125 years? So has it ever been lower or it wasn't tracked?
It's total births, not birth rate. 125 years ago, the population was smaller, but the birth rate higher.
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The_Colonel commented on A new proposal for how mind emerges from matter noemamag.com/a-radical-ne... · Posted by u/Hooke
This is a philosophical argument, therefore dismissible by science.
Unless you can rephrase your argument as something testable, it's philosophy and thereby not relevant.
You're missing the point - your claim of "hypothesis has to be testable otherwise can be dismissed" is itself philosophical (philosophy of science). You're claiming that your claim can be dismissed.
Broadcom getting involved with VMware did wonders for all VMware customers - I'm sure all current users of Intel products and services are also delighted in a similar manner! ;-)
I think Intel is a different kind of acquisition for Broadcom than VMWare.
VMWare had/has a strong moat which can be exploited by jacking up prices. Intel doesn't have that.
The_Colonel commented on A decade later, a decade lost (2024) meyerweb.com/eric/thought... · Posted by u/ZeWaka
In The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers Theoden king expresses his grief to Gandalf, “one should not have to bury their children”. I was in college then, unmarried and didn’t appreciate the meaning of it or could appreciate his grief.
Now that I have kids of my own I can’t get myself to read the posts such as OPs. And if I end up reading it their grief stays when me for a long time. Exactly what they have written, all those years not spent, not lived, it’s just too much to handle for me.
I read somewhere that grief is unspent love. I only wish OP more courage and continued grace as the burden only gets heavier each day.
Stories like this hit me harder after having children, too.
But they also provoke thankfulness for all I have. For a little while after I read such tragic stories, I try to enjoy the everyday life a bit more, enjoy the presence of the loved ones.
Memento mori.
The_Colonel commented on A decade later, a decade lost (2024) meyerweb.com/eric/thought... · Posted by u/ZeWaka
It was relatively common for parents to lose children (every second child was expected to die before 5y) but even then, with all that death around them, the tragedy remained as great as today. Back then, most did look to their God for solace, though: https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1goyaco/when...
In the present, orthodox practitioners of Abrahamic religions, in particular, may stoically overcome such profound grief by attributing it to divine will.
That reminds me the story of Mozart's parents. Their first 3 children died less than 1 year old. I can't imagine the despair. Out of 7 children, only 2 survived infancy.
Like OpenAI or IBM....or the best one..Oracle for a Database ;)
Or like MicroSoft - Microcomputer Software.
National is generic, but many companies in the U.S. include America in their name.
It's generic only if the context isn't implied. In e.g. NBA, NHL etc. "national" means "American".
The_Colonel commented on Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead marcan.st/2025/02/resigni... · Posted by u/Shank
Another uphill battle that I haven't seen anyone mention is just how good mobile AMD chips got a year or so after the M1 release. I wouldn't buy a Mac to run Linux on it when I can buy a Lenovo with equally soldered parts that'll work well with the OS I wanna run already.
A lot of it is simply AMD getting on newer TSMC nodes. Most of the Apple's efficiency head start is better process (they got exclusive access to 5nm at first).
The_Colonel commented on Cheap blood test detects pancreatic cancer before it spreads nature.com/articles/d4158... · Posted by u/rbanffy
That's what I was assuming as well. But then that leads to my other question, do we really regularly screen people this proactively for much at all?
Measuring your blood pressure is an example of proactive screening.
I assume we will start screening for things like cancer when the test will be as simple / cheap as measuring your blood pressure.
The_Colonel commented on Intel's Battlemage Architecture chipsandcheese.com/p/inte... · Posted by u/ksec
Loosely related question:
What prevents manufacturers from taking some existing mid/toprange consumer GPU design, and just slapping like 256GB VRAM onto it? (enabling consumers to run big-LLM inference locally).
Would that be useless for some reason? What am I missing?
> enabling consumers to run big-LLM inference locally
A non-technical reason is that the market of people wanting to run their personal LLMs at home is very small.