WesternInfidels

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I go back and look at my old code and find it clear and beautiful, easy to understand, a pleasure to read. “Ah yes,” I’ll say to myself, “that approach was clever and elegant. Gosh, past me was pretty smart!”

I like to appreciate it in this manner. Because that way, for a moment at least, I can forget about how it doesn’t actually work.

Well, precisely!

A watt is a unit of power. It’s an energy rate, it involves time. It’s 1 joule per second (J/s).

A watt-hour is the amount of energy delivered at a rate of 1 watt over the course of one hour. (J/s x h). And here we get into the trouble already. (The kilowatt-hour is just 1,000 watt-hours, that’s not the source of the trouble.)

Now we have a unit of energy (the watt-hour) that includes the names of a unit of power (watt, which is a rate) and a unit of time (hour) but the watt-hour (and the kilowatt-hour) measures neither of those things. The watt-hour is defined as ((energy / time unit) x different time unit). It’s insane. Even though the time units should cancel out, we keep the ghost of both time units in the name, to no purpose. It works out to just joules; 1 Wh is 3,600 joules. 1 kWh is 3,600,000 joules.

Measuring energy in terms of kWh is exactly analogous to measuring distance in “meter-per-second-minutes,” when you’ve got meters right there.

Would you measure distance in “1,000 meter per second minutes?”

KWh is super dumb, though, like they were trying for maximum confusion when they invented it.

I don’t doubt your explanation, but it’s tragic and backwards. It would make sense that a WordPress recipe blog wouldn’t be developed with smaller browsers in mind. But 5% of Instagram’s traffic is a gigantic amount of traffic, worth catering to. Wouldn’t it be the big websites that have both the budget and the motivation to make their sites work across browsers? This feels like a market failure.

Call me a luddite, but I think if I were BigCorp Website Director, I’d be saying “If you have to do something special to make it work in Browser X vs Browser Y, you’re getting too fancy, you don’t need that crap.”

It is committed long-term maintenance that separates a road from a desire pathway.

It is committed long-term maintenance that eventually makes software solid enough to be someone else’s substrate.

/bombast

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LLMs are going to evolve into a position where being wrong sometimes and hallucinating sometimes won’t matter, because organizations are already built to deal with it: managers.

You have to let me bring them into the store, they’re my emotional support wolves

I feel like this is ripe for an “Autotune The News” treatment. I’m thinking Eminem’s “Without Me:”

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I have two Microsoft Outlooks, Outlooks
Neither of 'em works
Neither of 'em works

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An unnamed source told the Post it was like “hearing a voice in a stadium, except the stadium is a thousand square miles of desert.”

What the hell is this analogy? “It’s like [thing], except if [thing] were totally different.” This is like a bad movie script.

To find a heartbeat, a quantum Ghost Murmur tool would have to contend not just with Earth’s magnetic field and magnetic noise from natural and human-made electric currents but also with “the heartbeats of the sheep and dogs and jackrabbits—whatever else is running around out there,” says Chad Orzel, a professor of physics…

I’m glad someone brought this up, it was the first thing that came to my mind.

The National Park Service is a different department. The Forest Service is part of the agriculture department, it’s about managing forests as exploitable natural resources.

So that’s good news, in the bleakest way, I guess.

Q: So do you have any hobbies?

A: Well lately I’ve really gotten interested in routing VGA through unusual items!

Q: Ooooh, that’s so hot right now

E. coli is one of several pathogens that can be communicated through raw milk, and this is well-understood, long-confirmed, old-school-learning.