This shifted the race of trainees, but it doesn't seem to have changed the more important metric of how many people were actually hired. The author claims it had an effect, but as far as I can tell he's never quantified it.

The real issue is just insufficient slots.

A more whimsical method is to put the thing in a glass of water with the cord sticking out. :-)

https://www.reddit.com/r/EmulationOnAndroid/comments/1m269k0...

Throw it in a Thermoplastic Polyurethane (TPU) bag and it'll be a pretty good long term solution.

> First, in a watertight plastic bag and then in the water?

Was wondering, but this the most duct tap hacker solution!

As I discovered cooling down hardboiled eggs, it's better to keep a thin layer of moisture that cools the object via evaporation.

Something of this sort should keep the device moisturised:

https://www.thehydrobros.com/products/automatic-water-spraye...

0.2ml/s at its lowest setting looks like the ballpark of what's required to maintain temperature.

a sandwich bag would work wonders, then you could use ice to counter the plastic's thermal inefficiencies!

HN has some peculiar medical fixations. It comes in waves. For a while there were a lot of submissions about intermittent fasting. 15 years ago people were excited about polyphasic sleep. 10 years ago it was all about modafinil. Enthusiasm about ketamine for depression was big, but it seems to have finally fizzled out.

Wonder what the approach would be to empirically determine these waves.

Ketamine is still used for depression quite effectively.

It's good that techbros' interest in it fizzled out though. Better for everyone that way.

Can you change the title? It's far more inflammatory than the content, and people here are reacting solely to it.

Yes, sorry I didn't get to this when the article was on the front page. The problem is that HN's title limit is 80 chars and it's not obvious how to shorten that one.

I've taken a crack at it now.

People keep claiming this, but my experience is that it's pretty similar. My mom's PC accidentally had only 4GB of RAM for the past 5 years (whoops), and we only noticed it a month ago because the cheap SSD was finally dying due to heavy swapping.

As I understand it, DDR5's on-die ECC is mostly a cost-saving measure. Rather than fab perfect DRAM that never flips a bit in normal operation (expensive, lower yield), you can fab imperfect DRAM that is expected to sometimes flip, but then use internal ECC to silently correct it. The end result to the user is theoretically the same.

Because you can't track on-die ECC errors, you have no way of knowing how "faulty" a particular DRAM chip is. And if there's an uncorrected error, you can't detect it.

As I understand it, the big challenge with brain electrodes is that because they are implanted in a big jiggly piece of jelly, they shift out of position and/or cause localized scarring. The practical effect is that the brain-electrode interface "wears out" after a while, and you can't get useful data. Has this been solved, or are implants still temporary?

It's easy to misread, but they're not arguing that. Note the "eventually" and "but right now".

Regarding Semantle, I found that Pimantle (https://semantle.pimanrul.es/) is a much more satisfying implementation to actually play. It provides a 2D visualization of guesses, which lets you see the clusters and lines of similarity more clearly.

Oooh I love this, thanks for sharing.

Hmm, what's this one?

  var h = hash(guess);
  if (h==7182294905658010 || h==6344346315172974) { return "Adorable guess, but it's spelled “rosy”."; }

I'm guessing they're hashes for "<something> rosie" or "<something> rosey", but what?

7182294905658010 "rosey maple moth" 6344346315172974 "rose maple moth"