Xelbair

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by Xelbair 2y ago
Germany? When war in Ukraine started and sourcing cheap gas has become a problem - energy is is more than just electricity, although some of gas was also used for that. Please, don't tie your economy to cheap gas from one source and tr
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by Xelbair 2y ago
because storing it in any way is extremely inefficient - the best solution we have is pumped-storage hydroelectricity with at most 70-80% efficiency. Renewables aren't available 24/7, as they work in cycles in most cases(sunlight,
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by Xelbair 2y ago
>But the low quality CRUD websites (think restaurant menus) will get swallowed by LLMs. You no longer need a guy to code up a model, run a migration, and throw it on AWS. You also don't need a guy to make the art. just like you don&
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by Xelbair 2y ago
never mentioned CO2 for renewables - i mentioned storing energy from them. that's the problem.
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Risk is minuscule, and modern reactors actually shut down gracefully. Nuclear waste is an issue, but frankly - vastly smaller one than other kinds of pollution(CO2 comes to mind - and sulfides) used in generating or storing - which is the b
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by Xelbair 2y ago
yeah, extremely so. Especially if the country shut downs their nuclear power plants in middle of energy crisis, while there are laws in place that mandate energy exchange between different EU and EU adjacent countries(Norway). Did they have
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by Xelbair 2y ago
but you conform to the experimental results. you can suggest further experimentation to prove another point, but this is different from assuming a priori that effect WILL happen. The issue is not in the idea itself, but how it is phrased.
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i my case yes, but i experience severe slowdowns when reading anything written in verse or legalese.
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it doesn't change the fact that google of today is worse than google of 10-15 years ago.
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Hardware and software needs a hard separation honestly. I think that firmware shouldn't ever be bound by license, meanwhile software should be bound by it but mandated to be updatable/replacable by user - even with custom one. The
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No, because in case of insolvency some parties can get priority, and the assets will be auctioned off to just cover the priority ones.
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by Xelbair 2y ago
Here's what I want: by law, any device that i own should work perpetually until broken by me. If it requires 3rd party servers, let me configure alternatives. and if you sunset the servers completely you are mandated to release either:
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If there's no market for that it will die, simple as. keeping chrome alive isn't the goal, keeping the web not being at whims of a single company is.
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Sure, but that's not unique to open source software. it is a form of soft vendor lock in.
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>I've noticed that non-SW engineers frequently turn their noses up at open-source solutions The problem is that usually open source solutions are really, really rough around the edges from UX perspective - and it could be minor edge
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by Xelbair 2y ago
what? Governments have a systematic pressure, at least in sane countries, to be at least partially responsible towards customers - their citizens and voters. Corporations do not. especially in businesses with high barriers to entry, and whe
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you're in IT. you're already on multiple lists.
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I would say that it gets a bit more complex than that. some recipes can produce multiple related dishes, and some ingredients can have multi-step substitutions. So Graph would be a better representation. you could join multiple dishes into
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by Xelbair 2y ago
Oh no, not the racist jokes! We cannot joke about serious things like society problems, economy, death, relationships and politics - this is serious business only! (/s in case anyone is dense enough to not get it)
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>privacy first >social media you don't. you just killed your only decent revenue source, and will never out compete others. Social media live and die by their users.
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This time Google controls everyone's browsers, and has perverse conflict of interest between advertising and users - which Microsoft didn't had(yet). also internet has become more and more centralized compared to it's heyday.
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by Xelbair 2y ago
>To be fair, chromium has an inordinate amount of access. We all trust chromium’s developers but I’ve never met them. So it’s a realistic risk but we (hope) not a threat. >To be fair, Windows has an inordinate amount of access. We all
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by Xelbair 2y ago
if you make a good app don't pester me with popups while i'm using it. that's horrible UX, simple as.
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A program that samples image using blue noise. Horribly inefficient, horribly slow.. but it let me learn a bit about blue noise, and frankly - seeing images having just 10% of pixels and have all the shapes be distinctively recognizable wit
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by Xelbair 2y ago
> The real problem is laws that protect IP like the DMCA and the patent system. system created to protect inventors and authors from being abused by more powerful people(investors, corporations, publishers) is actually used to abuse ever
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They never said anything about same day interview, but to inform candidates - on the first day - that interview has been scheduled.
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No, i just value my time and ability to search information. plus i'm unable to consume media in the 'background'.
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Video by itself is less information dense than text. 20 mintute video could've been a 2-5min read essay. Not to mention the convinience of being able to easily re-read parts of it, and find reveland information instead of seeking the v
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by Xelbair 2y ago
>spread democracy i have to say that i love that phrase, it is peak propaganda that just works.
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