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- Comment on What else can we do with sugar (sucrose)? 4 hours ago:
Well it could be used as an effective carbon storage after you strip off the hydrogen and bury it in the ground. I believe that they call that a reverse coal mine… I think we could even exploit current US government stupidity to fund it by mentioning coal
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 6 hours ago:
Modern developers simply were not ever taught the old ways. The old ways are light years ahead in terms of optimization and efficiency than what modern developers can even imagine. Imagine creating a C compiler and it has to run in 16KB of RAM and be powerful enough to build unxz, untar and sha256sum. Because it was done because they needed it.
- Comment on open question: where's the line between multi-tasking and monasticism? 1 week ago:
If you want cooldown between activities, you will need a rest period that is a multiple of 15 minutes.
- Comment on open question: where's the line between multi-tasking and monasticism? 1 week ago:
About 15 minutes.
If you can work on a single thing for blocks of 15 minutes size. Then you will context switch at the human mind’s natural frequency. Anything shorter and you’ll be operating at decreased IQ. Anything longer will not produce meaningful improvements.
- Comment on Little quick question: what do you think of advertising from a Marxist perspective? 1 week ago:
Sounds more like improving search and providing high quality information resources could eliminate the need for advertising altogether.
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 6 months ago:
When entire state governments can fit in a single Rack, why bother?