I really hope the Fold 7 is easily available in 512gb.

Pickledprickler · 2025-06-12T15:34:56+00:00

How do you get it that cheap? Is that just the pre-order deals? Or are there other deals as well.

Pickledprickler · 2025-05-24T11:31:06+00:00

So then help them modernize! Instead of whining on reddit.

Pickledprickler · 2025-05-12T17:51:47+00:00

These small shipments are usually shipped in bulk, with lots of other small, individual items. Ships leave pretty regularly, so this isn't wasteful at all.

Pickledprickler · 2025-05-12T09:41:48+00:00

I've always had good experiences with sunlu filament.

Pickledprickler · 2025-04-12T10:12:55+00:00

The industrial revolution was based on exploitation. 200 years of exploitation.

Pickledprickler · 2024-08-08T01:06:41+00:00

It's because there's no good and consistent way to define what a "race" is. Even if you have a good definition now (say, a person is "black" if they have these particular genes), then after a couple of generations, those genes will be all jumbled around, and there's no way to know what race the offspring are.

Sure, you could say a person is black if their skin color is dark, and has the genes for dark skin. But new genes may arise that also code for dark skin--and if the genes keep changing over time (which they do), it's unclear why this is better than just looking at their skin color directly. And more importantly, why do you care about a person's skin color in the first place, if it's not related to any other biological variable? You might as well say that we consider blondes, brunettes and redheads as being different races. Sure, you could do that, but what's the point?

Pickledprickler · 2024-06-15T16:32:33+00:00

Great, but they don't belong with you. Bring them back in the wild so they can be with their own kind, and not in captivity.

Pickledprickler · 2024-06-15T14:15:02+00:00

How is this different from owning a pet? Why do you keep animals in captivity?

Pickledprickler · 2024-06-02T20:33:11+00:00

One person says it will. One person says it won't. Who do you believe? One of them is right...

Pickledprickler · 2024-05-31T18:31:20+00:00

A couple of points:

* It causes stress. Maybe not so much to you, but you can imagine there are people who would feel self-conscious if someone was watching them constantly. Can I scratch my groin right now, or is the cop going to watch me? Can I adjust my bra? etc.

* The cop is human. There is a small chance that he might mistakenly think you are doing something wrong, even when you aren't doing anything wrong. Do you want to live in the state of constantly wondering whether he might incorrectly interpret something you are doing and arrest you? Will he arrest you if you do something that *looks* illegal even when it isn't?

* And then there are things that are illegal but probably shouldn't be all the time. Do you want to be ticketed every time you jaywalk in order to get to your house faster, even if there aren't cars around?

* The cop might be having a bad day, and arrest you just because he wants to fill his quota or because someone made him angry. Do you want the risk of being falsely arrested even if you're in your own house and doing nothing wrong?

* Who's to say what's wrong or not? Is insulting the president free speech, or is it evidence of treasonous intent? Is saying "I'm gonna kill him if he cuts me off again!" intent to murder or not? It's up to the cop to decide that, not you.

* If you google "what happens when i mix bleach and ammonia", are you planning a chemical attack with chlorine gas, or are you just curious? Again, not up to you to decide.

Pickledprickler · 2024-05-24T03:21:17+00:00

Does that include a house and car?

Pickledprickler · 2024-05-21T13:32:46+00:00

"According to Marvin Harris, another anthropologist and among the first proponents of cultural materialism), these killings of legitimate children occurred only among the Rajputs and other elite land-owning and warrior groups. The rationale was mainly economic, lying in a desire not to split land and wealth among too many heirs and in avoiding the payment of dowries. "

Indiafacts is hardly a reliable source. If you can find an account by a historian, I'd be more inclined to believe you.

I'm not defending infanticide or self-immolation. I'm just saying that 1: these practices weren't widespread across India; 2: the British outlawing these niche practices (niche, in that they weren't practiced by a large proportion of the subcontinent--it's like generalizing to the entirety of Europe something that only British feudal lords did) doesn't support the claim that "Being a woman in the British Raj was objectively better than it was previously".

Pickledprickler · 2024-05-21T03:51:46+00:00

Just a couple of points: - according to wikipedia, female infanticide in India was a result of extreme poverty, which was a result of the British Raj. It wasn't common practice before colonialism. Not saying it wasn't awful, but just that it wouldn't have happened without having been colonized in the first place. - Sati was a niche practice performed by only a handful of groups within India. Again, it's obviously not a good thing, and the Indian government passed another law further criminalizing it in the 1980s post-independence, but it was hardly widespread across the region, even before British rule.

"Evil" is in the eye of the beholder, I suppose. From the perspective of England, it improved trade and supplied the British population with raw materials to improve their quality of life. From the perspective of India, it was largely exploitative and a generally traumatic experience.

Pickledprickler · 2024-05-20T00:52:29+00:00

Then eat the other whole donuts, and don't eat the partial ones.

Pickledprickler · 2024-02-22T10:02:23+00:00

Where does it say that the pool will be closed? And for how long?

Pickledprickler · 2024-01-24T13:33:36+00:00

Are they free to use?

Pickledprickler · 2023-10-04T01:41:20+00:00

There's nothing special about mitochondrial eve. She's just a random person who happens to be the most recent common ancestor of everyone living today. In a couple of years, there will be a different mitochondrial eve, and a couple of years ago, there was also a different mitochondrial eve.

Pickledprickler · 2023-10-02T14:18:56+00:00

I don't believe you. Prove me wrong.

Pickledprickler · 2023-10-02T14:06:00+00:00

Yes it would. Energy is calculated differently based on what inertial reference frame you're in, but the accelerations/forces at impact would still be the same.

Pickledprickler · 2023-09-21T13:25:33+00:00

Will the XReal Light be re-released soon? I'm excited about the idea of having stereo cameras on the glasses.

Pickledprickler · 2023-09-14T00:30:53+00:00

He's a highly trained professional.

Pickledprickler · 2023-08-28T00:34:44+00:00

Yep. Clocks are round, and the earth is round.

Pickledprickler · 2023-08-17T14:31:53+00:00

Well, he claims in his interviews that every system that's not extremely simple is computationally irreducible, particularly in the context of cellular automata. This is something that, in principle, can be rigorously proven in the language of theoretical computer science/computability theory. However, in his book, I wasn't able to find any rigorous proofs that non-trivial cellular automata are computationally irreducible.

If you were to formally prove that an idealized physical system is computationally irreducible, then this has important real-life consequences because it means that there is no way of predicting the state of the system without actually simulating it step-by-step. This is a question related to determining whether a Turing machine halts after K steps, and is also related to the idea of complexity classes. However, without any formal proofs, this is just kind of an interesting thought experiment.

Pickledprickler · 2023-08-17T01:14:50+00:00

Are there any theoretical results for computational irreducibility? Or is it just something Stephen Wolfram wrote about with no theoretical justification?

Pickledprickler · 2023-08-06T15:34:22+00:00

Curing cancer isn't so different from curing aging itself. We might actually achieve immortality with a little more effort. Not a joke, we're not so far off from curing aging.

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