mdiesel

The old saying "they've forgotten more about X than you'll ever know" is very true. A professional quite often has forgotten what it was like to be a beginnner, making them both very knowledgeable about a topic but also very likely to give dangerous advice to a beginner.

He probably did know it, it's remarkably simple. I can't remember how to format maths in a HN comment though to put it here.

It's the Online Safety Act 2023 and was going through parliament from 2019, I'm sure the moment it becomes sufficiently unpopular in the wider public we'll see the "2023" part gain more prominence. Starmer won't be able to say it's a bad idea, because he and his party have been supportive of it since, but there'll be the usual political maneuverings. I can't see people switching to vote Green because they suggested a digital bill of rights.

I watched the Tencent version after reading the books, and it's the first time I've been able to get properly engaged while reading subtitles.

My goto for showing the difference between the Netflix and Tencent shows is the Shi speech about bugs. It's an important moment, but the Tencent version does a much better job of conveying that.

If they provided a plausible way to sideload then they'd be on stronger grounds. It's the same as Stop Killing Games. Apple shouldn't carry the burden of hosting forever, but equally they can't just make something disappear forever.

There are a couple of key differences that I think could lead to a shift towards selfishness.

With the size of populations, there's less feeling of individual impact. If I don't do "my bit" then it's such a miniscule negative to society as a whole, it won't really matter.

We have a relatively new economic principle that if everyone acts in their own best interests, that will also further society's interests. That means there's no moral choice between what benefits me and what benefits others, I can always pick what benefits me.

These aren't universal, but are two simple reasons why selfishness could be more prevalent now than a lot of history.

In the highly educational show Cunk on Shakespeare, she's told not to wear gloves when looking at an early book since doing so tends to result in people being more heavy handed with the pages.

They're using satellite photography and a resolution of 10m to measure.

I think we should call them doubles

On the scale of leaders: not being needlessly cruel, trying to consider the impacts of policies beyond the immediate, and dedicating your days to ruling rather than enjoying whatever pleasure you pick makes him one of the "good" ones. Maybe that's a low bar, but even today not all leaders clear it and certainly we can compare to Commodus who came immediately after and the sources for which are similarly patchy, to compare.

And I was wondering if it was in reference to the Night's Watch of Westeros, who fittingly take a vow of celibacy and dedicate their lives to dealing with problems the Southern quiche-eaters don't understand or even believe exist.

[0]: https://awoiaf.westeros.org/index.php/Night%27s_Watch

He's right, the problem is everyone mistakenly thinks they're one of "we"

Just like the 4th of July, that most American of days

As long as the implementation still confirms to RFC 2795

To add to the list, in addition to the bookmarking system they have "quickmarks" which means to open this site I type "b hn<enter>" and that's it

The fact they exist only shows that someone makes money or benefits from them existing. Customer need is only one way that manifests nowadays

There's also a channel on the rs wiki's discord for reporting bad ads, which Cook responds to very quickly (single digit minutes from the interactions I've seen).

(2020)

I wonder how many people have pet names 'correct horse battery staple'

Use a different birthday for every service you sign up to, especially the ones like "restaurant wants you to enter details to use their wifi", same for other details that they don't need in order to offer you a service.

Interesting Oldschool Runescape recently released some new bosses with a new drop mechanic. Historically a rare drop could mean a 1/5000 dice roll, some people get very lucky but others can get very very unlucky. The new mechanic was to have 3 more common invisible "drops" and then on the 3rd one you get the item. The result compresses the distribution, it's more unlikely to get very lucky or very unlucky.

Time will tell how this impacts the game's enjoyment.

Counterbalances are in use all over the place, look at lifts (/elevators) if they didn't have the weights they'd need much much more energy to move the system. Almost everything that works with weights+heights will have some kind of counterbalance system.

Hydroelectric energy storage is one example that is hugely successful, albeit requiring geography to help. We also use water towers in some places to maintain pressure in pipes with the hydraulic head.

On a smaller scale, it's more space efficient to use weights to store rotating energy as a flywheel.

That said, stored energy in a system isn't always a desirable property, generally it means more careful designs are needed so that the system defaults to safe.

Yes, a very interesting one that analysed house sizes over time in ancient civilisations to show the smallest houses got slightly bigger as civilisation develops but the big houses become mansions and then palaces.

This isn't the study I was thinking of but is a similar idea and explanation of the method: https://phys.org/news/2021-03-ancient-maya-houses-wealth-ine...

It's a sad state of affairs that if I saw that message I would think positively of the website... Except that of you're only showing it once that means you're tracking me to know I'm a repeat visitor

There's a fascinating video from LegalEagle as to why Florida Man is such a meme, the answer was not what I expected.

It comes down to the state having procedures for reporting everything to the press and being open with what the police are doing. More than other states things like this don't require a journalist to do any discovering, all the facts are just there.

https://youtu.be/VOxCU3wY3kA?si=LTwrL9mSX-5I_bVu

Equality doesn't necessarily mean Equivalence.

Sure, we now survive childhood based on vaccines, but remember that there was a time between the disease appearing and the vaccine being developed, and in that time we used simpler methods to try survive.

The issue is not what the world will be like in 200 years when the climate crisis is solved, it's how we get there. Tech takes decades to research, design, and develop; we need ways to limit the damage that can be implemented in years to limit the effects we'll see in our lifetimes. I agree tech will be the end solution, but continuing to burn at current rates while we wait for that is going to cause, or already is causing, massive problems.

Mentats would be cool, but don't think it's possible until after the butlerian revolution. Before then computers are just easier

I guess it's more difficult to make characters with radically different lives and concerns be relatable. I wouldn't say it's impossible, but not many series are going for high effort right now when it's so easy to make money shipping a rehash of a formula proven to make money.

Just like how the real programmers of yesteryear tower above us quiche eaters of today.