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871.
by adrianN 2y ago
The answer ranges from „we could do that in the eighties“ to „it’s literally impossible“ depending on the fidelity you wish the simulation to have.
872.
by adrianN 2y ago
What do you pay per kWh? With 800Wp you can expect a few hundred kWh/a.
873.
by adrianN 2y ago
We have been dropping artillery shells relatively accurately using classical mechanics for a couple of decades now.
874.
by adrianN 2y ago
Classical mechanics makes sufficiently accurate predictions to enable essentially all the engineering we do and was invented after we have been engineering things for a few millennia.
875.
by adrianN 2y ago
They have a fairly limited lifetime even if progress stands still.
876.
by adrianN 2y ago
It would be nice if „security“ were a made up reason but unfortunately it’s not.
877.
by adrianN 2y ago
„The sun is not powered by fusion“ actually contains a little information as to the inner workings of the star, so I’m a bit confused by the argument.
878.
by adrianN 2y ago
It’s different if you work on a large legacy codebase where you have maybe a rough understanding of the high level architecture but nobody at the company has seen the code you’re working on in the last five years. There a debugger is often
879.
by adrianN 2y ago
Once you have all the expensive fragile gear in orbit…
880.
by adrianN 2y ago
It's from the same author that recently made "a breakthrough" triangle counting algorithm and has "strong evidence for P=NP".
881.
by adrianN 2y ago
They are aware of this which is why they add that those strange lipids have independently been associated with depression.
882.
by adrianN 2y ago
Probably not for their engine control unit or their abs controller.
883.
by adrianN 2y ago
A lot of code is made by people in countries with relatively low incomes, eg eastern Europe. Most of the software in your car is probably written by an offshore team for example.
884.
by adrianN 2y ago
The same can be true for the dependency that releases weekly updates.
885.
by adrianN 2y ago
Software that hasn’t been touched in ten years and still does the job is about as ideal as a dependency can be.
886.
by adrianN 2y ago
If you want an average quality of life you need to compete for it because the average person competes.
887.
by adrianN 2y ago
Another plausible theory is that the literal billions that have been invested into optimizing content for hyper attention have led to improvements in propaganda methods since Radio Moscow.
888.
by adrianN 2y ago
Neither of those words have a sufficiently precise meaning that you could tell whether a human has/does it or not.
889.
by adrianN 2y ago
So-so general intelligence is a lot harder to sell than narrow competence.
890.
by adrianN 2y ago
How much does that potato weigh? The size of potatoes varies quite a bit
891.
by adrianN 2y ago
My position is that climate change is an existential threat to civilization, but buildings are not at a risk that would make them uninsurable. We build cities both in very wet and very hot and dry climates without much trouble. Those are en
892.
by adrianN 2y ago
Why would a city like London or Paris burn down in a hot dry period?
893.
by adrianN 2y ago
Compared to the other challenges climate change poses those are fairly simple engineering problems. The Netherlands manage fine with large parts of the country below sea level.
894.
by adrianN 2y ago
Even pessimistic scenarios don't predict threats to buildings (other than war, which to my knowledge never was insurable) in most areas of the world.
895.
by adrianN 2y ago
The Green Revolution has so far just postponed famines. We are farming in an unsustainable way. We're running out of fertile topsoil and are depleting fossil aquifers in many regions of the world. Inorganic fertilizers might become sca
896.
by adrianN 2y ago
"Passive House" is a well defined term. It's a house that gets almost all of its heating from "passive" sources like insolation, or the appliances that run in the house.
897.
by adrianN 2y ago
> Though still a fairly new trend on the market Passive Houses are a thing since the seventies or so and fairly common since the nineties. Does that still count as a "new trend" in real estate?
898.
by adrianN 2y ago
I work in Germany and my colleagues are all competent. Maybe the difference is that competent people are hired very early (before they become very competent?) and then tend to stick to the company that trained them?
899.
by adrianN 2y ago
The price rarely captures all the costs.
900.
by adrianN 2y ago
Recycling a plastic bag is not necessarily better for the environment than burning it.

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