rthomas6

In python I do horrible things like the following when nobody else is going to see it:

  [[[foo(x) for x in y] for y in bar_vec if baz(y)] for bar_vec in bar_mat if bar_vec != []]

Just dropping in to plug physical media. 4k Blu-Ray is always higher quality than streaming, and Blu-Ray almost always is. I'm talking noticeably, obviously better in terms of both picture and sound quality. Also, nobody can take it away from me and I own it outright with no subscriptions or services. I don't even need internet. For anything I want to watch more than once, it's a no-brainer.

That's basically what StumbleUpon was, and it was great while it lasted. You clicked like on stuff you liked, and it would show you more stuff that other people who liked similar things liked. If someone could make something like that again for 2023, I would use it.

I think people already lived there and collectively decided to found a city where they were. Rich out of towners swooping in and buying local land hasn't worked out well for the locals historically.

This is exactly what I want in a car, unironically. I really dislike car culture. I think it is ruining America. This is like wanting a bus to be fun and exciting. Why are daily driver cars supposed to be fun? We are spending all our infrastructure money building and maintaining massive roads at the expense of everything else.

Could it be a small black hole orbiting the sun?

Let me know when the Culture Minds are ready

I regret including Palestine and Afghanistan in my original comment. I didn't mean to be disingenuous. I should have included more countries like Argentina, Kenya, and India that aren't politically charged. My main point is that 5.5 should be seen as absurdly high for a first world country, and not just a little worse than usual.

That's the number Wikipedia gives for 2021. It's sourced from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime. Maybe the data is self-reported and Palestine fudged the numbers? Maybe it's accurate for the time period and just surprising?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intenti...

Personally I would like to see us go below countries like Afghanistan (4.0), Argentina (4.6), Kenya (5.3), Iran (2.4), Israel (1.9), Palestine (0.9), or India (2.9). And preferably as low as, for instance, Spain (0.6), or even Japan (0.2).

Edit: Source: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_intenti...

> Something that's not obvious from most of the published pics is that the rotary subwoofer was using an entire hotel room to serve as an enclosure. IE, you're not going to easily get loud bass at 10Hz without an enclosure, and the Thigpen sub used an entire room.

This is called "infinite baffle." Basically just a wall that provides isolation from the other side of it. It is merely a type of speaker enclosure.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudspeaker_enclosure

Normal subwoofers can also be used with infinite baffle. You can use an attic, basement, or crawlspace to create it.

> nobody really wants FPGA fabric on a CPU.

Not true... Xilinx sells a lot of their Zynq, MPSoC, and RFSoC chips. Though I guess those are more CPU on an FPGA.

Part of the answer is that people now are forgetting just how much goodwill Google had with the tech folks around the time Google came out with Chrome. It was open source! You could easily run it without Google! It was a titan squaring up against Internet Explorer, that did horrible things like not follow web standards or invent its own. And it was really really good.

It took a handful of years for tech folks to see Google (and Chrome) the way they do now.

Here is the most voted HN post from the time of Chrome's release: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=291946

What is causing the drought?

Wow, the Arizona area is disappointing to say the least. All that sun and almost no solar power.

Why not just tax carbon emissions?

Even better: a very high tax on the assessed unimproved land value of all privately owned land. This removes the ability to speculate on real estate entirely, which, if you think about it, maybe shouldn't be allowed in the first place, since it is the only good that has a truly fixed supply. This would cause real estate prices to plummet, then remain relatively stable. Obviously you couldn't just do it starting from nothing, but in the long run it would solve housing scarcity, as well as drastically reducing rent seeking behavior, without draconian measures or ending the free market.

This idea is called Georgism, and it's not new. It was also supported by several economists, including Milton Friedman.

Maybe. I think we're going to buy time with geoengineering, but it won't solve everything or actually fix any core issues.

I was holding out on joining the wave of doomerism that pervades everyone's mindset so thoroughly nowadays, but I'm starting to be won over. Between economic things like this and the apparent infeasibility of carbon capture (meaning a likely 3+ degree C increase in global temperature (and the resulting catastrophic effects that not even activists talk about because the scenario is too bleak to imagine)), I am starting to join the doomer mindshare.

I don't think that was implied, but yes! I'd rather be homeless at 20 than homeless at 70. Wouldn't you? At least I'd be less likely to die from a fall. At least I'd be more able to defend myself/run away.

> I'm still noodling on what that ideal program could be, outside of the obvious graphics processing.

Basically any kind of big linear algebra workload. Things where you have a big vector/matrix and you need to do some operations to the whole thing. This applies to graphics processing, but also to all DSP in general: RF processing, image manipulation, video encoding, etc. Audio stuff tends to not need it because you only need to process 44000 samples per second, and CPUs are fast enough for that.

AI stuff, I understand, uses a lot of linear algebra, so GPUs are good for that workload also.

> Subsistence farming works great until a drought.

Maybe we should do this by default and fall back onto the global supply chain when there is a drought.

If you smoke a few Marlboros in a cleaning staff outfit, get some Walmart shoes, get a $30 phone, and get a mop and bucket, I feel like it might work pretty well.

Oh no!

It's almost like, having a true fixed supply, land is a separate class of economic good and shouldn't be seen the same way as everything else. Georgism ftw

We see that. Pets and wild animals that live around humans are also increasingly obese.

From a quick search: https://www.livescience.com/10277-obesity-rise-animals.html

Also the metabolic syndrome/obesity epidemic. 40% of US adults have obesity. By 2030 about half of US adults will, and in 29 states more than half of adults will be obese.

We see obesity becoming increasingly normalized. People feel powerless to stop it and that we should just accept it.

It feels to me like there is something besides diet changes happening to us. That's part of it, but I wonder if microplastics or some kind of gut biome disruption is playing a role as well.

Same with anxiety

You can get a mortgage without a credit score. It is called manual underwriting.

> the cameras are the perfect way to nostalgically capture the low-fidelity look of the 2010s

Am I old now? Is 35 old?