danw1979

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by danw1979 6mo ago
Ideologues are everywhere. If it isn’t presented as a theory that might be proven wrong, or an idea that might not work, that’s when my alarm starts going off. Another signal: trying stuff we already tried that didn’t work, usually with an
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by danw1979 6mo ago
Maybe all The Resistance could manage to send him from the future was a note of encouragement instead of a 7’ cyborg.
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by danw1979 6mo ago
I seem to have come across as a nimby in my comment… I’d happily pay less on my bill if it meant gas no longer set the price of electricity in the UK, even if it did mean covering loads of arable land in panels. It still doesn’t mean they a
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by danw1979 6mo ago
I took a stroll recently through the countryside around Swindon, UK, where there’s a massive new solar farm on formerly arable land. One thing I only just realised was how the view from the ground is so badly affected when you’re down amid
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by danw1979 6mo ago
It's 2071. James Dyson, now 124 and in better health than ever, thanks to the AI-fuelled nanorobotic revolution, has just lost control of the last of the company's Dyson Swarms. What started as a fleet of cleaning-nanites, a dir
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by danw1979 6mo ago
The first time I ever saw a PC it was running Sopwith. Must have been 1989. I loved the game, but it was this exotic new machine that really interested me. It had 5.25” floppies, probably a 286 and quite an old machine by then. I had only
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by danw1979 6mo ago
> solar PV installed cost 384 €/kWp Is this grid-scale solar ? It can’t be rooftop - there is nobody in the UK who will install a 5kW rooftop system for £2k. The quotes I’ve had recently have been closer to £10k.
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by danw1979 6mo ago
The problem with framing this as hero worship is you conflate SpaceX and Elon. I hate the guy. I think spacex is revolutionary. Both can be true. It doesn’t mean I am hero worshipping anyone or any company.
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by danw1979 6mo ago
They did. I worked in telecommunications from the late 90s until 2016. The death of the landline and dominance of mobile was a genuine surprise to the industry. The iPhone was the knockout blow.
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by danw1979 6mo ago
People have been speculating on future returns since forever. The East India company (an example of capitalism gone very very wrong) was speculatively founded with £4m (in today’s money) and went on to corner half of global trade. This rose
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by danw1979 6mo ago
Who else “played a role” in Falcon 9 reducing the cost of mass to orbit, exactly ? I guess some public money went their way ? Also which jury is still out on starship ? I haven’t read any serious criticism that suggests there are insurmou
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by danw1979 7mo ago
If you’ve got even a passing interest in the UK energy market you’d know this is because of the wholesale price of gas, not the actual wholesale cost of solar and wind. If you really want to pay less for green energy, which is cheap when it
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by danw1979 7mo ago
Because nuclear. Which is a great 20th century French achievement ! If the EPR2 doesn’t spiral into costing £17.5bn per unit as the UK-PWR has, perhaps we can get them in to “rustle me up a nuclear power station” or two, in the words of To
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by danw1979 7mo ago
I think you could choose to believe that “the industry’s priorities have fundamentally changed” or you could choose to believe in the economics of supply and demand.
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by danw1979 7mo ago
Would there be any obligation to read the bits concerning yourself ? I see this more as a digital artifact for future generations. I would love to read all about the events in the lives of my ancestors (no matter how detached the narration
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by danw1979 7mo ago
The one heuristic I try to keep in mind whenever dealing with anyone on the phone is “if they called you, they want something from you”. Even if this isn’t true, and someone is calling you out of the goodness of their heart, for reasons ben
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by danw1979 7mo ago
this is a really good point that I neglected in my original dismissal of the project: it's going to be super useful for DIYers and small shops in the less regulated parts of the world.
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by danw1979 7mo ago
Good point. Also, the author specifically mentions OpenClaw in the example skill frontmatter, so I'm wondering if their workflow even involves CC.
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by danw1979 7mo ago
Thank you !
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by danw1979 7mo ago
So in the UK you won’t get sign off from building control if your electrician uses a dodgy uncertified device, and that results in your insurance being invalidated, at least according to my policy.
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by danw1979 7mo ago
I’m not sure about your home insurer, but here in the UK, most home electrical wiring, including solar for example, is “notifiable” to building control and requires a qualified tradesperson to implement. If you want to DIY everything you ne
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by danw1979 7mo ago
Which is perhaps why the author was focussing on optimising LLM usage of such unwieldy APIs without blowing out the context ? I don’t disagree with your point about agent abilities with older, concise, well-represented-in-training-data tool
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by danw1979 7mo ago
I really like this - especially the embedded search. What do the embeddings and model cost you in terms of binary size ?
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by danw1979 7mo ago
> The number of times it implies you didn't need to validate "human" input until llms arrived is scary too. I took away a completely different message: humans and LLMs make different mistakes that require different valida
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by danw1979 7mo ago
Claude Code, at least, will only load a SKILL.md file into context when it’s invoked by the user or LLM itself, i.e. in demand.
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by danw1979 8mo ago
> Unless stated otherwise, none of the published devices has passed regulatory certification, so use them at your own risk and responsibility This somewhat limits the usefulness of the hardware anywhere you need to be insured, e.g. your
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by danw1979 8mo ago
Would love to read a more in depth write up of this if you have the time ! I suspect the obsessive note-taker crowd on HN would appreciate it too.
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by danw1979 8mo ago
It works perfectly well when you’ve got deep pockets and unmanned test vehicles though.
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by danw1979 8mo ago
We are repeating this same UX mistake with induction hobs now.
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by danw1979 8mo ago
when you say pre-launch, what do you mean exactly ?

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