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New comment by raws in "An Englishwoman who sketched India before photography took hold"

raws — Tue, 14 Jul 2026 06:30:14 +0000

I think it looks like I'm only seeing rich individuals of the times are there more sketches of other classes as well?

New comment by raws in "42,600 ton ship to break the world record for the deepest drill at 7 miles"

raws — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 22:11:27 +0000

In OP I also see the ship's photo from the other side of the ship compared to the science.org one.

New comment by raws in "AGI is not imminent, and LLMs are not the royal road to getting there"

raws — Sat, 18 Oct 2025 13:53:24 +0000

I feel like even a human would also fail if given all data results but those for x and then get tested on x just as the function results differ from previously observed behavior. Is it not more interesting to observe how the model(human or not) incorporates the new data to better match reality in the case of distribution shift or other irregular distributions and others

New comment by raws in "Is my vision that bad? No, it's just a bug in Apple's Calculator"

raws — Sat, 31 Aug 2024 07:21:43 +0000

YouTube viewership numbers ha et a similar issue.

New comment by raws in "Windows 11 is last in gaming performance tests against 3 Linux gaming distros"

raws — Thu, 07 Dec 2023 05:52:28 +0000

Denmark?

New comment by raws in "U.S. Sugar consumption trend from 1970-2021"

raws — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 05:35:30 +0000

Yeah I'd believe a stronger sedentary lifestyle is the biggest factor in the waste line stagnation if the diet is not the same. They did not have omnipresent smartphones in 1970.

New comment by raws in "Tell HN: 0.61 USD per week for daily sprouts of grains and pulses"

raws — Thu, 26 Oct 2023 21:48:06 +0000

I'd say less than a week of daily usage to get through the phase.

New comment by raws in "Nvidia Tackles Chipmaking Process, Claims 40X Speed Up with CuLitho"

raws — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 15:04:59 +0000

CULitho?

New comment by raws in "SVB was particularly poorly run"

raws — Mon, 20 Mar 2023 18:14:21 +0000

Another 10% was low % 5yrs bonds which they had to sell early with penalties to cover the run on the bank which incurred considerable losses. I would think a VC bank knows that some of its VC investments would not outperform. My understanding is that if the run does not happen, it's business as usual, nothing like '08 when borrowers started failing to pay en mass on internationally overrated loans in AAApackages.

New comment by raws in "Intel Cuts Employee Pay to Maintain Quarterly Dividend"

raws — Wed, 01 Feb 2023 06:02:47 +0000

Upside might be not having to search for a job in current job market with layoffs happening left and right.

New comment by raws in "World Population Clock: 7.96B People (2022)"

raws — Sat, 02 Jul 2022 12:00:39 +0000

8B on 2023 if rate of 221k per day is held (little less than 190 days from today if my bad calculation is correct!)

New comment by raws in "The French repairability index – one year after its implementation [pdf]"

raws — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:30:21 +0000

I do believe that culture might even have started before ww2 when engineers produced too long lasting ladies stockings for the management and were asked to go back to the drawing board with stockings that did last forever (I do not have a source for that story but I've heard it multiple times from different groups of friends).

New comment by raws in "Brain FLOPS"

raws — Sun, 15 May 2022 11:50:07 +0000

What is a MAC in his explanation?

New comment by raws in "Ivermectin Prophylaxis Used for Covid-19"

raws — Fri, 28 Jan 2022 13:27:43 +0000

From what I understand it is saying that ivermectin is useful and efficient at blocking the tool (protein scissors; protease) that the virus needs in order to spread a protein out of the cell. The new Pfizer COVID drug is supposed to do that too but ivermectin is 0.06$ vs new Pfizer drug with a 20year patent lots of cash for a good lobbying company :)

Credibility of the author idk :s

New comment by raws in "They Still Haven't Told You"

raws — Wed, 12 Jan 2022 21:23:22 +0000

People tend to point out how much energy cryptos consume, is there an estimate for how much high frequency trading consumes world wide?

New comment by raws in "Depression is more than low mood, it’s a change of consciousness"

raws — Mon, 15 Nov 2021 12:42:15 +0000

It's like a placebo effect for your take on life, it works but only to a certain extent

New comment by raws in "Beyond Meat signs global supply deals with McDonald’s, KFC and Pizza Hut"

raws — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 21:44:07 +0000

I'm highly dubious of the statement that growing plants to eat them is lightly less polluting than growing plants, feeding them to cattle and then preparing the cattle to eat the meat. Cattle does not sequester CO2 like plants do and emits greenhouse gases. Also uses way more treated water.

New comment by raws in "LastPass Android app has got 7 trackers in it"

raws — Tue, 02 Mar 2021 11:34:23 +0000

Oh they even have an exodus app to scan your phone!

New comment by raws in "Fossil fuel cars make 'hundreds of times' more waste than electric cars"

raws — Mon, 01 Mar 2021 17:21:38 +0000

But given the right size and efficiency for a panel, a big rollable panel could give you power anywhere in the world which fuel cars could never do.

New comment by raws in "Another Boeing Pratt and Whitney Engine Exploded in the Netherlands"

raws — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 04:04:55 +0000

Oh right k for a week is not 2 but 2/52!