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by badtension 3y ago
I am not an expert in modern NLP SOTA but from what I see these models do not work that well. You didn't summarize the article but took some of the most important points and shared what really mattered. It may not be perfect but requir
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by badtension 3y ago
Where can I pay for information presented in such a short, clear and to-the-point manner? Preferably human generated as well (no to robots). I dream about having access to this kind of internet.
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by badtension 3y ago
Climate change is not a technological problem at this point. We know how to solve it, we just don't do it.
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by badtension 3y ago
Of course not all the knowledge will be left but enough to easily build basic engines using Stirling or Carnot cycles or even pressurized steam. Solar panels don't have to be 25% efficient, 5% amorphous silicon cells would also be very
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by badtension 3y ago
That would be a cool story plot: starting civilization again with all the knowledge but none of the fossil fuel power. Solarpunk?
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by badtension 3y ago
Thank you so much, I think I might have seen the first paper, will plow through the rest later, it will take me some time!
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by badtension 3y ago
I know about the "flipped s-curve" that is methane emissions (inflection point in 2007) is it really considered a tipping point though? Do you have some good papers on that?
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by badtension 3y ago
> real engineers and not software engineers Thank you, as a software engineer I have to say this made me laugh lol. We make a lot of money yet are usually far behind real world engineering.
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by badtension 3y ago
Yes but deadly pandemic was the threat that did it, otherwise it would be business as usual. In other words: we can't seem to make a change unless given a direct and immediate threat on a global scale.
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by badtension 3y ago
> If policies don't drastically change. Just imagine norwegian electric car subsidies but happening everywhere decades straight - for solar, wind, tidal, battery, pumped water stations, sand batteries. Perhaps a Sahara -> Europe
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by badtension 3y ago
Thank you for the details, I have read similar reports about temperatures not changing that much later on. One thing to keep in mind though are aerosols, which can bump the temperature up by a 0.5-1 C (afaik) if we stop emitting them.
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by badtension 3y ago
You are right, the changes are small and usually hard to see directly. But we also have to remember that warming is not uniform across the planet, where I live the Berkeley Earth site [1] shows an average 2.5 C warming since the 1850s. It i
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by badtension 3y ago
> It was the hottest August on record – by a large margin – and the second hottest ever month after July 2023, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service ERA 5 dataset. August as a whole is estimated to have been around 1.5°C war
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by badtension 3y ago
I've heard people mentioning biochar and similar processes of capturing carbon in the soil, do you know how viable it is? How much bang for the buck we could get from it? Is it a possible strategy when done in a decentralized manner al
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by badtension 3y ago
That's why the most effective "carbon capture" we can possibly make - is not emitting it in the first place. It's really that simple... I'm not saying we shouldn't invest money and time in carbon DAC, it will b
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by badtension 3y ago
And compete with YCs resources, right...
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by badtension 3y ago
2-3 C will probably break society. I have heard opinions about Earth's carrying capacity being 1B people at 4C, imagine that possibility. At 2 C a cascade of tipping points might start: https://climatetippingpoints.info&#x2F
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by badtension 3y ago
People have been hearing "more is better" their whole lives, hell, I was promised vacations twice a year, sports car, big comfortable house. I won't get that and I am ok with it but that's not a popular stance I am afrai
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by badtension 3y ago
Yeah I have no idea either. To me what is happening (not happening?) is surreal.
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by badtension 3y ago
Does this graph include multiple tipping points that we might trigger along the way? I am afraid it might not, please correct me if I'm wrong. Many of them are becoming "likely" after passing 2 C [1]. [1] https://c
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by badtension 3y ago
> in reality we need degrowth and permaculture Personally, I wholeheartedly agree. Do you see degrowth as a realistic possibility? How would this happen in today's democracies with economic systems relying on GDP growth?
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by badtension 3y ago
This is about the same I heard from a climatologist in my country: we are on track for 3-4 C. Is it possible though? If so - how are we not freaking out about it?
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by badtension 3y ago
Is there a site showing our socioeconomical possibilities and coutries' carbon-heavy investments that are in the pipeline? I hear 1.5 C, 2 C all the time, but not much is happening [1] so I am looking for a best estimate to what should
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by badtension 3y ago
It is always the same argument: things are not perfect, ok, but what we replace it with? Noone know, so we keep the thing going. I think this is what the parent commenter had in mind - we are just incapable of solving this problem, doesn&#x
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by badtension 3y ago
That's very concerning, I did a little query yesterday and haven't found any law changes that might have been introduced recently. https://sip.lex.pl/akty-prawne/dzu-dziennik-ustaw/utrzymanie... Not tryi
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by badtension 3y ago
You could bypass that with a domestic wastewater treatment plant.
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by badtension 3y ago
You halve the remaining length each time there is a match and only exit the loop when length is 0 so it should be the first one.
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by badtension 3y ago
Speedcrunch is great but has (had?) a very annoying bug: was pretty slow after a while. You need to manually clear the history to make it load fast again. I have it on speed dial (pause / break key to open and close) and use it all the
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by badtension 3y ago
Until recently I did use the CASIO one where you can put an entire equation in. Nowadays I've bound SpeedCrunch to one of my unused keys (Pause / Break) so I just tap it once and have a large screen calculator with comfortable key
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by badtension 3y ago
> the O button being just a slight up-and-to-the-right movement from where my thumb is naturally sitting. It reminds me of the Yes/No vs. No/Yes debate in the OS UI world. In windows we get Yes on the left and No on the rig

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