I asked him if he found this appealing he said no because he wants less social media.

Well you can reach the end of the feed in lemmy, that’s a plus isn’t it?

Definitely agree that the inventors are often given too much focus rather than a gradual evolution of ideas and discoveries over time that a much wider number of people made significant contributions to.

There are big leaps in understanding at times that do deserve to be recognised, Newton, Euler and Einstein definitely fit with this.

There is a really good series about the evolution of science and technology from the 1980s called Connections, from the BBC. Brilliant show and well worth a watch, it shows how technology evolves through chance and circumstances in so many cases rather than someone seeing a problem to be solved and thinking of a clever solution

It will always be easy to extrapolate new things from existing things

I don’t think that’s the case at all. Recombining existing things is interpolation, creating new stuff that is both novel and also interesting or valuable, is a completely different task

Do you mean long term bonds or do you think short term will be affected as well? If it is a rising rate environment then t-bills or MMFs probably have more to gain from the rising rates than risks from a drop in value of held bonds

Meh, it’s not hard for Chinese companies to create a website

What are the practical differences between them?

Is this the onion? I can’t tell

Coal plants emit more radioactive particles than nuclear. The amount of waste really is tiny in the bigger picture, far far less than other industries produce, and it’s not that big a deal to store it.

Nuclear really is a clean industry in every sense , especially when compared against the amount of energy produced. Solar etc etc all have waste products in their manufacturing and disposal , and you need a looootttt of solar panels or wind turbines to match the power output of a nuclear power station.

The biggest issue with nuclear is cost, which is high compared to other options.

Yep I’ll second this, if you follow the rope it makes a clove hitch on the loose end, which matches this knot

It’s not a bowline, the knot in the image slips and will pull through if you pull one end, a bowline is fixed

What kind of numbers do they need?

Looks like a handy flag

So… tar x should really be a separate program than tar c? They’re doing different functions

To an extent, but the claimed future growth is just that, a claim, and companies like Mag7 and the whole AI industry and priced at eye watering levels above their actual earnings. Keep in mind that those reported earnings also include circular financing, for example they report it as earnings/profits when one of their AI investments/subsidiaries goes up in stock price, even though that does not represent actual trade with consumers. There’s a whole lot of smoke and mirrors covering the real value

It’s a Keynesian beauty contest, prices go up because more people put their money there. If they keep it local that also improves the local returns

lol make it go away please I don’t like it!

Turns out there is nowhere that fascist supporters like these things being revealed and talked about

It was never going to stop.

Hold up, now you’re mixing in made up stuff with a few facts. Yes there is less glaciation since the last glacial maximum when there were huge ice sheets across continents. No it was not inevitable to continue retreating indefinitely without human intervention, that is simply not true at all.

There have been cycles of maxima/minima over the last few million years, and humans have likely contributed to a warmer period since the beginning of agriculture. But the most recent period of warming due to fossil fuel burning over the last few hundred years is way off the charts from historical trends

Yes, the key aspects of 2.5D are that two things cannot be on top of each other, the world is entirely described by a 2D map, along with a height value for each floor and each object (these are separate). Jumping and looking are just not features included in the original game, but they are not defining properties of 2.5D, they could have been coded in and still be 2.5D

You can go up and down on lifts in doom, there is a height property that changes, and if you step off a ledge you fall in an arc to the ground. If an object is in front of the ledge somewhere at ground level you will collide with it even if you are higher, so eg if you are trying to jump across somewhere a mob far below can cut your jump short and you fall to the ground.

Weirdest name choice, I’m guessing the sketchy managers were all having a big laugh about automating brown people

Dammit, now I’m gonna see(/hear) that every time I restart a service