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Roboprog commented on Modern genetic data suggests pre-humans were a group of only 1,280 individuals   nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/geox
RoyalHenOil · 2 years ago
This is the number supported by DNA evidence. There will be a margin of error.

The bigger issue, for me, is that I'm not sure how they can rule out the possibility that there were lots of other people around at that time whose lineages gradually died out. Modern genetic lineages may trace back to 1280 people (+/- the margin of error), but it seems pretty dubious to assume that those were the only people living at that time. It seems highly likely to me that there were infertile people, people who died young, people whose only living children were infertile or died young, etc.

(I did not read the original paper, so maybe they accounted for this, or maybe they that specify that this was a genetic bottle neck for modern humans, but not necessarily the actual size of the population.)

Roboprog · 2 years ago
Exactly: it's really hard to tell if "the environment" took out the other hominids, or if the descendants of the 1280 took them out.

"Hmm, this monkey looking thing isn't as tasty as a wooly mammoth, but it'll do."

(it's not like chimps don't catch and eat other primates)

Roboprog commented on Roland 50 Studio   roland50.studio/... · Posted by u/risktopark
thereddaikon · 3 years ago
I can't speak to the accuracy, I only have a few bits of hardware, but V collection sounds really good on its own. As for the DX-7, Dexed is really popular.
Roboprog · 3 years ago
If you have an iOS device, KQ Dixie is a pretty good DX7 emulation. It’s an audio unit, so you can load it into a host (“DAW”) and add an effects chain, even though it’s on a mobile device
Roboprog commented on Apple M1 Ultra   apple.com/newsroom/2022/0... · Posted by u/davidbarker
sdenton4 · 3 years ago
Just need to increment the 1 instead... Eventually moving into using letters instead of numbers, until we end up with the MK-ULTRA chip.
Roboprog · 3 years ago
I suspect they will have a different naming convention after they get to M4.

There might be some hesitance installing an M5. You should stay out of the way if the machine learning core needs more power.

I guess by the time they get to M5, anyone old enough to get the reference will have retired.

Roboprog commented on Writing maintainable code is a communication skill   max.engineer/maintainable... · Posted by u/hakunin
Rexxar · 4 years ago
> There was a GUI with a 7x8 table of numbers. How to do this? 54 text fields

Sorry, I have to fix this : 56

Roboprog · 4 years ago
Maybe there were only 54, and that was one of the bugs to be fixed - exactly the sort of problem that lurks in that kind of repetitive code.
Roboprog commented on Apple’s New Screen Repair Trap   ifixit.com/News/54829/app... · Posted by u/fomine3
Roboprog · 4 years ago
I like iOS, but I won’t buy their flagship hardware. It’s too expensive for something so fragile.

I have 3 iOS devices, but I won’t pay a grand for a phone. I would rather replace my base level devices in 4 or 5 years when they start to age out.

Roboprog commented on Fed to ban policymakers from owning individual stocks   cnbc.com/2021/10/21/fed-t... · Posted by u/awb
smolder · 4 years ago
This is about the Fed banning it's own policymakers from owning them, not about congress.
Roboprog · 4 years ago
Perhaps someone will start a “Speaker of the House” index fund which the officers from the Federal Reserve can buy, since they won’t be able to buy individual stocks.
Roboprog commented on Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion   physicstoday.scitation.or... · Posted by u/furcyd
brofallon · 4 years ago
I'm honestly not sure why there seems to be so much interest in fusion these days. Wind and solar seem to offer a limitless, carbon-free energy supply with relatively cheap, well understood technology that is already price competitive with coal and gas. By contrast fusion seems super expensive and technologically very complex - even fission plants take 10+ years to bring on line. Does fusion offer some advantage over wind + solar that I'm missing?
Roboprog · 4 years ago
More 9s. Closer to 24x7.
Roboprog commented on Lawrence Livermore claims a milestone in laser fusion   physicstoday.scitation.or... · Posted by u/furcyd
jeffbee · 4 years ago
NIF isn't supposed to achieve net power generation. It's a defense research facility which is intended to test nuclear weapons technology without violating weapons testing bans.
Roboprog · 4 years ago
I picked up on that angle as well.

“Ignition” isn’t about generating electricity. It’s about making fusion bombs which don’t emit neutrons or other radiation (from a fission trigger) while the device is in storage.

So, not primarily a power generation design like a tokamak would be.

Roboprog commented on NOAA Smoke Forecast Model Visualization   hwp-viz.gsd.esrl.noaa.gov... · Posted by u/pizza
Roboprog · 4 years ago
The smoke plume stretches all the way to the Dakotas this morning.

It’s a startling visualization.

Roboprog commented on Facebook is now claiming official CDC.gov links are “False Information”   i.postimg.cc/CLBCNx0Q/D4H... · Posted by u/URfejk
_-david-_ · 4 years ago
Information can be accurate or fake based on who said it?
Roboprog · 4 years ago
Sure.

Orange man rushed out a shot. It must be bad.

Gray man said get the shot. It’s good.

I’m not saying that kind of “thinking” is valid, but it’s apparently widely accepted.

(I got the shot, but I can see why some people would have considerations)

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