Fair.

How do you feel about Einhundertzweiunddreißigtausendvierhundertfünfundsechzig?

Moisturize me!

I wonder what you are referring to as well. Also ‘weaponizing discomfort’ sounds like something inappropriate while actually discomfort is a real thing and no one has to stand for it (in a certain degree). Not caring at all if you are causing others discomfort is the definition of selfishness. Recompensating somebody with a big tip, because you are a dick doesn’t make you less of a prick.

Probably depending on the country and according legislature, but as a pedestrian, I often wish for more scooters to take to the road as well. In most aspects they are very equivalent to bicycles and just as fast and dangerous. Worst of all are those scooter drivers who switch between road and sidewalk with every traffic light.

Not what you were asking about, but you reminded me of this video arguing that the LM741 is a relic and not a good choice for a modern circuit. IIRC the video also shortly explains some standard characteristics of an opamp, which could be interesting to you if you suspect a knowledge gap.

Yes, there is. Why deny something without checking, elaborating or citing a source? Sure, it is fun to doubt anybody is ever saying true things on the Internet, but denying a fact just because you do not know it yet, is misinformation in itself.

Beautifully carved! Just to be certain though: This is about Outer Wilds - Echoes of the Eye, right?

I have seen this (or a very similar) picture about five years ago and have thought about it nearly every time I heard the name Radcliffe. I am very thankful that you posted it here and I can finally save it as a reference.

Thanks for giving this reference! The book is out of print, but high-resolution scans can be downloaded here for free, which is endorsed by the original author apparently.

I always found it fairly easy. You just have to chose the custom field size with 50*50 fields and 10 mines overall and you are good to go.

I’m not sure if I love how much I hate this or the other way around.

Why did you have to do that? Please don’t tell me they turned out to be terrible people actually (do tell if they are though)

Similar alots stem from this blog from 2010

The origin of the alot is the blog hyperbole and a half, this article in particular. It is very cute tbh. I don’t find it hard to believe that somebody drew this particular alot in response later on.

Thanks for the read!

I love your enthusiasm! But as someone who works in semiconductor development, I feel a bit like it is time to abandon this branch of the technology tree for now again. Maybe I am just disheartened from the PhD stress, but where does it really lead to right now? Following up on Moore’s Law right now just seems to promise higher efficiency and lower electricity demands while actually that is mainly greenwashing attempt IMO (lower resolution technologies are more energy and resurce efficient when considering resource demand during production; high device density leads usually to increase of the number of transistors which are operated parallely, so while the single FET is more efficient in dynamic operation, the whole chip might have much higher leakage). At the same time this efficiency is used as justification to just increase the calculation load whithout considering if it is useful (e.g. LLMs). Resources might be better allocated for More than Moore/architectural approaches e.g. for neuromorphic computing to actually reduce the immense AI computing load coming up.

Sorry for the rant, I think I gotta quit my job.

Although usually I am all for adressing your own impact as well and not only blaming big corporations (they are mostly at fault, but they won’t change a thing as long as they can still blame consumers), I think it is important to aknowledge here how dependent individuals can be on cars. No one can single-handedly revolutionize the public transport and some areas, especially in more rural regions, really need forms of individual transport at present. EVs are not solving the big issues, but in regards to carbon impact you can compensate for their production quite quickly with the CO2 you save in comparison to an ICE car (depending on your local energy mix of course). Burning fuel will never be carbon neutral, using electric energy for transportation can be eventually. Don’t disregard all the solutions which are not perfect but try for gradual improvement.

I thought they usually report that they did it all by themselves, after only getting a very small interest-free 1M$ loan.

And it is terrible. If you perform this kind of delegation, you have to expect that the other tasks will be shoved back on the priority list and the overall efficiency will decrease. This busy person will need more time overall for the sum of the tasks, because this kind of parallelization will make it harder to work on one task with focus. Also they will burn out eventually. But hey, that’s not management’s problem.