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by samhain 4y ago
Have you taken a look at MITs SPARC reactor? I’m always skeptical of comments that only reference ITER, since it’s very old news at this point, and there have been a plethora of innovation beyond ITER in just the last few years. The REBCO t
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by samhain 4y ago
Have you heard of MITs SPARC reactor? It’s way more interesting than ITER. It is 3x smaller, with Q greater than 10 (compared to ITERs ~10). It’s also slated to be finished -before- ITER.
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by samhain 4y ago
They are trying to point out that women also code instead of going with the colloquial understanding that it would be ten people’s jobs.
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by samhain 4y ago
As someone who lived next to a busy road for about 10 years, I’ve always wondered why people do this, so thanks for the perspective. The apartment was about 10 feet away, with no isolation, and a 65mph speed limit, so, surprisingly, it was
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by samhain 5y ago
It’s funny too, since some of those kids may eventually realize that they were brought here without their consent, and that they don’t actually like working and paying bills. You, suffering for them, then suffering for their existence, and
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by samhain 5y ago
Some types of tornado proof homes are not the big square concrete type, like shown in the sibling comment article, but dome homes made out of concrete. The obvious issues are that most furniture doesn’t fit well, wall hangings don’t work co
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by samhain 5y ago
This sounds like you might be able to gain something from the “Do chairs exist?” video by vsauce.[1] Basically, he goes through the different philosophical reasonings of the past and then explores where each one of those fall apart. He goes
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by samhain 5y ago
Cars already use larger slower lithography sizes, which are more resilient to temperature changes, but also can be lower margin profit, since they take up more space on a standard silicon wafer. Older fabs, when spun down, may not just sit
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by samhain 5y ago
I had those same problems until I started using the Factorio calculator[1]. It took some time for it to be developed, and I only just found out about it earlier this year. So I understand where you are coming from. [1] https://fa
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by samhain 5y ago
To reference the top comment right now… I’d imagine if you are looking at the metric at all, you’ve already lost. This, coming from someone who’s mother was walking 10-20k steps per day for decades, and seeing them fully stop walking after
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by samhain 5y ago
Someone above mentioned: git commit --amend --allow-empty
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by samhain 5y ago
This is absolutely fantastic work. I’ve been tinkering with Unity’s hex grid trying to automate some top down level building under this alternate grid system. It has some interesting challenges surrounding height/cliffs and water. Quit
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by samhain 5y ago
Check your original comment. You did not qualify that only “profound secular beliefs” are religious in nature. Rather, you speak in general saying “secular beliefs are religious.” So now you’re moving the goal posts. Using your original log
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by samhain 5y ago
I agree with the parent, you’re argument almost appears disingenuous to the point of looking like a troll or bait. This perspective is substituting any belief with a religious belief which is a false equivalency. It’s unfortunate that the g
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by samhain 5y ago
Maybe this is a hot take, but maybe if a job doesn’t make a living wage, then it’s a job that shouldn’t even be offered? If someone can’t make it on a cashier job then the public shouldn’t be afforded the convenience of having a cashier. Sa
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by samhain 5y ago
Imagine Apple wanting their cut from Google, because I used the chrome app to buy something off of Amazon.
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by samhain 5y ago
I discovered the technique he’s talking about on my own back in maybe 2016. He has some extra fluffy language around it that makes it seem more than it is. It’s really just falling back asleep after you’ve already woken up at a specific tim
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by samhain 6y ago
There was a post on here a few weeks ago that discussed code as the translation between the desire for a particular behavior from the person coding, and the machine instruction that needs to be executed. The comment section had a video of G
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by samhain 6y ago
Aren't you falling into the same trap that the post explains? That there are nuances around when types are useful and not useful? An indie game developer might spend a lot of time designing methods of gameplay and artwork for the game,
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by samhain 6y ago
The other interpretation of this thought experiment (and maybe what you alluded to) is the idea that humans, and all living things with a nervous system, are really just "meat computers." Processing inputs and outputs using the ca
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by samhain 6y ago
You're right, it's not a very good argument. It's just like someone saying that not having children is selfish. Both aren't very good arguments. It would be better to use some other kind of metric, like overall happine
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by samhain 7y ago
I'm still quite a fairly active user on reddit going on a decade now. If they started implementing this on a wide scale then I'd like to think I'd stop using it completely. I've gone on a few hiatus during some of the co
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by samhain 7y ago
"It's the product not the people" Sorry, but social networks are made of people, without the people you don't have a product. He's trying to say that because important people create the community then that's th
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by samhain 7y ago
There is a Princeton study that shows that the laws passed at the federal level have a 0% correlation to the public opinion unless they've donated at least $10k to a campaign. This means that the average voter has taxation without repr
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by samhain 7y ago
Could the internet, and the idea of things like "bodily consent" training that result in things like antinatalism be a cause for this? Or maybe that sort of reasoning about how we fit into this world is a result of that conditioni
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by samhain 7y ago
Perhaps in another 20 years we will find out if it really was Roe V. Wade.
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by samhain 7y ago
Have you seen the statistics for young people showing that they are in significant decline for relationships, marriage, sex, drinking? My theory is that they are just sitting at home on their phones. https://www.theatlantic.com&#
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by samhain 7y ago
I couldn't even remember the offensive definition when I read the title. I only associate the name with the program. Language can mean whatever we want it to, and by admission that it's offensive, you make it offensive. Should a d
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by samhain 7y ago
This is how I use it too, and I probably have a problem with it. I've set up timers so that I don't use it more than a few hours a day. Basically I've maxed out the filter on /r/all (yes, it's actually called &
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by samhain 7y ago
>Just cause of collateral. You can impound a car, foreclose on a mortgage, sell it and get back much or most of your money, which is why rates can be a lot lower. If it follows that the interest should be higher on a more risky investmen

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