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by adwn 5mo ago
I thought we were way past the "bigger brain means more intelligence" stage of neuroscience?
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by adwn 5mo ago
And yet another "AI doesn't work" comment without any meaningful information. What were your exact prompts? What was the output? This is like a user of conventional software complaining that "it crashes", without a
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by adwn 6mo ago
> We could probably slash gas prices by banning oil exports, thus removing domestic oil supply from global market pricing (barring smuggling). To my understanding, you couldn't do this, no. The US is a net oil exporter, but many
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by adwn 6mo ago
> ironically because he thought it would avoid making him look weak and incompetent Trump is what a weak man imagines a strong man to be like. Just look at his official portrait [1], trying to look tough and dangerous. Compare that to
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by adwn 6mo ago
Oil is a globally priced commodity. This means that downstream consumers of oil in the US will be just as affected by rising prices as European consumers. US producers of oil will benefit, though.
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by adwn 6mo ago
> it forced US to spend huge amounts of money and military hardware which the EU simply didn't have - Europe's monetary aid for Ukraine far outweighs that of the US. - The US military aid for Ukraine mostly consisted of old a
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by adwn 6mo ago
> Since WWII […] Europe didn't slack off militarily during the Cold War. Germany, for example, poured massive amounts of money and resources into the Bundeswehr to be able to fend of the Soviets. The US relied as much on the Europ
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by adwn 6mo ago
> So why is the argument "write more code"? It isn't, that's what you injected. The argument was "write [the same amount of] code faster ". And that is undoubtedly a good thing, because execution speed ca
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by adwn 6mo ago
> But for startups, side-hustles, VC-pitches and the inner-workings of companies and so on (HN crowd) coding was never the problem. I'd say you're 180° wrong. Getting to an MVP fast is the most immediate problem when you&#x
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by adwn 7mo ago
Tell them to use the Composer 1.5 model. It's really good, better than Sonnet, and has much higher usage limits. I use it for almost all of my daily work, don't have to worry about hitting the limit of my 60$ plan, and only occa
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by adwn 7mo ago
Thanks for the correction. I wasn't aware of this, but it makes sense now that you mention it.
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by adwn 7mo ago
"Expensive and painful body modifications"? Like, what, earrings? What a sacrifice.
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by adwn 7mo ago
> One could argue that LLMs learning programming languages made for humans (i.e. most of them) is using the wrong interface as well. Then go ahead and make an argument. "Why not do X?" is not an argument, it's a suggesti
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by adwn 7mo ago
> If I want to know the status of each item, I’d pass -v to the command. I don't disagree. In my opinion, the default log level for CLI applications should be WARN, showing errors and warnings. -q should turn this OFF (alternati
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by adwn 7mo ago
"Finished conversion of xyz.mp3 to xyz.ogg" is valuable progress information to a regular user, not just to developers, so it belongs in INFO, not DEBUG.
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by adwn 8mo ago
Those are the "sources" you chose to prove your claim? Is this supposed to be a parody?
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by adwn 8mo ago
> Having a place you can legally install panels is for the upper class. Do you own a house? Owning a house does not require belonging to the "upper class" in Europe.
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by adwn 8mo ago
> Middle class in Europe can't afford a single family home. At least for Germany, this statement is directly contradicted by visible evidence. I'm surrounded by middle class families owning single homes.
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by adwn 9mo ago
> this aged like shit Your comment was chemically and biologically decomposed by microorganisms and fungi, which extracted energy from it and returned the remaining nutrients to the surrounding soil, providing a fertile ground for the
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by adwn 9mo ago
No idea what you're going on about. Those in the West who stand for a rules-based international order certainly didn't ask for this war, and Trump, who did start this war, never gave a shit about rules or norms, international or
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by adwn 9mo ago
The idea is that you can start with the next head earlier than all the others, giving you an edge in being the first to find the next block.
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by adwn 9mo ago
> It's cute you think […] Don't do that here.
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by adwn 9mo ago
> Why 2 years? Significantly longer than that and you go from prediction to speculation , and it is unwise to base a country's energy policy on speculation.
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by adwn 9mo ago
> 1. Do the other costs scale with the number of panels? Mostly yes. Once you're at utility-scale, installation and maintainance should scale 1:1 with number of panels. Inverters and balancing systems should also scale 1:1, althou
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by adwn 10mo ago
Yes, those are easier to store , but more expensive and less efficient to generate . The question is the same as for hydrogen: If it's easy, cheap, and safe to generate, store, and convert back into electricity, why isn't it alr
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by adwn 10mo ago
If that's so easy, cheap, and safe, why aren't there companies doing it on a large scale already? We're talking about billions of Euros of market volume.
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by adwn 10mo ago
Hydrogen generation isn't the problem, storing it over several months is. Economical, safe, and reliable storage of hydrogen is very much an unsolved engineering challenge. If it weren't, hydrogen storage plants would shoot ou
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by adwn 10mo ago
"Concrete plan" means a technology which satisfies all of these requirements: 1) demonstrated ability in a utility-scale plant 2) already economically viable, or projected to be economically viable within 2 years by actual proce
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by adwn 10mo ago
> This is trivially false if the cost of solar generation (and battery storage) further drops by 5x to 10x. That's a huge "if". The cost of PV panels has come down by a factor of 10 in the last 13 years or so, that'
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by adwn 10mo ago
Thank you for actually running the numbers. I think the data is quite convincing that overprovisioning won't be the solution to the seasonal storage problem, or at least not the major factor in it. Personally, I have high hopes for flo

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