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On the scale of human civilisation, 50 years is hardly "long term".

Polonium by that ultra-short-relative-term reckoning is not only harmless as it you still feel fine 10 minutes later, but actually healthsome as you rather feel refreshed by the delicious green tea you just drank in that 5-star hotel bar.
Sure, but those battery backed solar plants usually only have 2-4 hours worth of storage. They're not actually producing full output throughout the night.

The cost of batteries would skyrocket if countries actually tried to provision 12 hours of battery storage. Because the US alone uses 500 GWh of electricity each hour. This is greater than the global battery production figures in 2022 [1].

1. https://www.spglobal.com/mobility/en/research-analysis/growt...
There is a lot of overlap between people who support a lab leak hypothesis and people who did nothing to try to mitigate the effects of Covid-19. You are correct that these two behaviors represent an illogical contradiction, but the two issues are also separate and dismissing one position by its common association with the other is illogical and generally unhelpful for having a serious discussion.

I personally can't condone people who did nothing to try to mitigate the effects of Covid-19 but that doesn't really have much bearing to the origin of Covid-19. Ultimately we should be trying to understand what lessons we can draw from the pandemic and how we can prevent or forestall the emergence of future pandemics. If the origin is technological in nature then we should be looking for policy directives to prevent such technologies from being misused in the future. Having worked with grad students the idea that they would make a colossal mess of things seems pretty realistic so implementing some basic international restrictions on things like gain of function research seems like it would be a good move going forward, but maybe less urgent if we are 100% sure that Covid was zoonotic in origin.
"Their demonstration video" makes it sound like there is only one.

No smug takedowns of the video that made the rounds first:

https://sciencecast.org/casts/suc384jly50n

The most people have been able to say is "it might be the most diamagnetic material anyone has ever seen by a remarkable amount".
>"Boil Water?! What am I, a Chemist?!"

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This may be a long one, but Ill start with simple and see what you think --

The addiction problem is really a dopamine (co)injection problem based on the pychological aspects of earlier experience which created the gates of dopamine/seratonin/melatonin/neural transports desires that affect behavior as you mature.

The pathways that are made for each within the brain structure early form bonds, and then its layers of bonds that keep coming, but just like snow on branches, the growth is bigger, the WEIGHT is bigger on the earlier formed branches... (The pathways are formed by an experience that triggers the neurons to neuron (network) and as they do so, if firing patterns keep happening, certain pathways get higher bandwidth, and these pathways "trigger" behaviour due to high bandwidth and thats how we get/devlop/inherit/build AND CHANGE our "PERSON"-ality.

So when you're traumatised at an early age - whatever triggers in the neuro-pathways are triggered will be stronger growing up - such that if its a dopamine trauma - you'll go after that largely as you mature...

Its reversable, because your biological and physical brain is self aware (conscious, a toroid) - and so you can change your behavior of which neurals get stronger, but will power (desire) has to be the strongest thread.

(But this is how BGP was born through LSD) (look at Ciscos comments re hoffmans 100)
And yet their on-peak times in the summer ends at 7pm:

> Shift some of your summer energy usage away from the on-peak time periods (2-7 p.m., Monday–Friday, June–September, excluding holidays).
Yeah it's very aggressively cached for read purposes. You could write most Q&A pages to static html files if you felt like it. Stack has a similar age-toward-zero outcome that Wikipedia has (the % of new content as a total share of all content on the service chases toward zero over time); the more you fill out the site, the balance of aged content to new content inverts to an extreme, so mostly what you end up doing is serving up cached reads on older content.

They're fairly well over-provisioned on server capacity. It's so relatively light to operate on the infrastructure side that they could safely further reduce the server count. There's no need in their case however, since infrastructure cost isn't one of their big problems.
Probably by doing the thing that can be used to answer 95% of all questions programmers ask each other: reading the manual.

