zwkrt

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by zwkrt 3y ago
> If you take those genes and put them into organisms like bacteria and yeast, which normally do not have these proteins, they actually become much more desiccation-tolerant Well I have a newfound fear of humans creating a bacteria as ha
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by zwkrt 3y ago
Crypto never fails to impress me with how many problems it creates for itself.
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by zwkrt 3y ago
(This is coming from someone with ADHD but not dyslexia) It's harsh, but it isn't wrong, right? The reason that these states of being are considered 'disorders' is because they interfere with daily life and with tasks th
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by zwkrt 4y ago
TIL about Normal Mapping, which to my layman eyes kind of looks like computing a hologram on the flat surface of an object. In the coin example in TFA, even though I now 'know' that the coin is a cylinder, the normal map gives it
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I very infrequently watch the news. it is obvious to me that major news outlets, at least in the US where I am familar, are definitely attempting to push political agendas and shape public opinion and manufacture consent. However, Fox news
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by zwkrt 4y ago
IMO the "main source of inequality" is that tech allows a small number of people to use technological and fiscal leverage to make an outsized impact on society as a whole. Anyone who has a job that produces value in a 1:1 way is p
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Another tech CEO realizing that the only way to sustain growth is to reject reality.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Right, and this is why they fundamentally failed. If their main depositors were traditional businesses and individual accounts they wouldn’t be an issue today. They invested their money as if they had low-risk depositors but a start-up is a
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I think of the hiring loops that I am a part of as paid interview practice.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I hate to jump on the bandwagon here, but imagine if Instagram released an update to their app to make it look like it did in iOS7. People would uninstall the app. They would be laughed at. It isn't because current design trends are &#
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by zwkrt 4y ago
If you read it aloud, I think it is very punchy. I’m guessing considering the authors pedigree that his writing style was a conscious choice.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
The one thing about sushi and peanuts is that they both have a weight…
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I do use an external keyboard and mouse with a laptop stand when I am at my desk. When I am out I just type on the laptop stand
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Its funny. I have programmed for a decade and at no point I have ever found that an external monitor was the solution to my problems. My coworkers think I'm crazy, but I do all development on a 15' macbook. My path to efficiency a
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I understand your point, and I'll agree to disagree. I think it just has to do with what we value. Even though it is a tool, tools change what options we have. If you have a shovel, 'digging holes' is now an optional activity
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Chicken and egg, I think. I am a firm believer that people don't have much better or worse mental health now over-all. But I do think that in the past mental health was something that was more intuitive and that people got more support
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by zwkrt 4y ago
There's few thing people like more than for someone to tell them what to do.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
I might sound a little bit 'tinfoil hat' here, but I believe that what follows is not hyperbole. AI is already the 'Architect' more than most of us would like to admit. Even if it is not sentient, the various AIs that we
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by zwkrt 4y ago
It's funny that we are always chasing after 'personalization', which is of course only a problem created by industrialization and massive scale.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
For anyone disappointed by the headline and who wants to know the answer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neutron_star
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by zwkrt 4y ago
By which metric a tree is very intelligent and a man with a private yacht is not.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
It's not that they don't exist, but the easiest way to gain access to a computer system is always going to be to ask for the password. https://xkcd.com/538/
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by zwkrt 4y ago
And what about as the rock crumbles? Rocks are constantly eroding and re-amalgamating. What is it like to be sandstone? What is it like to be a magma flow? Is there something it is like to be a severed limb? What about a clipped toenail? A
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Screw that. Unless I can refuse to be tried in a sticky but necessary situation, the cops don’t get that option.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
This is so strange. You have been in HN long enough to know that this forum used to be very pro-crypto/coin. After a decade or more of failed promises, failed currencies, scam after scam, and billions of dollars in value squandered, HN
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Lunch can in fact be free if you skip it. I feel market forces will almost always prefer a centralized (I.e., marginally cheaper) solution so long as it is robust enough. I would have to imagine an entire economic and cultural shift to imag
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by zwkrt 4y ago
> full hour every day > invested in every feature Sounds like hell to me.
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by zwkrt 4y ago
If someone told me that they worked through a whole data structures and algorithms book I would be impressed but I would not be under the impression that they had 'mastered programming' in the sense that I would not be comfortable
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by zwkrt 4y ago
The way that I understood it is that what you call an 'ordinary' black hole this paper claims is actually a 'naive' black hole, and that more nuanced solutions to general relativity allow for things that act like black h
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by zwkrt 4y ago
Yeah but you can't just lay off senior employees as a scare tactic.

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