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by altacc 2y ago
If you're in the West then you haven't heard about it much because it really was a big problem and reducing it was a success story: "Wet sulfate deposition – a common indicator of acid rain – dropped by more than 70% between
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by altacc 2y ago
What we're going "through" is the planet and there's nothing on the other side. The green economy has a lot of potential (and it's fair share of grifters) but the mindset I refer to openly rejects the green economy.
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by altacc 2y ago
I see what you're saying. You're reading it as "every day is hotter than the previous day". The way I said it is open to misinterpretation but the article is better. It says "record-breaking year of heat" and &
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by altacc 2y ago
Human reasoning is an amazingly flexible thing. We've gone from "this problem doesn't exist" to "this is natural variance" to "even if it was real we shouldn't do anything about it because it would co
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by altacc 2y ago
From the graph of the data, every day for the past 365 days has indeed been an all time high, higher than any previously recorded temperature recorded by the same method since records began in 1979. So does not appear to be misleading.
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by altacc 2y ago
In the UK there was for a while the private finance initiative, where the government contracted private companies to provide services or development. The result, as concluded by the very private business friendly right wing government, was
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by altacc 2y ago
Having experienced the post-privatization decline of public services a few times I'm of the opinion that public transport, being a societal good, should be publicly funded, publicly owned and funded well. Rail is especially expensive t
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MIT License text becomes viral "sad girl" piano ballad generated by AI(arstechnica.com)
2 points by altacc 3y ago|0 comments
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by altacc 3y ago
There are media servers you can host locally and Bandcamp has an app you can play music in.
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by altacc 3y ago
Or your AI radar needs calibrating ;) A lot of generative content is becoming hard to differentiate from human created content and it's also becoming common to see people like yourself assign false positives. I think it's good to
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by altacc 3y ago
> "Spotify says it’s using large language models (LLMs) to understand the user’s intent. Then, Spotify uses its personalization technology — the information it has about the listener’s history and preferences — to fulfill the prompt
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by altacc 3y ago
Cable TV was never a primary method of accessing government services, banking, interactive education during the pandemic, etc... They don't need gigabit internet but for large numbers rural residents even normal 25Mbps broadband isn&#x
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by altacc 3y ago
I long ago came to the conclusion that utilities shouldn't be run by for-profit companies. Companies exist to maximize shareholder profit, everything else is consequential. Essential utilities (which arguably includes internet connecti
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by altacc 3y ago
I have wondered what the insurance structure for this is and how liable the vessel's owners and insurers are for damage to public infrastructure. Marine insurance is one of the oldest types of insurance and antique in some respects, wi
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by altacc 3y ago
That number is retirement age and I gave the mid-late career median for salary. > The Federal Reserve data shows that 65 to 74-year-olds have a median of $164,000 in their retirement accounts while those 75 and older have $83,000 saved f
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by altacc 3y ago
Finance news is for rich people and this article proves it, talking like it's a choice whether you retire with $1 million or not. If you're thinking you're not rich but still interested in finance, then you're probably r
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by altacc 3y ago
I used to live in one of these London art-deco apartment blocks and it was a beautiful building, nice grounds, quirky but well laid out apartment. So much nicer than the generic "affordable" apartments built today. But it was also
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by altacc 3y ago
It would be nice if we could design a legal system (heck, any system!) that couldn't be abused by those with lots of money and lawyers to silence those with less money & lawyers, regardless of validity or legality of a claim.
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by altacc 3y ago
The internet isn't one size fits all, all the time. Most people don't want to be challenged all the time and everywhere. Sometimes you want to watch a challenging documentary about socioeconomics in 17th century Poland and other t
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by altacc 3y ago
Whilst I agree that these hack days should be considered a learning experience this sentiment has annoyed me: > you don't pay me enough for my good ideas. If I had an idea that could make the business $5M, I'm better off going
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by altacc 3y ago
Link to paper: https://arxiv.org/html/2312.09329v1
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Will satellite megaconstellations weaken earth's magnetic field?(spaceweatherarchive.com)
130 points by altacc 3y ago|93 comments
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by altacc 3y ago
Watching YouTube videos of demos feels like cheating but happy they exist as I'm a bit more reluctant to download & run random exes than I was 20 years ago! Before the videos were available you had to wait quite a bit whilst it unp
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by altacc 3y ago
My first thought was "Is this Troy Hunt's hard drive?" but I'm assuming that more bad actors collect security breach data than security researchers. With cyber crime & scams on the rise and earning billions, the valu
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by altacc 3y ago
The idea of "balloon-grade" led me down a rabbit hole. It seems that there are many defined grades of He with the majority being grade 5 (99.999% purity, 2 steps down from the purest) and the majority of He used, including in ball
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by altacc 3y ago
Complaining about the advertisers leaving X is true "leopards ate my face". Politics has been a significant part of Twitter's success, driving relevance & audience size. Politics was fuel for growth and Twitter was influe
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by altacc 3y ago
Yep, 15 years was what I was told was the life expectancy of the system and nobody is interested in making them last longer. I try to fix things but as you say, finding spare parts is really difficult.
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by altacc 3y ago
These people are casting spells. As they don't understand legal text (most people don't) they cargo cult the language and make up something that sounds equivalent and then utter it as a magical incantation believing that make thei
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by altacc 3y ago
I have an earlier version of this and they're great, although they use the heater more than the heat pump in winter so bills are cheaper but not miraculously so. The newer versions like your have a bigger compressor, which I think give
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by altacc 3y ago
Depends upon the heating system. A cheap air to air, single unit heat pump does not cost much but if you want anything more then it costs more. A lot of houses with a basic heat pump use it to reduce the amount of other heating used and pum

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