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by adrianN 8mo ago
I would be a bit worried that the extra weight compromises the structural integrity of the frame. 2kWh are heavy
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by adrianN 8mo ago
Bus lanes are usually not a budget problem. The problem is car centric laws and regulations that make it hard to impossible to take space away from cars.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
I live in Berlin and strongly prefer the bike over the bus because buses are slow and unreliable. I wish we had a lot more bus lanes and aggressively towed cars blocking them. More subways would be even better though.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
Has there ever been a society were money and power didn’t go hand in hand?
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by adrianN 8mo ago
That is sadly true but at least you can prevent them from feeding you through a tube when you forgot how to swallow
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by adrianN 8mo ago
Birds have a language, most mammals do too. Those languages are usually much simpler than ours though.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
Notarizing any wishes against some medical procedures in case a sudden accident ruins your ability to dissent prevents doctors from being forced to keep your body alive as long as possible.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
A terribly long winded article that ignores that we already have all the building blocks for carbon neutrality (for some time already), what we lack is not new ideas, we lack political will to spend a lot of money now to improve the world f
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by adrianN 8mo ago
I know little about theology and philosophy but I’ve interviewed enough people with master’s degrees to be able to say that there a very large differences between skilled degree holders and average degree holders, at least in my field.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
Then you combine it with some other technique, eg tracking daily routes of individuals, to lower the error rate. You only need a handful of bits to distinguish all inhabitants of the average city. But imho that error rate would likely be lo
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by adrianN 8mo ago
You have a lot of faith in the qualities of average priests.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
Who needs facial recognition if you can identify people based on gait?
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by adrianN 8mo ago
Heroin or similar compounds are in fact produced by big Pharma in large quantities.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
I hope you’re not my neighbor.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
One prompt injection away from sending all your credentials to the Internet?
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by adrianN 8mo ago
It is my understanding that bridges in Switzerland have bombs, or at least holes for bombs.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
You can in fact still buy those kinds of phones and they still have removable batteries.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
How much cheaper is it compared to those orbs you can get from the Long Now Foundation?
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by adrianN 8mo ago
Growing trees takes some years. Something that could be implemented faster (with a lot more capital) are agriphotovoltaics. I guess farmers in Benin lack the necessary capital?
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by adrianN 8mo ago
There is GWPAsan that has lower overhead than asan but still is not super popular.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
I seem to remember very few ads on the early web. Most sites I frequented were run by volunteers who paid out of their own pockets for webspace.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
AI automates spam generation so more than likely all hope is lost for the human driven web.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
All of physics is „just“ based on empirical observation. It’s still a pretty good tool for prediction.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
A few generations ago almost nobody could afford a car, now many low income families afford two.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
Cars have also been dropping in price.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
We don’t have a definition of consciousness that allows us to tell whether a single electron is conscious or not, so literally anything can be „conscious“.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
My context window is larger than an LLM's and I remember more implicit contracts between different systems.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
You have way more trust in test suites than I do. How complex is the code you’re working with? In my line of work most serious bugs surface in complex interactions between different subsystems that are really hard to catch in a test suite.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
The more often you have renewable surplus the rarer you need to fire up the gas turbines.
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by adrianN 8mo ago
That is true but it is unclear why you believe that to apply to recycling electronics. I doubt anyone can put hard numbers on the environmental costs involved.

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