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I want to do real science, mathematics, philosophy and engineering. But I code websites.
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bordercases··on There's More Proof That Return to Office Is Pointless
He’s being marginally more rational about risk where the counterparty is marginally more rational about evidence due to availability bias.
bordercases··on Is the emergence of life an expected phase transition in the evolving universe?
Stuart Kauffman is a figure in the field with much more difficult books if that's more to your liking.

https://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-origins-of-order...

bordercases··on Rust is the latest open source project to face burnout
Clogs the priority queue with trivial comparisons that are still necessary to make. If its really valuable it will come up again until a person that really does need it pays for it in labour money and so on. The issue can be archived and made a live option again anyway.

Quality of life improvements fall by the wayside in this model, but that is a separate degree of motivation.

bordercases··on Too much serendipity
Do you know for sure they meant only those quantum effects which operate near or at the classical limit?
bordercases··on Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024
I have never met a non-European culture that had a frontiersmanship attitude towards space.
bordercases··on Pixar to undergo 20% layoffs in 2024
Spielberg perhaps?
bordercases··on Invisible Ink: At the CIA's Creative Writing Group
Eric Schmidt and Condoleeza Rees?
bordercases··on Let's make the indie web easier
Because the technical details are extremely different. Your question is disingenuous.
bordercases··on Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled
The risk is runoff into the ocean or insertion into the water table through seepage within the dump into the soil. Furthermore incineration doesn't atomize these plastics; the smoke plumage may become a part of rain clouds which either recirculates the contaminants into the water cycle, and thus either in the local environment or into the ocean, again.

Obviously these are geography-relative concerns. But they aren't rare.

bordercases··on Study Finds Microplastics in Nearly 90% of Proteins Sampled
> And wash your clothes in a modern washing machine with a microfibre filter on its drain outlet.

That doesn't solve the whole problem because the microfibres eventually need disposal.

bordercases··on The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert Simon
In the Santa Fe complexity institute.
bordercases··on Possible Meissner effect near room temperature: copper-substituted lead apatite
Uncentralizable energy overproduction would help.
bordercases··on What it will take to unleash the potential of geothermal power? (2021)
Use piezothermal cells
bordercases··on After 34 years, someone beat Tetris [video]
It's impossible to do anything else within the confines of the system, and it's difficult to get to that end state without skill and intention.

Reverse engineering the NES Tetris cartridge shows that it has only so many possible states which is what allows one to find these limits.

bordercases··on Ask HN: What has quantum computing achieved so far?
> As far as i can see there is quite a lot of "quantum safe" encryption so what kind of historical data exists lying around with lots of value?

I find this statement funny, not at your expense.

In public discourse, speak about quantum encryption too early – such as within the last five years – and the common opinion on say Stack Overflow/HN/Reddit/among the outer circles of cybersecurity is "don't model a threat before you get there".

Now apparently there is a lot of quantum-safe encryption - not true, NIST barely came to a standard in the last year, which failed quickly, even though there are quantum-resistant strategies which have gained tentative adoption in companies like Signal and MullvadVPN. But interesting that this is a perception someone has now, and suddenly quantum computers are being put under popular scrutiny again, perhaps driven by advancements in inner circles and higher tiers of tech.

It's tiresome to see these discourses out of sync

bordercases··on Increasing purchases at farmers markets using point‐of‐sale scanner data
I expect it's an issue where the value added for the consumer is within some externality of each business, but not of the market on a whole.

This would mean that if any farmer decides that financial profit is the main form of value they optimize for, that farmers markets become indistinguishable from other grocery sources, punishing the consumer.

But if most vendors either quantify non-financial outcomes or leave them as intangible then these consumer friendly qualities are unlikely to be optimized out.

bordercases··on First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation
According to my sources, Hong Kong has an engineer shortage. They still want the je ne-sais quoi quality of North American trained engineers.
bordercases··on First new U.S. nuclear reactor since 2016 is now in operation
Both Ukraine and the Red Sea collapsing has produced ads for uranium mining in Saskatchewan, Canada. These kinds of ads don't run without government support; since public opinion is often extremely uninformed, I expect the pivot to nuclear to happen with or without pundits vocalizing their views.
bordercases··on Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login
Federation works when protocols and standards are negotiated upon, and people do coordinate implicitly wherever they apply the protocol. So I'm not sure if there's anything to explain as if we're at cross purposes.

Why couldn't a protocol and reference implementation exist for a client migration if servers have similar schemas for users and posts?

bordercases··on Posts, profiles, and user search are now available without login
A nice migration story would probably help for Mastodon no? Sign-up on an "index" server, then one button to end up somewhere else?
bordercases··on Llamafile: Bringing LLMs to the people, and to your own computer
> That's like people who said "I could do this dropbox thing in a weekend with just rsync, ssh and ftp"

And so begins the cycle of enshitification!

bordercases··on New PFAS discovered with novel testing method
Drug analogue laws pass to enforce against this behavior in the medical space. I wonder how this is different.
bordercases··on New PFAS discovered with novel testing method
If the case is that clear, then perhaps so could regulatory enforcement?
bordercases··on No Stinking Loops
Thank you.
bordercases··on No Stinking Loops
Is there an implementation of an APL-like language which transpiles to SIMD operations at the instruction set level?
bordercases··on Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (2019)
Is it competitive?
bordercases··on Binance and CEO admit financial crimes, billions coughed up to US govt
> But also much easier to track

Why is this true?

bordercases··on Despite just 5.8% sales, over 38% of bug reports come from the Linux community (2021)
> doctor I'm sick

Misinformation is more costly than no information. Disinformation is actually more informative!

bordercases··on Sam Altman was raising a VC fund when OpenAI fired him
Brave Browser is privacy cope: https://digdeeper.neocities.org/articles/browsers#brave

And even if you don't use BAT, it is still an ad-driven business.

bordercases··on The five filters of the mass media
In this case tenure would work out in Chomsky's favor, and Al Jazeera may as a large media company benefit from signalling that other large media companies are not like itself, by way of providing a costly signal at risk to itself.

YouTube wouldn't care, it prioritizes demonization based on legal fallout. Talking about flak is not a flak topic.

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