UltraSane

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by UltraSane 23d ago
They are all working together. Trump has absolutely no respect for voting and is terrified of Democrats getting majorities in the midterms.
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by UltraSane 23d ago
If you could actually hand write SVG code on the spot that looked like a realistic pelican riding a bike I would want to hire you for SOMETHING.
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by UltraSane 23d ago
I'm picturing humanoid robots having to operate in pairs so they can constantly fix each other.
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by UltraSane 23d ago
The physical world is basically an infinite amount of global state that must be perceived indirectly through imperfect sensors and acted on using imperfect motors and manipulators.
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by UltraSane 24d ago
whitelisting which sites can use javascript is far more work than I can justify. I just run uBlock Origin locked down tight.
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by UltraSane 25d ago
converting code to more abstract and denser representations and then manipulating them makes sense to me. Finding better representations is like half of mathematics.
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by UltraSane 25d ago
I found this part to be interesting/clever: 1. Extract the data representation Ask the LLM to represent your code as any combination of: graphs ontologies hierarchical state machines UML process charts constraints
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by UltraSane 25d ago
Money should never be stored using floating point variables. That is why the Decimal type exists and why IBM Mainframes have hardware acceleration for binary coded decimal math.
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by UltraSane 25d ago
Is it even possible to hold that much in a regular checking account?
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by UltraSane 25d ago
In the US there is ACH transfers which are free and slow and reversible and wire transfers which are expensive and fast and normally irreversible. Fednow is a new fast payment system.
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by UltraSane 25d ago
I have used it to write some scripts but it is incredibly expensive.
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by UltraSane 25d ago
I once was asked why the internet went away when he closed Internet Explorer. I really didn't know what to say.
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by UltraSane 25d ago
requiring payment requires a payment method and burning those is much more painful for whoever is running a scraper.
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by UltraSane 25d ago
What is it like when billionaires sell like $10 billion worth of shares? Do you need a special bank account to hold that much?
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by UltraSane 26d ago
Orbital data centers are the most elaborate stock pumping lie ever thought of.
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by UltraSane 26d ago
All the players are investing hundreds of billions of dollars (US) into new fabs. But SK Hynix said customers are signing 5 year contracts which used to be unheard of.
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by UltraSane 26d ago
With RAM so profitable it makes sense to invest in new factories to build it. This should in time increase supply and decrease price but it takes a good 5 years for a new RAM fab to start producing.
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by UltraSane 26d ago
If "Time is the accumulation of committed transitions along worldlines." then what does it mean that state transitions have a finite duration? this seems circular.
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by UltraSane 26d ago
$1 dollar a year subscriptions would help.
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by UltraSane 27d ago
When I was learning Python I wrote a program that stored data in its own .py file. I felt pretty smart.
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by UltraSane 27d ago
Australia is the best case scenario for solar power. It doesn't work as well in a lot of places that don't get so much sun.
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by UltraSane 27d ago
Data centers need power at night
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by UltraSane 27d ago
You can't compare wind and solar to nuclear you have to compare wind and solar with enormous amounte of battery storage which is extremely expensive and it would be hard to make enough storage
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by UltraSane 28d ago
Jevons Paradox shows that increasing efficiency can increase demand for a product by making it cost effective for more uses.
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by UltraSane 28d ago
The flawed economics of nuclear are largely do the NRC basically making it as hard as possible to make a new reactor. China and Korea can build reactors for reasonable cost per watt.
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by UltraSane 28d ago
The flawed economics of nuclear are largely due to the NRC basically making it as hard as possible to make a new reactor. China and Korea can build reactors for reasonable cost per watt.
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by UltraSane 28d ago
The Trump admin is actually very pro-nuclear power. They are ending the "As Low As Reasonably Achievable" (ALARA) standard in favor of fixed limits which is actually a good idea, possibly the only one the Trump admin has ever had.
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by UltraSane 28d ago
There needs to be a market mechanism to ensure there is enough dispatchable spare capacity to meet demand when solar and wind can't supply it. More reliable sources of power are inherently more valuable.
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by UltraSane 29d ago
This is fundamentally a pricing problem that hourly-matched carbon-free energy accounting tries to solve. https://www.eurelectric.org/in-detail/247-2/ Natrium has an interesting design for a 345MW reactor that has
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by UltraSane 29d ago
You need to have dispatchable capacity equal to or greater than your base load in order be able to guarantee you will be able to deliver it with 100% reliability year round. I am very dubious of any energy policy coming form Germany because

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