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sadness2··on What Universal Human Experiences Are You Missing Without Realizing It? (2014)
Killing a larger animal really sucks, at least it did for me the first time and I hope never to do so again
sadness2··on Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake
There's always a loud contingent of AMD fanboys, but then there's the silent majority who don't care and just buy on raw gaming performance per $, which is reflected in market share.

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/market_share.html

sadness2··on Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake
This would not be a change in pricing strategy by Intel. Intel has consistently provided better price-to-performance ratio for gaming than AMD. Since AMD bumped their pricing with this launch, Intel arguably still holds this edge, especially if you account for overclocking and board prices.

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i9-10900K-v...

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-10600K-v...

https://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i5-10600K-v...

sadness2··on Intel’s palpable desperation on display with Rocket Lake
For gamers, I expect these will be priced such that Intel will offer a better price-to-performance ratio than AMD. I've seen so many industry pundits talking about the defeat of Intel for the last 2 generations, but gamers just quietly look the frames-per-second to $ ratio and keep buying Intel and the cheaper Intel-based motherboards. I think Rocket Lake will allow this trend to continue while Intel prepares Alder Lake.
sadness2··on John Gray: 'What can we learn from cats? Don't live in an imagined future'
I recently watched a video where three cats waited half a day by the door, waiting for their owner's return.
sadness2··on AI Is an Ideology, Not a Technology
This article is an Idealogue, not Journalism.
sadness2··on AMD Zen 3/Ryzen 5000 announcement [video]
The performance is in the same ballpark for cost-performance as Intel 10th gen, and the 10th gen Intel platform will be compatible with Intel's 2021 chips, whereas if you get an AMD board now, this will be the last processor which it supports. The AMD boards are more expensive for comparable features. Intel 10th gen also has better all-core boosting, which might be important for upcoming games with better multicore support.
sadness2··on Almost one-third of Florida children tested are positive for the coronavirus
Fear of thousands of eventual deaths is very rational.
sadness2··on Show HN: Terraform recipe for running Jitsi Meet on DigitalOcean
Thank you for this generous offering! Do you have any tips around expected costs or power/performance requirement?
sadness2··on Show HN: Excel-like table editing for Markdown
I'd adopt this immediately if it could integrate with editors like vscode
sadness2··on AutoML-Zero: Evolving machine learning algorithms from scratch
I wonder whether you have some reason to think they haven't read that work, and this isn't them building on it
sadness2··on Data-Oriented Architecture
Yikes. You haven't reduced inter-component communication. You've basically got an interface distributed across all your components, and defined as a data schema. Any change to this can now potentially break communication between any two or more processes.
sadness2··on Production-Oriented Development
Radical! Some counter-points, though.

- Infrastructure as code and schemas as code make it easier to keep environmental parity, because everything can be rolled back/forwards/reset with easy source control and CD operations. Visual environment diffing and drift detection can make this even easier.

- Make your stage and prod into a blue-green situation, where if stage is ready to go, you flip users onto it. I can guarantee your stage and prod will both be respected as prod then. Failing that, just add load/stress tests to stage to make it more prod-like.

- Non-prod environments and attention are not necessarily debt, but they are expensive insurance premiums. You should only pay those premiums if you need the insurance. It's about risk management.

- As time passes, the people who wrote a specific part of a system don't know it anymore, so having them babysit 'their' code in production has diminishing returns. On the other hand, having a systems quality team who have a broad mandate to bugfix, put in preventative measure, reduce technical debt, improve observibility and establish good patterns for developers to do these things, can enabled these things to actually happen, when just telling devs who are busy making features that they should happen often doesn't make them happen. Also there are devs who enjoy creating new things, and others who love trouble-shooting and metrics.

sadness2··on Screens Are Bad for Young Brains
Context is everything
sadness2··on Screens Are Bad for Young Brains
Our kids would definitely be worse off without screens. We don't have time to give them their ideal levels and kinds stimulation, and screens are a tool which helps their parents' sanity. Us, as their parents being driven insane would adversely affect these children. One of them has special needs and the other 2 crave constant input. Overall screens are the lesser evil, and they're all doing just fine. It's all contextual and this article is nowhere near holistic enough.
sadness2··on Screens Are Bad for Young Brains
Failing to improve or temporarily affecting mood != damaging
sadness2··on What Exactly is Docker?
What is Docker? We just don't know.
sadness2··on Not everyone has an internal monologue
It's our brain's job to give us lots of ideas. It's then our job to contextualize and filter those ideas, into "useful" and "discard".

You shouldn't feel guilty for having a brain which gives you outrageous ideas. You should only worry if you can't filter them appropriately.

My understanding is that part of schizophrenia can be experiencing those ideas as an external voice.

sadness2··on Emergent dynamics of neuromorphic nanowire networks
More like what conclusion are the reporters drawing, because usually it's a million miles from what the researchers are concluding, but much more exciting.
sadness2··on Switching from Chrome to Firefox
I don't do any of those things, and I find the experience nice. These are pretty specific customizations.
sadness2··on How to undo almost anything with Git (2015)
Not reading. Nothing is ever as good as this flow chart: http://sethrobertson.github.io/GitFixUm/fixup.html
sadness2··on New Story's first 3D-printed houses are now complete
A lot questions about cost, but nobody is talking about speed. They said the frame was both fabricated and erected in 24 hours. That's a big one-up on prefab.
sadness2··on Teacher Effects on Student Achievement and Height: A Cautionary Tale
It seems to be universal that basing people's career progression on metrics is harmful. People try to do this with engineers as a substitute for understanding what's happening on the ground and having an actual relationship. At best, metrics can raise a flag for you to ask empowering questions.
sadness2··on Tim Berners-Lee unveils plan to save the web
> And the leaders of tech censorship isn't in China, it's in the US since major tech companies are in the US.

This is like saying Iran is the biggest polluter because they produce oil.

sadness2··on China Set for Coal Expansion in Threat to Climate Goals
>Realistically, there is little incentive for China to cut back on coal usage.

How about the world not ending?

sadness2··on Self Sabotage: The Swiss History of Rigging Vital Infrastructure to Explode
> many military structures above ground and below have been declassified and sold off for reuse as homes, data centers, even cheese factories

Or have they? 8-)

sadness2··on The largest methane fountain so far discovered in the Arctic Ocean
There would be nowhere to go to escape global ecological collapse. Mitigation is the only option.

If the plankton dies, so will your rainforest.

sadness2··on What does it mean for a machine to “understand”?
I propose moral autonomy as a more interesting phenomena to distinguish.
sadness2··on What does it mean for a machine to “understand”?
Self consciousness can be equally stratified and broken down functionally. It's not a boolean either.
sadness2··on Brain approaches tricky tasks in a surprisingly simple way
This doesn't seem simple to me. A fully connect external coordinator, helping to determine which preexisting central weightings can be re-used for the specific task at hand, which tasks need to be redirected to less well-trained networks, and which need novel training, with the final prediction being an amalgamation of all results. Just the idea of trying to design a DL network with similar properties blows my mind!
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