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by danans 2y ago
Not yet, NMC Li-ion is still the largest represented in grid scale battery storage [1]. Pumped hydro is dominant overall in storage. LFP represents an increasing share of new grid scale battery storage, though [2] 1. https://w
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by danans 2y ago
Can it be made to work offline and keep state locally between reloads?
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by danans 2y ago
My examples are of core browser functionality, just implemented with a different tool chain (a web app instead of C++). Should the user be asked for permission for C++ to send an IPC to another C++ component? Should the Chrome Web store
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by danans 2y ago
There is potentially an innocuous and straightforward explanation for this. Imagine the browser comes with some functionality implemented as a google.com-signed web app (as opposed to compiled/linked C++ as a lot of the older Chrome U
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by danans 2y ago
> It's very light and I don't need a separate adapter since any USB-C will do. It uses HDMI so I can connect to most hotel TVs to use as a large monitor. From this machine I can SSH to any of the other machines I need access to
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by danans 2y ago
Thanks, TIL
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by danans 2y ago
It's 1.7% of Canada's GDP. Significant, but not wholly dependent. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1319179/canada-oil-sands... But it's 1/3 of Alberta's GDP. The GHG impact is pretty h
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by danans 2y ago
How cool would it be if at some point they used one of the original electric Model Ts - perhaps with a bigger battery to achieve more than it's original 80 mile range.
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by danans 2y ago
My point is that the Happy Birthday song is an oral tradition which has lasted more than 100 years. That seems corroborated by the 1924 date you cited. That's all. Of course I don't think oral traditions go unchanged for 12,000 ye
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by danans 2y ago
>> A huge amount of economic value is going to be created by AI. Company builders focused on delivering value to end users will be rewarded handsomely. > Such strong speculative predictions about the future, with no evidence. The s
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by danans 2y ago
> In fact I've heard archaeologists in the past specifically say that no oral tradition can survive intact more than 100 years. Usually this statement is in reference to certain creation myths being relatively modern inventions. May
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by danans 2y ago
There's a theory that the domestication of dogs selected for the retention of juvenile behavioral traits into adulthood (non-suspiciousness, playfulness), vs wolves who do not retain those traits. It's even thought that the first
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by danans 2y ago
Hah... Ask, and HN (sorta) delivers. Not RNN, but self-finetuned LLM cost vs performance compared to GPT-4. https://openpipe.ai/blog/mixture-of-agents
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by danans 2y ago
> Recurrent neural networks can be used for arbitrary computations, the equivalence to Turing machines has been proven. However, they are utterly impractical for the task. Karpathy's 2015 RNN article [1] demonstrated that RNNs train
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by danans 2y ago
I'd like to see a cost vs precision/recall comparison of using a RNN vs an LLM (local or API) for a problem like this.
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by danans 2y ago
The ChromeOS team is pretty conservative with major feature releases and generally won't make something available by default until it goes through a ton of testing internally and with external testers. ChromeOS is quite different that
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by danans 2y ago
Enhanced rock weathering for CO2 removal potentially avoids the high energy requirement problem of DAC, since it relies directly on natural environmental processes to work. But it has it's own issues and question marks.
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by danans 2y ago
At the very least, X is definitely the most overloaded product name in tech.
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by danans 2y ago
According to https://www.irs.gov/compliance/whistleblower-office the whistleblower reward program is not available to employees of Department of the Treasury.
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by danans 2y ago
> I know everything is through Bamboo/whatever software nowadays so I wasn't sure if they really had any control/input on these things. You have control, they don't. Withholdings are calculated based on elections you
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by danans 2y ago
> Zupkus said, adding that the IRS wants "to extract as much as possible from the taxpayer." The IRS doesn't want your tax dollars, they are just the mechanism by which the federal government enforces tax collection accord
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by danans 2y ago
If so, they probably didn't buy them outright. They probably leased them.
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by danans 2y ago
> I'm sure there are some applications for pre-heating to time shift demand, but I do think it is limited. Another example of a big application for time-shifted heating is domestic hot water heating with heat pump water heaters (or
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by danans 2y ago
> IF you just want to go electricity>heat>electricity I think the idea here is to go electricity->heat-storage->heat-usage, using the heat storage to take advantage of cheap renewables that might be otherwise curtailed and
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by danans 2y ago
Yes, I don't generally include Catholicism, Orthodox, and several other Christian sects when I use the term fundamentalist Christianity (although I'm sure fundamentalists exist in any sect of any religion). I suppose a better term
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by danans 2y ago
What an unforced error on OpenAI's part, but revelatory to all of us how their leaders actually see the world around them: either people whose likeness and style to copy like Johansson or chumps like the rest of us who would marvel at
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by danans 2y ago
That was among the secular/ethno-nationalist rationales. But there is also a religious rationale. In fundamentalist Christianity, the re-establishment of the state of Israel to its biblically described borders is a precondition for th
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by danans 2y ago
The US and UK have a checkered record with respect to accepting people fleeing the Holocaust [1]. Saving them was not an objective of the war effort and was opposed by many due to domestic anti-Semitism and ethno-nationalism (Nazism had sig
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by danans 2y ago
> I also read that the hedge fund that bought Red Lobster sold the land the restaurants are built on and then leased it back to the restaurants at an elevated rent. How can they decide how much rent to charge if they no longer own the la
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by danans 2y ago
> The Union Group effectively burned 2.1 billion in value in 10 years. Perhaps, but it's also possible that the value was already burning, because the brand itself has lost any caché and the final series of owners accelerated it&#x2

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