Viewing profile — pcstl

[flagged]

What is real engineering?

Rule of thumb here is that investments will work fine using doubles, but transfers need to run on int or fixed point.

Air moves from regions of high pressure to regions of low pressure. Pressure itself does not have a direction.

This just seems like a bad idea. Starting things and not finishing them is just... The default. Whoever thinks that our society is too focused on commitment has really not been kee…

https://futurism.com/the-byte/phones-listen-theory-debunked https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CVazBWGgg64 They're sending pretty much everything BUT audio. Main reason is that audio …

This is very likely fake. But why would a company say they do this? It's because so many people believe that this happens anyway that there's next to no cost to them in saying it -…

People have. And it's always shown that no apps are opening your mics when you're not using the app, and that if you're using the app they generally will only open your mic when it…

Can you provide evidence that code which is "as performant as using mutation" is generated? Mutation tends to be very hard to beat.

Mangroves are generally salt-tolerating and perfectly adapted to growing in brackish water.

The majority of the industry is made of people who care mostly about their own careers. If solving nasty distributed system problems is simple, you can't justify having a huge bloa…

That's pretty much what Urbit wanted to be, to be fair, just with a strong networking component powered by a decentralized identity system. It's just too esoteric to have meaningfu…

Is Umbrel just actually usable Urbit? [0] [0] https://urbit.org/

I'd agree with you if it weren't for all the cultish red flags present here. This is clearly a man who wants a cult-like mentality to form around him. If he were just going ridicul…

So he's a successful businessman. How does that background translate to any kind of scientific competence? Because his website is heavy on the buzzwords and the Silicon Valley "glo…

As an entrepreneur myself, I can tell you that "needing the money" stops being a significant motivation after a while, or at least takes a back seat to the thrill of just getting p…

The issue is that he never explains why he does particular stuff, what specific results particular stuff he tried had, what worked and especially what didn't . His website is full …

On my hand, I encourage everyone I know who is interested in longevity to stick to actual scientific research and stay away from Mr. Johnson as much as possible. There are more red…

I was thinking the same thing. This article seems remarkably light on the facts. They throw around a handful of scary words, but there is very little evidence to back it up or even…

Thank you. Much too often the replies in threads on prices are just a conspiracyfest of people alleging things that make no economic sense without providing any kind of evidence. B…

Why should everyone raise their prices?

Are these "woke SJWs" in the room with us right now?

That is fair enough. And sorry if I seemed like I was policing your tone, I was actually just disagreeing with a certain characterization of the situation.

Fragmentation is a problem that solves itself, though. People tend to preferentially attach to larger communities and small communities tend to evaporate into a "hard core" of very…