coryfklein

"Research" is not some monolithic single concept. One might also ask, "How can research produce ChatGPT when for decades research failed to produce ChatGPT?"

Nobody implied they were. The first amendment guarantees the right of free speech, but that doesn't give you a free pass to not get arrested when you do break another law.

I could be upset about Hersheys and choose to organize mass theft of their candy bars from the grocery store as a protest, and that would be speech. But it doesn't shield me from the consequences of the crime of theft, nor does it mean that "candy is more important than the first amendment".

So looking at /user/pyanodon, there doesn't even appear to be a mod named "Pyanodons", but rather he's made a whole bunch of different mods. Which one are you recommending? All of them at once?

You have got to be kidding me. I thought I had kicked my Factorio habit.

1. I would love to still have that very photo! Captioned, “Buried under a swathe of never ending desert wasteland, the crater lies hidden under 8 kilometers of sand and rock”

2. You can still show me a map with a marker indicating where the hell the site is.

I know it's buried deep, but it's kind of weird for the reporting to not even show an image of the area? Perhaps a map with a little pin indicating where the Deniliquin structure is?

They say it's near the city of Deniliquin, which is here [0]. Oddly, that spot doesn't even show on the map of yellow dots of likely impact structures! Did they forget to mark their newly discovered largest-impact-crater-in-the-world on the map?

[0] https://goo.gl/maps/shvRY2CiEs3eR8iw5

I've been listening to the audiobook and definitely recommend it to others.

Also, it's free. [0]

[0] https://www.audible.com/pd/Software-Engineering-at-Google-Au...

One efficiency of WFH that is underappreciated is the ability to match working hours to capacity. I can't count how many times I was in the office and 3 PM rolled around and I was completely spent. I knew that with a herculean effort I could probably squeeze a few more drops of productivity into my day, but it wasn't worth it.

But you can't just "go home" at 3 PM. So you check some emails. Look over your shoulder and pull open Reddit or – dare I say – Hacker News and you while away those final 90 minutes until you can walk out the door having said you worked a full 8 hour day. Neither you nor your employer really want those 90 minutes spent that way, but it happens, and it's demoralizing all around.

When working from home there is sooo much more flexibility to match productive hours with working hours. When I'm excited and energized and a project is in that flow state I might actually put in 10 hours. Other times at that 3 o'clock slump, I put headphones in and phone into a meeting (or listen to a recording) while doing random chores around the house. What time I check out of work is now a fuzzy mental calculation of how much energy I have, how productive I'd be, how much demand there is for my time, and, yes, a little bit of a simple desire to have life outside of work.

Not with unemployment where it is. Instead it's more likely that companies will offer more money to software engineers to compensate for a must-commute policy.

In How Asia Works[0], they contrast how Malaysia tried to modernize by jumping straight to high-tech steel factoris with how South Korea modernized by starting small – basically by making shitty cars – then scaled their way up. Turns out the latter simply works much better.

My take, if you want to have a bleeding edge semiconductor industry in your country, first start by trying to build a boring, vanilla, outdated semiconductor industry. If you can do that, then try incrementally making it competitive with global markets. (Yes, this requires tariffs initially to bootstrap the process, otherwise nobody will by your shitty overpriced semiconductors.)

[0] https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/book-review-how-asia-w...

Uh do you mean "bet 0% of your wealth every time"? Or does betting some number greater than 0% lead to net positive expected gains for an individual?

Hah! Actually the first time I came across this concept was playing Stardew Valley. In the Fall season there is a festival with a spinning wheel. Visually the wheel is half green, half orange. You can bet N tokens on a color, and if the spinning arrow lands on that color then you receive N, otherwise you lose N.

The funny thing though is that despite the wheel being painted half green half orange, the actual odds are 75% green and 25% orange. But calculating how much of your money to bet at each iteration isn't super straightforward; in the end it turns out that to maximize your profit you should always bet exactly half of your money on green.

Why are all these materials confirmations coming from Chinese speaking scientists? Do scientists in the US not do materials science so much?

Whoever wrote this is genius, how many times in your career do you get the opportunity to write this stuff. So many amazing quotes in this article, I’m dying. 10/10 would read again.

> Information about brand reliability is widely available

I too see this information everywhere but I have no idea what to trust on this anymore and what information is paid for and gamed by the companies themselves. Brand reputation is its own business these days with its own products and markets.

Hence the "and you like the taste" qualification. I don't think OP is talking about you.

Of course it makes sense. People like to eat meat. Meat is expensive to produce, particularly including externalities like CO2, animal suffering, etc. Making meat less expensive to produce across some or all of those dimensions seems like a no brainer.

Having heard the Lemmy recommendation multiple times, I went ahead and tried the Lemmy.world instance but it appears completely broken. As far as I can tell, clicking "Login"[0] doesn't even trigger a network request?

