schiffern

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by schiffern 11d ago
Ladies and gentlemen, meet the party of "fuck your feelings" and "humor is legal again..." And please, no fake canned complaints about "politicizing." The story is nakedly political from top to bottom (no pun i
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by schiffern 11d ago
>Since when has Facebook been associated with MAGA? That's easy. January 20, 2025: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvgpqeq82rvo
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by schiffern 11d ago
Troublingly, I think he actually does think these ideas are helpful. Is a True Believer any less dangerous? "Sufficiently advanced incompetence is indistinguishable from malice."
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by schiffern 12d ago
>don't matter... don't matter... don't matter... Apparently current GPS screens are compatible with your eyes and the viewing conditions you find yourself in. Congrats! May your eyes never darken and your trails be
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by schiffern 12d ago
Yes, and by the same token, multicellular organisms are literally just sophisticated mitosis and survival optimizers for our cells. But when you take that optimization "to the limit" the cells develop weird things like body plans
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by schiffern 12d ago
If it's a "thundering herd" problem where everyone's harness falls back to less popular providers that don't normally see that much demand, I'd say the probability is pretty good. Classic cascading failure is c
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by schiffern 12d ago
Exactly, it really is that absurd. If anything, you could say the corporate world is its own self-caricature.
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by schiffern 13d ago
>bizarre fiction that humanity can escape global warming by putting infrastructure in space or by traveling to Mars So this is awkward, but Elon Musk agrees with you. https://mashable.com/article/elon-musk-mo
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by schiffern 14d ago
Any good blogs or articles you can recommend?
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by schiffern 14d ago
You know it's funny, I originally wrote "a good modern engineered landfill," but I felt it was getting too wordy so I deleted the unnecessary word. Based on how my words (apparently) came across, clearly I should've ke
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by schiffern 14d ago
This was pointed out to me a while ago, but it seems to hold true: Whether someone appreciates a modern engineered landfill is a useful Shibboleth for distinguishing real evidence-based environmentalism from narcissistic signaling "env
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by schiffern 16d ago
Fair points. "some of that stuff might become dinner" is splitting hairs, I feel. Why? Because disruptions along the supply line are disruptions along the supply line. If a deep Russian ammo depot had a sudden smoking accident, yo
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by schiffern 16d ago
Still troops, still dinner?
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by schiffern 16d ago
OTOH how many bases are effected and we didn't hear about it? Those 14 bases are only the ones we know about. Not just any failure, specifically heating the food (defrost) so it goes bad. Happening overnight, so it wouldn't be cau
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by schiffern 16d ago
More info: https://solar.lowtechmagazine.com/about/the-solar-website/#h... https://github.com/lowtechmag/solar/wiki/Solar-Web-Design https://homebrewserver.club/low-
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by schiffern 19d ago
1. Installing a yard camera. 2. Building a mass surveillance dragnet and purpose-built tracking software and marketing it heavily to random local authorities. Yep, totally the same thing...
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by schiffern 19d ago
These are good questions, I don't think it deserved the downvotes. >our capacity to capture and "upgrade" slow photons is already improving Due to annoyingly inescapable thermodynamics, that would require putting al
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by schiffern 20d ago
I'm confused. If he has nothing to hide he has nothing to fear, right? Seems like some Good Samaritan should set up a mobile pole camera (or twelve) outside his house 24/7. Rest easy, it's all being done for his own safety!
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by schiffern 22d ago
For me that makes it more likely to be human-generated. Seems like a "rushing person juggling revs and copy-pasting" mistake. FWIW, the writing style and tone match pre-LLM SpaceX writing. Of course you can prompt an LLM to mimi
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by schiffern 1mo ago
Take your pick, neither sounds great: 1 angry person with $800 in CRISPR and AI 1 angry person with $800 in pangolin cages and time 1 company with a billion chickens and a drive to cut biosafety costs
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by schiffern 1mo ago
>The U.S. did one test shot I'm seeing 11 shots total,[0] though Wikipedia lists even more. "Nine were for the purpose of developing an ultra-low fission thermonuclear explosive for use in nuclear excavation projects an
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by schiffern 1mo ago
It's still a big waste of compute power . Most of the lifecycle emissions come from manufacturing, not electricity.
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by schiffern 1mo ago
>It seems quaint now, It goes up and down. Some days I wish it seemed more quaint.
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by schiffern 2mo ago
For cars not planes, but apparently you're an LLM so....
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by schiffern 2mo ago
Not just cost, but that limited airport "slot" represents (a slice of the) significant carbon emissions from building/operating the airport. So even if you only care about carbon emissions, it can still make sense to skip t
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by schiffern 2mo ago
>In my dreams, my ultra-advanced car would open the windows when braking to get two benefits in one. Or use those triangular vent windows / wing windows, as seen on old trucks and classic cars. https://www.fastlan
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by schiffern 2mo ago
That's the regular A350-1000. This is the A350-1000ULR, which has an additional 20,600 L rear tank. https://www.airbus.com/en/newsroom/stories/2026-07-extending...
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by schiffern 2mo ago
I expect many researchers are using fresh lab-made microplastics, which are indeed mostly harmless. However part of the problem is that real-world plastics are chemical sponges that absorb toxins (heavy metals, PCBs, etc) from the environme
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by schiffern 2mo ago
Correct. This is why SpaceX rejected using black coatings alone for Starlink. Mirrored surfaces that they tested instead were darker than VANTA black.[0] On some surfaces they use a SpaceX-designed coating called Low Reflectivity Black,
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by schiffern 2mo ago
CO2 on the ISS routinely gets up to 5 mmHg = 6,500 ppm, because the CO2 scrubber is more effective at that concentration. According to NASA it's "not practical from a hardware standpoint" to set the operational CO2 limit at

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