amoshebb

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by amoshebb 1y ago
His website makes him look like the owner of a law firm, although I think it's just him? I'm not expecting the same number, but... california issues bigger fines for watering lawns or buying illegal fireworks. For a lawyer, a fine
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by amoshebb 1y ago
I'm numb to it after many "EU fines Householdnamecorp a zillion doubloons" type headlines, but using "historic fine" to describe $10k to a lawyer feels odd.
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by amoshebb 1y ago
See I guess I find broadside “impractical” dissatisfying. Could a few cargo ships be converted into floating fly farm aircraft carriers on either coast, maybe another in the amazon, and then just use a hundred reaper drone type things to do
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by amoshebb 1y ago
Some folks are posting about the regular flights over Panama, and I’ve seen talk about ending screwworm with a “gene drive”, but I also feel that it doesn’t feel necessary. But a third option I don’t see talked about a lot: finish the job.
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by amoshebb 1y ago
In nova scotia there are grants to build “community solar gardens”. A 3-6MW solar farm is built somewhere cheap and convenient and then anybody in the community can pay for so many panels and then they get that amount knocked off the light
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by amoshebb 1y ago
“Typology optimization” is probably what you’re thinking of. All current versions of it result in this similar blobby-spider-web vaguely alien and somewhat organic structures. Looking at things like bicycles designed this way leaves me susp
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by amoshebb 1y ago
20m by 3m is 60m^2, with 300W/m^2 solar panels, it's less than 20kW. A truck departs NY at the crack of dawn on the longest day of the year and cannonball-runs west at 100mph without hitting a single red light. The sun covers 15 d
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by amoshebb 1y ago
is an "as in free beer" project.
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by amoshebb 1y ago
the article is about Puerto Rico, not California, and specifically mentions net metering.
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by amoshebb 1y ago
I love solar, but this "those who can afford microgrids can shield themselves from blackouts" paired with net metering where "the wealthy get paid a premium for excess generation and can buy expensive high-demand power back a
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by amoshebb 1y ago
it's just a stand-in for "expensive but relatable purchase". He's saying "I'm about to write so many bugs that the sum reward will be in the tens of thousands"
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by amoshebb 1y ago
Charging so many cars. With a fleet of ICE cars any old gravel lot by the airport works. With a fleet of EVs you're going to need depots with upgraded service drops, chargers strung everywhere that need to be maintained, and to pay som
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by amoshebb 1y ago
could we build them different if the goal is just to waste excess energy? Why couldn’t it just be a giant heating element and some sort of steam condenser at the top and some way to flush it periodically? It might burn some laughable 3kWh p
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by amoshebb 1y ago
the only macbook I’ve tried to put linux on was a t2 machine, and it still doesn’t sleep/suspend right, so I’m a bit skeptical that apple is really leading the way here, but maybe I’ve just not touched any recent windows devices either
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by amoshebb 1y ago
This doesn’t address “Quickly overwhelmed”. Yes, a wall of $150,000 bushmasters with some servos can take hurl enough lead in the air to protect a city from a single gulf-war era $100,000 lawnmower engine on two meter wings bumbling in a st
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by amoshebb 1y ago
stickstootext
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by amoshebb 1y ago
the feeling that they needed to include a few paragraphs of “look this isn’t the single digit amounts your friends are getting… but… it’s dilutive and we know best for you” language is telling
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by amoshebb 1y ago
AI is usually just a 20th/21st century “icarus wax wings” or sometimes “monkeys paw”. Re-masters of a “watch out for unintended consequences” fable that almost certainly predates written text.
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by amoshebb 1y ago
Yes, I’ve also thought postal banking could help drive down the visa/mastercard tax on nearly all small businesses must pay now. The government has run an expensive payment network (the mint) since before 1776, no real reason they shou
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by amoshebb 1y ago
I think this is a case where “technically” the words mean the same thing but “generally” they mean different things.
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by amoshebb 1y ago
This “if cars were synced all would be well” fantasy assumes that the limited gains from scrunching won’t be a rounding error compared to the nearly unlimited additional trips that robots with infinite patience could start making. Currently
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by amoshebb 2y ago
Maybe, but boots for sure are better and cheaper than 100 years ago. I think the only thing that makes this slightly confusing is that what were old mass-produced workwear have become limited-run fashion items, so looking at things like M19
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by amoshebb 2y ago
but then it kinda stops, couldn’t we layer on chords as well, you can peck “t h e” or just mash “eth” and both would result in “the”, or maybe some sort of english pinyin where only the first few chars are needed?
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by amoshebb 2y ago
Anhydrous isn't common here, so the only way I've seen it applied is with shanks that cut everything up to inject high rates maybe not even annually. So how would farmers familiar with anhydrous use "A box that makes 330lbs o
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by amoshebb 2y ago
so, we’re observing the same things, but drawing opposite conclusions. A box on a farm means much MORE handling of it, no? Currently no farmer I’ve met has ever handled pure ammonia, only UAN or nitrate/other dry solids. And like you s
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by amoshebb 2y ago
The emphasis on containerization and strictly using green energy makes me skeptical about the underlying technology… If this “lithium-mediated ammonia synthesis reactor” is really so much more efficient, surely incumbent nitrogen plants wou
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by amoshebb 2y ago
why not? if their product is “SOTA LLM” then they can’t just lay off r&d and coast. Years from now nobody is going to be paying for “that authentic gpt4 sound”. LLMs aren’t guitars.
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by amoshebb 2y ago
Two Canadian cofounders want to start a company in the USA, is O-1 the only option? Is TN a possibility?
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by amoshebb 2y ago
Why the lower bound on 0? Places with overproduction sometimes pay to curtail
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by amoshebb 2y ago
I wish academic papers were more like Wikipedia articles. Currently what I'm working on is really "Building on" one pretty pivotal paper from the 90s, and there's a whole constellation of work that has spawned. So much i

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