Over time I've got used to it, but my colleagues tend to use me as a personal StackOverflow because I actually read the manuals for things we use/depend on. I regularly "amaze" them by answering obscure questions and when they ask how did you know that, the answer is always some variant on "by reading".

Now I just accept that most programmers hate reading and will prefer either just splashing around until they stumble on the answer by accident, or asking other people. It's frustrating but just how it is. I've had a senior programmer at a well known tech company tell me that now LLMs exist they+their team suddenly feel like writing documentation is worth it, because something will actually read it, and he was serious! They work on the assumption that if they write docs, zero programmers will read them! I don't think that's literally true but it might be directionally true.

I don't quite understand the assumption that LLMs are learning to code by reading StackOverflow anyway. Sure, it sounds plausible but we don't know how ChatGPT was trained. But it seems irrelevant now. GPT-4 has clearly learned programming to the level that it could generate self-training material just by reading the docs, writing experimental programs to try things out, and then summarizing its own findings which can be fed back into the next training round. At the moment it's not wired up to programming environments closely enough to do this, but it could be.
I suggest you send your comment to one of these friends and ask them if they feel like this is overbearing or not.

If when considering this, you feel hesitant to show them what it is you wrote about them, then I think that's something to reflect on.
Tutorial: How to communicate between two React components
One could say the same things about tobacco and minors, yet somehow nobody is suggesting that we should let kids buy cigarettes.
MX Linux MX-23 “Libretto”
> Get addicted to cannabis: You might spend more $$$ per month than you would like to

I can tell you are addicted to cannabis because you are way downplaying addiction to it while exaggerating the other substances. While cannabis will not kill you it can still destroy relationships, make you stupid, and waste 40 years of your life. That sort of behaviour can rub off on your kids too, so when they're adults and also addicted to cannabis and playing it off as "I just spend more money than I'd like", that's on you.
I haven't used org mode. I should probably look into it. If you know how it compares, though, I'm all ears. Always looking to improve.
If you want to kick caffeine, I recommend switching to caffeine pills and continue using as many of them as you need to feel normal, then start ramping down the dose. Since pills are discrete it's hard to cheat. When I do this I usually start at 400mg (sometimes 600mg) a day then over the next month ramp down to 100mg a day until finally going to zero. It takes me about a month before I can function normal with no caffeine.

...then a few months later I decide to start again. Oh well. I've done the above about half a dozen times. It's fairly easy to defeat the chemical addiction which I experience as you describe (really awful headaches, fatigue, lack of concentration, etc), but eventually I'll pick it back up to get a little extra edge.
I believe that creating a traffic rate-limiting system, which is more cost-effective than simply echoing back the requestor's IP address, is likely to be a complex task. However, I haven't personally performed the calculations to confirm this.
Look at policy-based templating, my goto for generic AI/search algorithms with many options. May prove useful.... Or not :)
No, bricked was a word IT techs were using at LEAST as early as the early 90s as that's when I learned it. I learned it when someone bricked a network switch in 93. Originally in the Android world (and before android with Symbian and others) bricked meant you flashed firmware that really killed it, maybe you can bring it back with a JTAG connection or something more extreme. Then as modding became more popular, they started being able to more easily recover these and UNbricking became a thing.
Why They Killed Gaddafi
Multiple authors instead of a single quack. Former leader (now sadly deceased) was a respected superconducting material researcher. They ran the essential tests, albeit not very well. They were at it for years in silence, and it was only after this current material's synthesis that they were tripping over each other to publish, with the apparent firm belief that they were onto a Nobel Prize level discovery. The theory they proposed -- while perhaps wrong -- also makes intuitive sense.

Cold fusion had many of those elements also, but the difference is that superconductivity is easier to verify.

Many people like the overall concept of using doped crystals to produce compressed or stretched lattices, which seem to be one of the enablers for superconductivity.

