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Acknowledging the error is handling the error even if partially. The point of exceptions is to only acknowledge error that one can/knows how to properly handle
Source ? Asking as a non American
It seems to me there are multiple understanding of the role of scotus in general and the inoperative rules of the constitution. "Explicitly not supposed to represent the will of the people" seems to be one perspective but not the only one.
Every constitutional democraty will have a tension between the constitutional and democratic part. And that tension will be felt in all of its institutiona
You seem to be restating my point as if you are contradicting my statements.
> People living in country side & eating from organic farming, they're doing alright (similar to our closest ancestors), but that's beside the point
Maybe ( I would love to see some sources for this assertion). But even if I give that to you, you basically saying that modern environment are somewhat obisidigenic... which is what I was saying.
> Cultural change over 2/3 even 10 generations will not significantly alter your biology.
Okay... same., still just restating what i have said.
> they possibly cannot have effects on your decisions about what you eat and how you spend your time right?
They can and they do... let me introduce you to lead in paint and in the environment...
> particularly referring to obesity caused by over eating
All obesity is cause by over eating (all most by definition) the point here is that over eating is not cause by lack of will power or poor decision making
To those people I suggest you run an experiment : what ever your current body weigth is right now. Try loosing and keeping off 20%.
Air pollution, water quality, pestecide, food/produce quality, plastic particule everywhere...
I find this perspective so bizarre.
Whats the most probable in 2 generation of exponentially increasing and barely regulated technological changes : culture has change so dramatically as to change human nature and makes us all lazy... or... something in the environment/food chain is having phisiolical/biological effects...
It's so bizarre how many people will pretzel their way into moralistic non sense to find a solution to what is clearly a medical problem.
Obesity as far as we understanding it now is an hunger regulation problem. For unknown reason a lot of people still feel the need to eat even when their body is clearly in calory surplus.
No amount of of impulse control or moderation can make you override billions of years of evolution and not eat when you are starving... if we could... society would be a very different place
To bring it back food, the issue is not the eating, the core issue is the hunger causing the eating and that's what the medication is addressing.
The people you think are eating ea
- The beginning of infinity by David Deutsch.
This book really ignited my love for epistemology in general, and the nature of scientific progress and understanding.
Another notable book for me :
Finite and infinite games by James Carse.
I find the book fascinating if only because the concept the author is describing is both intuitive and counter - intuitive at the same time.
Not quite, and that's the core of the "innovator" dilemma. The reason why intel passed on making SOC, is the same why nvidia decided to pass on getting into xboxss and playstations. Those market have much lower margin than server side business.
AMD, and TSMC can operate in those space because they are much more efficient companies, intel is not.
Intel got addicted to fat server CPU margin, grew inefficient...
Naive question, wouldn't you need a descent tool chain for inference as well ?
Maybe, that it doesnt imply that it's the best because it's an ultrabook, or that a non-ultrabook version of the macbook air (not the macbook pro...) wouldn't have been better.
Not the same thing. On X86 you have to pay AMD or intel to design something for you.
In arm, you get to decide who design your chip or even have your own in house CPU design team.
1 - In term of pure efficiency, nothing magical about ARM. Looking at AMD latest strix laptop platform they are about on par with qualcomm new arm laptop chips.
Apple M* CPU are still better. However, a lot of that efficiency is platform derived.
2 - The lower cost in the cloud is a function of the middle man being removed. Amazon is selling graviton cheaper simply because they don't have to pay the markup of AMD or Intel.
IMO it's both. While the importance x86 is declining, AMD is aggressively eating what ever part of it is left. I also think that in the long term, as intel and amd build better x86 chips, the value proposition of ARM will slowly fade in favor of something like risc-v
Most IC design life cycle are 5+ years. Expecting to turn over in less is part of the problem intel is having currently.
Choice is not a substitute for quality. It doesn't really matter if i have the choice of 23 sedans if what i need is truck.
In many ways, i feel like the choices in the linus desktop ecosystem are an illusion. Repackaking and slicing of the same software stack because someone doesn't like a color theme. And the price we paying for this illusion is the fragmentation and lack of cohesive experience afforded to other major OS.
# That's way more important (to me) than a lot of the other things they talk about.
That's fair. But i think the point is that you might be different than the vast majority of desktop user, for which a OS is just a mean to an end.
I actually forgot about this. have you used chromeos for anything else than just a frontend/terminal ?
But as i get older, and have more responsibilities. I have less and less time for tinkering and need to have something reliable without fuss. I can't count the number of friends like me who were die hard linux fan who progressively moved to MacOs (better hardware helps, but also better app ecosystem) just for practical reasons.
But in many ways , your comment is a reflection of what i was trying to articulate. Any criticism of linux/desktop (and note here that i am only criticizing the desktop experience. The server side and command line are second to none) is always frame as a problem of the user... either you are using wrong, or you don't know what good, or things work on my machine must be a you problem...
But i don't think the problem with linux desktop is the easthetics. Agreeing on the objectives and fundational technical decisions. For example, kernel scheduling policy influencing latency and desktop responsiveness, X vs wayland and the impact on things like touch screen etc...