Arnt

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by Arnt 5mo ago
Oil may be valuable stuff, but nothing compels competing energy sources to be more expensive, and the cheapest oil fields were developed first, with a few exceptions. The optimists who want to develop oil fields beneath 3km of water are IMO
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by Arnt 5mo ago
This is a classic. It occurs in two forms: Wow, logistics to <remote place> are very expensive! We could spend that money better in the cities! Wow, logistics in <city> is expensive! We could spend that money better in rural are
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by Arnt 5mo ago
There's a crucial difference: in the economy we have, each party manages its own money, no party manages the overall money supply. That's why the overall money supply (M2 etc) has to be estimated: there isn't a managing autho
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by Arnt 5mo ago
The size of the building applied for is generally weakly related to the effort required for the application. If you have some land, getting approval to build six buildings is often not much more work than getting approval to build one. So w
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by Arnt 5mo ago
Ah, when your write things like that, do you really think they'll come true? If no: why do you write them?
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by Arnt 5mo ago
Money isn't managed by anyone. There's an excellent description here: https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/quarterly-... Scan for the sentence "at that moment, new money is cr
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by Arnt 5mo ago
Wow, all those apps and something else pulled him into using 2h/day.
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by Arnt 5mo ago
Most historical outages lasted minutes or hours. One arguably lasted much longer, when someone lost control of their servers due to civil war. I haven't followed this closely, but have there been any... shall we say plain outages longe
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by Arnt 5mo ago
One case requires long term reliability, the other is for drones that are planned to explode in the next few weeks.
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by Arnt 5mo ago
Starlink has shut down service suddenly, surprising the customer. That's a big no for the extremely safety-minded aviation regulators. A BIG no.
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by Arnt 5mo ago
That feels... somehow creepy compared to the Claude conversations I'm used to. Are the two LLMs that different, or will Claude too talk like that if you prompt it ri^Wwrong?
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by Arnt 5mo ago
They're staying in the places where they already are, except Twitter.
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by Arnt 6mo ago
There was a brief unfortunate episode a couple of hundred years ago, when the US was as little over twenty years old. Some Africans started capturing American citizens and ships, maybe enslaving some, etc. Really quite unpleasant. The US ev
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by Arnt 6mo ago
"The Long Tail Will Not Be Patched": really? AIUI the long tail routinely is covered by other tools. I don't see why xint.code and tools like that won't be marketed to the people who write long-tail systems.
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by Arnt 6mo ago
There are many hightech companies there, including Samsung, which is one of the most important foundries.
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by Arnt 6mo ago
I think it means they're telling banks to act promptly or else . In the understated language central bankers and banking regulators tend to use.
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by Arnt 6mo ago
Some people have a view of open source contributors as some sort of amorphous mass of strangers, and that leads to unrealistic suppositions. The contributors aren't really amorphous, they exist, they're knowable, they have persona
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by Arnt 6mo ago
I run my own mail server, not blacklisted. Now I'm a bit of a special case, I know mail well. But when a moderately technical colleague wanted to do the same, I told her to use Mox, she set it up and Gmail doesn't block her eith
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by Arnt 6mo ago
FWIW the same approach was proposed in the nineties. IIRC the main argument against was that the argument to support it is even worse than for v6. The first few sites to get non-4 addresses aren't reachable by anyone, and have to ask e
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by Arnt 6mo ago
Read the posting. They dont have money for a team, they don't have money for a senior developer. Whether $150k/FTE or $75k doesn't matter, because they don't have either of those. Once the server and other costs have bee
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by Arnt 6mo ago
The price for grid power ought to be somewhat higher than the the grid operator(s) pay at the place where the power is delivered into the grid plus their own costs for running the actual grid. So what do you think is a fair price for buildi
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by Arnt 6mo ago
You need to get better informed. Compare this with Musk, for example: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/CATL:VIE?hl=en&window=6...
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by Arnt 6mo ago
I'm one of that 0.1%, since my yearly salary is more than about USD90k. And my attached wealth is the most typical kind, too: my wife and I bought a place to live, which we haven't sold in the 20+ years since moving in. It probabl
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by Arnt 6mo ago
Yes. Anyone with physical access has Access.
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by Arnt 7mo ago
It seems to me that there a large and well-established drug smuggling industry that might be quite interested in Iranian drone technology and has long-established logistics competence regarding transport into the US from distant countries.
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by Arnt 7mo ago
"In the U.S., it has been estimated that the foldable iPhone may start at or above $1,999" Awesome.
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by Arnt 7mo ago
"Fleet-scale, real-world solar performance ratio declines by 0.59% per year." I've heard 1% before. At 0.59%, the panels reach 80% after about 35 years. By which time they may be at 60% of whatever panels are on sale then.
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by Arnt 7mo ago
I assume that smuggling drones into the US is easier than it was for Ukraine to smuggle them into Russia.
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by Arnt 7mo ago
You're right. There must be something more to it. I notice that all the recent finds on sodir.no are close to existing fields, like 5km, or even in existing fields. My friend who told me this works in strange places, far from existing
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by Arnt 7mo ago
They're wrong. A couple of years ago the last of the exploration rigs in Norway left Norwegian waters. Because nothing that could be drilled (and hasn't already) can compete on price with solar etc. Lots of people think someone sh

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