ckuehne
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5 months ago
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on: Astronomers 'image' a mysterious dark object in the distant Universe
“Some people become depressed at the scale of the universe, because it makes them feel insignificant. Other people are relieved to feel insignificant, which is even worse. But, in any case, those are mistakes. Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow. Or a herd of cows. The universe is not there to overwhelm us; it is our home, and our resource. The bigger the better.” David Deutsch
ckuehne
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1 year ago
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on: The Netherlands has returned some stolen artifacts to Indonesia
There is no "nation from which the items were taken".
ckuehne
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2 years ago
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on: How to learn chess as an adult (2021)
This conclusion does not follow from the article.
ckuehne
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3 years ago
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on: Coping with Copilot
> We're already inundated with mediocre programmers, many of whom have CS degrees, which is precisely why the industry looks at job experience more than credentials
How does looking at job experience help to distinguish good from bad developers?
ckuehne
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4 years ago
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on: Against 3x Speed
"The assumption is that people can acquire knowledge as if it’s a substance they can pour into their minds. I call it the Water in a Cup method"
In German-speaking countries, there has been a name for it since 1647: Nuernberger Trichter
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Funnel
ckuehne
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4 years ago
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on: Major nuclear fusion milestone reached as ‘ignition’ triggered in a lab
I think your statement "Once you have plasma breakeven you have a self-sustaining heater basically" is false. According to Wikipedia [1] - if I interpret it correctly - the fusion energy gain factor from plasma must be 5 (!) to have a self-sustaining heater:
"Most fusion reactions release at least some of their energy in a form that cannot be captured within the plasma, so a system at Q = 1 will cool without external heating. With typical fuels, self-heating in fusion reactors is not expected to match the external sources until at least Q = 5"
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_energy_gain_factor
ckuehne
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4 years ago
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on: Chip shortage leads carmaker Opel to shut German plant until 2022
ckuehne
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5 years ago
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on: Optimizing Things in the USSR (2016)
ckuehne
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5 years ago
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on: Effect of exercise training for five years on all cause mortality
ckuehne
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5 years ago
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on: We deleted the production database by accident
Of course it is. That is why, had the pilot survived, he/she would have faced criminal charges.
ckuehne
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5 years ago
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on: We Don’t Need to Work So Much (2015)
So, how much percent in pension payments for teachers would the German taxpayer save if the state required, say, one year less teacher education?
ckuehne
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5 years ago
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on: Making Databases Work: The Pragmatic Wisdom of Michael Stonebraker (2018)
I like this quote from the "Where We Have Failed" paper:
"We are very uncritical of systems created by the large Internet vendors to that
solve application-specific problems, which have been written, until recently, by
development teams with little background in DBMSs. As such, they have tended to
reinvent the wheel. I am especially amused by Google’s adoption and then rejection
of MapReduce and eventual consistency."
ckuehne
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6 years ago
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on: The “No Code” Delusion
This sounds a lot like the "We do everything with XML now"-phase that the Java world has gone through.
ckuehne
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6 years ago
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on: Effects of acute wild blueberry supplementation on the cognition of children
Note also that the blueberry test group (WBB) had a higher score in the practice test already (cf. Table 1). In other words: they were probably better before the consumption of the blueberry juice and stayed better afterwards.
ckuehne
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6 years ago
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on: CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history
Note that the chart in the linked comic begins in the middle of the last ice age. It ends one or two degree celsius above the mean temperature of the previous 500 years (or so). The big hockey stick at the end is a prediction! At the point in the chart at about 16000 BCE it states that the short warming or cooling spikes have probably been smoothed out (after all, those ancient temperatures are only available by proxy).
ckuehne
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7 years ago
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on: Pictures from the Eastern Bloc in the 80s
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ckuehne
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7 years ago
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on: Systemisers are better at maths
What do you mean by 'allowed'? Why should it not be allowed?
ckuehne
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8 years ago
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on: The Disappearing Right to Earn a Living
If licensing was required for computer-related goods and services we would likely neither have Linux today nor a cheap plastic router to run it on.
ckuehne
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8 years ago
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on: Germany Is Burning Too Much Coal
Export is not the metric you are looking for. Germany exports lots of solar and wind engery during storms or on hot summer days because it cannot use it. The prices for this energy are low, even negative.
ckuehne
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10 years ago
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on: The camel doesn't have two humps: Programming “aptitude test” canned
How is Fizzbuzz a trick question?
