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by atomic128 2y ago
No battery farm can protect a solar/wind grid from an arbitrarily extended period of bad weather. If you have N days of battery storage and the sun doesn't shine for N+1 days, you're in trouble. Nuclear fission is the answer.
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by atomic128 2y ago
No battery farm can protect a solar/wind grid from an arbitrarily extended period of bad weather. If you have N days of battery storage and the sun doesn't shine for N+1 days, you're in trouble. Nuclear fission is the answer.
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by atomic128 2y ago
No amount of batteries can protect a solar/wind grid from an arbitrarily extended period of "bad" weather. It's like range anxiety in an electric car. If you have N days of battery storage and the sun doesn't shine
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by atomic128 2y ago
Somebody tested people on Hacker News to evaluate programming competency. This was part of a larger evaluation comparing the Hacker News population to people on Reddit programming subreddits. Here is a very heated discussion of the result:
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by atomic128 2y ago
If you haven't seen a Tesla burn uncontrollably, emitting clouds of very poisonous smoke, search for video and watch it. Same thing happens to e-bike batteries; you can find video of a man being spontaneously incinerated after carrying
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by atomic128 2y ago
Nuclear fission is the answer. The company Oracle just announced that it is designing data centers with small modular nuclear reactors: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41505514 There are already 440 nuclear reactors op
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by atomic128 2y ago
Earlier discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41505514
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by atomic128 2y ago
From the earnings call transcript: Lawrence Joseph Ellison -- Chairman and Chief Technology Officer This race goes on forever, to build a better and better neural network. And the cost of that training gets to be astronomical. When
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Oracle designing data center powered by nuclear reactors(cnbc.com)
8 points by atomic128 2y ago|2 comments
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by atomic128 2y ago
Somewhat related: Here's Go code to circumvent Go's memory safety without importing unsafe. This is from BUGFIX 66 ("Hack This Site"): func racer() { var ( ptr1 *uintptr ptr2 *byte
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by atomic128 2y ago
Another approach is to use a regexp scraper. These are very "loose" and tolerant of changes. For example, RNSAFFN.com uses regular expressions to scrape the Commitments of Traders report from the Commodity Futures Trading Commissi
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by atomic128 2y ago
For real: profitable consulting businesses have been formed to help LLM programmers. BUGFIX 66, for example, and various others. They can charge substantial money to help customers cross that "last mile" and get their LLM-generate