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That 65.8% seems high to me using benchmarks of UC and Stuyvesant, but it is true Asians would be “grossly over represented” at top schools if not for affirmative action. Thus the …

The territory is relatively easy to overrun with speed - the defensible choke point is on the wrong side of Ukraine (for the Ukrainians). It is only occupation that can prove to be…

I believe the person you are replying to is saying “discover” relatively rather than Euro-centrically, as they mention a hypothetical Aztecs “discovering” Europe and Africa.

Aren’t fibers designed from the perspective of usage in underlying libraries, rather than something for everyday end users in the fashion of async/await?

What makes the lan port so critical that the M1 max macs are out of the question despite their surpassing performance in your other listed metrics?

I sometimes get the feeling that all my coding is actually a class of mathematical transforms that I have no idea how to define but feel very strongly that it is definable and AI-a…

I will have to stop by Oxnard and check it out. I’d been thinking that I must have an atypical experience since FSD is quite wonderful for me. But if a few dozen miles over and you…

That is entirely not true - no one remembers every detail of their life. As for the ones who do, you can do a fairly good impression thereof by simulating reliable synesthetic asso…

Measurable but insignificant. It would take about 10^29 joules to speed Venus up to a 24h day. The Chicxulub impact is estimated at 10^24-10^25 joules. So we need 10k-100k Chicxulu…

The MVP wasn’t scalable.

Ah weird. I was on some AWS page that said the cost was $0.01/gB, which threw me off as seeking ridiculous compared to what I remembered. Not sure what page it was, but clearly tha…

Interestingly, Troy says that egress is expensive on Azure at $0.014 AUD/gB (~$0.010 USD/gB), but that is the same price as additional egress for Linode and DO, and Linode egress h…

Thank you Igor for Nginx. Love using it!

This, I think, is a general result of trials/evidence-based medicine in combination with the combinatorics of the human body in combination with decentralized, unsearchable, overly…

One-click buy was a patent so…

I bet there’s even a patent for “adjust volumes dynamically per speaker based on real-time positional data to increase volume in a balanced way when possible”. If not, I claim this…

PHP supports first class functions though?

Agreed with the look ahead. I’m constantly doing that whether doing a typing test or typing my thoughts. (Currently capable of sustaining 170+ wpm over a minute). This site looks l…

Not necessarily I think. As I understand, Hawkins envisions motor skills as involving a kind of “system call” to the old brain, and the fact that the cortical columns are more effi…

There was no leap M1 -> M1 Max for single core. M1 Max, when it came out, was pretty much a bigger version of a one year old cpu.

I wasn’t aware of this. Wouldn’t the Jensen Box imply a correlation between intelligence and simple reaction time, which seems to be a contentious point? I’m also reminded of the l…

I don’t know if Jeff Hawkins would agree, but it seems to me that if his ideas involving cortical columns are true, intelligence is indeed capable of being compressed to a single n…

I don’t know the details of the Delta conspiracy theory, but the evolution of Delta looks abundantly natural, so whatever that theory is, seems unlikely.

I am reminded how even in as controlled an environment as China, He Jiankui broke the rules.

"For example, we know that the delta variant of SARS-CoV-2 leaked out of a lab in Taiwan in late 2021." - is exactly (mechanically) true in that Delta did leak out of a lab in Taiw…