Compare with cold fusion, where there was no reasonable theory to explain how the palladium lattice would bring hydrogen nuclei close together.
Ah that's so wonderful to hear! I'm glad it's working for you!
Very cool! Love the visualizations.
It was positively identified in the reddit thread about half an hour after it was posted, not sure how the media has managed to drag the story out for so long
Only one of the holes has a trigger. You fill that last, or only.
They also don't support USB OTG on the main port, so you can't even use a wired keyboard. They only just recently released a keyboard case that uses the Pogo pins on the side, but it's $200!!

There was an abandoned(?) attempt to enable OTG. The hardware supported acting as USB host, but couldn't supply 5v so you needed a powered hub as well as a wired keyboard.

But, the software support for text input is absolutely horrendous. It inserts a text block into the center of the current page and you can't move it. Hell, until the 3.0 update, you couldn't even delete notebooks on the device.

The RM2 is beautiful hardware that's about 90% developed with some truly awful software. Fortunately, you get root out of the box and the homebrew scene is active enough to give you most of the features that RM2 left out
Devil's advocate: If the existing material and the process to make it can't be replicated, who really cares? Well, aside from the people who might deserve a Nobel. The rest of the world doesn't because we can't all share it like some kind of magical medallion.
‘X’ Sign Abruptly Removed from Twitter HQ Following Complaints
> assuming the chances of the rocket debris landing on a particular country is likely single digits a year if at all that is, what's the point of a fine

It’s not likely, but debris may land on top of humans, and may be large and not only physically, but also chemically dangerous.

As to that fine, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outer_Space_Treaty doesn’t mention that, but does say:

“States shall be liable for damage caused by their space objects”
That's why SO has shot itself in the foot with its attitude towards duplicate content. Duplication would have allowed modern answers to bubble up. It's impossible to do that on SO.
This reminded me of an old post by a bioinformatician: “Some reflections on programming in D, and why it kicks serious ass over C++, leaving it dead and broken on the sidewalk” – https://boscoh.com/programming/some-reflection-on-programmin...
How the Kentucky Cave Wars Reshaped the State’s Tourism Industry
Do you have plans to support metadata filtering?
The paper also assumes we'll make have feasible CO2 energy capture and hydrogen electrolysis and storage. It required time, effort, capital, and and multiple engineering breakthroughs. If your plan is contingent on technologies that aren't available... it's just a long winded way of saying you don't have a plan.

Actually, we just need improvements in fusion power and then we don't need solar, wind, or battery storage!
Ordered online you say? Where would this be done?

//Asking for a friend.
I feel like something that could help would be a limit to the potency. I like weed - but I really just want a 5-10% THC flower with some CBD in there for good measure (still not convinced the CBD isn't a placebo, but it's there naturally so no harm in having it). But most shops near me don't sell anything less than 20% THC. WTF?

Occasionally I can get something 10-15%. And if I'm lucky I can get something less than 10%.
As a former Boeing flight controls engineer, I wrote a couple articles about lessons that transfer to software:

Safe Systems from Unreliable Parts
https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b39.html

Designing Safe Software Systems Part 2
https://www.digitalmars.com/articles/b40.html
>has a way to flip between spaces on MacOS that has very low delay

Lol the way it seems to do this is by simulating swiping on the trackpad really hard. I.e. create a synthetic CGEvent with the undocumented but well-known fields set to treat it as a fluid swipe event, then just put a large number in the swipe amount.

See e.g. https://github.com/thenickdude/wacom-driver-fix/blob/bdfda9a... for context.
I wish there was a more technical explanation on how the various Dwarf Fortress algorithms work. The major thing I still can't wrap my head around yet is how the dwarves/NPCs schedule tasks and balance that with their needs.

Somewhere I saw a blog post about Prison Architect, a game inspired by and with similar mechanics to Dwarf Fortress, that described one aspect of the task system:

Instead of giving NPCs task lists, tasks are assigned to objects - say, a door that is not installed yet. The door would contain the instructions: "(1) move me to location [x,y] (2) install me at my current location", and idle NPCs would lookup objects with fitting tasks to their abilities/priorities and then execute the instructions.

