Archelaos

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by Archelaos 10mo ago
I found a bug: Got to World Countries. Select Germany. Click on View in API Docs. => I get California instead of Germany. Your promise in the teaser to cover all ZIP codes is too grandiose as long as it supports only I have a customer wh
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
"Long-run growth is driven by a cumulative process of innovation. You stand on the shoulders of giants." No. You stand on the shoulders of dwarfs, who stand on the shoulders of dwarfs, who stand on the shoulders of dwarfs, ...
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
Gas-fired power plants are planned for load balancing, and these are already being built in such a way that they can be converted to hydrogen operation at a later date.
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
Citation needed. I don't belief a word of this.
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
This! Don't be disappointed by the downvotes. The fussile+nuclear energy lobby is desparte because of Germany's success. This industry is the equivalent of the tabacoo and pestizide industry of the past. Everything is fine, cheap
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
Why is HN so full of nuclear energy trolls?
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
Absolutely right.
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
Following legal obligations is an important part of ethics. The law has also the purpose to relieving the individual of the burden of complex ethical considerations. This is the general situation, especially in a democracy under the rule of
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
> They bought (presumably for money) a product, and expect that product to keep working as long as they need it to! This depents on the terms of the contract. Typically, termination of service is covered in a license. If the license term
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
I prefer improved titles. However, not in this case. It is rather irony, because LWN does not need click-bait.
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
I never expected LLMs to be like an actual conversation between humans. The model is in some respects more capable and in some respects more limited than a human. I mean, one could strive for an exact replica of a human -- but for what purp
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How Pokémon cards became a stock market for millennials(theguardian.com)
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Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic(theguardian.com)
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
> In our agrarian past, the cultural division of labor at the time said that men worked the field, women ran the home. I come from a family of farmers, and I can assure you that the women worked the field too, even one-hundred years ago.
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
A typical use case for large laptops is when you want to store it away after work or when you only carry it occasionally. I have a PC for coding at home, but use a thinkpad with the largest screen I could get for coding in my camper van (st
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The effect of shingles vaccination at different stages of dementia(cell.com)
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Pharaoh Sheshonq III's (reign 830-791BC) sarcophagus identified in ancient Tanis(labrujulaverde.com)
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
I would rather say that the term “sovereignty” is multifaceted. We have the concept of popular sovereignty, which means that political power emanates from the people and all other sovereignty is delegated. However, there is also a use of th
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
That was meant ironically. The article explains in great length that this quantitative "productivity" does not result in qualitative "productivity". The fundamental problem, in my view, is that any significant reform of
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
The article misses to explain why this is an EU problem, not just a BMW problem. Is the problem described caused by a specific EU regulation (which?) or is mentioning the EU just click bait? (Honest question.)
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Humans in southern Africa were an isolated population until recently(arstechnica.com)
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by Archelaos 10mo ago
Gartner estimates that worldwide AI spending will total 1.5 Trillion US$ in 2025.[1] As of 2024, global GDP per year is 111.25 Trillion US$.[2] The question is how much this can be increased by AI. This describes the market volumn for AI. T
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by Archelaos 11mo ago
I suspect that it is purely a literary invention. The core idea of the story is a variant of the "Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle", where a stolen gem was eaten by a goose. For the new plot, Conan Doyle needed some identical copie
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by Archelaos 11mo ago
Etymonline states: "The meaning 'pad of writing or blotting paper' is by 1880".[1] Also see the variety of meanings listed it the Webster 1913 edition, including: "1. A small table or flat surface. 2. A flat piece o
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The 35-year quest to bring Bach's lost organ works to light(theguardian.com)
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by Archelaos 11mo ago
According to the article, Russia is just a precursor: "What had been viewed as having negligible credit risk suddenly carried confiscation risk. For any country potentially facing future sanctions, the calculus of holding large dollar
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by Archelaos 11mo ago
"the town and the community quickly went from an unemployment rate of over 30% to near zero" According to Wikipedia the unemployment rate sank from 21% to 15%. -- https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/W%C3%B6rgler_Sch
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by Archelaos 11mo ago
In what world are you living that you not have heard about nuclear accidents? Here is a reading list for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windscale_fire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_Mile_I
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by Archelaos 11mo ago
Nuclear produces very dangerous substances. The long term cost to guard us from them for a million years and the risk that something gets out of control are extemly high.
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Two recently found works of J.S. Bach presented in Leipzig [video](youtube.com)
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