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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
How much did Zuck waste on the Metaverse again?
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
For a really wild ride, read about naked mole rats. The only mammals that have a similar queen setup. They are deeply weird in many ways. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Naked_mole-rat
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> use up perfectly usable farmland It's still farmland! They're just farming energy now.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
Wired once sent my dad to collections for an automatic renewal that wasn't even due yet .
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
I just bookmarked the apply-code page. Changes every 6-12 months, but that's easy to update.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> That's for 5000 people. And it's quite compact. > And only covers heat. Is that not useful?
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
Finland: > The net result: Pornainen fulfilled all of its municipal climate targets with a single installation. Oil use dropped 100 percent, emissions fell 70 percent, and woodchip combustion was cut by 60 percent. According to the Mayor
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
Can we? https://www.wfaa.com/article/news/local/tarrant-county/the-t... > Before March 28, 2000, a tornado had never collided with a skyscraper. > Bank One Tower sat, rotting. The Fort Worth Fire D
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> Are they against solar subsidies or other policy provisions? They're mainlining paid propaganda from the fossil fuel industry. Same dynamic that made people defend cigarettes into the late 90s.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
Believe it or not, a large solar field (or several!) can readily densify its energy into a nice small power transmission line.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> renewables do speak for themselves in dollars and cents Yes. But administration opposition can change that math, as they have with the tariffs.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> Winds can be low for extended periods. So can sun, but that's why we build both where that's unusual. We've got plenty of stats and data gathering on where it's reliably sunny/windy enough.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> the biggest producer of renewables is Texas That doesn't refute the point at all.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
Never underestimate the capacity of shitty people to shoot themselves and others in the foot.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
I think you've misunderstood my point. Yes, this happens to Bitcoin. That is a downside of it. The parent poster's asserting it's an upside.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> Your imaginary dog can’t teleport value across the globe instantly, but Bitcoin can. "Someone can instantly and permanently steal your beloved dog and you'll never see it again" is a downside.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
Saner companies ask the same question about models from their own country too.
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AI costs how much? GitHub Copilot users react to new usage-based pricing system(arstechnica.com)
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
Sure, but the fix can't be "welp, can't do anything". Whoever sent them, these are clearly identifiable as spam , but they land in my inbox.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
> on relatively new domains I'm seeing a lot of domains that are clearly registered to spam without a reputational hit to the root domain; for example, wh***teams.work spamming me on behalf of wh***teams.com. I wish Google'd li
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
I am skeptical that AI brings any benefit to spell checking at all.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
They have a few more if you turn showdead on. All about y’all.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
Well, yeah. Starting from absolute scratch is a lot harder than adapting something that already exists to new conditions.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
Most UGC sites also don't have a horde of volunteer mods voting to close/delete things.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
It’s not just scale. Do you accept user generated content? If so, more of a target.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
He’s not really evading instability. He’s evading consequences for causing it.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
You think a major tech titan noping out to Argentina after burning down the system isn’t an interesting phenomenon?
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
Sure, but he'll have optimized those away already.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
History sure rhymes.
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by ceejayoz 5mo ago
One might think that, if one was entirely unaware of the on-the-ground situation in the DRC for the past few decades.

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