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For irreversible computation, yup. If reversible computation turns out to be practical, things are a little weirder, and the bounds are... further away. Stuff like: https://en.wiki…

I think a lot of people might be missing some cultural context, or something. At the risk of killing the joke, a bunch of this post is worded as it is specifically for the opportun…

>Most people would not be able to procreate - the world would overcrowd. This isn't quite true. Suppose no one dies. Starting from a population of 10 billion, suppose every person …

Having done a little work across the spectrum, this is definitely correct. Years ago, I targeted the cheaper end, and the amount of work expected was absurd. The nonmonetary terms …

"Do less with less" is a good way to put it. It can be helpful to look at the extremes- for example, people who are starving can end up with suppressed thyroid function (among othe…

Pretty much all the standard performance advice from other languages like C/C++/Rust applies. The concepts driving "data oriented design" will get you a long way. The biggest diffe…

I can't comment on the ASP/web side of things, but C# matches up with my atypical use cases extremely well. The high points: 1. Fast compile times for most of development. I'm fine…

Another related option that sidesteps a big chunk of perceptible latency is to send clients a trivially reprojectable scene. In other words, geometry or geometry proxies that even …

You may not complain, but you do observe that your experiences are different in a way that can sometimes be unpleasant. It appears that when another person recounted how their expe…

Not OP, but consider being 6 feet and 8 inches tall. In many buildings (especially older ones), you will have to dodge light fixtures regularly. Many doorways will actually be too …

(alas the path of the tootbird is a lonely one)

To any fellow seekers of the Tootbird, I can answer questions if you have them.

The usual approach is some form of sweep to get a time of impact. Once you've got a time of impact, you can either generate contacts, or avoid integrating the involved bodies beyon…

Notably, there's some movement regarding the runtime in Unity; it may eventually hop over to CoreCLR (for supported platforms): https://forum.unity.com/threads/unity-future-net-dev…

I believe that is correct. I don't have a great source handy, but here's a preprint which agrees: Conclusions: Myocarditis (or pericarditis or myopericarditis) from primary COVID19…

I'm not aware of any great data on myopericarditis for very young people, and not as many have been vaccinated, so I extrapolate from older age groups: Of 3 482 295 individuals vac…

If it makes you feel better, they can still happen anyway! yay!

One day, fully alert and sober at something like 5 PM with no excuses, during a thunderstorm, I heard tornado sirens go off. I thought to myself, "sheesh they are only supposed to …

Not OP, but: if you're thirsty and there's a cup of water nearby, presumably you don't need to verbalize the full set of motor commands necessary to move your arm, grasp the cup, a…

Putting academics aside, high school is not optimized for socialization. For many students, it's 5-7 hours a day of explicitly not socializing at all, with brief periods of maybe t…

I'd charitably interpret this as something like, "I did not learn anything useful or interesting in school that I did not learn elsewhere first or more effectively". I'd endorse th…

Removing high school doesn't necessarily deprive a child of formative experiences, it just changes them. It's possible for the change to be bad (e.g. parents in a cult pulling thei…

Hence, they point out that focusing on superintelligence gets you a way bigger bang for your buck than, say, preventing people who exist right now from contracting malaria by distr…

Out of curiosity, did you have any luck at all with the glasses-style light therapy devices like the Luminette? I was having limited success with other forms of light therapy (and …