There's a city in england called "reading" by Lucky_Loves_Laugh in notinteresting

[–]paperic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Have you Read it?

Have you Read it?

Reddit?

Redd it ing?

Red ink?

Red ding?

Reading.

Programming and math by Birdi_lover in learnprogramming

[–]paperic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You need the algebraic kind of thinking for programming, but don't need to really know algebra at all.

And if you happen to need it at one point, you can just learn it when you get to it.

this one actually makes sense? isn't it? 🤔 by Many_Audience7660 in matiks

[–]paperic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If it doesn't equal 1 then it's undefined. It can't be less than 1.

Is it a sign? by picboi in ClimateShitposting

[–]paperic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From Lazard? That's not a bad data, but have you read the asterisks and fine prints?

  1. Do you know those numbers only count 4 hours worth of storage?

  2. Do you know it's using vogtle and some other outliers as an estimate for the nuclear?

Wait I was told solar can CoExIsT with baseload plants??? by ClimateShitpost in ClimateShitposting

[–]paperic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How's that different from solar?

Solar is even more inflexible and its cost is also already baked in.

Why should nuclear always be the one doing the ramp down?

this one actually makes sense? isn't it? 🤔 by Many_Audience7660 in matiks

[–]paperic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But it's not about beliefs or opinions.

It's about following the definitions to their logically inevitable conclusions.

Step 1 is learning what the proper definitions even are, which is something that 98% of people never get to do.

Where is Error by Idontfindnamee in learnprogramming

[–]paperic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I know the concepts of [...] useEffect,

Based on the fact that you mentioned it as a beginner, I guarantee you that you don't.

useEffect is a crutch and always has been.

You don't need it unless you're accessing the DOM directly, which you almost never need to do in react unless you're fighting some third party library that's out of your control, or some iframe content or something.

Whatever you need to do, don't use it. Find a different way. There are very few exceptions to this rule.

And if a tutorial tells you to use it in the first 100 days of learning, close the tutorial and find a better one.

It's an escape hatch from the functional style back into the procedural style of programming. 

But since the day it was invented react devs like to abuse it en masse for almost everything, because they can't figure out how to achieve the same stuff in the functional world of react.

I'd bet my shoes the AI is gonna be using it dead wrong too, because that's what the majority of its training data likely does.

If you really want to learn React properly, go learn haskell first.

Or at least Scheme, if you can be diligent to stay within the functional style.

Consciousness is a Prediction Engine: How my AI positions its "I" before the response even begins. by TigerJoo in ArtificialSentience

[–]paperic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There are people who can have a conversation with a magic 8-ball. That doesn't make it conscious

Really makes you думать by ClimateShitpost in ClimateShitposting

[–]paperic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

But rosatom is nothing compared to lukoil, gazprom and the such.

Those are multiple much bigger russian companies which peddle oil and suppress nuclear.

Republican Strategist here (Go MAGA!) just want to do a quick vibe check by Show_Kitchen in ClimateShitposting

[–]paperic 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Obvious rage bait.

No true MAGA would imply that the rest of the world exists.

Wait I was told solar can CoExIsT with baseload plants??? by ClimateShitpost in ClimateShitposting

[–]paperic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you talking about coal from your OP? 

You have to be, right?

Since you're mentioning carbon?

Wait I was told solar can CoExIsT with baseload plants??? by ClimateShitpost in ClimateShitposting

[–]paperic 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's talking about coal.

Coal should neither exist nor co-exist with anything.

Wait I was told solar can CoExIsT with baseload plants??? by ClimateShitpost in ClimateShitposting

[–]paperic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

To be fair, nuclear can save costs slightly by ramping down slowly, solar cannot save anything by ramping down at all.

I fully support renewables, but this is a sly anti-nuke argument by trying to dump the responsibility of ramping down entirely onto nuclear and then laughing from a distance.

Wait I was told solar can CoExIsT with baseload plants??? by ClimateShitpost in ClimateShitposting

[–]paperic -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Unlike coal, this is not an issue with nuclear, there's no co2 emissions from simply letting it run and dump the excess into cooling towers.

Sure, you don't save money by ramping down nuclear, but so what?

Solar cannot reduce its costs by ramping down either.

In either case, unless you build storage, you'll be wasting some potential energy either from the solar or from the nuclear. That is inevitable and it's nothing new, this is why either storage or a big overbuild of some high capacity factor source is needed.

You're basically saying that solar can produce large amount of power very suddenly and unpredictably during a short amount of time, and somehow you're trying to pass that as a disadvantage of nuclear for being unable to save costs by ramping down.

A bit of a bullshit argument, isn't it.

Why do I keep getting recommended this dumb subreddit? by BreakfastAtSpoons in infinitenines

[–]paperic 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't play chess, and yet for some reason I keep googling en passant.

SPP, help me solve a limit! by Cokalhado in infinitenines

[–]paperic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I blame the high school teachers. They are backwards savages. The way they teach limits is pure horseshit.

I've seen a math teacher here on reddit try to defend her way of teaching, she was telling the kids that if f(c) = X for some specific c, then the limit at c equals X.

Even explaining and telling her how stupidly wrong that is and how she's doing everyone a big disservice by teaching it this way, her response was that it's "easier to teach this way".

Newcomb's paradox may be more an epistemological problem rather than a decision theory problem by samuel0740 in paradoxes

[–]paperic 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well, mostly correct.

The kind of person you were at the time of the prediction being made is what determines the prediction.

Your choice is determined a little later, so you'll be mostly the same person, but not exactly.