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Accurate to what though, and for what? We decide what the standard is, and it seems like it would be a lot easier to have accurate time if we aren’t adding or subtracting seconds h…

I think the reason the negative luminance is potentially important for secrecy is that it means the average of the signal you’re transmitting is zero, making it indistinguishable f…

This is the year of Linux on the Desktop!

One compelling theory for why we have not encountered intelligent life is that any sufficiently advanced civilization will eventually stop exploring the universe and immerse themse…

I'm convinced that wealth and taste are perfectly orthogonal.

That’s a good place to start building intuition, but it can also distract you actual understanding. What that visualization really is is a bunch of arbitrarily bounded Fourier tran…

Here's a little function that I use pretty often when I want to install a package but I'm not sure what the exact package name is. Give it a keyword and it searches apt-cache and d…

But all of that labour could have gone into building actually productive assets or infrastructure that meet some of the many real needs that exist in the world. This is a terrible …

According to this article ( https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/07/25/the-haves-and-... ) annual upkeep is typically about ten percent of the construction cost.

If by “rid ourselves of the unintelligent” you mean improving public education, then yes, that is a goal. It’s a weird way to put it though.

“…the evil authoritarian beast just across the way” Can you say what this is referring to, because I’ve read the piece and I can’t figure it out.

Iran may not have been colonized but their democratic government was overthrown by the US and Britain to prevent them nationalizing their fossil fuel supply. I often wonder what th…

Depends which people. The quantity of meat that many Americans eat is absurd and probably unhealthy. I fully agree that there is a future for meat, but it’s got to be smaller amoun…

Giant sea bugs transitioned from inedible garbage to inaccessible delicacy in less than a century. I was recently comparing cricket flour to various plant derived high protein powd…

I tried what you suggested for a bunch of the twitter bios and found nothing except links back to this thread. I also reverse image searched a bunch of them to see if DALL-E was ju…

This AI is still a minor. It can start looking at R rated images when it turns 17.

My gut feeling is that AGI is more likely to emerge from our interconnected information systems than to be designed deliberately in a lab. And I think there is a precedent. We - mu…

The Italia Squisita YouTube channel has an excellent series of videos of Italian chefs preparing their signature dishes (lasagna: https://youtu.be/H-Ll19h9FFo ). They are 100% auth…

I've always been curious why the visible light spectrum appears to "wrap around". Why does the color wheel appear continuous? Is it related to the fact that the frequency range is …

I'm genuinely confused by people who complain about Spotify's recommendation algorithm. I have eclectic, often obscure tastes, and I've found it to be an incredible way to discover…

Every argument of the form "why would we piss off advertisers" or "why would we make our users unhappy" is void, because they are a monopoly. The mechanism that would make them res…

This is getting into ontology. I think the point is that laziness is a meaningless term with no explanatory power, and therefore may as well not exist.

Everyone is disinclined to work. That's what makes it work, and why you have to pay people to do it. The definition is a tautology.

Analogies are always flawed, but I sometimes feel like computer engineering today is in the same place that mechanical engineering was 100 years ago, with the (fortunately less dea…