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 Discussing Romans 1:20 scientifically

Scientific evidence for God's existence
The Guy with The Hat
Nov 4, 2024 21:33
those numbers aren't based on anything in particular, I'm just illustrating how much of an effect compounding could have
The Guy with The Hat
Nov 4, 2024 21:31
just to give a rough mental model of exponential improvement, if some form of life had 1 generation per year and got 0.00000001 better each generation, after 4 billion years it would be 100000000000000000 times better
 

 Discussion on answer by user182601: D…

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The Guy with The Hat
Sep 30, 2024 11:07
AI water usage is not significant relative to many other industries. Worry burnout takes attention away from things that matter.
The Guy with The Hat
Sep 30, 2024 11:07
@Obie2.0 I could install a shower, toilet, or faucet that uses less water. I could check all my pipes for leaks. I could find local food sources that use less water in packaging and transport. I could fix a broken item in my house rather than buying a new one. I could research which foods use less water to produce. I could replace my garden plants with ones that use less water. I could lobby my local gov to put restrictions on yard watering. I could donate to a national org that lobbies at the federal level. I could write comments on the internet telling others what they can do to save water.
The Guy with The Hat
Sep 30, 2024 11:07
@Obie2.0 If we go by these numbers (ChatGPT water use from top answer an human daily use from a quick google search), ChatGPT only has to save you 2 minutes per use for it to be a net water gain, assuming you go do something else productive with those 2 minutes you saved. If you truly can't think of anything better to do with your time than save 1 bottle of water by manually writing an email that could have been written by an LLM, then go for it, but just be aware that that amount of water is 0.1% of your daily usage. BTW this discussion has wasted water equivalent to ~50 uses of ChatGPT.
The Guy with The Hat
Sep 30, 2024 11:07
Actual sincere advice to everyone in this thread. If you care this much about this little water, go find a water conservation org and figure out how to have actual impact. Humans in developed countries average 1 liter of water every 4 minutes just through daily activities and consumption, so our time is equivalent to water. If you spend 4 minutes writing an email, you've already used twice as much water as ChatGPT would have used. So use ChatGPT to write your email, and then with the 3 minutes you saved, go check your garden hose for leaks.
The Guy with The Hat
Sep 30, 2024 11:07
@EndAntisemiticHate Everything is relative. If my existence causes the consumption of thousands of units of a resource per day, I woulds be confident saying that <1 unit of that resource is not a lot. Additionally, discussion of water consumption is usually in the context of trying to reduce water shortages. If someone wants to argue that 1 liter of water is a lot and therefore we should care about it, I'd argue that we shouldn't care about it since we should care about other things instead, e.g. the meat industry and rampant consumerism in developed countries.
 

 Discussion on answer by Dark Malthorp…

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The Guy with The Hat
Sep 18, 2024 03:40
I think is is pretty clear that point 3 follows if we assume that premises 1 & 2 are true. I think is is not clear if the premises are true.
 

 Discussion on question by Cyrille Cor…

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The Guy with The Hat
Mar 6, 2024 09:06
Lots of lakes in Peru look like this
 

 Discussion on question by Iam Cleaver…

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The Guy with The Hat
Apr 7, 2023 21:24
oops wrong room, mb
The Guy with The Hat
Apr 7, 2023 21:12
I've had some courses where my exam grade was simply the percentage of questions I got right, and some where all exam grades were increased if the class as a whole did badly on the exam. Some courses made my final grade a weighted average of the semester's exams/projects, but in one extreme example, the final course grade was determined by taking the students' raw scores and fitting a normal distribution with mean 75% and std 10%.
The Guy with The Hat
Apr 7, 2023 21:12
Anecdotally, grading schemes at my american university varied widely.
 

 Discussion on answer by Ottie: Why do…

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The Guy with The Hat
Dec 9, 2022 15:41
@Ottie Am I understanding correctly that you started mandatory calculus around age 15? Not precalc, but real calculus (limits, derivatives, integrals)?
 

