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Re:TSMC Reports Q3 Earnings [pdf] on Thursday October 13, 2022 @10:03AM (#33191092)
what a dumb way to redefine winning... if your rival loses more than you means you have won.

they act as if with that assumption, but in fact what really happens is everyone loses. it's a lose-lose scenario

Re:Why Dates and Times Seem to Lose Their Meaning on Sunday October 09, 2022 @01:26AM (#33138476)
the most often overlooked aspect of "the present" is that it has a size or length.

so the "present" may be a second, zero seconds (with lots of math), or even 1000 years.

Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth on Saturday October 08, 2022 @11:57PM (#33138160)
until trees with their wood laid waste to this balance?

at least until fungi figured hoe to break lingin?

Re:Fungi Lurk Inside Cancers–and Might Speed Their Growth on Saturday October 08, 2022 @11:55PM (#33138152)
that whole nanomachines sci fi, e.g. nanobots making grey goo or whatever is not as exciting if you consider cells are alreay microbits made out of protein nanobots
Re:Good and Bad Procrastination (2005) on Saturday October 08, 2022 @11:51PM (#33138130)
I've found that I have gotten better at this as I've gotten older. it does get easier.
yes, I think it happens so you (we) can go hunting or harvesting or something, I can usually refocus that into cooking
Re:The fall of datacenter software on Thursday August 25, 2022 @09:10AM (#32593235)
which means it also ends (stops) there

the issue comes down to the possibility of programming a mobile smartphone using only mobile smartphones (in contrast with PCs)

Re:TikTok and the Fall of the Social-Media Giants on Friday July 29, 2022 @10:01AM (#32276998)
I see this as a consequence of the overarching ideology of markets and capitalism standing in the way of humans exploiting the full potential of digital and internet technologies.

at this point this is a social problem to be solved politically

I wouldn't think that 3 months is enough time to decide if success has been reached
Re:Show HN: Parsnip – Duolingo for Cooking on Thursday July 28, 2022 @06:09PM (#32270664)
what I don't like about this (in general) is that it's part of the overruling ideology that will turn the internet from a place where you can look up how to make any recipe for free into a place where you have pay somebody a monthly fee to look up how much sugar per cup of flour goes in some dish (to put an example)

of course, this is not exclusive to this project in particular, but it's a crummy trend that just keeps getting worse. and this project is part of this wave.

Re:In Remote Alaska, Meal Planning Is Everything on Tuesday July 26, 2022 @10:29AM (#32238767)
the trick is to cook about one and a half servings everytime. this way you eat one serving, store the half and heat up a previously stored side dish (previously remaining half serving)
Re:Are language models deprived of electric sleep? on Saturday July 23, 2022 @12:16PM (#32204686)
> we lose “I am a unique, distinct entity.

I agree with this sentiment. quantum mechanics (stemming out of statistics mechanics) start from regarding all particles as indistinguishable.

IMO, this theory is more mathematics than it is physics.

Given a wide enough application, humans end up ourselves as particles, essentially we are commoditifiying our individuality.