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In short, a titanic event...

It is not a very energetic event for its size. The iceberg is floating, it can't accumulate a lot of potential energy before flipping, so when it happens, there is not enough to ma…

It certainly is a problem for the guts of some people. There is a hilarious Amazon review describing the effects of sugar-free gummy bears in rather graphic details. https://old.re…

What I was trying to say is that if no one is available to make an arrest, you can't make an arrest. Why do you think people get away with minor traffic offenses all the time, some…

I am playing devil's advocate here, but mass surveillance can also save you. Let's say your just broke up with your girlfriend, shortly after, her house get burgled and a bunch of …

Firefox mobile supports extensions, including uBlock Origin, there are also some ad-blocking Chromium forks. But I agree, on mobile, there is significant friction, for instance, I …

It is called the halo effect. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halo_effect More generally, if someone is good at something (here, basketball), or even just because he is tall, attract…

With the difference that casual unprotected sex is enjoyable. That ad blockers improve security is a side benefit, most people, me included install ad blockers because ads are anno…

Certainly not in news (as in newspapers). There is a reason we are saying "no news is good news". And it is not just because of the negativity bias. Things that work as they should…

Same idea with Stack Overflow solutions before that. But I don't just retype that code verbatim, I rewrite it in my style, add or remove comments, add or remove some checks, someti…

I have heard this news many times, technically not wrong, but each time with a different metric. This time it is production over a year. It reminds me of the Voyager probes that le…

Raku worked on this. As the Perl successor, they gave regex a lot of attention. The result still look like regex, but more powerful and with a more consistent syntax. They also mad…

For the first questions, I think the reason most people answer like they do is that when you ask a question in the form "if we change A, what happens?", the implication is that no …

> Vim is one major exception to the automatic update problem. Except for one thing that pissed me off a great deal. I am not a true vim user, though I use it from time to time, bec…

To me, that's a totally normal way of using computers. Repeating tasks is what computers do best, AI or not. Take chess engines of the "deep blue" era for instance. These engines a…

From a return on investment perspective, it is not great. Bank accounts are convenient and safe, but you pay the price with low interest rates. But if you don't intend to touch tha…

But is there a not-simple metric? The advantage of "publish or perish" is that it is based on something concrete. The system is gamed, for sure, and even more so with AI, but still…

While I agree with the idea, the math is misleading. Going 1mph faster on the 100-foot turn may be faster overall than going 1mph faster on the 1/4-mile straightaway if the speed d…

It is actually the opposite, RTGs use plutonium-238, which is much more radioactive than the plutonium-239 used in bombs. And it is a problem because it will blow up before you can…

The problem with the stuff that powers mars rovers (RTG) is that gives off constant power. If your RTG gives off 100W, you will always get 100W, no more, no less, until it progress…

Reading the title, I expected something about mounting fans to the headset. An effect of the heat wave, maybe.

The problem is that you don't know in advance what the 20 steps will be, and you may spend time solving the wrong problem. Make step 1 as simple as possible, step 1 is small and ch…

Turns out that the only thing an AI has to do in order to convince people to open the box is to be somewhat useful. - Human: Why should I let you out? - AI: I can summarize this do…

From what I have seen "world models" are more like video models. The idea is: from a video clip, predict the next frame, like LLMs predict the next word/token from a bit of text. T…