[0] https://lemmy.world/login

Side note unrelated to Apple Vision:

Why would anyone want text fully aligned to the left of the browser window?! At least it's distinctive, I don't think I've ever seen that on any other website in the last 15 years.

This "unlimited monitor space" is a complete non-selling point for me.

Being a wealthy software engineer, my monitor space is not bottlenecked by my budget or desk space, but by my literal neck. Constantly rotating my head back and forth from one monitor to another is, quite literally, a pain.

For me the sweet spot is a single curved monitor right in front of me. If I need more "desktop space" I add another Space with Mission Control. And with keyboard shortcuts I can move between Spaces nearly as fast as I can rotate my head around.

So what am I going to do with a VR headset if I ever got one? Put the active app straight in front of me just like I do with my normal monitor. I'm not going to put my terminal at some odd angle 25° above my head and crane my head back when I want to run a command in it. I won't put the Weather app 90° to my right, obscuring what is currently a nice picture window looking out on my yard.

For me, VR needs that "killer app" to justify the high pricing and inconvenience of use, and I just don't see one yet. I don't expect one any time soon either; if VR was going to get a killer app, it would have shown up by now.

I guess it depends on whether such canals increase the net surface area. If you raise the ocean by 3mm across the globe, does it result in the same net increase in surface area as flooding a large swath of the Sahara?

Agreed.

The biggest point that seemed missing to me: the author talked so much about increased evaporation, but isn't water vapor one of the worst greenhouse gases? Sure you mitigate sea level rise, but at the cost of increasing temperatures? That doesn't seem like a great tradeoff.

Depends on whether the rate of salt extraction is precisely equal to the inflow over the long term. The Great Salt Lake is extremely salty and basically only two species can live in it: brine shrimp and brine flies. With about the corresponding level of "tourism" you'd expect.

And that is with industrial levels of salt harvesting. Would we expect the salt harvesting of these inland seas to be equal to or greater than the daily inflow of salt via the sea water? Seems dubious to me.

On the other hand, there are still many other benefits. Migratory birds love the Great Salt Lake. The Great Salt Lake Effect[0] on precipitation in this desert seems unambiguously positive.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Salt_Lake_effect

This is indeed frustrating, and it's the reason that when I play with newer players I strongly recommend to them not to place their 2 initial settlements on the same numbers!

If you put those initial settlements on 2 intersections that happen to restrict you to only rolls of 3, 6, and 9 you're in for a world of hurt even though 6 and 9 aren't "bad" numbers per se.

> it isn't really that clear if there is a level of spanking that avoids that whole issue

Exactly, which is why I myself choose to play it safe.

But it's kinda like the, "No evidence that parachutes save lives" thing, where because you don't have a double-blind randomized controlled study, we have to end up relying on our intuition.

And – unlike with parachutes – everyone has a different intuition as to whether spanking is actually going to result in trauma. Lots of, "I'll never hit my child" going up against, "I was spanked as a child and I'm just fine" so its all back to personal judgment.

And yet home schooling is completely illegal in Germany, something that would be a complete deal breaker for me. But perhaps that speaks more to how bad public school is in the US, maybe it's freaking amazing in Germany?

I guess folks have different definitions of the words?

To me, a "spank" is usually a mild to moderate slap on the rear, a part of the body particularly well cushioned that can handle it just fine without physical trauma, not to mention psychological trauma.

When I think of a child who has been "beaten", I imagine repeated bludgeoning across the body, often with a tool, and usually with visible bruising and possible laceration and bleeding.

If you've ever been a parent, regardless of whether you think spanking is OK, you know that there is a huge difference between these two activities. I personally avoid physical discipline myself, but I can understand a parent who decides to give their kid a spank on the rump after the child did something where they didn't understand how seriously negative the implications were.

For example, if 5 year old runs out into traffic on a busy road and you pull them back, which form of discipline is more likely to negatively incentivize the impulse to dash into the street to get a penny? I can see why someone would think that the short – but sharp – pain of a quick spank is more effective at protecting the child's short and long term health.

Your experience does shed light on TurboTax, but how does it give us any insight into the IRS heuristic?

If the government wants a tax code complicated enough to require professional services to comply with it, then it is on them to provide those professional services. End of story.

Unless the government is going to simplify the tax code (hint, they're not) then they must provide the services necessary for me to comply with it.

> an agency which _already has that piece of paper_

Sooo... the IRS knows that you installed solar panels last year and will be taking an energy credit for them? They know how much bitcoin you sold? How much mortgage interest you'll be deducting? The strike price of the stock options you exercised in your private company, and their current fair market value?

There's a bajillion variables that go into filing a tax return, and only you are the one that knows all of them, and sometimes not even then! This idea that the government "already knows" how much you owe in taxes is a complete fiction.