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> I don't think that free parameters are necessarily so damning

Free parameters which significantly outpower the power of the observations are damning because there is no way to falsify the theory: if the theory can explain an extremely wide range of observations by tweaking the free parameters then it has much less predictive power and should be viewed extremely suspicously.
Just look at other publications by this guy:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/author/sanjeev-sab...

I especially like this one:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/seeing-the-invisib...

"The problem with climate “science”, however, is that the data – which are telling us to relax – fly in the face of the strong tendency of its advocates to bully us into a panic. We are asked to drop all common sense and to accept that CO2 – a monumentally insignificant fraction of the air – is the control knob of the climate."

Should we also drop all common sense and e.g. believe that hormones - a monumentally insignificant fraction of human body - regulate bodily functions?
So the only way to compare solar panels is to price in everything - but for fossil fuels it is ok to externalize costs to the environment like emissions, spills etc. Furthermore, I think it is weird for a (classical) liberal to be so in favor of nuclear, since there hasn't been a single nuclear power plant built without big investment and subsidies from the state.

I'm not an expert, but comparing a barrel of oil measured in bmu to a battery seems dishonest, too. - And he's using Tesla for some reason, which isn't the technological leader anymore when it comes to either batteries, panels or cars.

Even his claims about rooftop solar panels are wrong according to the comments beneath the article.
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It's kind of interesting to look at the first car to go 300mph in 1935 https://craighill.net/2012/09/03/september-3-1935-sir-malcol... vid https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcM740YDgzs Not sure if it doesn't look cooler than the 2019 version though probably it would be harder to park at Sainsbury's.
This is very good remark. I saw Vsauce video about chimpanzees' photographic memory compared to normal human memory. Proposed explanation is cognitive tradeoff hypothesis - basically that while chimpanzees' memory is visual, human memory is influenced by language - basically how you describe event in your head.
> “$200,000 worth of Tesla batteries, which collectively weigh over 20,000 pounds, are needed to store the energy equivalent of one barrel of oil”

> Battery production processes consume vast amounts of energy, with “the energy equivalent of about 100 barrels of oil” required “to fabricate a quantity of batteries that can store a single barrel of oil-equivalent energy”.

This seems dishonest. You only need to produce a battery once and it'll likely be useful for 10-20 years, then can be recycled to make new batteries. And if you have a green grid, it doesn't matter how much energy is required.

Further, yes, oil is an amazing energy source. I'm not sure what his point is. We still need to move away from it if we're at all interested in our environment (which I guess as a species we simply arent).

> And then there is the most sinister part: the solar craze is closely linked to the climate hysteria which, as I have showed separately, was invented by eugenicists, racists and Malthusians to wipe out India’s poor. The only beneficiaries of solar energy today are large companies who pay corrupt politicians to suck up solar subsidies.

I see now I've wasted my time.
>The tragic thing is that there's this idea you have to live life as an austere pioneer hippie to address this. You really don't. A world of mostly-vegetarian people living in modern, timber (for carbon sequestration) flats in mixed-use environments, using renewable electricity to power their heat pumps and AC, traveling primarily via bike, walking, and public transport, and owning less disposable crap would go a long, long way.

That means a reduction of production and consumer spending by 50% or more, and the end of the "no limits progress" which is beyond the pale for modern business interests, and the 10% well off part of the population that does their biding (executives, intellectuals, politicians, media people, and so on).

It's better in today's prevalent culture that the world end in flames (perhaps while waiting for some magic technology to fix it all) than go back on consumption...
Leather is better for the environment than plastic.
Does this not scare you?
I had no idea the performance differences between the distros was so significant. Which settings/compiler flags have the largest effect here?
Ofcourse them too. They are more of less programmed as it is to chase likes/clicks/views of their respective fan clubs. Tweaking the counts of what their fan club likes automatically changes their behavior. They just don't know they are all deeply trapped.
The psychological pressures of 'progress' and 'entrapment' (E.G. being trapped in gridlock or long lines) are not to be underestimated.

If rush hour were still actually an _hour_ rather than a smear that covers all of daylight hours and then some, happy hours and other 'avoid the traffic' distractions would likely see more utilization as an alternate means of avoiding the above problems.
Another similar project.

http://mtbest.net/chest_fridge.pdf
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It's a good idea IMO, but the two aren't alternatives, i.e. not mutually exclusive — you can do both. See Knuth's “A Flame About 64-bit Pointers” from 2008 (https://cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/news08.html, starting with “It is absolutely idiotic to have 64-bit pointers when I compile a program that uses less than 4 gigabytes of RAM”). Work on making this possible in Linux started as the x32 ABI in 2011 (see Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=X32_ABI&oldid=887... or this LWN article: https://lwn.net/Articles/456731/); unfortunately it looks like there's discussion about removing it (Dec 2018 thread starting here https://lkml.org/lkml/fancy/2018/12/10/1145 though apparently I can't figure out how to navigate the LKML tree using constant space).
Upvoted.

