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>Also, think of how deleterious the abolition of local time would have on communication. Right now I can say something like "I received an urgent call at 3am" and you know immediately what that means. But if I said "I received an urgent call at 17:00Z", a lot of the meaning is lost. You'd have to know where I live, i.e. what my local time zone is, and then do some quick mental math to determine what actual time of day 17:00Z means for me. With local time, that calculation is already done for you! Local time is just too damn useful of a concept. It really truly is better than global time for most uses. Global time is really only useful for scheduling global meetings and computer stuff.

[Well], think of how deleterious the abolition of [global] time would have on communication. Right now I can say something like "I received an urgent call at [17:00Z]" and you know immediately what that means [in reference to everything else happening in the world]. But if I said "I received an urgent call at [3am]", a lot of the meaning is lost. You'd have to know where I live, i.e. what my local time zone is, [where the caller is] and then do some [potentially complicated] math to determine what actual time 3am means. With [global] time, that calculation is already done for you! [Global] time is just too damn useful of a concept. It really truly is better than [local] time for most uses. [Local] time is really only useful for scheduling [local] meetings and [in-person] stuff.

5 of the top 10 states by population aren't on the cellular outage maps:

Georgia, North Carolina, Ohio, Michigan, and Pennsylvania.

Sacramento is down again. All livestreams suddenly cut out.

Wired communication at VRAM speeds on a single low (production) cost chip?! This is going to be game changing for AI and super-computing. Wow.

At these speeds clustering and distributed computing will be a thing of the past in supercomputing.

The supercomputer of next year may functionally be an enormous symmetric multiprocessor bottle-necked only by physical space and power.

The same code could be run on a laptop or supercomputer without having to optimize it. This will make development of large scale applications way more accessible.

It actually doesn't make sense. A circle with a 1D point missing from its edge is the same as a sphere with a 2D hole in it. Both have material connected "around" it in another dimension. For a sphere the connection wraps around the hole and for a circle the connection wraps around the point (comprising the entirety of the circle's edge).

DNA is not a 3D molecule. DNA is a molecule which can be represented as 3D. It can just as easily be represented with one or even two fewer dimensions without losing any information.

By the holographic principle, there may be no such thing as "3D" except as a concept for conscious minds to make sense of reality.

>I have been doing intermittent fasting (IF) on a 16/8 or 18/6 schedule for the last 6 weeks.

What do 16/8 and 18/6 mean in this context?