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More governments should provide a system like the German electronic ID*, which lets you prove your age without revealing other information.

* Tragically underused because impractical

Why would memory eventually run out? Just fix those leaks with valgrind!

If you want more of these jokes in the structure and flow of the text you should read Gödel Escher Bach.

> CPUs run at 60-70C, while the outside ambient is usually 30C or less, so heat should just "flow downhill" with a bit of help from fans, pumps, etc.

This isn't how you think of heat flow. The CPUs run at a given power. Their temperature will depend on the ambient temperature, and on the thermal impedance between them and the ambient. If the thermal impedance is too high, they'll be too hot and die.

Why not sign it yourself?

At some point far in the future, we don't need an economy: everyone does everything they need by themselves, helped by AI and replicators.

But realistically, you're not going to have a personal foundry anytime soon.

You can always ask in stack exchange, IRC or forums.

Is root prevented from directly writing to the underlying block device?

This proves too much. By this argument, libertarian governments are inevitable because it's so much more productive.

Is "why" really a meaningful question? These are all models. The best we can do is to show how to derive the phenomenon from the (hopefully simple) rules of our model.

That only matters if you're measuring in the time domain and seeing the noise due to individual carriers. Often you just care about averages over some time and space (e.g. the macroscopic flow of water behaves quite different from the speeds of the individual molecules).

An infinitely large grid never reaches equilibrium, like it says in the article.

I'd argue the case you're describing is mathematically simpler precisely because it is continuous.

This just confirms my habit of switching to python as soon as a shell script reaches any level of complexity

You can have both. Enjoy the weird-looking train when you're in Wuppertal, then be thankful that you have an awesome river back home like in Munich.

The RAF guys tried this back in 1967 to attack the Iranian Shah...

No, we already have autonomous cars driving around even though they've already killed people.

I thought the opposite would be https://qntm.org/files/hatetris/hatetris.html

Aren't they using regenerative braking?

This made me briefly ponder the meaning of lives spent copying manuscripts or doing other repetitive tasks.

More in-depth analysis from Scott Alexander: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/only-about-40-of-the-cruz-w...

Just quickly sell it, lend the money with interest, and buy the gold back before it decays.

Does the gold ever get recovered from the chamber wall?

The other typical cause is when an interpreter or library is compiled with the wrong libc version.

Stethoscopes are pretty cheap and versatile. Human doctors in general have lots of senses which they (in some medical systems) use for diagnosis before reaching for lab tests and MRTs.

Also saved the world from starvation. And provided Germany with synthetic fuels which prolonged the war. Bit of a mixed bag.

https://www.amazon.de/-/en/Alchemy-Air-Jewish-Scientific-Dis...

This is incorrect, but please expand on this because I want to understand the misunderstanding.

Talking to the industry would be step 1, otherwise you don't know if your algorithm will give good results for this case. You'd need to talk to any semiconductor company with a modeling department, or university groups which do compact models.

Isn't it super expensive to run an LLM on each result?

These are physics/EE PhDs. They are not experts in nonlinear optimization. Some (those with more programming skills) experiment with fancier optimization algorithms (see links), but there is a long way to go.

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9796144

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9665517

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/10497080