I can understand downvoting heated expressions, but I don't understand why a sincere question can be downvoted.
Laser mesh...
There is an ongoing fight between the UK radio regulator and illegal radio stations. The regulator has detector vans, so it's a similar situation to what you describe.

They can find transmittors, but their objective is to find the studio, which needs a live link to the transmitter.

As I understand it, the pirates break out onto the roof of tall buildings, especially public housing towers, and place transmitters. These will be found, so they gotta have a way of linking them back to home.

Sure, they could use mobile data (has its own opsec problems), or hacked residential wifi and a VPN (add real prisong itme of a hacking charge to the sheet when you get court).

Apparently what they often do is use a cantena link - a focussed beam of wifi to some distant place, which can be very difficult to pinpoint accurately. I also saw a doc where they used lasers.

These days though, I think a lot of them just stream on the internet.
Ketchup is a sauce with tomatoes in, but it generally includes vinegar, salt and quite a lot of sugar; tends to have a consistent, lump-free texture; it's applied to greasy food like fries and hamburgers; and only about one tablespoon would be used per meal.

On the other hand, a pasta sauce would generally retain chunks of tomato, use less (or even no) vinegar, salt or sugar per unit volume; and it would be applied to non-greasy pasta in much larger volumes :)
if you want to learn about linux then distros like arch and gentoo are a great learning experience but for the average end user the potential issues far outweigh the benefits
Well, if you're really concerned about that, most of them do still have small amounts of SRAM where you can put stuff like commonly-run functions and interrupt handlers.
A Kashmiri can tell what it feels like.

Source: I am Kashmiri
Cool; thanks for the reply and the details... added to the grocery list, will try this week! Cheers :)
>> But time and again when I search for a question online if there's an SO version of it it has the best answer.

You are not searching for questions that may not be answered by reading documentation, then.
And so what do you do after "figuring out why" when you're not actually free to modify the software?
Imagine receiving a deepfake video with audio from your boss telling you to do something.
TI spec for FRAM is 10^10, but in real life you do feel that it's noticeably lower.
And a huge 24/7 mechanism is used to make this vast bulk of people want, work for, and buy, those products...
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PS- have you calculated the calories in this? If not, I'll add it up in MyFitnessPal but thought you might know if you're making it often. Cheers and thnx again.
Yes, but it's probably one of those things where the village can justify spending $100 per month on diesel for the generator, but wouldn't be able to justify $1000 for a solar panel large enough to run the fridge.
There are protests by truck drivers and some of these actions can be seen as terrorism.

https://www.iol.co.za/dailynews/news/kwazulu-natal/two-truck...
Right, but the equivalent of trains that take multiple days are sleeper/red-eye flights of 5+ hours during which many people can catch up on some sleep.

I've taken that train as well and while it's nice for routes of around that distance, I'm not sure how it would be beneficial if you had to sit on it for days. That wouldn't be much of a sleeper trip.
They are right to be full of fear. Their way of living will very likely be destroyed.

I doubt the rest of the world will even notice much.

However, maybe to protect the Amazonas, the thing to do is to give the indigenous people guns. Who else is going to prevent deforestation? The government seems to be unwilling to protect the rain forest. The indigenous people claim they want to protect it.

Give them guns!
I am under the impression that the problem is excess consumption. Without reducing consumption, i.e. changing what people do, how is it possible to “offset” negative externalities?
Do you have a source for your claim? Here[1] is a link I found breaking down the fuel consumption by sector. Seems Motor Oil vastly outscores Residue Fuel Oil, which I believe is what tankers use. I may be wrong, though, and would be interested in being corrected.

[1] https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/monthly/pdf/sec3_23.pdf
Tbh it sounds like you're guilt-free either way. You're saying that it doesn't matter at all to you when your actions harm others. You would like to be able to say they didn't, but don't feel guilty if they do. Also fwiw as many people who have tried it will tell you, there is a gain in acting selflessly, and it's better than the gain from acting selfishly. The idea that altruism is for suckers is actually harmful to your self-interest.
>That reasoning is problematic, as it amounts to reviving the concept of "original sin" to apply it to anyone who happens to live in a developed economy.

Well, the original sin never really went away.

People are inherently flawed creatures (which is what the original sin myth meant to capture).

