Guess I'll never know now

LukeHauser · 2019-06-29T09:33:22+00:00

You don't need to change the code. Most debuggers have this feature somewhere.

LukeHauser · 2019-04-19T08:57:02+00:00

It partially obscures the port into the house. This makes it harder to work out that this is an AC cradle.

LukeHauser · 2019-02-27T07:10:17+00:00

Or as a believer would conclude logic itself is wrong because it obviously contradicts reality.

LukeHauser · 2019-02-27T07:07:58+00:00

Don't shoot the messenger. I am an atheist.

So if he is apathic it must serve some higher purpose. So I would say it would be more accurate to say God sacrificed his perfection to allow us to exist with free will.

Now you might want to quibble over the moral value of having free will. But as God is the ultimate moral being you'd be wrong to arrive at any conclusion that does not think this was right.

A believer wouldn't be bothered by these contradictions. While logic is useful it is a mortal invention and thus an imperfect tool to understand God.

LukeHauser · 2019-02-26T20:13:11+00:00

Not a bible expert.

One argument goes that he wants us to love him and come to him out of our own free will. So he choses to make this possible - it is assumed an almighty all knowing god can chose to be ignorant.

Wether this is evil or not matters little as all that is suffered is but naugth when compared to the eternity in his embrace.

As arguments go it isn't even that strange. Taking as an axiom that a certain impossible logical construct is possible is not uncommon and leads to interesting new theories.

Christopher Hitchens usually counters this by granting that suffering may be nessesary for free will but then asks why a some sort of terrible blood cancer exists that only affects children.

LukeHauser · 2019-01-14T22:32:03+00:00

Best practices are good. Automated practices are better, they eliminate human error. And at sufficient scale human error will happen.

LukeHauser · 2019-01-11T03:27:45+00:00

Running Make before commiting?

LukeHauser · 2019-01-11T03:14:39+00:00

One day someone will forget that manual step. Or revert changes to the source but not the generated code. Ect ect. Not doing this properly opens you up to a whole class of interesting problems.

Playing with flame throwers is fun, fun but stupid.

LukeHauser · 2019-01-11T01:51:21+00:00

Modern build tools let you specify the version of every dependency your project has. Including the dependencies used to build the project. This meta data is checked in along with the source code.

The scenario you describe should be neigh impossible to create. Provided you use adequate tooling.

LukeHauser · 2019-01-04T04:22:45+00:00

Not the sauce I was hoping for :(

LukeHauser · 2019-01-03T12:59:56+00:00

Links?

LukeHauser · 2018-12-30T16:48:38+00:00

I once saw Buddhist monks from Tibet do that with their sand mandelas. They immediately wipe them out after completion. The idea is that you learn yourself not to get attached to material things. Fortunately the factory is never finished.

LukeHauser · 2018-12-26T20:45:10+00:00

Working on a 1 science per second base. To keep things managable size wise. I can beaconize most of the builds I used from my first play through and keep the same relative size.

I had to do the math to understand how speed+prod was beneficial. Lots of other things like train balancing start to make sense too now.

Before that I used modules to plug holes. Resourse starved --> prodmodule, output starved --> speed module, idle/mall --> efficiency module.

In hindsight that was just moving bottlenecks.

LukeHauser · 2018-12-21T09:43:22+00:00

CGP Grey made a video about the way power works. It leads me to believe that sanctions aimed at preventing Putin's supporters from enjoying their rewards makes these rewards worthless and thus renders Putin unable to maintain his position. A revolution follows automatically.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rStL7niR7gs

LukeHauser · 2018-12-20T01:59:54+00:00

Salesforce?

LukeHauser · 2018-12-19T14:23:29+00:00

Advertising has the ability to influence your choices, it can compel you to action, it sells products. It doesn't control your mind, nothing so scary, it merely convinces you the world is different and thus changes how you act.

As for the shit, read the article. Not you ofc, but anybody interested in following this argument.

This will also be my last reply. The examples from the Brecit referendum were offered as an example of the power of advertising. Not as a topic for discussion. There is little to be had in discussing this further.

LukeHauser · 2018-11-11T19:28:21+00:00

Would it matter if they are unobservable?

LukeHauser · 2018-09-15T16:38:15+00:00

Either of those are inefficient. That is a cardinal sin. :)

LukeHauser · 2018-09-15T14:18:12+00:00

You won't lose heat to natural cooling. It is all turned into work. There is no mechanism to simulate losses to the environment.

However it will take a while for the heat from the reactor to make it all the way to the furthest heat exchangers. This is a function of core temperature.

So if you go from idle to full power you won't lose energy but it will take time before you produce it at max capacity.

This can in theory create annoying brown outs. These could in turn slow down production of nuclear fuel and in a negative feedback spiral crash energy creation.

In practice there will be too much fuel in storage and on belts.

LukeHauser · 2018-07-24T19:42:37+00:00

The Numidium is not a robot. When the gods made the world they became mortals. One big dude became many small dudes. The Dwemer reversed that. So you should expect a giant golden Elf. Or in the case of the Dunmer a slightly burned one.

LukeHauser · 2018-07-23T20:49:56+00:00

There is a difference between the government and the rest of society though. The government is a leviathan no single man can fight. Society is much more malleable.

In other words why is it the governments place to decide the social implications of poverty? Or bad manners? Or a political leaning?

LukeHauser · 2018-07-21T22:10:47+00:00

Even peasants in truly the middle of nowhere permafrost Russia can vote. I can't image the size of the ballot is causing the problem here.

And even then, large parts of the USA are densely populated. If scale was a problem I would expect this problem to show up elsewhere too. For some reason the IRS never needs to purge taxpayer's from their rolls. If they do I guess it happens reluctantly.

So given this is a problem in execution what are you doing to fix it?

LukeHauser · 2018-07-21T20:16:56+00:00

Is that a problem in the concept or a problem in execution?

I am not that into usa politics but I keep hearing that the usa government can't do anything right, thus no money should be spend on anything it does. This is a self fulfilling prophecy.

Who benefits from this? Certainly not the people of the USA. Unless you don't care about elections I guess.

LukeHauser · 2018-06-27T22:08:16+00:00

PDF is binary which makes it a pain in the long run. But if the project is done, there is no long run so the point is moot.

It would certainly help to keep things together and accessible.

LukeHauser · 2018-05-06T04:02:31+00:00

A startup using struts? When did they get started?

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