cleansingfire

Nice job describing why ER=EPR is so exciting, and conveying conflicts within physics. The idea that Einstein held conflicting views is important to keep in mind because we see him being led by the data rather than dogma. Susskind has a lot of interesting ideas and excels at sharing his excitement. These are interesting problems and quantum physics has great difficulty communicating well, and still has plenty of nonsense sadly. Yes, Einstein was conflicted, sans acknowledged these things. Susskind used to be a string theorist. People grow and learn.

That's what I used the <$10 16gb Optane sticks for, when I had a batch of terrible small zero cache SSDs. Just to extend the performant life of the hardware I was stuck with. Worked ok.

That sounds like the author is defining good as "what I like, and can't or won't tell you."

Exactly. Senior devs have choices already. Another nope on the assignment.

This is an interesting point, and I hope it is actionable. Of course we need to understand the biological components and systems in detail.

Unfortunately biology varies wildly between individuals, while the radio is constructed to a specific design, from parts standardized to three significant figures or so. A wiring diagram for a radio is sufficient, but cells are influenced by a very dynamic environment. We won't diagram my gut biome to that level of detail, yet it influences My biology.

The steamers they use at burrito shops make the flour tortillas soft and flexible so they can wrap, fold, & stretch without breaking, and the steam moistened flour sticks to itself better when wrapped.

The only place I've seen kolatches (sp.) was fifty years ago in the little town of West, TX (and it's not really in West Texas, but more in between Fort Worth and Austin.) Those were pastries filled with various delicious things, including sausage and fruit.) I don't think I've ever seen kolatches anywhere else. I'd love to find more, and learn the difference. They are far from common in the USA sadly.

Luxury good are treated differently than utility goods. Nicely described by Peter Egan. https://www.roadandtrack.com/car-culture/a29022/side-glances...

I like the emphasis on it as a Democratic function. This is the tyranny I see everywhere these days. Tech companies ignore problems that don't scale. Unfortunately, that means that the YouTuber making a decent living, who gets unfairly deplatformed, is SOL, while DMCA takedowns are automated. The hardest problem Google ever gave up on is "Don't be evil." Sadly, people don't scale. Indifference to humanity is the evil robot who is already here.

Often it's more helpful to use one guess you know will not match, just to eliminate or split numerous cases at once. If trapped with _IGHT which could start with many letters, a guess like FARM would reduce your guesses in a single move.

This also helps avoid or escape focus on an expected pattern that may be wrong (premature convergence.)

Nice! Callback to the old folktale Why the Sea is Salt

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8933

This is seductive and comforting to those of us who like fiction, far more than true. We want to believe it, and it may be valid for a few of us (certainly wrong for others) but worst, it's too easy to believe because we want to.

Those are the dangerous ideas, the ones with more appeal than truth. Was Donald Trump mocked and belittled publicly? Of course, and some of it was even unfair. Tiny hands or funny hair are cheap shots, but he also was happy to bully others, among other truly outrageous things. He clings to the small truth that the press is mean.

What I want to believe (what I feel is true) is irrelevant to reality, even if my feelings are the most compelling and memorable aspect of my experience. Each of us is the center of our own experience, but not the center of the world, so our view is inherently warped.

I'm genuinely sorry if I offended you with my feelings. I tried not to, but clearly I didn't succeed. And in a context where everything seems to be treated as a value judgement, I should've been clearer.

There was nothing normative intended, and that's why I used the word feel. For brevity, I left off the bit where I regard my infinite ignorance (including sports, biology, math, religion, and fiction) as my own limitation, and one which I acknowledge limits my experience and interaction with people who cares and know more. Like my dislike of seafood. I don't blame the fish.

Since you identify specifically, let me be clear: Not less, just missing out on something I enjoy and learn from. My own ignorance and indifference limits my world, even if it is a necessary limitation I choose.

