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by Retric 7d ago
The energy density of specific compost heaps varies by several orders of magnitude it’s not a single number. Volume, moisture content, internal temperature, external temperature, materials being composted, etc all play a significant role.
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by Retric 7d ago
There’s often more ambiguity than that. “Died of a COVID linked complication with COVID and other issue that is also linked to that complication.” You can’t spend endless resources deciding if something is or isn’t responsible. Systems use
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by Retric 8d ago
People have multiple motivations at the same time. Many OSS contributors have moved on after LLM’s and that’s completely consistent with their motivations. Some of the major OSS licenses require attribution when someone copies the work in
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by Retric 8d ago
In theory sure, in practice programmers are often making a large number of such decisions because nobody else in the org is as invested in the specifics.
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by Retric 9d ago
Being unsustainable isn’t the same as breaking within the lifetime of the people making the decisions. The average US senator is 66, and that’s young compared to the current Supreme Court or the sitting President.
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by Retric 9d ago
Being realistic is the opposite of being off. As the article points out fire is a real concern here, which is one of many reasons making salt caverns so appealing. But it’s also a major driver for distance between each above ground tank, y
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by Retric 9d ago
You can’t tile circular objects at 100% efficiency and you definitely don’t want these tanks to touch. You further need space between them with each other and the edge of your property for a host of other reasons such as being able to inspe
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by Retric 11d ago
EV adoption removes demand for oil as does replacing home heating oil with heat pump etc. Many uses for oil are based on existing infrastructure, build different infrastructure and demand falls.
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by Retric 11d ago
Ion thrusters allow satellites to stay in low orbits with significant drag, providing significant protection from Kessler syndrome.
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by Retric 11d ago
Global trade means domestic prices move even when you’re a next exporter of a commodity.
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by Retric 11d ago
What’s important is total profits. Video game prices fell because distribution costs tanked and there’s vastly more people playing video games so cutting 20% on the price upfront means far more than 20% extra profit.
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by Retric 11d ago
Amazon prime was costing me 20$/order so I cancelled it a while ago. Which made many sites competitive with Amazon on shipping. As to delivery times, many things could take 2 weeks to show up and I wouldn’t care. The range where I ca
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by Retric 12d ago
From a cellphone’s perspective a crash = extreme acceleration with different vectors vs a dropped phone, they can also listen for broken glass etc. So even with GPS off that’s detectable. iPhone 14+ and Android 12+ https://en.and
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by Retric 13d ago
Supersonic passenger aircraft were operated profitably and no longer exist. There’s levels of R&D required for many technologies where the question goes beyond could this be profitable to what are the risk vs reward that this specific p
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by Retric 15d ago
> do you accept the premise that most modern corporations are centrally planned economies under the rulership of monarchies, oligarchies, or general authoritarians? No stock owners are ultimately in control of public companies. That doe
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by Retric 15d ago
I do blame management for letting these people through the interview process and then not firing them. But that’s independent of the fact they exist. Training doesn’t solve every problem, the worst programmer I ever worked with that a PHD
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by Retric 15d ago
Many people were and still are simply terrible developers. Hand those people an LLM and they don’t suddenly become competent, but they do start slinging more code.
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by Retric 16d ago
The issue is it’s also “Being attentive.” We don’t have NTSB reports for every car accident, so trying to draw the line on which behaviors are actually desirable is just a tautology with things that minimize accidents not some actual list.
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by Retric 16d ago
> Why would I fail to include driving with untreated narcolepsy in my definition? It’s an illiterate example not a literal one. The point is trying to state the full set of behaviors that represent safe driving will fail. > The defin
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by Retric 16d ago
Population level statistics let you look for statistical aberrations that you can’t detect at the individual level. Further suppose you define “good driving” as a set of behaviors but failed to include narcolepsy or similar medical conditio
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by Retric 17d ago
Good here is in reference to the average crash statistics. Most drivers are safer than the average, because you can’t go below 0 and some people are really bad.
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by Retric 17d ago
From a pure statistical perspective the first scientific paper shouldn’t update your beliefs as much as the independent replication study. People don’t behave this way, but a high percentage of all papers have known flaws and that goes up e
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by Retric 21d ago
Murder is bad. This kind of harm is murder.
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by Retric 21d ago
Suggesting the death penalty when these crimes kill people is not advocating for a new type of punishment. Treating a burglary as more severe than a multi million dollar pension fraud seems backward by any metric beyond the social status of
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by Retric 24d ago
The distinction is meaningful because the process described here isn’t bound by the same constraints, resulting in meaningful consequences. Suppose we flipped the initial stings and fed that into the process. There would still be meaning t
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by Retric 25d ago
Any sequence could be meaningful or meaningless depending on the grammar involved. Open a word document in photoshop and the program has no idea what it’s dealing with. The reason the language term in LLM is meaningful is how the training,
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by Retric 25d ago
Words and symbols alone don’t make a language. Zipper and and? and coin is pimple, Ocean! run bumper.
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by Retric 26d ago
Either approach can work. Smaller pieces cool faster without the need to cut up a very hot potato and it’s obvious you’ve done it correctly. The fork approach generally works fine, but it’s not obvious when you mess up. Same deal with hotdo
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by Retric 28d ago
The correct response to irresponsible AI use in the workplace is maintaining standards and rejecting poor quality. Performance improvement plans as a fair warning followed by firing people works for incompetence or laziness, AI doesn’t chan
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by Retric 28d ago
“Reducing the baseline cost always has a limit of zero, while the upside from new features is infinite according to your leadership and investors, so it is very hard to argue against.”

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