black_puppydog

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by black_puppydog 27d ago
We're regularly getting demonstrations that being at the frontier is no moat at all. "Run open weights locally" was literally on the HN front page a few days ago as a primary concern/competitor for the big US labs. So th
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by black_puppydog 1mo ago
Yeah, kinda like the spirals used for (air?) temperature: https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/5190/
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by black_puppydog 1mo ago
Well, for a techno-utopian perspective, a page called "Low Tech Magazine" might not be the right place to search. :) Besides, the page linked is actually powered entirely by solar panels, although intentionally not battery backed
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by black_puppydog 2mo ago
As ever, Volts did a really good episode on this: https://www.volts.wtf/p/how-to-make-rooftop-solar-power-as Worth a listen, both to learn about how ridiculous the US situation is, and just how good the "news&quot
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by black_puppydog 2mo ago
The article reads like the act of landing the drilling equipment in Greenland was in itself illegal. Not the same as drilling, and ofc IANAL, but still...
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by black_puppydog 3mo ago
That's what's called a life cycle assessment and these are standard in products like this for a long time. If they came out negatively, you can be damn sure that the fossil fuel industry would make us know.
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by black_puppydog 3mo ago
Also no more limit on the cost they can bill you for providing the information. This can easily be 5 figures and isn't known before it's too late.
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by black_puppydog 3mo ago
> price CO2 emissions at the actual cost of sucking the thing back out if the atmosphere This is the only relevant bit actually. The rest will follow from there. And in principle, at least in Europe, we already have some mechanisms to
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by black_puppydog 3mo ago
I've been mapping out shops, their contacts, cuisines (for restaurants), opening hours etc in my area. It's a lot of work and much of the information will actually simply not be available to me without a shop owner. So I'm tr
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by black_puppydog 3mo ago
well, I sure don't get to have access to all the pokémon data even if I ask very nicely, do I? I'd think that's a (related but important) difference
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by black_puppydog 3mo ago
It's not just trains. You might have a look at this book that I can't recommend enough: https://www.leslibraires.fr/livre/24410316-quand-le-parisian... FWIW yes, TERs need much, much, much more love in France
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by black_puppydog 3mo ago
Even people in some French cities don't get it. Here in Toulon (southern France, between Nice and Marseille) it's hard to get the point across. Lack of public transit, lackluster bike infrastructure, and decades of car-first polic
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by black_puppydog 3mo ago
Wow, the link to the petition is buried halfway down the page. How is this not part of the first visible content?
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by black_puppydog 4mo ago
You're roughly describing Chromatone and their Muto method of notation: https://muto-method.com/en/index.html Sure, if path dependency was were not a thing, this might make more sense. But it takes an extraordinar
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by black_puppydog 4mo ago
Yep, I changed town a few years ago and my new social circles are mostly like that. Either it works right away without any further questions, or they'll not do it. Sadly, also if they can't do it on their phone, they will not do i
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by black_puppydog 4mo ago
check volts.wtf and notably these recent podcast episodes: https://www.volts.wtf/p/sooner-than-you-think-electricity https://www.volts.wtf/p/giving-clean-electricity-a-political
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by black_puppydog 4mo ago
errr... so anything related to UGC now has a lower bound of 3-4 FTE? Sure, I'll hire a team of content moderators next time I think about putting a comment form under my blog...
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by black_puppydog 4mo ago
You've clearly not been hanging out with French retirees.
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by black_puppydog 4mo ago
I gave up on Google's language and region settings a long time ago, years before giving up on google as a product. To this day they still think I'm in Sweden sometimes, in Paris other times, or in Germany, while I haven't liv
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by black_puppydog 4mo ago
I task GPT/Claude with researching stuff that pertains to very specific cultural or legal aspects in French politics, on a daily basis. Even though French is a way more common language globally than Norwegian, these models still haven&
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by black_puppydog 5mo ago
Nothing opposes a setup like this to collective action. Given that most of modern technology or at least most of the internet is built to actively distract you as much as possible to extract profit, it's just a sane choice to disconnec
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by black_puppydog 5mo ago
Hey, welcome on my favorite soapbox! That many people don't know what a file is, is most probably down to the very explicit war of one company, namely Apple, on the very concept of a file. And I fully agree that it is a terrible idea t
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by black_puppydog 6mo ago
In a very similar situation to OP, this move totally broke a volunteer-run platform that allows (allowed...) users to report issues with bicycle lanes, missing racks, dangerous spots for cyclists etc... https://app.vigilo.city&#x
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by black_puppydog 6mo ago
Thank you for explaining this! I've been feeling this on my girlfriend's macbook for years and I've always wondered what the hell that was. :D
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by black_puppydog 6mo ago
My goodness, the only branch of work that I can think of where knowing something a few hours earlier is probably day trading also. Seriously, if you're working on anything worthwhile, you can wait for the weekly digest. Everything else
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by black_puppydog 6mo ago
Seems like accidentally they uploaded a local development build of the HTML: <meta property="og:url" content="http://localhost/"/> <link rel="canonical" href="http://
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by black_puppydog 7mo ago
Personally, I cancelled my subscription the day that they announced there would be ads in ChatGPT. Not that I was surprised on that day. I find it kind of fascinating seeing people now debate the ins and outs of just exactly how useful the
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by black_puppydog 7mo ago
France as a whole is way too centralized on Paris and it's actually hurting the country. If you do read French, there is a very interesting book from 2024 (IIRC) about this. It's called "Quand le parisianisme écrase la France
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by black_puppydog 7mo ago
Very sorry for drivers' inconvenience, but if they hadn't realized how bad SUVs are for health, climate, and basically anything that's going on in the city, then announcing it early wouldn't have registered either, I thi
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by black_puppydog 7mo ago
Dear god, the street level noise pollution of flying taxies, but democratized so everyone can have it! :/ Makes me happy for once about the restrictive drone policies where I live.

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