I'm sorry you feel judged. Snobbery is truly toxic, and my intent is inclusive. I apologize if my words are not.

https://xkcd.com/1053/

One element of this seems to be a tendency to make explicit words or phrases whose meaning is not immediately apparent. Look at the use of acronyms too: ATM machine (Automatic Teller Machine machine) ISBN number International Standard Book Number number) SCUBA gear (Self Contained Breathing Apparatus gear)

The ISBN example is one where anyone using the acronym knows exactly what it stands for, yet there's still a tendency to add the 'number' at the end.

I think of this as something like a weak force in language.

I've met plenty of people who say "I only read non-fiction" always as if it's a virtue. A friend's father told her she made up lies about people who didn't exist. That was his opinion of her fiction. I think some people are really threatened by fiction, and it's unfathomable to me. Perhaps they're threatened because they've been told to like something that's not for them. It can be difficult to not like something when it's implied that not liking it is your own flaw. I feel these people live in a poorer world for closing that out of their lives.

I'm curious how often this leads to mass death. I suspect that there is some escape from this, or else conditions leading to an ant mill are extremely rare, because it seems evolutionarily expensive. On the other hand nature is profligate with life, and especially bugs. For example perhaps once exhausted to a certain point, the pheromone scent changes to one that signals not to follow.

I was hoping that the ants were somehow milling food, perhaps using small rocks and sand (or a mutualistic relationship) over time to break it down. If a valuable food source was locked up and could only be accessed this way, I can certainly imagine an ant colony evolving to mill it somehow. They already farm fungus and aphids. I predict a new kind of ant mill will be discovered!

Wait until you learn what the Ivy League is

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivy_League?wprov=sfti1

And games have taken far more. Game of War "like gambling with no chance of winning" https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2016/12/california-man-s...

That's an interesting indicator of how much Bitcoin is used in Russia though!

Always on call because salaried Sysadmin, so mine is just my usual ringtone. Just don't choose anything you like, or you'll grow to hate it.

Dealt with 'administratively'. These are felons interfering with international flights and need to be dealt with as such. This was a successful political hijacking.

70% of Omicron tweets not skeptical of science! Yay!

This thread was diverted from questioning alcohol as a poison in "any amount " to culture war. This is the borderline astroturfing that destroys communities. Turn every discussion into a political one. I no longer read Slashdot knowing I'll find commenters with more insight than the OP, because they're buried in fragile outrage. Sorry I'm making it worse, just this thread, which should be a few references on each point, became panic and FUD disorientingly fast.

Note the change from secondhand smoke to outdoor secondhand smoke, once you responded rationally. This poster may be a bot.

What's disappointing is how quickly your observation was diverted to panic and inciting outrage. I'm interested to know why the CDC now says "no amount" when the evidence for decades has been that small amounts are cardioprotective. Is there truly none?

Nobody is enforcing anything, either in the parent or the OP, so don't panic. Your comment seems inflammatory and irrelevant in this context, but I'm sure that's not your intent. You'll be ok, don't worry.

Diesel is MUCH less flammable than gasoline. This actually supports the safety argument.

This is why I have a strong No Business With Bastards policy. When someone acts badly enough, they go on the Nope list. I'll work with them if I have no choice at all, but it's consistently worthwhile to avoid those I know I can't trust. For example, Norton were already incompetent, but installing cryptominers put them on the Nope list. See also Oracle. Similarly, in traffic, that guy who does something painfully dumb is likely to keep making poor decisions, so be prepared for that, and increase your space cushion.

He has done some exciting work, but he hasn't done any physics in ages. If you don't (by choice or ability) do the work to prove your ideas, you can't expect anyone else to. If he wants to revolutionize physics, he can't leave that to others. That attitude is a defining characteristic of a crank.

Cranks can do good work, but when they get out of their depth and don't realize it, blaming everyone else, that's when they become cranks.

I like Wolfram, and I think there are some interesting and fundamental insights in among the relentless self promotion, but ANKOS is a painful read, even though I find cellular automata a fascinating model.