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by danans 1y ago
>> Whether you are an enterprise developer or BigTech in the US you are on average making twice the median income in your area. There is usually no reason for you not to be stacking cash. Accidental misquote?
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> Once AGI is declared by OpenAI ... I think it's funny and telling that they've used the word "declare" where what they are really doing is "claim". These guys think they are prophets.
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> But in this century what we have is separatists who simply spread out because they hate everyone, not for a valid economic purpose. I don't doubt that such people exist, but rural areas are also populated by people who are priced
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> PG&E must serve every yokel in California no matter how far out, while SVP and other MUDs contribute nothing to rural electrification mandates You can both be right about this. PGE is subject to rural electrification mandates. How
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Relatedly, CA utilities have begun offering hourly variable priced rate plans, which will allow consumers with batteries to theoretically achieve lower average rates if your batteries can rate-follow. It's still not available for net
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To me, what's more interesting than the ranking is that the majority of the unisex names seem to be Celtic or Anglo-Saxon in origin. Comparatively, there are very few Latin, Greek, or Hebrew names. Perhaps this is because names from th
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by danans 1y ago
Compared to a conventional A/C compressor (which they replace), heat pump compressors are much smaller, quieter, and less ugly. As for the indoor units, they can either be the "ugly" ones (the indoor head units visible on the
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by danans 1y ago
Congress should rescind that law also. It also doesn't mean anything when it's not enforced, and rescinding it has broad popular support. But as you probably know, practically speaking it's not feasible to enforce every law o
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Japan is where early air-source heat pumps first achieved market success, so it's unsurprising that they are much cheaper to install there, because of the relatively large number of installer options. In the US, they are struggling to
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Then Congress should rescind the law. Otherwise laws don't mean anything.
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Source? The top decile of the US income distribution starts at $170000/yr. The top decile of the wealth distribution is around $1M net worth. The people doing the borrow-for-spending-against-non-housing-assets-as-collateral are bey
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Fair point, but either way we're not enforcing that law anymore.
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That already officially happened a few months ago. In addition to stopping all cryptocurrency fraud investigations, the administration stopped prosecuting white collar crimes under the FCPA: https://www.connecticutcriminallawyer.
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> and it’s now just like any other corrupt Asian country Seems like we are getting the worst aspects of countries like China (anti-democratic 1 party rule, state directed oligarchy, targeting of ethnic minority groups) with none of the
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> If it gets more expensive for the US to borrow due to debt load, consumer credit will stay or get more expensive. This will, very likely, slow the economy due to increased cost of mortgages, auto loans, and unsecured credit. Probably,
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> if the input is a human it will be in text form, has to be. Why can't it be a sequence of audio waveforms from human speech?
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> They aren’t better. > The allure is cheaper ... When it comes to grid energy storage, cheaper (while also safe and performant) is better, don't you think?
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> for stationary applications (e.g. ups/house backup), we've been using scaled up cell phone batteries for the last decade That's just the old Powerwall. Most home backup batteries for the last 5 years have been LFP, not
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You can interpret my intent however you like, but I find that "kind of behavior" abhorrent and a reflection of broader societal problems.
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> Comments like yours read to me as "well everyone is doing it" You are reading the literal meaning right: everyone is doing it. But you are reading the intent wrong, which is to point out the extent of fraud and deception in
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> Why is Musk allowed to be worth half a trillion dollars again? The guy can't help himself but lie and make deliberately misleading half-truth (at best) statements in investor meetings and presentations. Perhaps you just answered y
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> saying bad things about our lord and savior lean manufacturing. I'm not saying it's good or bad, it just is, and car companies don't exist to make affordable new products for everyone. "Obese" manufacturing wo
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> If they sold well in the US, they would bring in more of them. But they don't. The auto industry would rather use its limited assembly line capacity for the highest margin products, which are large luxury internal combustion vehic
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>> The agent has no intrinsic goals nor ability to develop them. > That’s not accurate. Context itself is a form of learning. Every time an LLM runs, it integrates information, updates its internal state, and adjusts its behavior b
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> then let it run about during the day collecting a video feed while directing it to do "squirrel stuff". Your phrase "squirrel stuff" is doing a lot of work. What are the robo-squirrels "goals" and how does
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> Bro. Evolution is random walk. That means most of the changes are random and arbitrary based on whatever allows the squirrel to survive. For the vast majority of evolutionary history, very similar forces have shaped us and squirrels.
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> We have no idea how much of the world I squirrel understands. We understand LLMs more than squirrels Based on our understanding of biology and evolution we know that a squirrel brain works more similarly to the way we humans do vs an L
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> It's incredibly difficult to compress information without have at least some internal model of that information. Whether that model is a "world model" that fits the definition of folks like Sutton and LeCunn is semantic.
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Question for those using local models for coding assistance: how well do the best locally runnable models (running on a laptop with a GPU) work for the easy case: Writing short runs of code and tests after I give an clear description of th
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> I'm personally glad that Steve Jobs wasn't a protectionist Me also. What does that have to do with Jobs being represented on currency? Why not do the same for the pharmaceutical CEOs who have set up generic drug supply chains

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