scottlocklin

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by scottlocklin 6y ago
That's taking entirely the worst interpretation of what I said. I assume Thomas is sensitive about his appearance, took the worst interpretation possible and flagged all my posts. Which seems at least as shitty as noticing. It's n
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Also "I've tortured the meaning of this to make Ray look like less of an idiot." I'm pretty sure gunshot detectors, which arguably date from WW-1, don't qualify as "Public and private spaces are routinely monit
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
I'd rather write python than matlab any day (I made this choice, literally in '98): it's a statement about reading. Matlab is closer to a a math notation and python is a clunky programming language. I'd never in a millio
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Inflationary pressures and pent up demand no doubt. Also, you can just look at the chart and see it's basically already there. https://tradingeconomics.com/commodity/iron-ore
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
It's a regression as far as code readability goes for fairly straightforward reasons: almost everything in Matlab is a matrix. Matrices are not first class citizens in Python, and it matters. I use Python a hell of a lot more than Matl
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Octopuses Punch Fishes(twitter.com)
1 points by scottlocklin 6y ago|0 comments
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Looking around at all the enormously fat people, I suspect it's more likely to be thyroid and biome problems than cancer. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6915086/ https://www.gmos
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
People noticed: https://www.natlawreview.com/article/october-2020-talc-lawsu... I never understood why one might use talc over, say, chalk or corn starch.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Because even a reasonable set of first steps towards creating artificial mechanical life forms made out of arbitrary atoms do not exist and probably never will. Drexler wrote a stupid science fiction book. Good marketing for chemists for a
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
I didn't downvote, but maybe because it is an insipid and disgusting question? FWIIW in high altitude aviation where digestive gas could cause debilitating pain or even life threatening injury, the solution is to eat food that doesn&#
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
I usually like Collision articles, and agree with the title, but this is a terrible measure for physics. Horgan's book is a better resource for this sort of thing[0]. Obviously there are many problems with the sociology and incentive s
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
> there is a good chance that bugs like this one will be eventually be used to illegally spy on domestic dissidents and whistleblowers. These things and considerably smaller were fielded 10 years ago by the US; you could bid on SBIR cont
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Of course the capital costs of this are absurd (that's basically what you're saying here), but if it results in tomatoes and strawberries which don't taste like paste, it's worth it to me. Dutch greenhouse farms are cons
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
I charge by the hour, so my "free time" is billable too. Focuses the mind knowing whatever you're doing when you're not working is billable hours (hence no vidya). I still mostly make my own food, coffee and wash my own
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
> And all it costs is my time, which is free. Well my time is definitely not free; people pay lots of money for access to it. The problem with "muh welcome to upper middle class prosperity" lists like this is it doesn't ac
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Yeah, I didn't miss their clever little double entendre, nor did I miss they portrayed Shannon as a doddering old fool. This was not a docudrama; it was a desecration. Are you actually defending the thing, or do you just take offence a
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Because I paid for the book, paid with hours of my life reading it, and am hopping mad that it is total garbage which wasted my time and money with a puerile, long winded stack of drivel. I'll eventually take the time to write about it
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Sadly Soni's book is reads like a precocious high school student's summer book report, and he and his coauthor (who doesn't seem any more qualified than Soni is to write such a thing) manage to misunderstand a bunch of obviou
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
That movie is a travesty and the people who made it should be punished. Soni's book is also pulpy trash which reads like a precocious high school student's book report, and manages to make Shannon ... possibly the least boring hum
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James Burke “After the Warming” (1989)(youtube.com)
2 points by scottlocklin 6y ago|0 comments
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
I haven't studied it carefully, but it sure looks like 90% of the performance improvement is using a big cache, which is a totally obvious thing to do. Also the big x86 guys have more or less been asleep at the wheel for almost a decad
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
The jury is still out on that one.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
You didn't read the papers. Anyway, the literature is chock full of "sleeping pills associated with early death." Whether the pills are causing it, or because people with deadly sleep apneas pop a lot of pills is really pret
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Yet another "eat the cockroach protein, peasant" message from our lizard overlords. Thanks for sharing guys.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Futurists were the most punk rock artistic movement before punk rock happened in the 70s. They even invented Industrial noise before Throbbing Gristle with Russolo's "Art of Noises" and orchestra of noise makers. The interest
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Cantos, Bros Karamazov, Gibbon, Junger, Norwich .... I get suggestions for crummy business self help books, a biography of Elton John, something about crazy ladies talking to their crazy therapists, and something on vegetarianism I had alre
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
The engineer wouldn't have been able to waste the week feeling fancy fiddling with GPUs in that case.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Funny I have friends "on both sides of this issue" so I went out and did the common sense thing of adding up the CDC deaths, subtracting the baseline average deaths and noticing that the difference between 2020 and previous years
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
No, while B3 is a common ingredient in such things: it was really nicotine.
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by scottlocklin 6y ago
Everyone went to HS in my parents day; you can look up the graduation rate in the US; it was lower than it is now ~70%. Reading Anglo Saxon is "useful" if you wish to understand the english language, and appreciate the high litera

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