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Material sciences are generally electromagnetic effects only. I'd be surprised when nuclear changes alters chemistry or engineering in any way that has significance outside of nuclear reactors.

Well, I suppose, radioactive decay is of negative use in chemistry and engineering.

Except for when it doesn't. E.g. lightbulbs are now 20x more efficient than in my childhoos. But I certainly don't use >20x more light(bulbs). In fact, I'm quite sure it's 1x.

>Most things are ok in moderation, including stupid relaxing

For real. Sometimes, I think that the binary nature of language, things are either good or bad, there is no single word to describe n-shape dose responses except in aphorisms like "too much of a good thing", means that it's too easy to autopilot into thing A is either good for you, or bad for you. One beer with friends is good for you but ten is not. The optimal amount is somewhere between (it's slightly less than 2).

>Consuming sex work isn’t misogynistic

Something very much up for debate amongst leading scholars. I - personally - think buying sex is bad, and degrading to both parties.

The most important cutting aids are the same ones in bulking - AAS like testosterone and its close (cheaper) variants like trenbolone and methylated testosterone but yeah, the interesting chemicals are featured too.

Most natural bodybuilders recommend the 'clean bulk' where one simply eats the same cutting foods but in larger proportions. And also not to be too strict in general - that way lies disordered eating, binges, purges etc.

I don't think this science fiction writer deserves the credit of someone who is studying and/or influencing the real world

> You have one Steve Jobs-type at the helm, and then maybe a whole pyramid of AIs out there executing it and bringing him new proposals

Very interesting in a short story (or a side quest in Cyberpunk 2077 - yeah that one). Not so much for a description of our future.

Lawns are functional though, they aren't just a status symbol. They can be, but they can also be a social and recreational space. Can also be a piece of art - you may laugh sure but, what is art? What is something kept for its aesthetic value alone?

Also over the pond it's an invention much older than merely the 18th century.

> flip_case(flip_case(x)) == x

Falsehoods programmers believe about strings...

Aren't these both simply cases of the bullwhip effect?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bullwhip_effect

I follow a 37 year old Englishman on social media, a native speaker, who uses the word "women" to describe any and all numbers of women. Even his wife, his special women. I follow him purely to witness what other idiosyncrasies he'll inflict on our demotic Anglo-Saxon.

If you could of seen some of the spelling mistakes I of, you would of run away screaming, and there's nothing else you should of done.

>Did the first claw even sell well?

Extremely poorly. The worst of all deck-likes.

MSI Claw 2 might, given it's original is Meteor Lake based. But it sold like ** so there may not be a successor

>So before the bubble bursts the web will see a new renaissance era.

A new renaissance of slop content? Great, another boom in hiring and pay for web developers, followed by, oh look at that, a massive bust when it turns out that GenAI slop won't make any money, not enough to justify the engineering time in making and hosting it at least.

Actually, on the face of it, how can any of this work? Why would people (investors) believe that the general public is going to leave facebook, instagram, twitter etc to go look at https://sloppify.io in very large numbers? No, they're going to do exactly what is happening right now: fill social media with the genslop. So no, no building and maintaining website renaissance.

Wow, I didn't expect this to be true (that anyone believed that) BUT

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/01/07/science/2-experts-say-wom...

But it was just two people and they were criticized by peers for being space cadets at the time. There are always some people ready to make a fool of themselves for recognition, perhaps.

But... that's exactly right though? Also

>Agreed, the car bubble is very, very real. Not that the internal combustion carriage is all hype, it's certainly impressive with useful applications, but car manufacturers are getting insane valuations with zero proof they're viable businesses.

Fyi, monetary values of things, like US GDP or stock prices, can be exponential forever, if we wanted, because they're socially constructed.

I am talking about real things. Cruise ship sizes improved dramatically but... actually linearly? There won't be 1,000,000 GT cruise ships in 2050. Or 60.

You have to use specific measurements like FLOPS/$ to keep moore's law alive, because the focus has been only on a certain kind of FLOP (the fp32 MAC for graphics, or perhaps the INT8/FP8 in recent years). Because in general, it's dead. It's more performance, for more money. Because lithography is really hard, harder now than ever (and water is wet).

You're taking exponential improvements for granted. Only one human endeavour (ever) has made exponential gains for a long period, that of silicon lithography. And even that ended in the last decade.

The reason I say "always underestimate" is the obvious one. The easy problems are solved first, then the harder ones take longer because they're harder.

So that's fantastic that battery production scaled up. Only a fool would expect - would plan on - it continuing like that.

Always underestimate exponentials: none exist in nature, they're just an early phase of an S curve (sigmoid, if you want the $10 word)

> it was common to work for half a day in a coffee shop.

It was always unfair to expect a coffee shop to operate an office for the price of the profit margin on 3 coffees, a sandwich and a muffin.

>I sit firm in my belief that the best thing Microsoft could do for their laptop ecosystem is to add support for a "max fan speed" slider somewhere prominent in the Windows UI

Until then, there's https://github.com/Rem0o/FanControl.Releases

Oh dear, how will they live without the ability to make low budget smoothed over pictures of an anthropomorphic pickle dunking a basketball from a voice prompt. Truly, those dreadful europeans will suffer. /s

I control the RGB Leds of my gaming PC from the command line. And the overclock on my GPU based on the daily temp (this is just a few lines in a shell though).

But that L3 is only on 6 of the cores, the other 6 don't have it. The non-3d cores can clock like 10% higher or more.

>7900X3D

What purpose could this possibly serve? Enjoying worse performance than a 7900X?

+1 for tuesday being blue. Is Wednesday green?

And so is her first cousin (once removed) Jensen Huang of Nvidia!

>And we've got airplanes, but they're much bigger, and they crash far less often

And just about everyone who speaks English as a first language can afford to use them - for leisurely travel.

>some of them will die within perhaps a few years of starvation.

We can be fairly sure that before a group of humans die of starvation, they die of violence. Either from another desperate band of humans also starving, or trying to take those humans' land. This is certainly the pattern for hunter-gatherers living on marginal land in the last millennium. Presumably, this was also the case when they were hunter gatherers on prime land too - before they were forced out of it by more numerous, and better organized, agriculturalists.

There's no _good_ way of ever going back to a hunter-gatherer society, unless you want to kill 99/100 people (or tell those 99 they can never have children - and enforce it through child murder or sterilization). There's no _good_ way of going back to a pre-industrial society, unless you want to kill/sterilize 9 out of 10 people. Not saying you suggested these - but it should be pointed out.

>The only green future is one with “expensive” energy

A world of expensive energy is a dystopia.