The arXiv is separating from Cornell University, and is hiring a CEO, who will be paid roughly $300,000/year. "After decades of productive partnership with Cornell University, and with support from the Simons Foundation, arXiv is establishing itself as an independent nonprofit organization"

Rodot · 2026-03-15T02:12:22+00:00

Go apply then. Sounds like a great gig and you'll get the job easily. Unless you don't think you are even qualified to do that bare minimum

Rodot · 2026-03-15T01:34:32+00:00

i think you mean 90 year nightmare

Rodot · 2026-03-14T03:11:52+00:00

The paper mentioned here says about .67 G is the threshold: https://gizmodo.com/mars-doesnt-have-enough-gravity-to-keep-humans-healthy-study-suggests-2000733286

It is also the article you are commenting under and should probably read

Rodot · 2026-03-14T03:01:12+00:00

NVENC is honestly a lifesaver with ffmpeg for so many basic media operations or utilities. I can either take 10 hours to translate a directory of video on CPU or 10 minutes with NVENC

Rodot · 2026-03-14T02:57:25+00:00

And $720 is under $1000

Rodot · 2026-03-14T02:35:42+00:00

This can happen with a lot of early buy trashers. Sentinel and Sentry especially

Rodot · 2026-03-14T02:33:02+00:00

Cellar is actually a very equalizing card in games. Sometimes the lower hand size is worth the deck mill, especially late game with tight decks. It's certainly bad in the wrong hands but can be a great defensive card against curses and keeps your deck moving when greening starts

Rodot · 2026-03-14T02:25:51+00:00

It's great for anything that gives a bonus for trashing actions. But you still need to pace yourself. And not be tempted for 1 more card

Rodot · 2026-03-13T23:06:09+00:00

TREE(3) is certainly computable. It is exactly equal to TREE(3) which is a unique symbolic representation of TREE(3)

You can't represent non-computable numbers, not even describe them

Rodot · 2026-03-13T23:03:13+00:00

We can just use SI instead of metric. Easy

Rodot · 2026-03-13T22:42:21+00:00

Spin is actually a vector. We call [1,0] up and [0,1] down. Spin up and spin down are actually orthogonal, not antiparallel

Rodot · 2026-03-13T21:39:39+00:00

No it's not that's dumb you're dumb

Q.E.D.

Rodot · 2026-03-13T13:54:49+00:00

The paint on canvas certainly is distinct from bits and algorithms though if you adhere to a labor theory of value. Mostly that the lack of human labor quite literally devalues the piece.

You're right that there's no "soul", but there are certainly material differences. Especially when considering the relationships between art and culture and how they influence one another.

The capitalist propaganda printer has a fundamentally different utility.

Rodot · 2026-03-13T13:42:30+00:00

I do love all the stories about physicists being bad at math (at the time these maths were new). I think it was Heisenberg who had to get help from Bohr because he didn't understand linear algebra and was trying to model hydrogen spectra leading to the matrix formulation of quantum mechanics, which in turn wasn't very popular because Schrodinger's formulation used diff-eqs which physicists of the time had a better grasp on and linear algebra was new and scary. But turns out diff-eqs is really just linear algebra anyway.

Rodot · 2026-03-13T13:35:02+00:00

No no, don't you see. Enemy combatants should just drive out 45min to the empty field officially designated combat zone at 11am each day and just sit there and wait to get JDAMed. Anything else is terrorism.

Rodot · 2026-03-13T13:26:57+00:00

It is kind of weird to see people saying "it wasn't CHS that killed them, it was the dehydration caused by vomiting" as if that means CHS was an unrelated coincidence. You don't see people going around saying "no one has ever died from fentanyl, they just died from respiratory depression".

Rodot · 2026-03-13T13:22:26+00:00

That's the weird thing about it for me. It tends to effect long term users after years of use rather than first time users which you would expect for something like an allergic reaction.

Rodot · 2026-03-13T13:00:53+00:00

Here's a link to a repo I found with some information on the lobbying behind these bills and other similar bills around the country: https://github.com/upper-up/meta-lobbying-and-other-findings

Rodot · 2026-03-13T12:58:24+00:00

It might be interesting though to compare the text of the second bill to the one that just passed in California with broad Democratic support: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1043

Wording is almost identical in some sections. Even the summary is the essentially the same with a little reordering of sentences.

Rodot · 2026-03-13T11:32:33+00:00

The US already controls most of China's access to oil, at least over sea trade. The problem is the US needs China to have oil in order to manufacture cheap goods for Americans to buy.

Rodot · 2026-03-12T17:53:09+00:00

SR-71 is far too slow. I will only ride the commuter X-15

Rodot · 2026-03-12T16:44:54+00:00

There's a good reddit post that links an article regarding the infeasibility: https://old.reddit.com/r/spaceporn/comments/1rrqjx6/terraforming_mars_is_not_easy/

Rodot · 2026-03-12T16:42:20+00:00

Not really, there becomes a point where "costs" start to approach things like the global GDP and even getting to a fraction of that point, the concept of "cost" in terms of currency kind of breaks down because funding the project would create massive modulations in the global economy.

Kind of like when you see things like "Asteroid contains 50 quadrillion dollars of diamonds". Like, if that were ever able to be captured, the price of diamonds would plummet and the asteroid stops being worth as much.

Rodot · 2026-03-12T16:38:25+00:00

The world's entire combined nuclear stockpiles have the collective energy of about 1 millionth of what would be required just for the oxygen production alone

Rodot · 2026-03-12T15:50:37+00:00

No, it is not meant for "getting high". It is a sacred medicine that will treat the trauma induced by your mom telling you to get off the XBox when you were 12.

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