Nat (she/they)

Point 2 is covered by having a control group and point 3 seems to be missing the point: well yeah, don’t take the conclusion too far, but that doesn’t mean measuring arousal is bad science.

Bigger issues are low sample size (as you mentioned) and the fact that it’s a correlational study that hasn’t done any work to causally link them.

I’ve seen e^{d/dx}

More than agricorps

The message I got was that the system’s to blame for making this the equilibrium point

“haha, a funny joke between friends”

Who says this is JS? Might be Rust.

Negative temperatures are actually hotter than all positive temperatures, you’re experiencing population inversion

Immediate mode rendering and components seem to be why people use them. And you know what? The web should natively support those but doesn’t (well it kinda bad components, but ehhh). Otherwise I agree, the frameworks are overcomplicated.

body {
    background-color: pink!important;
}

We still have jokes and common knowledge about being sent to the psych ward if you reveal anything weird about your mind. I’ve heard stories only a few years old of doctors refusing to refer trans patients to gender clinics, which quite often means either needing to circumvent the system or death. Only last year I had the revelation that doctors are supposed to help me, not just tell me what I must do.

Capitalists found a way to exploit artists even harder, so that now they don’t even need to pay them.

I don’t think people would care quite as much if gen AI merely existed (I’m sure many would still dislike it, but just for being soulless). But it doesn’t just do that, it also destroys artists’ livelihoods and prevalence of their art using their own work. I don’t really care if it’s technically theft or not, it’s doing bad for society regardless.

You can’t expect and accept that power is distributed unequally if you’re dead, I guess

“hitting yourself” is referring to self interactions I think

Number = IEEE-754 double precision float, which includes NaN, so it makes sense

Could definitely be worse for latency in particular cases, but if we imagine a write heavy workload it still might win. Writing a byte/word basically has to do the same thing: read, modify write of cache lines, it just doesn’t confuse the dependency tracking quite as much. So rather than stalling on a read, I think that would end up stalling on store buffers. Writing to bits usually means less memory, and thus less memory to read in that read-modify-write part, so it might still be faster.

A lot of times using less memory is actually better for performance because the main bottleneck is memory bandwidth or latency.

100 billion transistors

I don’t even live near any of my relatives, and anyone I would help would be about as related to me as any other human (so, not related). Perhaps in another time period I would’ve helped my tribe, but that is not the society I live in today.

Not that it really matters here, because I have no obligation to help genes.

I don’t try to propagate my genes ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

They seem to be focusing on CO2. Trees in cities are going to capture a negligible amount of CO2 and for relatively high cost versus doing things outside a city. The point of trees in cities is shade and looking nice (good for mental health). Liquid trees solve neither of those.