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After reading “The Making Of The Atomic Bomb” I came away with the impression that development of nuclear bombs was 100% inevitable after 1938 when the German scientists proved spl…

I encourage you to try sitting in a wooden chair for 8 hours a day every day and reconsider

Kind of a dramatic title. If you're so concerned about it, couldn't you just make another proton email and link them to each other as recoveries?

I didn't, the comment I responded to did "poor critical thinkers who are poorly educated"

Factually incorrect. If Nvidia dropped TSMC, TSMC could still sell to apple, AMD and others. If TSMC dropped Nvidia, Nvidia would literally have no other options for cutting edge n…

isn't that just mocking with extra steps?

It is simple really, there are more suckers paying high credit card interest than there are people collecting credit card rewards. As someone who always pays your bill off every mo…

"Isn't the more parsimonious explanation that our culture is now composed of poor critical thinkers who are poorly educated, lack sophistication and nuance, and accordingly have te…

I think what they're saying is an 82 year old is more likely to make it to 83 than an 81 year old is

AI is a lot more than LLMs just because they don't have a public LLM doesn't mean they don't have competent AI strategy. Most of their advancements are around image and video. A lo…

FWIW, most games before early 2000s built all their tooling from scratch as there wasn't off the shelf engines to use. Unreal engine came out in 98 and Source in 2004

I wonder if this was the inspiration for the name of the creator of DotA mod, icefrog

I think technically they do not need to reach orbit just 0g which can happen on a ballistic trajectory. This test is between two tanks in the same vessel. But yeah orbit would be i…

Mitochondria are self replicating. When the cell splits some of the mitochondria are present in each new cell.

Whether a game idea is feasible doesn't matter so much on whether its 2d/3d/isometric etc., its the mechanics. For example, nintendo showed that they prototyped many mechanics that…

I don't think this really says anything about Apple like you claim. The reality is Apple and GS made a deal and GS may have got the short end of the stick. That's their fault for m…

That's 500 for one acre so multiply by 300-400 for a typical farm and it cuts into already fairly small margins on farming

Whether you are being pushed or pulled by a rocket doesn't really matter. From the inside would feel very similar.

I don't understand this comment

This article is pretty short and doesn't seem very well thought through. What should Create file do if the rate is reached? Hang? Error out? The author admits this is a can of worm…