And "anyone who happens to live in a developed economy" contributes to today's climate problem, whether they want/link it or not. They don't even have to be on the top of the hierarchy (although there's probably a powerlaw/pareto distribution of harm).
The problem with your reasoning is this is being done by corrupt governments and cattle and lumber industries in a country making consumer goods for themselves. I can do all those things here and it won't do anything to fix the problem there, the problems are local and will continue to be local as long as the people of Brazil tolerate it. How many people have donated to funds to preserve the Amazon, and what exactly has that gotten us? We sit here in a our affluent country and tell those in another country that they shouldn't exploit their natural resources to have what we have? This is backwards and naive thinking. Until the people locally value what they have more than they do economic prosperity, even if only temporary, it will continue no matter what life style Americans or Europeans choose to adopt.
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> Look at Indians instead

I'm Italian my friend.

We live of vegetables, but we don't try to create the myth of the "mostly vegetarian diet" like most do about Indians.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-43581122

EAT LESS, that's all we have to do.
If you think it's bad now, wait until 5G rolls out allowing live tracking of people to within meters.
Due to destructive reads, any XIP read ends up in a write. And the most grievous case is when your function code ends up just few bits longer than cache. That means that those few bytes will get hammered, individually, every cycle.

TI's spec for 10^10 endurance is for random writes
Not that I'm aware of.

If you produced a mind-map to show their inter-relatedness, It's quite a dense network.

A quick sketch of some of the nodes and vertices might start to look like:

Logic <--> Gödel's theorems

Gödel's theorems <--> Proof theory

Proof Theory <--> Linear Logic

Computability <---> Turing Machines

Computability <---> Lambda Calculus

Combinatory Logic <--> Lambda Calculus

Type Theory <--> Lambda Calculus

Homotopy Type Theory <--> Type Theory

Pi Calculus <--> Process Calculi/Distributed Systems

Category Theory <--> Everything...

And that's far from complete. I imagine synthesising all the concepts into a single book, with a cohesive narrative would be quite hard, without some deeper unifying theory, uniting all concepts. (Category theory and HTT may be the best contenders).

In this case, a Wiki might best capture the semantics of structure. Although I'd love to be proved wrong and find such a book!
Your comment reads like you are projecting your own guilt onto the parent.

They said that you are "connected" to deforestation if you are living in a developed economy - you interpreted that as implying that all people in developed economies are sinning. They didn't say that everyone is guilty, just connected.

They then made two conditions predicated on having high socio-economic status (eating meat regularly, investing in a stock market) and stated that these do imply some level of guilt. I think that does account for the difference in lifestyle between income levels in the global economy and read it as implying that those with the most impactful lifestyle should make the most reductions - agreeing with your statement amount relative room for maneuvering.

EDIT: You said "I believe a lot of hand-wringing on these topics comes from positions of economic privilege" - many agree. Many see environmentalism as a "bourgeois playground" to its detriment. You might find this interesting: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n11/naomi-klein/let-them-drown
You've come closest to the true point.

The root cause of the traffic problem is the interrelated web of: Sprawl, civic planning failures (insufficient housing near jobs), lack of stable careers (getting long term housing near long term jobs), and generally too many people needing to move too far due to inefficiencies in our society.
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Did she attempt to dose cardamom? Did she use Thai basil? I'm not sure about the former in Thai cuisine, but the latter is highly recommended.

As for ketchup, it simply isn't spicy enough for my taste. Which makes it "boring". There's a Dutch variant called "curry" which contains spices and umami, but more sugar and less tomatoes.

Mayonnaise I desire with lemon, too (Belgian style). I like to make my own garlic sauce (Belgian mayonnaise, yogurt, cube-sliced garlic). Don't make it _too_ runny (too much yogurt). My fav sauce is green pepper sauce. It is similar to the garlic sauce as base, but with freshly grinded green pepper. I'll try a black pepper variant another time.
I've got the opposite problem - office in the city centre, home out in the country where I can afford to live.
So, 30 minutes from my house to the city outskirts, 30 more from there to the office, whether it's by car, bus, or a combination. Then, the same in reverse in the evening. These times can be higher and are often unpredictable.

Working from home would be easy and save me a lot of time, but it's very much frowned upon, as you say.
You have everything to do with it, if you eat meat and buy from the internet.
They certainly get different results - but as I said, I don't know the intricacies of their system
Well, how are we gonna gaslight them? Especially since they have all the power, and regularly gaslight us!
Lucky you -- I frequently have to deal with routers given by the ISP which are basically non-configurable. Examples are the Vodafone Easybox 904x (just tried to put OpenWRT on this box last week and failed after several hours to get the Wifi running) or the Technicolor 7200 which is shipped by Unitymedia in Germany by default. Both are really bad devices. The companies you are refering to do in fact better products (both in terms of software and hardware).
Is it a fair comparison? Give algorithm few orders of magnitude better computation power and as many years of unbounded train data as humans get - and draw conclusions on those results, no?
I try to minimize not total driving time, but something I call "agony" (term borrowed from Hipmunk). So, I'll take meandering side streets over a stop-and-go highway if it means I'm moving most of the time, even if the total wallclock time is greater. Or I'll take 3 right turns to avoid a harrowing left hand turn. Anything that keeps my blood pressure down. AKA, "long cuts."

