bartislartfast

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by bartislartfast 3y ago
Tea drinking in Ireland is a big part of the culture, and we have a lot of unwritten rules around it. I'm sure other irish HN'ers will jump in here and add to the list, but off the top of my head - if you don't offer someone
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
If it's strictly EU, I'd say probably Denmark https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_European_countries_by_... But you mention Switzerland which is not in the EU, so maybe you just meant Europe? Ireland is a
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> The breakthrough reveals that Enceladus is stocked with all right materials to support life as we know it, and hints that phosphorus may be present in other possible ocean worlds far from Earth, such as Neptune’s moon Triton or the dwa
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
amazing! looking forward to seeing it on github!
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
please let us not all start chugging Monster to live longer. 2 grams of taurine will surely be nullified by all the other crap in there
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> humans can synthesize taurine, it's a major component of bile, so I'm unclear what mechanism could cause supplementation to have significant effects. If the amount we synthesize drops over time then supplementing that would b
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> That feels more like a technology 100-200 years ahead of us, akin to science fiction So my theory is in about 150 years, DJI will release a drone with a time-travel capability, and the UFOs we see now are people in 2170 trolling us.
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
it would be super ironic if we were using old crude oil powered container ships to move around units of renewable energy
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
and if they do find someone to acquire them, and they are successful, the first EV they produce will be another SUV
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
yeah Im not a gambler. got it backwards =) I mean "certain to happen"
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
It's a safe bet the first model they build from that selection of designs is the SUV. Every EV car company out there is chasing the SUV market edit: I got my odds backwards.
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
Plenty people take exactly that view, when it comes to cancer. The problem is, this is not cancer, and all the people who take the "fucked anyway" view are damning the rest of us
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
is a virtual conversational companion worse than the current porn industry? seems like it would be a solid improvement over what we have today, which involves real people being dehumanised for entertainment.
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> LinusTorvaldsGPT I lol'ed
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
I never understood the reference "It really whips the llama's ass" Was the llama a competitor or something? or some kind of weird in joke?
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> but when the screen fits so nicely over it dropping the screen doesn't seem like such a huge bonus. > As it stands I'd probably prefer a screen for the 2% of my computing time where I actually want my world to be "pub
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
yeah I just meant chatting to a PDF file seems like such an odd concept. Kind of like dancing with spreadsheet
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> Do not chat with your pdfs alone. Let others join the fun too Send this headline back in time five years and you would utterly bewilder people.
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
wow, I did not know that! other fun fact I learned from wikipedia - "German-Americans make up the largest self-reported ancestry group within the United States accounting for roughly 49 million people and approximately 17% of the popul
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
Telly is slang for TV here in the british isles - does it exist over there too?
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
Well they do speak French
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
As a non-american I dont really understand the context here? I get the "CA not a slave state" bit, but is the CA population dropping? and how does this feed into that?
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
AHK was my go to solution for the longest time, and I had some amazing shortcuts, but I often struggled with writing more complex scripts because of the language not working the way I wanted it to. I might try again now.
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> Given multiple sources saying different things, It's hard to predict. Though what we are seeing are feedback loops that are causing exponential effects. > Gambling solely on 2000 years because it's a more convenient predic
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
Wikipedia > In the next 2,000 years the sea level is predicted to rise > by 2–3 m (6–10 ft) if the temperature rise peaks at 1.5 °C (2.7 °F), > by 2–6 m (6–19 ft) if it peaks at 2 °C (3.6 °F) and > by 19–22 m (62–72 ft) if it
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
> encourage companies to... oh sweet flower child
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
HM-GPT
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
This is such a great idea! Thank you!
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
true I guess. maybe its just something I'm used to. distance-per-fuel-amount just seems intuitively more useful to me than fuel-amount-per-distance, even if they're two sides to the same coin
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by bartislartfast 3y ago
I think most countries in Europe would have local solar panel sellers. I'm in Ireland which is usually pretty bad for availability of things, (for example, there's no amazon.ie - we have to buy from UK or DE) and even here we have

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