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by dguest 1y ago
A typical reactor core is 1 GW, so it's also one rather big nuclear power plant.
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by dguest 1y ago
Monaco is 2 km^2 [1]. I'm confused because if I assume each rack takes up 1 square meter I get a much smaller footprint: around 12 hectares or 17 football fields. And that assumes that the installation is one floor. I don't know m
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by dguest 1y ago
Yeah thanks for pointing this out: I'd been confusing energy consumption with electricity generation for a while. Turns out that even countries that I thought were using oil for electricity (e.g. the US) were just using it for transpor
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by dguest 1y ago
Right now I'm mostly an "admin" coder: I look at merge requests and tell people how to fix stuff. I point them to LLMs a lot too. People I know who are actually writing a lot of code are usually saying LLMs are nice.
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by dguest 1y ago
And here I'm wondering if I'm putting my career at risk by not trying them out. Probably both are true: you should try them out and then use them where they are useful, not for everything.
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by dguest 1y ago
I think the primary energy does include electric generation, but you're right, I posted the wrong chart. The correct one is here: https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/electricity-prod-source-s... and it backs up you
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by dguest 1y ago
Yeah I was wrong and completely misunderstood the data. I'd edit the post if I could but the timeout for that happened while I was editing. Not sure what confirmation bias I might have: I figured the Fins did their math correctly and w
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by dguest 1y ago
Finland is still 25% oil for electric generation [1] (and almost 40% fossil fuel). That means a lot of the electricity to heat the sand still comes from oil. It makes me wonder if this is more efficient than just using oil heating. Or some
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by dguest 1y ago
Exactly. I didn't say that the humans would disappear, just that AI might get much more involved in the writing and review process. And no one said that the "actual groups ... who know and respect each other..." are going t
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by dguest 1y ago
In order of [already happening] -> [inevitable] -> [might happen]: - Many PIs are writing grant proposals with the help of AI - Most grants are written by AI - Grants are reviewed by AI - Adversarial attacks on grant review AI - Arms
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by dguest 1y ago
I liked the "avid Wikipedia reader on ketamine" characterization more.
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by dguest 1y ago
also discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40835223
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by dguest 1y ago
Short summary: the actual paper doesn't say anything about historians or translators being replaced by AI. It says AI could be impactful to those fields. Modern chemistry is impactful to medicine but it didn't replace doctors. S
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by dguest 1y ago
I agree with you, but one correction: the bullshit is on the twitter post that this article links to (in the first sentence) and by extension on the article. The paper itself [1] doesn't say "replace" anywhere: the purpose wa
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by dguest 1y ago
I agree. I think my anecdote illustrates the perversions of the renter's market, and the interaction with the Internet of Crap, more than it illustrates the IoC in general. A lot of people buy into this stuff and never realize it: th
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by dguest 1y ago
here's the paper this guy seems to be reacting to https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07935v1
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by dguest 1y ago
I'm renting an apartment that came with a "nest" smoke detector. The thing ate through around 8 AA batteries every few months. We finally got sick of it and bought our own dumb 10€ smoke / CO detector.
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by dguest 1y ago
Science fiction, particularly space operas, can be dismissive of doctors. Most of the time the "doctor" is just a diagnostic machine that gives miracle meds and maybe 3d prints new body parts. Maybe it's prophetic: authors sa
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by dguest 1y ago
Good catch: I'm confusing reflex and the cling code that came later. All the issues I mentioned are still there in (or caused by) cling though. Either way standardization in reflection would help.
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by dguest 1y ago
It would standardize something they've done in an ad-hoc way for decades. They have a library called "reflex" [1] which adds some reflection, and which was (re)written by cannibalizing a lot of llvm code. They actually use th
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by dguest 1y ago
Our current economic model around AI is going to teach us more about psychology than fundamental physics. I expect we'll become more manipulative but otherwise not a lot smarter. Funny thing is, AI also provides good models for where t
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by dguest 1y ago
I've seen a lot of services (none banks so far) move over to requiring a One Time Password in addition to a password or private key as a way to get "2 factor authentication". Problem is, people catch on that with some `expect
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by dguest 1y ago
I assumed they meant Republicans/Trump, but it's a bit confusing because those parties aren't very popular in the EU: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2025/06/11/confidence-in-... whatev
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by dguest 1y ago
Which sort of works, but then you also have to deal with the cases where the days or months go negative (at the month and year bounds), and that also involves knowing how many days there are in each month. It's pretty difficult for me
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by dguest 1y ago
Wait so one day over the new year is 2025-01-01 - 2024-12-31 = 20250101 - 20241231 = 8870 i.e. 90 months and 10 days or 7 years 6 months and 10 days How is that the same thing as one day?
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by dguest 1y ago
For better or worse they did actually cite statistics: > 77 percent of educators reported young students having greater difficulties handling pencils, pens, and scissors. In comparison, 69 percent noted increased struggles with tying sho
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by dguest 1y ago
The French version of the Wikipedia article [1] actually lists calvados [2] instead of applejack. So who knows what the Lost Generation was drinking, maybe the french version is just as good. [1]: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wi
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by dguest 1y ago
For about 6 months I tried to order a Jack Rose [1]. Only one bartender knew what it was (lime, applejack, and grenadine). And no it's not on this list. How can I excuse such a pretentious mission? Well someone told me that "The F
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by dguest 1y ago
You define it to be accurate, and then measure the precision. You can build two and see how much they shift relative to each other. That gives you precision. So what's the point of a clock if you just define it to be correct? Again, ha
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by dguest 1y ago
This new clock is way more accurate than that baseline definition though. The SI definition is a practical one for almost everything, the new clock is useful if you are e.g. looking for shifts in physical constants over time.

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