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Comment · 2 years ago
how do you feel about the resource waste of such return policies? Shipping all these items to then return most of them is an insane amount of waste. And sometimes returned items cannot be resold so they are thrown away. Imo there should be clear limits on returns
Comment · 2 years ago
My fav sci-fi books are:
Ubik by Philip K Dick
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Recursion by Blake Crouch
Highly recommended
Comment · 3 years ago
Can anyone explain how do they make the antimatter particles and how do they actually know/analyze that they are making antimatter atoms ?
Comment · 3 years ago
You can encode every book and information in a small rod. Just take a 1 meter long rod and encode your book into binary, eg 01011110111. Now, take your binary string, and transform it into a decimal number in base 2 by prepending 0. , E.g. x=0.01011110111. As this number is finite and smaller than 1, you can just take your rod and cut it at length x.
Now when you want to retrieve your information you just need to measure x from your rod with a ruler, take the decimal part and convert it into binary, and voila.
You can encode almost infinite amount of data into a simple rod. Assuming you can measure and cut very precisely
Comment · 3 years ago
“Written in rust” but it’s just a raw call to ChatGPT.
Comment · 3 years ago
I used to listen podcasts on the Apple Podcast app but then I tried to listen to the same podcasts in Spotify and the audio quality was so much better. Anyone else felt the same? I mainly listen to Lex Fridman
Comment · 4 years ago
Reminds me of the story of Nasubi: “Tomoaki Hamatsu was challenged to stay alone, unclothed, in an apartment for Susunu! Denpa Shōnen (January 1998 – March 2002), a Japanese reality-television show on Nippon Television, after winning a lottery for a "show business related job". He was challenged to enter mail-in sweepstakes until he won ¥1 million (about US$10,000) in total. He started with nothing (including no clothes), was cut off from outside communication and broadcasting, and had nothing to keep him company except the magazines he combed through for sweepstakes entry forms. After spending 335 days to reach his target, he set the Guinness world record for the "longest time survived on competition winnings".”
Comment · 4 years ago
Dancing links https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dancing_Links
“ In computer science, dancing links (DLX) is a technique for adding and deleting a node from a circular doubly linked list. It is particularly useful for efficiently implementing backtracking algorithms, such as Donald Knuth's Algorithm X for the exact cover problem.[1] Algorithm X is a recursive, nondeterministic, depth-first, backtracking algorithm that finds all solutions to the exact cover problem. Some of the better-known exact cover problems include tiling, the n queens problem, and Sudoku.”
Comment · 4 years ago
With this resolution, I’m wondering if we could see some artificial structures made by Type 3 civilizations, or some side effects of them. Or maybe we will feel even more lonely.
Comment · 4 years ago
Wow. Back in high school (~2011) I made this game as an ios app. I remember I published a video on YouTube and a few months later I found a copy on the App Store. Maybe it was just a coincidence. Unfortunately I don’t find my video on YouTube anymore, can it be that YouTube deletes old videos ?
Comment · 4 years ago
It’s called Devil’s algorithm but I believe it is not know yet whether it exists or not
Comment · 4 years ago
Personally, I use Instagram to see what my friends are doing and I’m not interested in the random addictive feed. So I just use Instagram from the web (safari on mobile) and use AdGuard to block the search feed thing. I even waste less time now
Comment · 5 years ago
Once I unsubscribed from Audible I started receiving email every 1-2 weeks with 60-70% discounts for couple of months. So I’ve been subscribing/unsubscribing to keep getting nice discount
Comment · 5 years ago
I didn’t read the article yet but yesterday I was wondering about something: does gravity (the bending of space) bends the electromagnetic field? I guess they (spacetime and electromagnetic fields) are two independent fields but maybe they influence each other ?
Edit: maybe because these two forces have very different magnitude it is not possible to measure it
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/320070183_Health_Se...
(PDF) Health Services As Credence Goods: A Field Experiment