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751.
by flir 2y ago
> We have lots of free charging points in the UK Wait, we do? There are people out there just giving away energy? (I think I must have misunderstood you here).
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by flir 2y ago
I think shifting them to static applications when they hit 70% capacity makes more sense, personally. For now, just recycle the ones that have actually failed. Or even just warehouse them until they can be recycled. (Whether we actually do
753.
by flir 2y ago
LED bulbs (90% less energy), LCD TVs (75% less energy). It adds up.
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by flir 2y ago
> less environmentally friendly once you total up their carbon footprint in full I'm trying to think of an example, and I'm honestly coming up blank.
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by flir 2y ago
That's probably a testable hypothesis, with a little screen scraping and some time.
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by flir 2y ago
If you read that paper carefully (it's been a while so I might have this wrong), I think you'll see that while they're using Norman vs not-Norman surnames, the comparison is between Victorian and contemporary wealth and life
757.
by flir 2y ago
I suggest this exercise: Pick a random person from Queen Victoria's court. Look up where their descendants are today. Chances are, they're still running the country in some capacity. (The example I'm thinking of was a Duchess
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by flir 2y ago
That's fair. I just don't think you can take observations about graphs and apply them to human societies uncritically.
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by flir 2y ago
Shades of David Brin, I think. But as far as the models go: the map is not the territory.
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by flir 2y ago
> In fact, CoT could perfectly be a Turing machine. Are we going to need an infinite number of LLMs, arranged on a tape?
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by flir 2y ago
Don't know about doctors, but school reports have been done like this for decades. You select 1, 7, 8, 5, 2 to a series of questions about the child (eg "Does the child pay attention in class?"), and the software expands that
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by flir 2y ago
Not OP, but it is possible for something to be both "obscene" and "helpful" (maybe we should say "of value"?) Say... footage of Hiroshima? Or the liberation of concentration camps? I'd say those are exampl
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by flir 2y ago
> shit they don't need Any colour you, as long as it's black?
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by flir 2y ago
It's not solely waste, though. Advertising works. If you can figure out how to separate the waste advertising from the effective advertising, and only spend money on the second segment, The System will reward you with fabulous cash and
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by flir 2y ago
"The Electric Monk was a labour-saving device, like a dishwasher or a video recorder. Dishwashers washed tedious dishes for you, thus saving you the bother of washing them yourself, video recorders watched tedious television for you, t
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by flir 2y ago
And my mind with to The Diamond Age (the Young Lady's Illustrated Primer that used human actors to give AI-generated stories a veneer of humanity).
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by flir 2y ago
Kids are gonna go to college still believing you have to rewind discs. Do it. That's a long game prank.
768.
by flir 2y ago
Also worth considering anaesthetics in this context, because nobody's totally sure what's going on there. > One might imagine that’s because you lose information that only exists as ongoing electrical patterns. Cue Exhalation
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by flir 2y ago
Not sure if sarcastic or not (and I'm normally pretty good at that). https://old.reddit.com/user/cstross
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by flir 2y ago
He's everywhere , and not just as a PR presence, he's actually involved. I've had a couple of interactions with him on Reddit where he politely drive-by corrected me (a real brush with fame for me). Add to that everything he
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by flir 2y ago
I was under the impression that was still infeasible on mobile devices (battery, processor, etc). Happy to be corrected, because I have to admit it's only a matter of time.
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by flir 2y ago
Whew. And I thought the mobile phone industry was a cesspit...
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by flir 2y ago
Frankly, I don't believe it. You can't hide the fact that packets are being shoved over the WAN. Somebody would have picked up on it.
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by flir 2y ago
Don't hate the player, hate the game.
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by flir 2y ago
A policies.json with "DisablePocket": true, works here, for what it's worth. I wrote that file hand, with a lot of messing about. I hope this tool takes some of the pain out of it, especially if it can consume my existing con
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by flir 2y ago
Not taking issue with you, slightly different question: Do the digits of Pi pass statistical tests for randomness? Uniform distribution, etc?
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by flir 2y ago
That's fair. Assumption on my part. Hence couched in "is it possible..." weasel words.
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by flir 2y ago
An error occurred during a connection to www.stardock.com. PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR Error code: PR_CONNECT_RESET_ERROR The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.
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by flir 2y ago
Is it possible that you're describing design patterns here?
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by flir 2y ago
You're almost certainly not (wrong age group) but man if you don't sound like an ex-MeFite. IMO the kids are shaping up to be more like GenX than anything. (The kids are alright). America's the navel of the world, culturally,

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