citrin_ru

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by citrin_ru 5mo ago
IMHO it's around 4 years: inflation surge in late 2021/22 and following years was not matched by salaries but 2020 was not yet that bad.
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by citrin_ru 5mo ago
Why we should assume that whoever offers these Chinese models makes sufficient profits and will not rise the prices eventually too?
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by citrin_ru 5mo ago
At least partially the usage is driven by free plans. I use Gemini and ChatGPT for free. I will not pay for them unless traditional web search will be killed (google quality is subjectively on a downward trajectory for the last few years).
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by citrin_ru 5mo ago
It seems the more people spend online the more they trust online picture whatever it is (for most people it's an algorithmically generated feed) and less pay attention to what they can see in person. Smartphone addition is harmful in s
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by citrin_ru 5mo ago
Hezbollah at least recently was much stronger than Lebanese army and even nowadays Lebanese army afraid to challenge Hezbollah. Concept of a powerful non state actor is something many people in the west refuse to acknowledge.
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by citrin_ru 5mo ago
Dependency on nuclear fuel is less of a problem because you don't need to re-fuel a station often. Lack of gas creates a much more urgent problem.
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by citrin_ru 5mo ago
Stock market is up only because investors bet on AI, if you'll exclude AI and AI supply chain at best it would be stagnant.
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by citrin_ru 5mo ago
Many CxO made a decision to spend $$$$ on AI; that's their bet and they're are adamant about it. Money should come from somewhere and layoffs is the easiest way to free some budget in a software company. Was it a good bet only tim
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by citrin_ru 5mo ago
Nuclear is an answer along with other sources. Opposition to nuclear by the Green Party in the UK is a self-sabotage IMHO. They may argue how limited government subsidies should be allocated but outright opposition to nuclear energy is just
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by citrin_ru 5mo ago
I don't think there is a large intersection between these two groups at least in Europe. Price sensitive people didn't buy SUV. Better-off folks who buy SUV unlikely to be significantly affected by this price increase. In the US i
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
May be base-load is not the best term but in case if batteries and other storages will run out during long cloudy stretch with weak winds nuclear will at least allow to power critical infrastructure. It’s bad that some consumers will loose
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
Data hoarding predates LLMs. There where other machine learning methods which also needed data for training.
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
It's not only about buttons. A web-app of trading platform I use doesn't allow to copy-paste a fund name (both in web and in the mobile app). I don't think they disallow this intentionally, likely an artefact of GUI framework
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
One of TUI advantages over GUIs (including modern web sites) - all text can be selected/copied (you may need to use modifies in some TUI). It's a bit frustrating when GUI shows text but I cannot select and copy it.
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
Because in the current job market many job seekers will accept 1st offer after spending months looking for a job without any offers.
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
> There isn't really an alternative for jet fuel, is there? But in many cases there is an alternative to air travel, at least for short distances. I don't really understand why railways (at least in the UK) such ridiculously ex
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
The current state (no real threat to RSA) ≠ plausible but not certain future state (RSA and EC are broken).
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
In a long run - hopefully but in a short run big oil (outside the gulf) collecting windfall profits and Asian countries returning to coal.
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
That's how traditional (not plug in) panels are connected. The problem is - you need to route a cable from window/balcony to the panel (which may be located outside an apartment in a hall) and if you want to hide the cable in wall
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
May be still cheap in the US but in the UK all this almost 2x more expensive than before COVID while salaries nowhere near 2x higher. It's a small fraction of cost of saying in a hotel but not a negligible one.
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
There are some safety concerns at least for relatively powerful panels - e. g. if a circuit breaker is 30A you can draw up to 30A from the grid in absence of panels. If you connect a panel which can provide another 30A then a device in theo
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
> eat the rich, and try to build something more sane The tragedy is that right wing parties are sponsored by the rich snd serve primarily them. Economic grievances of ordinary people are exploited to make them vote agains their interests
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
Pipelines are usually buried under the ground. Pumping statins could be protected by short range SAM systems. An undegraund pipeline can be destroyed by a heavy glide bomd (not an option for Iran) but should be relatively safe from shahed d
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
For land pipelines thiere no eqauvalent of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea according to which both Oman and Iran should allow free passage of ships. And "normal" path lies on Oman's waters which dones&#x27
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
> They wanted trump to go further and destroy the regime. It would require a large scale ground operation which is off the table. A few more weeks of air strikes would not have destroyed the regime anyway but a few more weeks of asymmetr
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
I don't expect this to happen given how powerful is oil lobby in the US. At least not when Republicans control house and senate.
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
It is. Actions go beyond what is minimally necessary to ensure security but without attacks from Hezbollah there would be no military actions in Lebanon. Israel doesn't attack Jordan or Egypt because they don't host Iranian backed
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
They always wanted nukes. So this war doesn't change already strong resolution to get them but can reduce resources available for this.
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
> is an impotent threat of attacking ships? It not that impotent. Attacking civilan targets in the age of drones is not that hard - a small motor boat with explosives or a shahed style drone is all you need. And to keep the strait closed
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by citrin_ru 6mo ago
Even if US refineries were designed for US oil to keep domestic prices low one would have to introduce export restrictions because oil is a global commondity. Big oil will not be happy about that and it seems they have a great influence ove

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