 Discussion on question by The Guy wit…

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The Guy with The Hat
Dec 6, 2019 14:54
@MJeffryes Okay, thank you very much!
The Guy with The Hat
Dec 6, 2019 14:54
@MJeffryes Okay, so that means that if I miss the connection then it's essentially "their fault," and they'll figure out some other way to get me to my final destination (at no significant extra expense to me)?
The Guy with The Hat
Dec 6, 2019 14:54
@MJeffryes The first leg is on Jetblue Airways from my hometown to JFK. The second leg (the new one that I'm being offered) is on Iberia from JFK to LGW. The last leg is on British Airways from LGW to DBV.
The Guy with The Hat
Dec 6, 2019 14:54
@Richard Thanks! I figured out most of that based on what everyone else was saying, but I appreciate you explicitly clarifying.
The Guy with The Hat
Dec 6, 2019 14:54
@jcaron Thanks for your help. I checked on british airways' website, and it currently lists both legs (the 1st and 3rd) under one booking.
The Guy with The Hat
Dec 6, 2019 14:54
@MJeffryes There are other flights later in the day. None of them are on the same airline though; not sure how much of a difference that makes.
The Guy with The Hat
Dec 6, 2019 14:54
@Doc US citizen. I'm almost certainly going to have one or two checked bags. Currently not sure if it's all on the same ticket, trying to figure that out right now.
The Guy with The Hat
Dec 6, 2019 14:54
@DumbCoder I just realized that I made a mistake; the times are AM, not PM. Also, I would likely be taking the national express coach, which takes a bit over an hour of travel time.
The Guy with The Hat
Dec 6, 2019 14:54
@jcaron I made the booking through StudentUniverse as a single unit, but the 3 legs are on separate airlines. I'm not sure if that qualifies as "the same ticket/booking." I would be okay with up to a 36 hour delay, though that's obviously not ideal.
 

 Discussion on question by Faz: What c…

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The Guy with The Hat
Oct 30, 2019 00:28
Reminds me of the parasites from Orson Scott Card's Pathfinder series
 

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The Guy with The Hat
Feb 7, 2019 20:35
Oooo, thank you! For some reason I assumed that such a question would be off-topic on the main site
The Guy with The Hat
Feb 7, 2019 20:20
I'm part of a team trying to design a worldbuilding notes application, and we want to make sure we're making something different from what currently exists. Do any of you guys use any specific applications for keeping track of the worlds you create?
 

 The Whiteboard

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The Guy with The Hat
Oct 25, 2018 16:50
Do we need the [python-3] tag when we have [python-3.x]? I would edit them out, but I don't want to spam edit suggestions.
 

 Pin 13

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The Guy with The Hat
Mar 16, 2018 02:23
On the other hand, from the comments it appears that a lot of people appreciate the joke.
The Guy with The Hat
Mar 16, 2018 02:21
Additionally, more "clutter" on the page may have an effect on SEO.
The Guy with The Hat
Mar 16, 2018 02:21
But it's one of the most popular questions on the site, and I feel like it may be better to make it as "professional" as possible
The Guy with The Hat
Mar 16, 2018 02:20
When I made it 4 years ago, I thought it would be funny to make it a pun centered around avrdude being "AVR dude"
The Guy with The Hat
Mar 16, 2018 02:19
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Q: "avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00," aka Some Dude Named Avr Won't Let Me Upload My Program

The Guy with The HatI made an awesome program the other day, and I wanted to upload it to my Arduino. After clicking the upload button, some mean dude named avr came along and stopped me, saying: avrdude: stk500_getsync(): not in sync: resp=0x00 All I want to do is just upload my program, but avr won't let me....

uploading avrdude
The Guy with The Hat
Mar 16, 2018 02:19
What're y'all's opinions of this question:
The Guy with The Hat
Aug 13, 2014 22:11
@AnnonomusPenguin Not really
The Guy with The Hat
Aug 13, 2014 21:48
@AnnonomusPenguin I saw that after I sent that message :P
The Guy with The Hat
Aug 12, 2014 17:21
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Aug 12, 2014 17:21
Our twitterbot is now tweeting!
 

 The Nineteenth Byte

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The Guy with The Hat
May 29, 2016 23:37
Mine uses 400MB
The Guy with The Hat
May 29, 2016 23:35
You guys each have a hat; I have The hat.
The Guy with The Hat
May 29, 2016 23:34
Hi!
 

 The Bridge

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The Guy with The Hat
Sep 10, 2014 18:53
Yeah, but I figured that while I was editing it, I should improve it in any way I can.

> both neither worked.

also didn't help.
The Guy with The Hat
Sep 10, 2014 18:51
@Yuuki Whoops, lol
The Guy with The Hat
Sep 10, 2014 18:48
Does anybody know why my edit here was rejected?
The Guy with The Hat
Jul 28, 2014 22:36
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The Guy with The Hat
Jul 28, 2014 22:33
lol
The Guy with The Hat
Jul 28, 2014 22:33
That just happened.
The Guy with The Hat
Jul 28, 2014 22:32
user image
 

 The DMZ

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The Guy with The Hat
May 12, 2014 13:47
Does this still need to be featured? There's only been one duplicate tagged with heartbleed in the past few weeks.
 

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The Guy with The Hat
Apr 19, 2014 22:47
@StackExchange Hey, that's me!
 

 Pin 53

Another room for Arduino
The Guy with The Hat
Apr 17, 2014 19:31
Huh
The Guy with The Hat
Apr 17, 2014 19:31
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