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New comment by rollo in "I am rich and have no idea what to do"

rollo — Fri, 03 Jan 2025 11:09:48 +0000

Personally I get immense enjoyment out of not doing anything useful, especially not on a big scale. So if I were to accidentally "make it big", I'd most likely not do it again and keep enjoying the small inconsequential things.

New comment by rollo in "Richard Stallman reveals he has cancer in the GNU 40 Hacker Meeting talk [video]"

rollo — Fri, 29 Sep 2023 12:46:11 +0000

But it obviously is not?

New comment by rollo in "Young people are flocking to astrology"

rollo — Mon, 24 Jul 2023 13:34:06 +0000

> So, the real question is, if a really cute girl that you like smiling in front of you, and she asks your "star type" (or "constellation"), what would you really do at that spot?

That's an oxymoron because stupidity is never cute. If she appeared cute before saying that, she certainly wouldn't after.

New comment by rollo in "Misalignment Museum"

rollo — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 11:01:12 +0000

Clearly the ecosystem is far from collapse while we're in the middle of a rapid human-caused mass-extinction. What kind of propaganda are you smoking, bro.

New comment by rollo in "Misalignment Museum"

rollo — Tue, 18 Apr 2023 08:33:02 +0000

Corporations can be regarded as AI agents with misaligned goals. In a bit over a century this has resulted in damage to the climate and Earth's ecosystem that is threatening the survival of our civilization. And that's just slow, badly optimized paperclippers so far.

New comment by rollo in "Aerobic exercise can reduce the risk of metastatic cancer in mice: study"

rollo — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:58:04 +0000

You might be right and my 95% was a bit off. But the main point is that 80-85% being sustainable for only 30s might only be the case for someone who is in absolutely terrible shape.

New comment by rollo in "Aerobic exercise can reduce the risk of metastatic cancer in mice: study"

rollo — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 17:05:54 +0000

That doesn't sound right. Even 95% of max heart rate is sustainable for a long, long time. Intervals one can only sustain for 30s are way above VO2max intensity deep in the anaerobic zone. Heart rate pretty much maxes out on those.

New comment by rollo in "Aerobic exercise can reduce the risk of metastatic cancer in mice: study"

rollo — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 16:44:16 +0000

No, that's not about sugar. The body needs glucose to function. It is produced from carbs (and other sources) in your food.

New comment by rollo in "How food powers the body's metabolism"

rollo — Fri, 28 Oct 2022 13:42:44 +0000

Just get used to being hungry and your stomach being empty. You don't need to do anything when you're hungry, you won't starve.

New comment by rollo in "T-Mobile USA doesn't comply with its German parent company’s GDPR policies"

rollo — Tue, 16 Aug 2022 11:46:42 +0000

Just step out of the city, and boom no mobile connection with O2.

New comment by rollo in "A Vicious Cycle: The Dangerous Dehumanisation of Cyclists"

rollo — Mon, 21 Feb 2022 13:20:54 +0000

Roads don't belong to cars lol.

New comment by rollo in "Please don't use Discord for FOSS projects"

rollo — Tue, 28 Dec 2021 14:46:34 +0000

Most networks support leaving memos to registered users when they're offline. So IRC does have that functionality.

New comment by rollo in "The timing of evolutionary transitions suggests intelligent life is rare"

rollo — Mon, 20 Dec 2021 10:33:51 +0000

Since it's everything but random, given the strong, strong selection pressure, what you wrote misses the point completely. And the argument based on that is completely meaningless as well.

New comment by rollo in "Twitch source code and customer data has reportedly been leaked"

rollo — Thu, 07 Oct 2021 09:27:19 +0000

Sounds accurate.

New comment by rollo in "A Tunguska size burst destroyed Tall el-Hammam, Bronze Age city in Jordan Valley"

rollo — Tue, 21 Sep 2021 09:33:34 +0000

Poisson clumping.

New comment by rollo in "Santa Cruz decriminalizes psychedelic mushrooms"

rollo — Wed, 29 Jan 2020 22:22:55 +0000

This article is about psilocybin mushrooms though, not whatever abusable substances you're talking about.

New comment by rollo in "Insect collapse"

rollo — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 22:04:16 +0000

That's the problem we're talking about. It is very feasible but only if performance and energy use is something you want to focus on, while accepting the economic penalty of not prioritizing time-to-market. This is just yet another case of unchecked capitalism and free market destroying the planet. Focusing on energy and resource conservation may be more important as well as feasible, but it's not quite as economically competitive. Unless the industry as a whole decide to do what's morally right, or it is regulated and mandated by the government.

New comment by rollo in "Insect collapse"

rollo — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 19:01:46 +0000

In a modern compiled language and without using ten layers of abstraction. It is very feasible and does not require significantly more development effort, at least not compared to the energy and material savings.

New comment by rollo in "Insect collapse"

rollo — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 16:16:15 +0000

JS is the most popular language. Thus most software is wasting orders of magnitude more energy than it should. The same functionality would require less than a tenth of processing power (and thus energy and physical hardware) if it were implemented properly.

New comment by rollo in "Why Self-Taught Artificial Intelligence Has Trouble with the Real World"

rollo — Thu, 22 Feb 2018 00:24:07 +0000

Because that is indeed a very effective approach. In a game where rules can be broken or warped to suit your goals, doing so is a smart move. Just like in life, where rules don't actually exist.