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pineaux··on A Dramatic Reading: I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again
Its the bubble that ends all bubbles.
pineaux··on The Steel Man Technique: How to Argue Better and Be More Persuasive
I think people on the left and right of the political divide are not capable of doing this.

I am also sceptical it works, but it is worth a try.

pineaux··on Batteries: How cheap can they get?
How is this cheap? How much did you pay for the whole package?
pineaux··on Japan introduces enormous humanoid robot to maintain train lines
This is the most Japan thing I have seen here in a long time. Immediate throwback to all the cool mecha anime stuff...
pineaux··on It's getting harder to die
Same here, but i have been told that dying is like that unless thoroughly drugged.
pineaux··on The loneliness of the low-ranking tennis player
This is not true. The odds of becoming a unicorn are grim. The odds of getting a decent wage is actually quite high if you ask me.
pineaux··on We must seek a widely-applicable science of systems
Who will teach them?
pineaux··on Ask HN: Those of you who've left the SWE world, what did you transition into?
Sound like you need to shelter in place. Do some simple work. Be open about your shit but dont burden people with it. What people like the most in a person that is down is positivity and a willingness to grow. It's hard. I know. But in the end of the day nobody really cares about all the shit that you went through. Talking about it like you do in the post above creates opportunity for people to wave it away as a lie, or something you brought upon yourself. Better leave it vague. Only tell some vague stuff when people ask. Give details sparingly. The more story you tell the bigger the chance that they start dispising you. They will start victim blaming. They will start to believe that you have bad karma or that you will take advantage of them. What a lot of people do care about is helping someone who is down. The problem is that you need to make sure they believe you are trustworthy, not-despicable, a good human being, someone they want close. You just need someone that gives you a good break. Someone that vouches for you. It's shitty and it's fucked that there are no good government system in place to help you with your predicament. I do agree with your scepticism of the world. The world is being manipulated.
pineaux··on Robots on Lake Michigan beaches to prevent drownings
Learn to swim! Learn to swim! Learn to swim!
pineaux··on The economics of the Birkin handbag
LMVH is very succesfull in selling luxury to the middle and lower classes. They really found a growth market there.
pineaux··on The economics of the Birkin handbag
I am not saying you shouldn't tell them to fuck off, but have you entertained the idea that the person who is the sucker is actually you?

These watches are part of a status and this status allows these people to dictate to the rest of us how they'd like their omelette.

pineaux··on US Forest Service proposes protections for old-growth trees, without logging ban
Environmentally because more diverse forrests tend to be more robust, depending on their climate (taiga is not very diverse). Tree growth doesn't slow down as trees get older. Their growth accelerates because: they have more foliage to gather sunlight and exchange gasses, everytime they add a growth ring it is a bigger ring than the last one, they grow taller or wider to get more sunlight and gas exchange. There is an optimal size/m² of course. Tree farms have ROIs and efficiency problems, they cannot take advantage of these qualities of forrests. They need straight timber and a payday at some point.

Ecologically because old growth forrests have a much more diverse system with big fungal networks, ecological nooks and crannies, etc. A system takes time to build.

pineaux··on US Forest Service proposes protections for old-growth trees, without logging ban
I don't agree with this claim. It is only intuitive on the surface. But growth in trees does not slow down as they get older. It actually accelerates. This article corroborates that: https://www.nature.com/articles/nature12914

Sickness and bad conditions usually slow growth down.

In tree farms almost all the trees are in bad condition. The low biodiversity creates a low quality environment. They catch fire very easily. It's low quality wood that ends up in a landfill (and then in the air via rotting) within a few decades.

Eventually a tree will get sick and die. The most ideal situation would be to harvest the tree when it's dead. I would think there could be a businessmodel that maps dead trees and extracts them from forrests for high quality old growth wood.

This is not about "stubborn environmentalism". Although I do agree with you that some environmentalist ideas are a bit short sighted (like dismissing all nuclear options without weighing the properly), it is generally based in science and research. The anti-environmentalist side are usually mostly based in money and corporate interests...

pineaux··on Please don't mention AI again
I don't think that is the goal of this blog. I think he is bragging a bit because he is afraid people will ask: "Who is this nobody that talks about AI as if he knows anything about it?" He is trying to qualify himself to give this opinion. He uses a hyperbolic style. I for one like it. But I like style and care less about the background of people to be honest. I think a good analysis is a good analysis regardless of who makes it.
pineaux··on Please don't mention AI again
It is not serious. You shouldn't see it as a literal threat. It's a writing tool. Just like adding "fucking" to something doesn't literally mean that that thing is copulating.
pineaux··on Please don't mention AI again
You start quite condescending but then basically acknowledge what the author is saying. Most DS's, even "from your generation" probably don't write their own tools. I bet you are even guilty of this too. No need to do some implicit grandstanding.
pineaux··on Please don't mention AI again
I love this. I want a t-shirt with this
pineaux··on I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA
I dont agree. Did you send food aid to North korea? And if you did, are you sure it was not used to feed the guards? I find sending food instead of trying to destroy the regime a morally dubious thing to do for exactly this reason...
pineaux··on I'm the hacker that brought down North Korea's Internet for over a week. AMA
Probably not a fabrication, depending on what you see as a reliable news source.
pineaux··on Bouba/kiki effect
I dont know if this is true. For example sine waves, saws and square waves are very intuitive to me. I think with graphical representation of sound the problem is that the experience of complex sounds is a 3 dimensional thing to humans.

When we talk about music, layers or tracks or whatever you want to call them always become a thing.

For the sound nerds: A spectrum representation also does not reflect how we experience sound. We humans/animals are so trained or born to distinguish sound sources by timbre. A spectrum analyser splits it on the spectrum of tones, not the spectrum of timbres, therefor it's still not a good representation.

pineaux··on AI for math resources, and erdosproblems.com
Never going to happen until upscaling does not return easy gains.
pineaux··on 'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors
You can even use a completely enclosed chain guard. You see them quite often in the Netherlands and will keep your chain out of the rain and dust, this lowers maintenance cost and lifetime significantly.

The only problem is, is that this kind of guard typically is quite susceptible to damage if the bike falls or when you hit something.

Otherwise it is in many ways superior to a belt. Belts are inherently inefficient compared to chains.

pineaux··on 'The big problem is water': UK ebike owners plagued by failing motors
You don't NEED an opened/split frame for a belt. There are so many ways to solve this problem.
pineaux··on Edmond Albius's method of pollination is now used by all vanilla growers
What?
pineaux··on Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores
So much about it sucks. I am actually amazed when an app I want is actually on the app store.

It needs an iCloud log in, so you can't install free software on a kiosk without a throw away account. Which is hard to set up.

Why do you first need to 'get' an app and then install it?

How many affirmations do you need?

pineaux··on Japan enacts law to promote competition in smartphone app stores
No, because people wont accept it in the "old system".
pineaux··on Can LLMs invent better ways to train LLMs?
So it does seem to work. That's not clickbait then?
pineaux··on Noam Chomsky 'no longer able to talk' after 'medical event'
I think this doesnt really add up. Cause as soon as the US would invaded Russia, not only would Russia nuke the invading armies. They would very probably also start nuking command infrastructure. Which might or might not trigger the MADs doctrine.
pineaux··on The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870–2015 (2019)
So basically, housing is the best investment vehicle based on all the numbers.
pineaux··on Patrick Breyer and Pirate Party Lose EU Parliament Seats
Exactly.
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