vmchale

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by vmchale 28d ago
The industrial resource utilization is being done to serve the consumer. Pinning carbon emissions on a steel mill (which sells to airplane manufacturers who take people on vacation flights) is logically incoherent and motivated reasoning.
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by vmchale 29d ago
Americans are quite fond of frivolous consumption that damages the environment. People who go apoplectic at the suggestion that they put down the hamburger are part of the problem. If the our world in data report is correct, "AI"
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by vmchale 29d ago
> A data center costs my community No one was objecting when pornhub was building out data centers. Anything they like to consume, no matter how frivolous, is accepted as morally better on a metaphysical level. > further enriches a fe
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by vmchale 3mo ago
It's not American evangelicals. It's been a long campaign and the evangelicals are still being targeted by Israel because no one else is left, but there aren't enough American evangelicals to swing things. Not to mention, it
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Utopia and Historical Actions(vmchale.com)
1 points by vmchale 4mo ago|0 comments
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by vmchale 5mo ago
Might be ridiculous but at least they're not parading kidnapping victims on Instagram to advertise as one sees in Israel. https://x.com/trackingisrael/status/2039724748309930448?s=20 Humanity is always beset
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Utopia and Historical Actions(vmchale.com)
2 points by vmchale 5mo ago|0 comments
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by vmchale 5mo ago
kdb does two of those by default—columnar and it uses memory mapping (no serialization/deserialization) Not entirely forgotten in the database world!
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by vmchale 5mo ago
"long term storage" for CO2 is to spew it into the air where it remains forever... free for Germany, not so much Australia, California, Florida, etc.
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by vmchale 8mo ago
Cool, we can be like Cuba except we did it to ourselves
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by vmchale 8mo ago
> The US car manufacturers are cooked. Biden put a 100% tariff on Chinese cars and then Trump added tariffs on inputs. Americans are getting screwed!
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by vmchale 1y ago
> When stated that way you can see that there are several levers to pull, the most obvious being compensation. Ford's profit margin was 1.7%. Lots of innovative/productive American companies since 1970 for workers to aspire to
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by vmchale 1y ago
> no social democrats in sight The US already has social security, medicare, medicaid. It is often just plain worse/more brutal than Western European countries but the difference isn't a radical reimagination of the social orde
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by vmchale 1y ago
> only have use as propaganda Propaganda helps you ascend to power and then constrains what you do with that power. Ultimately if you want to look objectively, you have to look at the concrete, at history. But propaganda matters: history
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by vmchale 1y ago
> These words have more conventional meanings. Kondylis disputes the typical interpretation of "conservatism." Historically it was a backwards justification of feudalism. Easy to see why someone would talk up "history,&quo
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The Obsolescence of Political Definitions (1991)(vmchale.com)
37 points by vmchale 1y ago|130 comments
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by vmchale 1y ago
ATS does this. Works quite well since multiplication by known factors and addition of type variables + inequalities is decidable (and in fact quadratic).
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by vmchale 1y ago
Xerox was when the US was on the up-trend, not committing economic suicide at the whim of a mad king.
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by vmchale 1y ago
Given the changes to R&D taxation and cuckoo tariffs I don't think private research will want to start a lab in the US like Bell did.
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by vmchale 1y ago
France is explicitly trying to poach researchers. UK is committing higher-ed suicide though it has a better reputation than the US in many ways.
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by vmchale 1y ago
For engineers, maybe. But with immigration restrictions, employers can no longer create a workplace where "work with the best in the world" is an attraction.
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by vmchale 1y ago
Before Trump/Vance nuked US reputation the interest on US bonds was low and provided a safe asset to investors. Spending on scientific research was a no-brainer.
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by vmchale 1y ago
>The heart of the model is simple and radical: people choose the identity they feel is most relevant to the social conflicts of the moment. A lot of this is in Kondylis (30+ years old)
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Python Is Dynamically Typed(blog.vmchale.com)
1 points by vmchale 1y ago|1 comments
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by vmchale 1y ago
the negative and positive use of types (gating inputs vs. witnessing implementations) get confused when talking about programming languages. It seems to me the positive aspect is overwhelmingly where programmers find frustration.
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by vmchale 1y ago
in Haskell you can read off the generating function's coefficients directly from the functional equation T(z) = z + zT + zT² + zT² ghci> ts=0:(1+ts+ts^2+ts^3) ghci> take 12 ts [0,1,1,2,5,13,36,104,309,939,2905,9118] Using the Num
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by vmchale 1y ago
Brian Hayden has a book right at the heart of this topic, how secret societies (terrorist proto-religions, think scientology+murder) anticipate civilization. You don't find such societies in precarious places, perhaps because extorting
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by vmchale 2y ago
Have a look at ATS, it is memory-safe and designed for kernel development. There's a kernel and arduino examples. Fluent C interop. No tactics metaprogramming but it'll give you a start.
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by vmchale 2y ago
> Refinement on memory addresses This is precisely ATS!
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by vmchale 2y ago
Aaron Hsu has an APL compiler targeting GPU that gets tantalizing performance in machine learning: https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3589246.3595371

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