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We have more or less industrialized cheap cookery, I thought. It's the pre-pack options in your grocery's freezer aisle and deli, coupled with a toaster oven at home (or a microwave in a pinch). There are some moves toward "start with ingredients and get a meal" automation for homes, but they are still pricy and rare, with significant limitations (look up Thermonix, for a good example).
Actual dry-erase whiteboard contact paper can be found for less than $2 per square foot.
Modern LLMs are very effective bullsh*t artists, albeit with room for improvement on that score. We should not be surprised that they imitate the work of the finest bullsh*t artists the human race has ever produced. Spirituality (i.e. pure bullsh*t) is only one aspect of this.
I've definitely noticed that "not reading sheet music" and "guitar" are concepts that go together, but I have to ask "why do beginning guitarists not learn sheet music?". It feels something like algebra, where some percentage of the population just look at a different notation with some abstractions baked in and immediately decide it's not for them.
I've been learning acoustic guitar for a few months now, and strongly agree with all of this. There are a lot of resonances with rationality practice here, and it also points out some difficulties that I had not realized. Rational thought takes at minimum tens of milliseconds, which is notably less than how long you have to take actions when playing guitar. Also these actions don't map in any way to evolved reflex loops (unlike, say, driving or juggling which also have similar reaction time requirements). This means I've had to explicitly figure out how to chunk and cache rational thoughts prior to playing, so as to be able to use them... (read more)
Deep geothermal energy production via microwave drilling to 20km. If we can geothermal wells to those depths, we can pump down water and get back superheated steam. This can then be turned to electricity using a standard power plant turbine. In particular, it can be turned to electricity using existing turbines at coal- and oil- fired power plants, allowing those plants to continue to run but "defueled". Abundant power, no CO2 or other emissions, no additional land usage, no intermittency, no additional grid connections required, no additional earthquake risks (it's drilling, but not fracking), no geographic restrictions (if you drill anywhere it's hot enough) which also means reduced geopolitical conflict. If you... (read more)
If you find yourself at a stage of life where you have multiple domiciles, I strongly recommend buying duplicates of literally everything that isn't literally one-of-a-kind. Travel where everything but the clothes on your back and your laptop is already pre-positioned at the other end is a treasure.
Ahh, so that's why companies want you to be "aligned with their mission" so badly.
Right. Between search costs, orientation time on the codebase and business, mentor/team lead time spent teaching, inevitable moderate fuck-ups, and general odds and sods, a good junior developer at a pure software company is accruing negative value their first year, and is net negative until nearly their second. A bad junior developer is negative EV until you can figure that out and fire him, which can easily take over a year. Additionally, junior developers will, more often than not, leave around year four, due to desire to learn something best learned elsewhere, vesting cliffs, or just life's inevitable... (read more)
Dimensional analysis is in instance of type signature checking, as fully understood. Unfortunately very few type systems for existing programming languages support the type transformations necessary to implement it directly.