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by danans 2mo ago
} What are you going to do when winds rip the solar panels off your roof, or drop a big tree branch on them? Who will you call to repair it? Who will pay for it? How is that different than any other weather related house damage? You&#x27
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by danans 2mo ago
> Powered entirely by batteries, X1 used approximately $5 worth of electricity during its first flight It's fun to look at the arithmetic behind this to pull out the assumptions. To lift a 25000 lb mass 1100 ft in the air requires
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by danans 2mo ago
I've seen examples of non-hiring: new teams that are staffed at half or quarter the headcount that they would have before LLMs. Are those job losses? Maybe not. But they are much lower hiring relative to the amount of software engi
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by danans 2mo ago
> And you think the vast majority of people do not have access to the overwhelming majority of those things? The evidence suggests the opposite. The comment I responded to asked: > Is the Apple fandom strong enough to get Tim Cook his
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by danans 2mo ago
> Gemini read out loud "setting an alarm for 7am tomorrow morning". But it was bullshit, it doesn't have the power to set alarms, it was just gaslighting me. The Gemini on my Google Home has the ability to set alarms. May
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by danans 2mo ago
I remember that website. It was a cool experiment, but I mean conventional motorcycles with standard fairings.
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by danans 2mo ago
Land, housing, water, energy, food, medicines, healthcare, security, and proximity to influence. I'm sure I forgot a few.
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by danans 2mo ago
> Electric motorcycles are on the way too, though the range isn’t there for my riding patterns yet. A small battery pack charged from French nuclear grid electricity would eventually make the per-kilometer carbon math very hard to beat.
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by danans 2mo ago
> Commuting to work in peak hour, zipping past all the gridlocked traffic on the motorway (filtering is/was legal) and then cresting over the Auckland harbour bridge on a sunny day... Absolute bliss. Former motorcycle commuter here.
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by danans 2mo ago
> Could capital owners try to capture it all? I'm sure. But it's not a natural result of the technology, Unless the capability to create high productivity enabling AI is in the hands of every person, or the control of the centr
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by danans 2mo ago
> Is the Apple fandom strong enough to get Tim Cook his own private army of zealots when society breaks down? Society won't break down (in the chaos sense) and resources will still be allocated. Power abhors a vacuum as they say.
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by danans 2mo ago
> Question stands, if anyone can offer a good equivalence for something similar today. Then no, it's not possible for the average worker, largely because the advance of technology raised the bar on labor, requiring more (and increas
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by danans 2mo ago
> How well would you need to be paid now in any career to support a family like that one while accumulating that wealth already early in life? The answer is that you don't do it by getting paid (as in exchanging labor for wages). Yo
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by danans 2mo ago
> s the policy now to "harvest whatever we can ASAP" without any regard Given the degree of corruption and criminality, a more appropriate metaphor might be "smash and grab".
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by danans 2mo ago
I'm no expert, but I heard an AGI researcher explain that if they could figure out how to create an AI with the intelligence of a squirrel, they would be closer to AGI than LLMs based AIs are. That's to say nothing of doing it wit
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by danans 2mo ago
> Don't corporate profits depend on the 99% (the poors) spending? If the consumers fail, and stop spending, how long before the corporations feel mildly inconvenienced? 50% of consumer spending is by the top 10%, and that trend is g
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by danans 2mo ago
> That car can be full time serving 4-10 units daily? A bus could serve 40-100 daily. The infrastructure already exists - the same as for cars. It's pretty low cost also - especially electric buses that have lower maintenance cost
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by danans 2mo ago
> WWII proves the US is perfectly willing to suffer at least 5x the casualties of Vietnam in order to achieve their objectives. The US today isn't the US on the dawn of WWII, and this war is unlike WWII as a whole. Domestic politica
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by danans 2mo ago
> I've seen them for a house as well. (when the utility offers a large discount for power used overnight - 40 years ago my local coop was trying to sell my parents on this, but since we had natural gas heat it wasn't worth it)
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by danans 2mo ago
> Just to heat my house for a few days would need tons of rock at temperatures I'd allow in my house (I have kids and so I worry they will open the rock container and get burnt). Rocks are not free Sand/rock heat storage is for
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by danans 2mo ago
> They also, for reasons I simply cannot fathom, go out and buy a green Range Rover. What part is unfathomable, the Range Rover part or the green part? I ask because Range Rovers are strongly associated being quite well-off everywhere,
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by danans 2mo ago
More appalling than the publicity stunt is the fact that several people were desperate enough for work to take them up on the offer.
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by danans 2mo ago
> I could imagine how a potential interviewee might say something like “I’d tattoo myself with your logo for a chance at a job” and a CEO might respond “Hell, yeah! That’s the kind of energy I’m looking for.” If I were that CEO I'd
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by danans 2mo ago
Have a broad range of interests outside of CS, and also develop interpersonal skills, not only for your own social enjoyment, but for interviews and compensation negotiations you will engage in during the coming years.
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by danans 2mo ago
> such a business plan has not yet created economic value, being able to roll out features at rocket speed is not a huge determinant of a startup's success. Speed of feature implementation isn't the objective. High feature thr
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by danans 2mo ago
> if this doesn't change the near term trajectory of humanity to a parabolic move upward there is going to be a lot of economic pain "trajectory of humanity to a parabolic move upward" is poorly defined here. Whether we a
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by danans 2mo ago
> There's no sense of stylistic ingenuity or choice - e.g. deliberately breaking from convention or leaving things out. Is stylistic ingenuity, breaking from convention, or leaving things out on a website for a Ramen restaurant chai
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by danans 2mo ago
> I have not yet taken up woodworking as a contingency plan for "Software Engineer" becoming an extinct profession Between "stable" and "extinct" are many stages of software engineering labor market change,
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by danans 2mo ago
> If people are using it presumably they're getting some value out of it which means that most objections to datacenters are NIMBYism and not some kind of principled stance. Something can have a great deal of utility to everyone whi
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by danans 2mo ago
> Vibe coding by people with no programming skills is not going to happen Hate to break it to you but it is happening, increasingly at the business stakeholder interface later. > A compiler is already doing 99% of the actual coding wh

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