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by abenga 3y ago
> I think ChatGPT is perfect for learning. I usually get stuck on "trust whatever it says". Maybe I'm wrong, but I find myself unable to get over the hump of trust in generated text at all. I shudder to think of the coming
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by abenga 3y ago
Everything is always easy as a purely mathematical/technical problem. Add in dealing with the real world - fellow workers, customers, regulators (especially in the case we're talking about), etc., and it gets complicated in a hurr
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by abenga 3y ago
It feels far more rapid, e.g. try to find all highly upvoted posts about EVs over the last couple of months. It feels (anecdotally) that they have been increasingly more negative recently.
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by abenga 3y ago
So, replace the slow-crash problem with a more immediately visible acid rain one?
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by abenga 3y ago
Honestly curious, why the focus on the QR-code menus? Is that the most important adverse effect of tech?
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by abenga 3y ago
These are not "wild speculations", they are all widely know facts. It is more common in the earth's crust than lead, tin, uranium, etc which we mine magnitudes more per year [1], and there are significantly more reserves in s
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by abenga 3y ago
Ha ha, no. What will replace humans? LLMs? Doubtful.
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by abenga 3y ago
It seems to be something new generations are increasingly doing. I remember someone saying that he was texting with his gen-z child, and the child felt like properly capitalized sentences sound like they are formally chiding you. I've
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by abenga 3y ago
Except the advantage of not having ads in the command line and not having confusing messages that some security updates have been withheld unless you sign up for a pro version.
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by abenga 3y ago
We don't need to stop production. Reducing/ eliminating demand will work just as well.
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by abenga 3y ago
If the 1.33T is concentrated in a single company though, can you really sell it without tanking its share price? The 138B Gates holds can probably be liquidated without too much hassle.
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by abenga 3y ago
Sounds like they have the same range. Different power efficiency, for sure, but they do have the same range fully fueled and charged.
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by abenga 3y ago
Can one drive continuously without rest stops for more than a couple of hours with children in the car? Even when I'm driving alone, 2 hours is absolutely the limit before my knees force me to stop and stretch my legs for a bit. As lon
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by abenga 3y ago
So it's just malicious incompetence, not even greed? There has to be a reason it seems former french colonies are never allowed to become stable. Just coup after coup, with French forces usually directly involved.
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by abenga 3y ago
> ... competing authority like academia or media or church These are beholden to themselves, their owners, and to a deity, while the government (in theory at least) is supposed to be beholden to the governed. There are many problems solv
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by abenga 3y ago
Is the "Versions and History" transferrable between instances of the program? Can it be reliably used by a couple, dozens, even hundreds of people?
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by abenga 3y ago
All good points. What is the action this realization is supposed to help us come to though? Should we stop the transition to cleaner energy until we find a 100% clean energy source throughout its life cycle before we begin the transition? I
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by abenga 3y ago
I don't understand the arguments that "solar panels and wind turbines use mined resources and are transported around the world". And coal, oil, and gas waft down into our arms from trees in the backyard?
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by abenga 3y ago
I would be more impressed if it returned links to the specific RFCs and more specific pages elsewhere. What's a top-level link to OCW worth here? OCW is amazing, but has classes on practically everything. These are practically just dom
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by abenga 3y ago
You don't need to fight anything/anyone. The code is open source, fork and maintain it. You shouldn't have any issue replacing the "broken vanity project by a minor amateur maintainer", right?
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by abenga 3y ago
Do you work at 100% concentration and effectiveness 100% of the time? Downtime is restorative and important.
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by abenga 3y ago
Why is more sensors less promising?
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by abenga 3y ago
If the specific words used are the problem, using aliases is a straightforward way to fix them. If you do it for someone, it will break the possibility of searching for help online though.
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by abenga 3y ago
Nairobi Pros: Excellent weather (not as hot as coastal towns, not as cold as places in higher latitudes. Cost of living is not too bad if you can get a job paying international pay scales. Several game parks within couple of hours drive of
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by abenga 3y ago
Conservative satirists attempting to mock "only teaching unproblematic history" is rich.
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by abenga 3y ago
Human nature? Of freaking course! Using tools, seeking amusement? Yes, it's human nature. Banding together to improve our chances of survival? Yeah. In the past it was a few dozen, now it's a few hundred thousand. I don't und
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by abenga 3y ago
More than half of the global human population (and growing) lives in urban areas, so _by definition_ it is human nature. The artificial restrictions artificially limiting the number of new apartment blocks, causing lack of affordable housin
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by abenga 3y ago
What do you think is the alternative? More sprawl? All global billions living in idyllic farms? On what land?
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by abenga 3y ago
Porsche sells every car they make, even ridiculously expensive special editions that have insane margins, plus their legendary menagerie of costly options. The upcoming electric maccan is going to print money for them. I wonder where this i
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by abenga 3y ago
It was all over the news at the time, e.g. [0] 0: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/frances-edf-takes-13...

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