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by cameldrv 5mo ago
I’m not saying the math checks out, but the argument is that you get full sun with no atmospheric losses 24/7, so you produce way more energy per panel, and you don’t need batteries, because the power production is consistent and predi
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
It would be a lot better if the user just had more control over the recommendation algorithm, either to replace it with an alternative or tune it. For example, I never want to watch YouTube shorts. Every time I see them, I click "sho
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
This seems like a recipe for Kessler syndrome.
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
If the jail is properly run (and I will admit that this is a big if), there aren't any drugs in the jail. Some people, if they get clean for a little while, are in a position to reflect on what they're doing. The indignity of be
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
You shouldn't have to be an "entrepreneur" to have a website. The idea that the only useful/interesting things to say are those that are profitable is a big part of the problem we find ourselves in.
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
I have a very good friend who was an addict, and I tried to help him turn his life around in many ways, but I couldn’t figure out a way. Professionals told me “he has to hit rock bottom.” Anyhow he wound up getting arrested and spent a cou
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by cameldrv 5mo ago
From what I heard at the time, Elon was running OpenAI as, to some degree an element of the Elon keritsu. Neurallink was upstairs from OpenAI, and OpenAI badges would open doors at Tesla and vice-versa. Elon will also move people from one
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
One thing I like about TUIs is that they can usually be completely operated from the keyboard. Most GUI apps have flows that you need the mouse for, and they’re slow if have to do that often.
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
My understanding is, that at least in California the Alfalfa itself is often also exported to Gulf countries that are too dry for pasture or growing feed, but they want to raise cattle. Alfalfa really is almost like dehydrated water like a
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
Still other are better served with these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messerschmitt_KR200
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
The "hard problem" is talking about the thing that it's like to be you, to experience what is happening. I don't know about you, but I only experience one set of things happening at once, i.e. it doesn't feel like
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
The issue that the paper brings up is that the same physical process can be interpreted as multiple different computational processes. If the content of consciousness (the hard problem, qualia) is only dependent on the computational proces
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
It depends on the population density. You may have a perfectly well designed route for the area, but there are only so many people per hour that want to take a trip. You can delete routes and make people walk further, but that makes the t
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
The European mind does not comprehend how big and sparsely populated the American West is. You can't even pitch a tent in most places in the Alps, and why would you, when you just stop at a hut that has a staff and you can get fed and
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
“Six thousand dollars. The cost of a half-decent secondhand car. A modest kitchen renovation.” I don’t know the last time this guy priced out a used car or a kitchen renovation but it must have been quite a while.
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
As others said, the chip was more sophisticated than the 8088 itself, so it was fairly expensive. The original IBM PC (and pretty much all of the clones) came with an empty socket for the 8087. You could buy the chip and plug it in if you
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
Location data is very readily available, so you can easily correlate visits to a health facility with a treatment, and even with an offset, you can probably uniquely identify someone with 4 visits depending on the size of the medical facili
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
Also the parents using too many attention-span killing things which is hurting the attention they give their children.
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
A typical British colonial strategy was to ally with a minority ethnic group. The formerly downtrodden minority group now got to be the leaders, but, being the minority, they would stay dependent on the British, else the majority would ris
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
Exactly. The current world population is 8.3 billion and is expected to peak at 10.3 billion in 2080 and then begin declining. Now, there are a number of other reasons we might have food shortages, but population per se I don't think
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
I have no idea if this is practical but I remember when flash memory was this suspicious semi-science fiction thing too. There are probably some people on this site that remember the same for DRAM. There have been loads of things in betwe
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
Yeah there are "climatological seasons." The Earth heats up over time, as you say, so the longest day of the year is not generally the hottest day. Climatological summer is June/July/August. The Romans and many other n
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
I did it back in college too. We had a great club that really catered to students. It was $ 14 for a 2000 ft tow, and $99/yr for a membership, that included all glider rental for the lower performance ships (Schweizers). The instruc
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
Flying sailplanes/gliders. Once you get good at it, you can fly hundreds of miles (or more) by understanding the weather and figuring out where the air is going up. Lots of opportunities to nerd out. Aerodynamics, weather forecastin
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
Huge +1 for Roger Labbe's book/jupyter notebooks. They really helped me grok Kalman filters but also the more general problem and the various approaches that approximate the general problem from different directions.
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by cameldrv 6mo ago
One factor is that it's known that he controls the wallet with many billions of dollars in it. That would make him a target for kidnapping/extortion/etc. He could have easily kept mining under a different address though and
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by cameldrv 7mo ago
Yeah the whole production of the launch broadcast was pretty lousy compared to what SpaceX does. Their mission tracker website isn't working either. Considering that this broadcast and the other public affairs stuff is essentially th
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by cameldrv 7mo ago
The state of the art has advanced so far in doing this. I remember way back in 2017, 9 years ago now, at the Scaled ML conference, Claudia Perlich gave a presentation about using RTB data to target ads. When she got to slide 23 [1] my jaw
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by cameldrv 7mo ago
Yeah. Sorry to say, but if you’re going to run a crypto company, and it’s even moderately successful, people are going to try to steal the key. Either you are extremely paranoid, or you’re going to lose a bunch of money, for yourselves or
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by cameldrv 7mo ago
You shouldn't have a key that controls millions/billions of dollars on a cloud service. It should be on an airgapped laptop that was purchased anonymously, has never been connected to the Internet, and only runs software that has

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