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He was towed outside the environment. (I think he would laugh at this)

98% of any particular audience at a live event is well behaved. Unfortunately, in an audience of 1,000 people, that means 20 people are not well behaved, and if each of those 20 people ruins the event for their neighbors, that means at least 200 people had a bad time.

If 2% of your users complain and leave bad reviews, and only 1% leave good reviews...

This is load bearing guanxi

I've lost my ability to believe that things will feel 'normal' at work.

I no longer want to make connection with any coworkers.

Implemented by intention vs implemented by history

Signal and noise. Lots of noise. SO much noise.

To be clear, I don't know which part is signal and which part is noise any better than anyone else.

The work product is not the work.

I believe that LLM (and ML in general) tools really shine when they are developed and used AS tools.

Unfortunately, I also believe that market forces may push away from this direction, as LLM companies try to capture the value stream

"The Medium Is The Message" - Marshall McLuhan

People aren't nihilist - social media is.

People aren't shallow - dating apps are.

The world isn't shit - late capital is.

But of course, people are also nihilist, shallow and shit; and those same people are hopeful, complex, patient, kind and loving - but the internet rarely brings those stories to you.

Source?

Are you referring to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kerogen?

At any rate, this is why I would like to see a better investigation of the subject

Better Kerogen wiki: https://wiki.aapg.org/Kerogen

Well, there are a lot of planets, and a lot of time.

So I would say yes.

On average though, I would say no.

Thank you?

Solar panels don't convert air to fuel directly, but you could use the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabatier_reaction

I'd love to see an investigation into fossil fuel accumulation over geological time scales - especially petroleum.

From what I've seen, 10,000 barrels per year is a reasonable guestimate.

If that is the case, then just the electrical energy harvested from solar panels in the UK could convert air into fuel at a faster rate than the WHOLE earth (on average over geological time scales) (as long as the fuel conversion/production was at least 1% efficient at converting electricity to fuel).

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1owp09/if_oil_t...

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S209624951...

Something interesting to me is that YouTube doesn't even capture the majority of the value stream. They allow content creators to use things like Patreon and their own ad reads to capture their own value.

Of course, the preceding paragraph could be re-written in many different ways.

The fun thing about learning to juggle is that no one can teach you how to juggle, but they can teach you how to teach yourself how to juggle.

If it is a part with a regular maintenance schedule, it should be designed for maintainability.

Most maintainability conflicts come from packaging and design for assembly.

Efficiency more often comes into conflict with durability, and sometimes safety.

Yes propaganda and bullshit, but by way of exaggeration and puffery, not lying.

I wouldn't expect even a lightly informed mid-wit to think that this murderbot held the ground by itself; and I don't think the author expects that either. Thus something else is probably going on. To wit - puffery.

And here I assumed they sounded like red-tailed hawks!

Compared to the cosmic spacetime scale, "snaps" fits pretty well for me =)

I read the book before watching the movie - I'd recommend the opposite.

Watching the movie first will set the stage for a lot of details that work better in a book than a movie.

Not nearly as cool, but I was able to show a colleague the letters in a raster image section of a pdf using xxd by varying the output width

One may look at aluminum as a solid form of energy. In fact, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium%E2%80%93air_battery

Do you have to run new electric transmission lines? Will you have to maintain those power lines?

Would this be less efficient than battery powered EVs?

Measured in terms of mass * distance, trains with steel wheels will beat anything with rubber pneumatic tires.

Part of the magic of hybrid trains is that you can have multiple generation units that can be turned on or off as needed.

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Efficiency is just one consideration for a power plant.

Historically, reliability has been more important than efficiency, especially for industrial applications like locomotives. In other words, locomotives are probably not as efficient as they could be. For instance, you could use a lower viscosity engine oil for lubrication, but that would reduce reliability as engines fail due to friction.

"Why?" is the hardest of the questions.

For any particular person, you can tell a story that satisfies "Why?". But for a large number of people, you have to answer "Why?" for one sub-group at a time.

In other words, there's not a single answer that will answer this in a satisfying way.

To answer a different question: It appears that the Israeli government and military wanted to bomb Iran again, and the United States executive branch and military decided to help out. This is an incomplete and unsatisfying answer. Sorry.

This sounds like torture (as written).

Of course, working in a legacy codebase is also torture.

Software development is a hyper-rational endeavor, so we don't often talk about feelings. This article also does not talk much about feelings.

Reading between the lines, it looks like reverting the code is supposed to affect how you feel about the work. Knowing that failure is an explicit option can help to set an expectation; however, without a mature understanding of failure, that expectation may just be misery.

With a mature understanding of failure, the possibility of a forced rollback should help you "let go" of those changes. It's like starting a day of painting or drawing with one that you force yourself to throw away; or a writing session with a silly page.

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If someone thinks that they are giving you good advice, but it sounds terrible, then maybe they are expecting you to do some more work to realize the value of that advice.

If you are giving someone advice and they push back, maybe you are implying some extra work or expectations that you have not actually said out loud.

Advice is plagued by the tacit knowledge problem.

Regarding "Conspiracy Theories" - they make a lot more sense to me if you call them "Low Information, High Satisfaction" Theories.

Regarding the rest of the article: it reminds me of how things like nursery rhymes or fairy tales or Shakespeare's plays used to mean something very different and very specific.

The conveniences also mean that there is more than ~one~ ~two~ several ways to do something.

Which means that reading someone else's shell script (or awk, or perl, or regex) is INCREDIBLY inconvenient.

If you need to know what 2>&1 means, then I would recommend shellcheck

It's very, very easy to get shell scripts wrong; for instance the location of the file redirect operator in a pipeline is easy to get wrong.

YouTube: If you remove direct link access to by subscriptions by upload date, I will drop my premium subscription and watch time drastically.