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by alex_duf 3y ago
That's heavily dependent on where you live. We're getting high speed internet pretty much everywhere in France. It's a program full of controversies, but here I am in a 3k inhabitant village with a 10gbps connection for 40€
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by alex_duf 3y ago
In fairness EVs still are more expensive than petrol cars. I'm hoping this will change though
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by alex_duf 3y ago
Isn't hydrogen extremely hard to store over a long period of time ? (Seasonal)
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by alex_duf 3y ago
I'd reformulate it like this: "Most new trucks and cars will be electric in 10 years" The keywords being "most" and "new"
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by alex_duf 3y ago
That's assuming the AI really wants to make a lot of paperclips though
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by alex_duf 3y ago
Assuming the denser batteries have the same amount of lithium per kg, I don't see how we'll see a halving of lithium demand. That would only be possible under the incorrect assumption that battery demand is static. That's alr
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by alex_duf 3y ago
Can you provide attachments or URLs to chatgpt now?
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by alex_duf 4y ago
would it be a good things for captchas to be useless? Because in my career I've been a few times on the receiving end of spam attacks and various nastiness and it's nice to be able to integrate such a thing - as unpleasant as it i
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by alex_duf 4y ago
I'm hearing both arguments from pretty reasonable people and I can't seem to make up my mind on this issue. Some are saying: yes it's a massive issue, and some are saying nah it's not, I can't seem to find a consist
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by alex_duf 4y ago
surely such a system would be extremely unstable right?
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by alex_duf 4y ago
oh I get that, computing creates heat and we should totally re-use it. But where CPU heat is 1 kWh of electricity = 1kWh of heat, a heat pump will have 1 kWh of electricity = 3 kWh of heat, because it's "sucking" 2kWh of heat
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by alex_duf 4y ago
I know it's a joke but running a heat pump will be two to three times more efficient a heating your space.
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by alex_duf 4y ago
That's a crazy amount of power, for reference here in France I run my whole house on a 9kW service (9kVA to be precise). That's with a heatpump and everything electric, including an electric car, and running the heating at more th
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by alex_duf 4y ago
past performance is not indicative of future results
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by alex_duf 4y ago
There's an anecdote of someone hearing voices, but it turned out to be AM radio. They found out it was the metal in two cavity filling that made the teeth vibrate and transmitted sound to their ear. Not sure if it's just an urban
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by alex_duf 4y ago
that makes a lot more sense now, thanks!
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by alex_duf 4y ago
As an outsider from the hardware world, I find it astounding that it's possible to fix the behaviour a CPU instruction by changing code. (assuming I understand correctly) In my mind a CPU instruction is hardwired on the chip, and it bl
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by alex_duf 4y ago
I think OP meant, why not using the standardised MiB, and the answer is: because it's not that well known.
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by alex_duf 4y ago
Both were produced because there was money to be made, both have at least some negative effect on society. Granted, the scale of the problems are different, and the axis onto which they act is also different. But I stand by my comparison.
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by alex_duf 4y ago
I heard carbon steel was good middle ground, anyone tried?
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by alex_duf 4y ago
We seem to have the same attitude with all technologies. Be it a social network, a new type of AI, chemicals, fossil fuels or anything else really. First we release the product because we can make money, then problems appear as adoption ram
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by alex_duf 4y ago
Wouldn't looking only at successful people be running right into the survivor bias?
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by alex_duf 4y ago
I wonder how far would other solutions to reduce road car deaths go with the same budget? How about better public transit, encouraging people to use smaller cars, encouraging cycling with corresponding infrastructure, etc.
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by alex_duf 4y ago
I assume OP is talking about new tools, not replacement tools, so probably new binaries
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by alex_duf 4y ago
5 months is nothing, we're still in the infancy of the technology, I think this wasn't a priority until now. Give it a few years, a few research papers and I'm sure someone will figure it out.
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by alex_duf 4y ago
It feels like there's a parallel to SQL, and we need the "prepared statement" for AIs, where unsafe values are marked in the statement to avoid escaping the request. No idea how you go about implementing it, but that's w
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by alex_duf 4y ago
I've been using wayland only forever, I'm not sure what you're missing?
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by alex_duf 4y ago
Variety of point of views brings opinions you may not have, had you been uniquely surrounded by people that have been through similar experiences to you. In my experience I've seen it impacting product decisions, pricing decisions, and
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by alex_duf 4y ago
>I can accept a system such as ChatGPT synthesizing from data it sucked in, making educated guesses and so on On that note I find it interesting that this has sometimes been an argument to dismiss chatGPT as "non intelligent".
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by alex_duf 4y ago
I can't remember where I read that, but someone had made an interesting observation that stayed with me, and your comment makes me think of it (perhaps you're referring to the same article?) What if instead of slowly dying of canc

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