samhain · HackerTrans

Have you taken a look at MITs SPARC reactor? I’m always skeptical of comments that only reference ITER, since it’s very old news at this point, and there have been a plethora of innovation beyond ITER in just the last few years. The REBCO tape, and being able to get 10x magnetic field strength compared to ITER in a 3x smaller diameter seems like fairly significant progress to me.

samhain

há 4 anosdiscuss

Have you heard of MITs SPARC reactor? It’s way more interesting than ITER. It is 3x smaller, with Q greater than 10 (compared to ITERs ~10). It’s also slated to be finished -before- ITER.

samhain

há 4 anosdiscuss

They are trying to point out that women also code instead of going with the colloquial understanding that it would be ten people’s jobs.

samhain

há 4 anosdiscuss

As someone who lived next to a busy road for about 10 years, I’ve always wondered why people do this, so thanks for the perspective. The apartment was about 10 feet away, with no isolation, and a 65mph speed limit, so, surprisingly, it was worse when there were fewer cars because people would throttle harder. So because of this past living situation, I’ve grown to hate the noise of loud vehicles at any time of the day, and if I were given the opportunity to limit the amount of loud vehicles on the road, I’d always take it. Eventually I bought sound panels and put them in my road-facing windows, and then also in my rooms closest to the road, but eventually I decided it would be best to just move.

samhain

há 5 anosdiscuss

It’s funny too, since some of those kids may eventually realize that they were brought here without their consent, and that they don’t actually like working and paying bills. You, suffering for them, then suffering for their existence, and a death of your previous self, in which you draw yourself as a type of martyr. No one’s happy on your road to Damascus, and yet you’re faith and community demand your consent to your animalistic urges to reproduce and maintain face within your community. Having children out of guilt and peer pressure from your religious community is no excuse for their suffering.

samhain

há 5 anosdiscuss

Some types of tornado proof homes are not the big square concrete type, like shown in the sibling comment article, but dome homes made out of concrete. The obvious issues are that most furniture doesn’t fit well, wall hangings don’t work correctly, and putting in interior walls is wasteful, while modifying anything for electric or water is quite difficult without careful planning.

samhain

há 5 anosdiscuss

This sounds like you might be able to gain something from the “Do chairs exist?” video by vsauce.[1] Basically, he goes through the different philosophical reasonings of the past and then explores where each one of those fall apart. He goes explicitly into how small things can create something larger but why philosophers have struggled to make the leaps to change definition. He ends on the latest philosophical reasoning, which I think thoroughly explains your conundrum.

I’ll try to explain even if it seems less profound here than in the video. Basically, all concepts are emergent behavior of “stuff.” There really isn’t a chair, but “stuff” arranged chair-wise. And humans decide what that boundary is for both chairs and consciousness as they are concepts we apply to stuff that is “chairing” or “being conscious.” A collection of neurons may or may not be conscious by defining how they behave. And the details on where we draw the line for consciousness is no different than where we draw the line for how many atoms we can scrape away from a chair and it still be a chair.

[1] https://youtu.be/fXW-QjBsruE

samhain

há 5 anosdiscuss

Cars already use larger slower lithography sizes, which are more resilient to temperature changes, but also can be lower margin profit, since they take up more space on a standard silicon wafer. Older fabs, when spun down, may not just sit there, and may have their hardware cannibalized or at least the space repurposed for something profitable. So the old machines usually can’t just be turned on. There’s also a people-problem where that specific equipment may be understood by a select group of people and they may not be available.

There are also problems surrounding qualifications of parts and the supply chain restrictions that suppliers are held to by manufactures. So, trying to replace even just one part on a design that is locked down can be quite painful for a company. We are having many types of parts shortages at this time though, which exacerbates that experience.

Even so, a much “slower part” usually won’t have the same feature set, and may not have the same memory peripherals pinned out, requiring further qualification. Hardware changes of that level are usually done 2-3 years in advance for all of the paperwork and qualification steps. You’d have to build today-cars with standardized qualified parts from years ago. An outrageous example might be trying to stick a cassette-tape head-unit in your latest 2022 car.

samhain

há 5 anosdiscuss

I had those same problems until I started using the Factorio calculator[1]. It took some time for it to be developed, and I only just found out about it earlier this year. So I understand where you are coming from.

[1] https://factoriolab.github.io

samhain

há 5 anosdiscuss

To reference the top comment right now… I’d imagine if you are looking at the metric at all, you’ve already lost. This, coming from someone who’s mother was walking 10-20k steps per day for decades, and seeing them fully stop walking after a few weeks with a Fitbit.

samhain

há 5 anosdiscuss

Someone above mentioned:

git commit --amend --allow-empty

samhain

há 5 anosdiscuss

This is absolutely fantastic work.

I’ve been tinkering with Unity’s hex grid trying to automate some top down level building under this alternate grid system. It has some interesting challenges surrounding height/cliffs and water. Quite a useful tool here, even in a traditional square grid space.

samhain

há 5 anosdiscuss

Check your original comment. You did not qualify that only “profound secular beliefs” are religious in nature. Rather, you speak in general saying “secular beliefs are religious.” So now you’re moving the goal posts.

Using your original logic, -any- belief can be religious in nature. “Today was 85” -is- religious from your original position because perhaps people ritualistically check the weather every morning like a prayer. The weathermen are like priests disseminating knowledge, and small talk is used to find other weather checker cultists.

It does not matter what belief Id offer up, because it will match your original definition because your original definition is so broad as to be meaningless. Other comments have already said this in fewer words. If you are unable to identify what it would look like if you were mistaken, then you shouldn’t be confident that you are correct. So how could someone identify the difference between a secular belief and a religious belief?

samhain

há 5 anosdiscuss

I agree with the parent, you’re argument almost appears disingenuous to the point of looking like a troll or bait. This perspective is substituting any belief with a religious belief which is a false equivalency. It’s unfortunate that the grandparent is the top comment right now.

samhain

há 5 anosdiscuss

Maybe this is a hot take, but maybe if a job doesn’t make a living wage, then it’s a job that shouldn’t even be offered? If someone can’t make it on a cashier job then the public shouldn’t be afforded the convenience of having a cashier. Same thing with any other service people provide. Maybe minimum wage destroying jobs (if that even actually happens) would be a good thing.

samhain

há 5 anosdiscuss

Imagine Apple wanting their cut from Google, because I used the chrome app to buy something off of Amazon.

samhain

há 5 anosdiscuss

I discovered the technique he’s talking about on my own back in maybe 2016. He has some extra fluffy language around it that makes it seem more than it is. It’s really just falling back asleep after you’ve already woken up at a specific time. For me, it was 4 AM. The point is that you can control your dreams. So I was using it to have sexual dreams. Which is why the other guy says it can be addictive (which I’d argue is also hyperbole).