the U.S. we've gone from corporations virtue-signalling to vice signalling in just a few years.
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by salynchnew 1mo ago
I was going to say: is this a joke? But really, the article seems to be going out of the way to make the author's particular point... but reads to me that the original paper is often understood... it simply shows that "specialists
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by salynchnew 2mo ago
I mean, Facebook acquiring FriendFeed felt at least as bad as Google shutting down Google Reader.
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by salynchnew 3mo ago
There are probably some other interesting adaptations involved, like the fact that the surface of a mantis shrimp's (shell? carapace?) selectively filters out sound waves (and thus, shockwaves caused by its own "punch").
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by salynchnew 3mo ago
People on HN really love small-scale fission nuclear when the sun is (gestures) right there .
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by salynchnew 4mo ago
That seems like a rather inefficient use of resources. How long will a fund typically keep that on the books before they have to offload the asset or declare bankruptcy? At a certain point, that smells like a scam with a real estate busines
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by salynchnew 4mo ago
The Failure to Launch episode about Qian, the Cultural Revolution, and the brief inter-departmental war and attempted "coup" at the defense research institute where he worked... was quite something. https://podcasts.app
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by salynchnew 5mo ago
If Books Could Kill (which is notoriously against self-help books) did an episode on Dale Carnegie. Even they said that he seemed to be a pretty alright guy who was genuinely nice to people in his personal life, not just in his public perso
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by salynchnew 5mo ago
Often reminded of this passage from Hitchhiker's: The Maximegalon Institute of Slowly and Painfully Working Out the Surprisingly Obvious (MISPWOSO) is a fictional research institution from Douglas Adams' The Hitchhiker's Gui
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by salynchnew 5mo ago
You can get alternative bulk mowable native lawn substitute seeds from the Thomas Payne Foundation.
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by salynchnew 6mo ago
It was written by an LLM, so... yeah.
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by salynchnew 6mo ago
As the author is dead, I'm sure the money goes towards site hosting fees.
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by salynchnew 6mo ago
When I learned that this person was one of the RISD art students who started Fort Thunder, it all made a lot of sense to me. That was by all accounts a very strange and unique intentional space for people who didn't want to live in a c
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by salynchnew 7mo ago
If it's already scanned, then you don't have to leave your desk.
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by salynchnew 8mo ago
It's amazing that so many "leaders" (esp. in tech) seemed to not worry about or even tacitly/openly supported the Trump admin, when so many other folks could clearly see the disaster looming on the horizon.
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by salynchnew 8mo ago
It's a great idea, but I feel like that way ends up with the nightmare scenario of each of us managing an AWS-style admin console for washing the dishes, etc. That way lies madness, although I suppose there might be one or two family m
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by salynchnew 8mo ago
> operating too close to the operational limit, tipping over it, and then requiring a power cycle. GPUs--they're just like us!
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by salynchnew 8mo ago
It's wild that these are the failure rates for datacenter-grade products. If you were pushing consumer GPU servers all-out, I would expect this kind of variation. I expect it's not just a problem with Nvidia, though.
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by salynchnew 8mo ago
So.... motivated reasoning makes the world go 'round? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motivated_reasoning
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by salynchnew 9mo ago
> Don't let comments like this fool you, nuclear is far from being competitive with natural gas. Even in countries like south korea that can deploy nuclear the cheapest it's still $3/watt roughly. People still insist that
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by salynchnew 9mo ago
Why are you calling Bennett et al "the Stanford... study" ? Not one person on that team went to Stanford. Direct link to the poster presentation: http://prefrontal.org/files/posters/Bennett-Salmon-2009.pd
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by salynchnew 11mo ago
You're making the roundabout argument that MSFT/OpenAI will one day go the way of Yahoo/Alibaba, which is wild.
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by salynchnew 1y ago
Could also be an article placed by a competitor + a squeaky wheel.
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by salynchnew 1y ago
This is important. There's a difference between charitable donations that are actually for the public interest vs. shadow lobbying by oil companies.
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by salynchnew 1y ago
Most states (at least in the midwest) have not kept up with their obligations when it comes to funding the historical land grand universities ("state" university, etc.).
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by salynchnew 1y ago
Historically, America has grown its population via immigration. Whoops!
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by salynchnew 1y ago
Until the VERY recent Chevron ruling, that's how Congress's powers were intepreted. The Necessary and Proper Clause (or Elastic Clause) in the Constitution grants (or granted, I guess) this power. It's wild to think how Repub
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by salynchnew 1y ago
Okay. Let's say the low lows of a middle Sweden equivalent climate are brought more in line with current UK temp ranges. Let's say the winter temp goes up +10 degrees Celsius. What happens then to, say, the Mediterranean at +10 C

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