Assuming there are at least some out there who feel the same, it occurred to me once to try to publish/monetize these agony free routes but I realized it'd pretty much instantly lead to the Waze problem.
> then, when discussing how to turn recursive functions into iterators using an explicit stack (which permits breadth-first searching);

How about a depth-first search?
In my experience, a lot more Americans who can afford to travel know more people in other regions of the country that they would like to meet than people in most any European country know people in other regions of the continent.

It isn't just about choosing to take a pleasure vacation or not, but seeing close family and friends that often aren't in the same state.
Well, this would definitely be phased in slowly. While phasing in, the technological side would be getting better and better as companies providing scrubbing would be building capability and competing to do it cheaply.

Also take in mind the problem might be solved in a different way, for example people switching to high speed trains for shorter rides, business meetings conducted remotely or people choosing more local travel destinations or alternative ways to spend free time.

The important part is to factor in all costs of products and services into their price, keeping environment clean included.
Amazing. Video is blocked. The irony
https://medium.com/@victoria27/heres-how-much-pollution-ship...

https://www.ft.com/content/8bceef94-86cd-11e9-a028-86cea8523...

https://inews.co.uk/news/long-reads/cargo-container-shipping...

https://newatlas.com/shipping-pollution/11526/

https://www.afr.com/policy/economy/why-australia-is-not-maki...

My actual job is in the shipping route optimisation space. Sub-percentile improvements in fuel consumption for a single route result in hundreds of millions of dollars of fuel savings. Of a fuel that's both cheaper and far more polluting than diesel. It's pretty obvious that shipping fuel consumption and associated emissions eclipse personal transportation.
Ubuntu comes with hardware video decoding support out of the box, just install it on a machine with an Intel or AMD gpu, and tick the "Install third-party software" box during installation.
> It’s not possible IRL.

> If I want my picture gone from the high school yearbook

AFAIK right to be forgotten, at least in EU, is the right to request that search engines do not display information about an individual that is factually incorrect, obsolete.... it has nothing to do with deleting actual information.
I don't know if I'm just not wired up like most people, but I have real difficulty in fill in the blank tests. These kinds of tests are extremely common for language proficiency tests and I fail at them even for my native English language. For example:

For years, they have strived to make a pizza in the community. (But since they lack flour for the crust, it has not ended well). For me, I can fit nearly any noun into that sentence and imagine a viable scenario where it would be reasonable. I honestly don't know what you were getting at. For others, I am sure that it is obvious and they can tell you the few words you were imagining.

My English language ability is quite good, so I wonder why I can't perform at these kinds of tests. I also wonder if knowing why I can't do this is useful for NLP.
I'm not saying we are particularly good at not eating meat. I'm saying we are evidence that not eating meat need not be a deprivational scourge.
No need to be baffled. Eastern Europe is mostly self sufficient in regards to meat production.
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Coming from Rethink and Mongo I don't like SQL. I don't want rows at all, or documentation that assumes a table model. Having a JSON data type doesn't mean you're a document store.
> Like I remember that one European Cruise company's ships produced the same amount of CO2-equivalent than all European Cars combined last year

Seems like BS. Such propositions are sometimes claimed, but they are for SO2/NOx/particulates emissions, not for CO2. Then they got misinterpreted as CO2 emissions.
I'm curious how you think that a country would ever stop consuming soy from Brazil unless there was a strong desire from the populace of the country to stop doing so.

Markets allow you to vote every time you buy something on what your values are. Every time you choose to buy something from, say Brazil, that will be read as an endorsement of Brazil whenever someone looks at a balance sheet of imports and decides whether they can afford to instigate some kind of ban.

I think that people making personal choices about their own consumption is a very reasonable way for them to signal their desires and so the changes you say (and I agree) are required can be worked towards through grassroots community (e.g. asking people to individually boycott products).
Hurting because of memory alignment or something else?

Given we have indices along the serialisation for child nodes I would have thought not having nodes start at the consistent intervals doesn't hurt us for traversal at least.

I'd quite like to use this idea for a file backed immutable tree. The array of children would have variable size with bit field to index then nth child in the sparse array.
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No, he's saying he is guilt-laden either way. Therefore, it makes no sense to put in effort because it will not absolve him of that perceived yoke.
Are you Australian?

For the confused people in the audience: There is a product, in Australia, much like ketchup, marketed as “tomato sauce”. Yes, people make pasta sauce with it. Yes, pasta sauce made from scratch is better. It’s not so dissimilar from ketchup, just a little less vinegary.