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by Slartie 9mo ago
Clever engineers are usually able to pick up basic supply chain management capabilities. At least as long as it's about suppliers of things in their technical domain. For non-technical supply chain managers to pick up enough technical
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by Slartie 9mo ago
Actually, discount grocers operate on razor-thin margins of 2-4%. If your inaccuracy is geared to the benefit of your customer (because otherwise you'll be out of business due to the regulatory bodies) and thus removes just one percent
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by Slartie 9mo ago
Which is mostly the result of clever engineers that produced a machine no other company in the world can assemble, but that is absolutely crucial to businesses valued at double-digit trillions of dollars. You don't really need an army
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by Slartie 9mo ago
It "becomes"? In a lot of areas, particularly enterprise, business stuff, it had been mostly about all of these things for decades.
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by Slartie 9mo ago
I can third this observation. I've even had my flat above one of these for 10 years. Small company, privately-owned, five employees or so. They have a few pick-and-place machines (SIMATICs as far as I have seen) located in a small fact
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by Slartie 10mo ago
> This seems to be written by a teenager unfamiliar with anything. Overly confident, but poorly informed articles aren't commonly written by teenagers anymore, but by LLMs.
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by Slartie 1y ago
We know how each of the "parts" work, but there is a gazillion of parts (especially since you need to take the model weights into account, which are way larger in size than the code that generates them or uses them to generate stu
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by Slartie 1y ago
Thanks for mentioning this, I spontaneously love it!
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by Slartie 1y ago
> No, because the figure I have was for normal solar panels, not the balcony ones which are even worse. I haven't seen anyone reporting real yield for balcony panels yet, would be interested to see the numbers. „which are even worse
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by Slartie 1y ago
> A balcony solar panel will yield even less than that because it's not positioned optimally. Non-optimal positioning is already included in your "Measured (not projected) yield in Germany". Because that is the difference
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by Slartie 1y ago
> Then you also need to include inverters which are energy-heavy. Scientific publications say otherwise. It's quite hard to come by any numbers, but page 11 of https://www.wisdomlib.org/uploads/journals/mdp
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by Slartie 1y ago
> Today solar panels make sense in terms of money ROI but not in terms of KWh ROI That is clearly wrong. Even the worst-case embodied energy assumptions for solar panels estimate the cost of producing a square meter of solar panel area a
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by Slartie 1y ago
Actually, it is pretty common for homeowners to first install a balcony solar power plant and eventually "upgrading" to a full-scale solar power installation on the roof. The first is very easy and cheap to do and can be done on a
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by Slartie 1y ago
WiX basically lets you directly write the internal data structures used by Windows Installer to run the MSIs. Just in XML instead of some ancient binary database that is used in the MSI files to store things. So the actual "byzantine i
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by Slartie 1y ago
Don't forget that they'll change their API every so often, so you'll spend days and weeks to adapt to "v2" before "v1" is deprecated and eventually removed. You will usually get nothing in terms of desirab
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by Slartie 1y ago
I'm pretty sure that Copilot already saw the Firefox source code, and that they didn't have to wait for Firefox moving to GitHub for that.
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by Slartie 2y ago
But the person you responded to clearly talked about it. Within two sentences! Right next to each other! Less than a tweet long! Is it that hard to admit that you didn't properly read the comment you responded to?
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by Slartie 2y ago
Hetzner is not US-headquartered, so I'd say it should not be possible for the US government to make Hetzner turn out data from its EU locations. They will most certainly be able to make the US subsidiary of Hetzner turn out any kind of
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by Slartie 2y ago
I'd say it's about 2-3x at most, in the best case scenarios. When I have to write some kind of wrapper or glue code on a green field, I approach that factor. And I really love using AI code completion in those kinds of task. Howev
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by Slartie 2y ago
It is not just a problem with Pis, but also other use cases in which the SD card is used 24/7, or at least for long stretches of time, especially if the use case involves writing of data. Dashcams are also notorious for destroying crap
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by Slartie 2y ago
The Lithium ones that they suggest to use do have a decade or more of shelf life, and they also don't leak! I've got an old pinball machine. Those use AA batteries to store highscores and settings in a battery-powered RAM chip. Ty
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by Slartie 2y ago
Step 1: change your name to that of a famous person you don't like Step 2: sue OpenAI to add an if-else throwing an exception when your name comes up Step 3: profit
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by Slartie 2y ago
Playmobil has a horrible number of super-small parts that'll go missing really quick when taken outside. Lego has these, too, of course, but with Lego you at least have the benefit of being able to infinitely combine these parts to bui
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by Slartie 2y ago
We have the "Jooki Box" in use since its inception (the version before the current one), and it's a pretty good substitute. Allows to connect figurines to Spotify playlists, so if you have a Spotify Family subscription, you h
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by Slartie 2y ago
> The EU single market is largely a myth from the perspective of wanting to start a successful company that can compete internationally. It's not any easier now than it was before the EU existed. That's not exactly true. The si
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by Slartie 2y ago
Dab-dab-daaadab-dab-dadadab-dadab-dab-dab-dadab-dadadadaaaab....
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by Slartie 2y ago
Also, Hetzner is way bigger in the EU than in the US. Good access to services hosted by Hetzner is thus more relevant to EU ISPs, because customers in the EU will probably use more services hosted on Hetzner infra. This gives Hetzner more l
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by Slartie 2y ago
Did they finally realize how AWS/Azure/Gcloud actually generate their exorbitant profit margins?
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by Slartie 2y ago
Not considering Java is just as dumb as not considering Go or Rust.
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by Slartie 2y ago
Because this way, the delay is parameterized within the Secure Enclave firmware by hard-coding it, which is a thing that only Apple can do. If you were to allow a user to change it, you'd have to safeguard the channel by which the user

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