Kon5ole

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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
>you don't get debt in the present without assets The problem is that even worthless assets will do. (It's why we had a financial crisis in 2008).
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
>Nuclear power has orders of magnitude fewer deaths per kilowatt-hour By this logic the minuteman missile is harmless. It hasn’t killed anyone, right? Nuclear power has the potential to cause orders of magnitude more damage than any othe
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
>There are estimates that pollution from European coal power plants cause more deaths EACH year in Europe, First and foremost - coal sucks. Secondly - the choice isn't between nuclear or coal. That said, the estimates you mention a
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by Kon5ole 2mo ago
>Interesting but people die (or are severely injured) in all kinds of industrial accidents all the time. Very few other industrial accidents cause effects that have to be dealt with for decades over 1000 miles away, even across oceans. N
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>The harms of radiation are massively overhyped. >Nobody from the Fukushima accident died from radiation sickness or radiation syndrome, and so far there's been no evidence of long term elevated cancer rates either. You say these
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>Do you have any source? There are many sources and it's of course complicated, but around 6 eurocents per kWh seems to be an accepted semi-official figure. "The full cost of existing nuclear power calculated by the CRE amounts
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>we cannot build them anywere in Europe due to plain stupidity. Economics I think. Nuclear power has gone bankrupt in France already (arguably more than once) and gotten bailed out. Now they produce electricity at a price that's oft
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>what if it’s quite hot but also cloudy for 5 days in a row? The main idea is to then import power from somewhere sunny and/or windy or mountainous, using money you saved when they had the rain and you had the sun. Batteries and oth
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
Faster than chrome and 100% clearance of acid3 is certainly interesting, and a great achievement for a solo dev, good job! I’d love to see something entirely FOSS dethrone the big corp browsers, hope that’s the goal here.
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
Seems like a good a place as any to ask this - anyone else feel no effect from either coffee or energy drinks? I can go from 4-5 cups of coffee per day at work (coffee machine) to 0 cups in the weekend and feel no different. Had bouts of d
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>you won't get debt if you don't have assets that can be repossessed, so having debt means these AI companies have assets That's the ideal scenario, but you can also have immense debt because someone once thought you had a
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
The most surprising to me was that a movie famously shot entirely on IMAX with real practical effects looks so bad. The shots are very often close-ups, with shaky action and extremely short DOF. Nothing is in focus for long enough to discov
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>My current strategy is to not read any of the code written by my agents. That’s the only way I can take advantage of their productivity. When you start getting good results from agents you soon realize you are the bottleneck. Automating
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>You are falling for the voting fallacy >See also: collective action problem. I think you misread me - I'm not saying "Don't try to stop global warming", I'm saying "Don't focus on global warming whe
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>By now, everyone knows about climate change. But I assume most didn’t know the fact about the pine trees in this area. >Nowadays it’s much more about how we deal with climate change and not so much about the fact that there is human
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>The main reason the forest is burning is global warming. I get where you're coming from but I don't think this is helpful. Everyone with any sense knows global warming will cause heatwaves and they increase the risk of fires,
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
Debian is conservative so it makes sense that they have proposals for not using LLM's. They'll need another year or so but I am convinced it'll soon be obvious that any "no LLM" policy is untenable. We are in the &q
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>It could. It could make a simple note-taking app not take gigabytes of memory and take visible delay on each click. But the taste that tells you a note taking app should be fast doesn't come from your knowledge of assembly. It come
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
Good writeup, and certainly food for thought. I wonder if this key point actually holds though: >The skills to do so, however, are a function of someone who has experienced the friction and challenges over time that culminate in "go
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
It's deceptively undefined I'd say. People can argue under the impression that everyone shares their idea of what "intelligence" means, before realizing that their counterpart actually has an entirely different idea of w
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
Can't comment on FP, haven't touched it since SMLNJ in the late 90s. I fear my mind is now congealed in OOP paradigms and the threshold to FP is too high. Anyway I can say this - the free web interface to ChatGPT in 2024 vs what y
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>if he ever introduces a second developer to his project those 'solved' problems will become a point of friction. They'll go from 'solved' to 'solved, but in the wrong way' or 'solved, but not for
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
"When you’re young, you look at television and think, There’s a conspiracy. The networks have conspired to dumb us down. But when you get a little older, you realize that’s not true. The networks are in business to give people exactly
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
Burke Holland has a few good videos that helped me. For example this on agents[1]. He uses Copilot but the principles are similar for Claude Code, Codex, OpenCode and other harnesses: So far in the LLM coding revolution I still feel like it
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>Journalism is allowed to have an opinion, that doesn't make it propaganda. How do you figure? Surely it becomes propaganda for the opinion? Journalists are not supposed to let opinions show in their reporting, that’s why editorials
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>How does one get to "half ten" in German? Is it simply starting from "half to ten"? Never thought about it much but I think you're spot on. English uses "half past" and therefore "half 10" me
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
Oh come on! I'll take a few years of expensive RAM in order for humanity to get wide access to something near as makes no difference to the Star Trek Ship computer. Which is 100% what this has felt like to work with, all spring and sum
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>DTOs are one of the big code smells of a code base I actually agree but think serialization overrides are even worse, and the code smell that causes both of them is the ORM. ;-)
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
In the time it takes me to make a single-node webservice with a CLI POC client I can now have a fully scalable SAAS with clients for iOS, Android, mac, linux, windows and web-based, user documentation in several languages and a suite of uni
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by Kon5ole 3mo ago
>and Django was like this 15 years ago when I first started using it. The core design hasn't changed, it just sounds like most other ORMs don't really know what they're doing. Django is an opinionated web framework that us

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