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by ericd 1y ago
Are you so sure that storage is so expensive? It’s been coming down the cost curve extremely quickly, such that opinions formed even an year ago are severely outdated, and it’s now solar+storage that’s being favorably compared to replacing
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by ericd 1y ago
Ah this is great, thanks!
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by ericd 1y ago
That's actually what I've been doing, but sites that very clearly should have an RSS feed (specifically, our local governments' event calendar pages), don't, so I thought there might be some other route/heuristic&#x
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by ericd 1y ago
Great tip on the <link>, thanks a lot! Also the pointer to FreshRSS, I might end up running an instance of that in our basement.
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by ericd 1y ago
Awesome, thanks! Especially for the pointers to those rssifiers. For the first question, I should clarify that I'm hoping to just ingest these RSS feeds myself in various scripts. But yeah, makes sense that most of the good feed reader
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by ericd 1y ago
Sorry for the random question, but I’ve been trying to get more into RSS, and figure it’s worth asking someone who has a lot of experience - is there a reliable way to find an RSS feed for a given site, assuming it has one? Or is it a set o
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by ericd 1y ago
Yep, my mom worked in the pediatric ER, she never let Tylenol/acetaminophen in the house, my understanding is that she saw way too many cases of liver damage and death.
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by ericd 1y ago
Some friends and I started playing Crusader Kings 2 recently. If anyone wants a thorough education in the weirdness of feudal monarchy, I highly recommend it, half the game is manipulating weird inheritance laws/scenarios to grow your
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by ericd 1y ago
Heh yes, it's not as controlled, but there are repeated tasks like analysis, communicating, intuiting things, creating things, etc. And the tasks have more variability, but if you're better at these skills, you'll tend to do
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by ericd 1y ago
Sure, but within running a single business, there are a huge number of individual events. Those are the hands.
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by ericd 1y ago
Ability vastly increases your luck surface area. A single poker hand has a lot of luck, and even a game, but over long periods, ability starts to strongly differentiate peoples' results.
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by ericd 1y ago
Awesome, this takes Whispering from something I'd probably not bother with to something I'd consider integrating into my daily workflow. Thanks very much for the tool!
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by ericd 1y ago
If you inflate the currency, GDP goes up, and nominal debt stays the same. That’s the government’s current playbook, with its massive fiscal deficits.
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by ericd 1y ago
Come on, don't be uncharitable, language isn't inherently necessary for models like LLMs, you can train something similar on visual inputs. Fruit flies have neurons that pass around ~probabilities/signal strengths to each oth
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by ericd 1y ago
True if you look at the cost to build the plant, but it’s hard to colocate enough solar with heavy users, land near there is expensive, and transmission capacity is pretty hard to get built, so something very power dense with a small footpr
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by ericd 1y ago
Good thing it only takes a couple dudes with impact drivers and a truck to tear that down in under a week. Even a hand truck is good enough to cart a few of them away at a time.
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by ericd 1y ago
Yeah, I've seen this with our own solar installation - when the grid frequency dips even a bit, our house cuts itself off from the grid, including whatever power it was feeding back. It seems like a recipe for instability - grid is ove
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by ericd 1y ago
Costco sells a few varieties, this is the one we buy: https://www.costcobusinessdelivery.com/kokuho-rose-us-%231-e... It's sushi rice, grown in CA, and it's very good. Same stuff we used to buy from our local Japa
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by ericd 1y ago
Context matters, who is leading that machinery? They seem to have the political will to invade.
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by ericd 1y ago
Seriously. I think their fibery-looking bowls also tested near the top on PFAS by Consumer Reports.
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by ericd 1y ago
Ah ok, sounded to me like there was some big ongoing inefficiency/inability, more than an opportunity cost thing.
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by ericd 1y ago
Yeah, it's pretty eye opening to see how much more power our home's solar array puts out during the summer vs. the winter. It's like 3-4x, on average, while our power demand is actually highest in winter, due to the higher de
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by ericd 1y ago
I thought that they were quite throttleable, and it was because they needed to run near full power to pencil out economically/amortize their huge capex - that their fuel costs are relatively insignificant by comparison. Is that not the
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by ericd 1y ago
This is based on the open-source HuggingFace/LeRobot SO-101, so it'll probably be possible to fall back to that. Or you can just get an SO-101. But I think this is attempting to draft on that ecosystem, and this is cheaper than Al
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by ericd 1y ago
I guess I should clarify that it's open source, and seems to be essentially forked from HuggingFace's SO-101, so it's probably not too hard to fall back to that stuff (with fewer features).
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by ericd 1y ago
Seems like this stuff is mostly built on open source, so no need to be too scared.
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by ericd 1y ago
I really like the “I can do things simply, because the backend is so fast” parts. Totally agree, and wish it was more common. Computers are fast, until we slow them down with layers upon layers of bullshit to crunch through to display a lit
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by ericd 1y ago
Eh there are certainly some parents like that. Most of the ones I know aren’t, though - they’re still mostly of the local league variety. We never brought a car seat into an airplane, laughable security theater. There’s also a big push to n
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by ericd 1y ago
I don’t think they are regressive, if you make it revenue neutral, because carbon footprint is heavily correlated with spending. Everything you buy has a good amount of embodied carbon. Revenue neutral is actually redistributive.
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by ericd 1y ago
Not an expert, but my understanding is that the challenge there is that a big cost in industrial production is the initial capital outlay for the equipment, and oftentimes to pay that back reasonably, you need to run the equipment nonstop.

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