But how to combine this with needs is unclear to me, I would love to see a good explanation of this. Here is the insane list of needs a Prison Architect NPC has: https://github.com/originalfoo/Prison-Architect-API/blob/mas..., and Prison Architect, while already displaying emergent behavior, seems to still only have a fraction of the detail and complexity and emergence that Dwarf Fortress has.

All the hype is about neural networks now, but these don't display this kind of emergent, social and constructive behavior, resource awareness and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homeostasis that these NPCs can.
When did humans start using cannabis?
"Fortunately" for the sake of this problem, we've got 1000 years of land that was cleared to get lumber. Not all of it is land that we could replant trees on (some being used for farming or housing), but for a decade-long society-wide project I wouldn't be too concerned, if there were actually political will to do it.
> Give me playgrounds!

Let the inner child off its' leash! Be free. It is a theme park, a place to have fun.
I rarely ask questions on stack overflow anymore. When I do, the question is usually closed for being similar to something else or off topic or whatever. Whenever I forget why I don’t use it, I’m quickly reminded. I find the moderation and some of the comments very unwelcoming.

It’s still great for finding information though. It’s likely the most visited site for me from Google search.

Edit: you guys are not too welcoming either sometimes… I don’t know why someone feels this is worth a downvote.
It's because of the urgency that nuclear is not the solution. You need more than a dozen of years to build one. By that time it will be too late for the climate.
2 units, both 1,100 MW each. So 2 cents / kWh.
Finally found out who he is. I knew him from: https://wiki.animutationportal.com/Hyakugojyuuichi
Also, auditing any big dataset given verbatim is practically impossible for now. Instead of including the dataset verbatim, the model that purports to be practically-usefully open-source should contain a relatively small procedure for deriving the dataset from some reputable general-purpose dataset, small enough that the resulting dataset can practically be audited.
Sample size of one: I never bought weed when it was illegal because I don't associate with the sort of people who'd sell it. Sometimes it would be offered to me and I would try it, but I never had or wanted to have "a dealer". But now that I can just pop into a local store whenever I want, it's no big deal.
It's weird that you are so confident while literally admitting you don't know what you're talking about.
> I spoke with a rehab specialist and he mentioned that since cannabis is oil based, there is no physical withdrawal symptoms as there are with other opioid products.

Cannabis is not an opioid, and I don't think there is any indication that being oil-based has any impact on whether a substance has withdrawal symptoms. Also, while the substances of interest in cannabis may be in oils naturally and in the easiest extractions, they aren’t actually “oil-based”, anyway. So, whether it came from a rehab specialist or not, this seems to be multilayered misinformation.
AFAIK the chunk will levitate irrespective of size up to some maximum. Diamagnetism is a property of the material, not the shape.
How is your anxiety now, if I may ask? Have you tried any alternatives?
You really have to have your own existing moat for AI to augment (ala Adobe, Microsoft, etc). Anything built directly on AI can be replicated rather quickly once someone figures out what combination of prompt + extra data was used.

That said, you don't have to be the mega players to have an existing small moat. If your product does something great already, you get to improve it and add value for users very quickly. That's been my experience anyway.
Demand shifting is just a long winded way of saying, "we can't generate enough electricity, you just need to stop using power at certain times of day." And it's easier said than done. Residential demand shifting, and some forms of industry (e.g. arc furnaces) can shift demand. But others cannot: the pumps powering your sewage system needs to work all day around. Same with data centers, and plenty of other industries.
It's funny that there are so many of these. I use

curl ifconfig.me
In Mathematics SE, you can ask the community which are the best books on Point Set Topology or Linear Algebra. But you can't ask about the best Algorithms book in SO.

This was a bummer.

