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by brazzy 4y ago
> There is a negator word 不 bù, but just answering 「不」 wouldn’t make sense. That goes a bit too far. It would certainly be understood, but be considered quirky, or an indication that you're not a native speaker. My kids are bilingua
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by brazzy 4y ago
I'd say that you often want a small distributed system for availability reasons, even if scalability is not a concern.
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by brazzy 4y ago
You're looking at it with the deeply ingrained belief that nuclear bombs are a uniquely horrifying thing, something that should automatically warrant special consideration, and where merely threatening its use was obviously somethi
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by brazzy 4y ago
Using XML became optional in Spring as soon as Java got annotations. Which was in Java 5. 18 years ago.
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by brazzy 4y ago
I think the number given (6.1 terawatt hours) is just the total of not-used solar electricity for any reason, and the reasons are probably not all that clearly delineated and distinguishable. Another factor is that coal and nuclear plants
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by brazzy 4y ago
I really don't think it's Desire anyone is annoyed about, and using that as an example to dismiss the criticism only weakens the dismissal. Lucifer... sure, he's canonically without genitals anyway and decidedly unintereste
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by brazzy 4y ago
> What is stupid is building so much solar that there is no where for the energy to go during peak production hours. That's not stupid at all, it's unavoidable if you want to still have enough energy when you don't have pe
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by brazzy 4y ago
> According to the article, a total of 6.1 terawatt hours of electricity was lost in Germany in 2020 (the latest available figure) I don't think it makes sense to count all of that as "lost", at least in the sense of frami
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by brazzy 4y ago
I'm pretty sure that the areas those trucks drive through and park in can be easly determined and separated from the main customer parking lot. In the absolute worst case, you might have to dismantle some of the solar canopies when a
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by brazzy 4y ago
The critique goes deeper. This is where it's most on point: "So I wonder- is this story ACTUALLY teaching people things? Or is it just a way for people who already know some of the material to feel superior to Hariezer’s many foil
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by brazzy 4y ago
A series of very good, detailed article about air disasters over on Reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/AdmiralCloudberg/comments/e6n80m/pl...
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by brazzy 4y ago
It's amazing how humans keep finding new ways to hoard things...
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by brazzy 4y ago
I really think it does. Case in point: what about emotional benefits? A whole lot of things humans do has no material benefits yet come at considerable cost: vacations, concerts, hobbies. Are those "stupid"? Presumably not. But
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by brazzy 4y ago
The definition is not precise at all, because "harm" and "benefit" cannot be precisely defined and can in fact be very subjective.
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by brazzy 4y ago
I'm not sure I agree with this: "A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses." Because gains/losses can be ha
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by brazzy 4y ago
Completely different kind of logistics, both in scope and in focus. in Dwarf fortress, it's about equipping, training and supporting a double- or low triple digit number of soldiers operating in or very near their base. The logistics w
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by brazzy 4y ago
> So how many am I wrong by? Doesn't matter at all because, as I pointed out, the whole approach is ridiculously wrong-headed. We know how much energy we actually need, and it has nothing to do with how much is in the ground and how
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by brazzy 4y ago
It's not photosynthesis that's .00001% efficient or whatever, it's the whole process, because it's also fuelling the entire lifetime of those organisms before they become fuel in the ground, and all those organisms tha
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by brazzy 4y ago
Storing heat for months requires really, really good insulation, and insulating many small stores is far more expensive than insulating one big store (essentially a square-cube thing). So this kind of thing may only be viable for indust
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by brazzy 4y ago
>Let's say I'm off (in your favor) by a whopping order of magnitude. No, let's say that you are off by three or four orders of magnitude. Because your first estimate really is that bad, and without it, your entire "a
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by brazzy 4y ago
The thing is, successfully doing that requires not only talent and hard work, but also luck. And even then the amount you get paid may not be enough to live on.
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by brazzy 4y ago
...or they are intensely passionate about making art, to the point where they're willing to live in poverty to pursue it.
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by brazzy 4y ago
While there are no modern LEGO soldiers, there are Knights, Ninjas and Pirates, all equipped with weapons.
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by brazzy 4y ago
Where would be the pipeline, though? The pump&dumper doesn't spend time working on individual buyers here, do they?
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by brazzy 4y ago
Looks like you haven't heard of typeball and daisy wheel printers. In any case, we were discussing metaphors, not technical details.
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by brazzy 4y ago
A typewriter is effectively a keyboard hardwired directly to a printer.
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by brazzy 4y ago
You liked EJB 2 deployment descriptors?
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by brazzy 4y ago
> skilled jobs that almost anyone can do with sufficient (substantial) training. These are jobs that are both amenable to automation The correlation between "almost any human can do it with sufficient training" and "amenab
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by brazzy 4y ago
> This is patent nonsense. Every time a hypothesis is ruled out, and every time a hypothesis is ruled out with greater confidence, the experiment has succeeded. The probem is, as far as I know, that there is an effectively infinite spa
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by brazzy 4y ago
Can you give a quick rundown why "the crane thing" could not ever have worked, and what exactly it was, separate from the "condominium for concrete blocks", which seems to be what is described in the Wikipedia article, b

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