Panzer04

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by Panzer04 1y ago
We can appreciate that process is important, but at some point you're falling down a slippery slope here, surely? We're talking about a factor that no one has previously had reason to consider important. Of course, I don't kn
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by Panzer04 1y ago
That's not at all how it works. A trade takes place when both buyer and seller feels they gain something from the transaction. In general neither side captures all the surplus value, if they did the trade would not happen.
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by Panzer04 1y ago
Fair enough. I guess it's all about degrees - I work at a place where we use FPGAs for our hardware, and I find it really hard to imagine an LLM being remotely capable of solving the problems our FPGA guys do. If the FPGA is mostly doi
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by Panzer04 1y ago
What kind of things is it doing? I have a hard time imagining an LLM being able to do arbitrary things. It always feels like LLMs can do lots of the easy stuff, but if they can't do everything you need the skilled engineer anyway, who&
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by Panzer04 1y ago
Classic case of people not wanting to give up a subsidy. It's not sustainable or efficient to continue subsidising solar at this point. If we paid wholesale prices for electricity generated by solar customers, incentives would shift -
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by Panzer04 1y ago
It depends where the division is, I guess. It always feels a bit heavy-handed to force private companies to interoperate within their infrastructure. That being said, I don't really know a better way to do it. Having terminals be more
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by Panzer04 1y ago
Can it be applied to adults? Useless for this particular disorder, but what about others?
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by Panzer04 1y ago
This is a good point. A big part of the drive towards lower prices is likely driven by companies exploiting that lack of information to deliver a low-quality product for a high price. Consumers rationally respond to this by just always pick
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by Panzer04 1y ago
This sounds sort of like the "if a tree falls in a forest and no one hears it, did it make a sound". if time passes and there's no observable difference, did it pass? I guess it makes no meaningful difference, but it's n
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by Panzer04 1y ago
And why do you think the dollar is dominant in international trade? You appear to be putting the cart before the horse.
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by Panzer04 1y ago
I don't really see how any car company can "fall behind" in EV. Fundamentally, IMO, EVs are such a simple concept mechanically that any company capable of building a conventional ICE vehicle can build an EV. It's glib to
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by Panzer04 1y ago
It is absolutely too much work. It's incredibly easy to get bogged into the weeds of config stuff like this and almost no one will care. if they did, I bet it's turn into a cluster of hearsay about magic settings that make almost
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by Panzer04 1y ago
Only for the next developer. They can do whatever they want, but they aren't obligated to contribute anything back.
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by Panzer04 1y ago
And they profit because people need the valuable service they provide. I doubt astronomy is as important as providing good internet access to millions of people in low-service areas around the globe.
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by Panzer04 1y ago
I'm sorry, what? That is an absurd assertion. Batteries are incredibly efficient, like 95-99% discharge efficiency for capacity. They're already bad for this use case, exaggerating it just makes you look bad.
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by Panzer04 1y ago
You've not actually addressed the cost points he makes. You seem to bediscounting the sheer cost effectiveness of renewable power because if an ideological opposition to it. The wonderful thing about looking at how much something actua
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by Panzer04 1y ago
What do you mean? Virtually no one is arguing that marine or air is viable given current tech. The article author though demonstrates some clear lack of understanding about more viable tech though, given his absurd assertion about the profi
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by Panzer04 1y ago
Pretty classic arguing a point no one makes. Sea and air electric travel is and has always been the final frontier of transport electrification, and no one expects it to come easily. As tech currently exists I don't see a path for batt
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by Panzer04 1y ago
Agree. The toolmakers don't impose some sort of coding (that I know of) so you can just use a 3rd party replacement battery too. I don't see a need to regulate this either.
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by Panzer04 1y ago
True 0V is very bad for lithium batteries, but extended periods at low SoC should be Ok (2.5V+). If there's any drain on the battery though low SoC can easily become 0V and dead battery (most chargers should refuse to charge those)
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by Panzer04 1y ago
You get what you pay for. Tool batteries as a general rule don't do anything fancy internally, so they are easily substituted. I suspect it's mostly a matter of the main buyers being tradies/workers who use them to make money
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by Panzer04 1y ago
The counterargument is whether the government should be directing the allocation of resources via its spending rather than private actors. Any money spent by the government in an economy is going to cause a redirection of resources from oth
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by Panzer04 1y ago
If the government prints itself double the money supply, it has effectively made every dollar held by everyone else half as valuable. I'm not making a value statement as to whether this is good or bad, particularly at low levels, but t
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by Panzer04 1y ago
AMD bought an overpriced company with their own overpriced stock. Probably not as bad as it might look.
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by Panzer04 1y ago
Printing money to pay debts is inflationary. Every dollar printed is a dollar stolen from the collective citizenry of the USA. Of course it makes sense to add money supply commensurate with increased productivity, so that money doesn't
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by Panzer04 2y ago
It's got downsides. There's often no way to recover game state without actually running the simulation, and often no way to go backwards either. If you miss a moment in the replay you gotta watch the whole damn thing all over gain
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Retaliatory tariffs are just dumb. They're literally a tax on your own citizens. The only reason to implement them is to protect local manufacturing, which is usually a bad thing in the long run (they just become less competitive)
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Its interesting to consider the effects. Assuming you must live in a house, you actually lose nothing in a devaluation. If you own outright, all houses being cheaper means you can buy exactly as much house as you already owned if you sold.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I think the crux of the matter is, as the author states: "even a positive-sum world contains winners and losers" The core of the problem is that we don't want to trample the losers (lest those tools be used against us), but a
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Is such code hard to write in the first place? Automating the easy 80% sounds useful, but in practice I'm not convinced that's all that helpful. Reading and putting together code you didn't write is hard enough to begin wit

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