You got a bunch of smart people with proven expertise in topics, and yet, I cannot ask about their opinion. This is stupid.

Math SE is a much nicer community and I have enjoyed contributing there and also got a ton of help there.
How can costs be reduced? You can't skimp on over-engineering nuclear reactors because they have to be designed and built to deal with rare 'black swan' events, such as jetliners crashing into the reactor core. E.g.

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/18/us/18nuke.html

> "The rule, approved by the commission in a 4-to-0 vote, requires that new reactors be designed so their containment structure would remain intact after a plane crash, cooling systems would continue to operate and spent fuel pools would be protected."

You can't risk a failure in the primary cooling system, and since reactors need active cooling in the event of a regional grid power failure just to avoid core meltdown, you need onsight power generation capable of running the cooling loop 24-7 (failure in this system led to the Fukushima explosions). These systems (from cooling loops to steam generators) are under constant stress and have relatively high maintenance costs (a major factor in the closure of California's San Onofre reactor).

Then you have to add in the cost of the uranium fuel rods, which is a complex supply chain issue in many countries (the recent coup in Niger has shut down 1/3 of France's uranium ore supply chain for their reactors, say news reports). Uranium supplies are limited and historically uranium prices get volatile when it seems a reactor boom is coming (look at right before Fukushima). Then you have the long-term costs of spent fuel treatment and secure storage, and eventual reactor decommissioning.

I really don't see anyway to reduce these costs such that nuclear will be anywhere near cost-competitive with today's solar/wind/storage complexes, that are entirely capable of producing reliable 24/7 grid power at costs well below that of a comparable nuclear power plant in most locations.
Seems fair, if that person “manipulated or recorded” you, you should’ve taken it to the police/court, not the way you did it.
The main prob is info overload.

Even the spammers will say they have to up their spam volumes every day to get fewer and fewer clicks. But the good news for them is cost to constantly broadast has fallen to near 0. Youtube , Insta, FB (or even HN) wont tell you less than 1-5% of content generated is actually consummed. That stat comes from economists studying the effeciency of the info economy.

If you hand everyone a radio station and dont restrict spectrum use and everyone starts broadcasting 24*7 what happens? Thanks to that probpem we get Claude Shannon and rules of Spectrum use.

But we havent found a Shannon's theory of information yet or spectrum sharing rules, when it comes to internet broadcasting.

So we see the same issues people had when the age of wireless broadcasting began. They too responded by providing solutions to evrything under the sun other than info overload. Without Shannon & Co showing up god knows how long it would havd taken to solve the issue.
I'd argue the real transformation of that was really phones with GPS maps. These days, the tourist is more likely to notice they're being scammed by long detours.
Incarceration is dangerous
Jeff Atwood had a piece in his "Coding Horror" blog about this project: https://blog.codinghorror.com/updating-the-single-most-influ...

(Personally I grew up on the British early 1980s Usborne BASIC programming books, now wonderfully available at https://usborne.com/gb/books/computer-and-coding-books . My copy of "Computer Battlegames" - which I'd arbitrarily picked in the bookshop over "Computer Spacegames" - was the closest to the classic "BASIC Computer Games", which I never came across - not sure if it was more a US thing.)
Both are pinned to my Vivaldi as we speak... converse. Proton Mail has some extra features (vpn), and I like it's interface a little better, but I've been using Tutanota for much longer. Tutanota has had some issues with the German government I believe, but as far as user security I have never had an issue with Tutanota - though they did have a strange string of ddos attacks a couple years back if I remember correctly.
here's a video I listened to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PLr95AFBRXI on it that delves relatively deep for anyone catching up (22m)
"Women drive 70-80% of consumer spending while men control the remaining 20-30%."

Why do you think 80% of commercials with a couple in it, the man is a bumbling idiot and the woman comes in to save the day with product?

https://blog.gitnux.com/male-vs-female-spending-statistics