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by happosai 3mo ago
Ah like the roller bearing manufacturer established in the town of Ball, so the company could be called BALL BEARING.
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by happosai 3mo ago
Which shows that you can have lots of cars without having a cars-only culture. Freedom of choice of the mode of transport, and pay for privilege vs externalizing the costs of cars.
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by happosai 3mo ago
I disagree, I lived a year in a small town near Osaka far from any tourist attractions and never did I wish I had a car. Public transport was ubiquitous and walking infrastructure excellent. Lots of people on bikes. Roads were tiny so cars
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by happosai 3mo ago
Well overnight stays in small towns and sleeper trains are worth experiencing on Interrail too!
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Mythic Beasts: Human support requires human queries(mythic-beasts.com)
1 points by happosai 3mo ago|0 comments
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by happosai 3mo ago
At least trains no longer drop literal shit between rails...
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by happosai 3mo ago
Linux kernel project stuck at C89 and refused move to c++ or even a C standard upgrade for decades. Move to C11 (a 15 year old standard) was done just a few years ago. The fact that rust has been even accepted into the kernel is a resoundin
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by happosai 3mo ago
People are already being conditioned into micropayments via LLm token pricing. I presume the primary payment method on these 402 sites will be via LLM agents so reading a page via an AI agent will just cost a little more in tokens than the
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by happosai 4mo ago
I don't see how the settlement changes the fundamental dynamics. Anthropic argues that since they paid for the book they use in training, the can now distill as many copies of the book from their AI. Nevermind what the author wants - a
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by happosai 4mo ago
If Anthropic doesn't like people repeating this point, Anthropic should stop repeating that they are somehow entitled to keep what they have rightfully stolen.
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by happosai 4mo ago
Yes, the planet got destroyed. But for a beautiful moment in time we created a lot of value for shareholders - A Microsoft employee 2080
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by happosai 4mo ago
It is such a great improvement that ISPs cannot eavesdrop us anymore... only for everyone to terminate TLS at cloudflare so they (and thus US government) can now eavesdrop everyone.
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by happosai 4mo ago
As far as I see the "problem" with mastodon is the lack of addiction mechanics. The first time someone has an negative mastodon interaction, the close the app and because it isn't that addictive, they don't come back. Me
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by happosai 4mo ago
You think the toxity and dangers of materials are defined by the atoms the materials are made of rather than the molecules? Swimming in a ocean of Hydrogen-Oxygen salted by Sodium Chloride must feel dangerous.. Also the toxic fumes from bur
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by happosai 4mo ago
a) Meteorites don't have any of toxic chemicals used to build a server with lithium-ion batteries and solar panels b) we could use the same argument to defend dumping spent nuclear fuel to oceans (like we used to do) c) I agree with th
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by happosai 4mo ago
> if anyone at all can make space-based datacenters economical, it's SpaceX Let's hope burning ten thousand tons of toxic e-waste annually in upper atmoshphere never becomes economical. Or mankind gets to senses and bans extern
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by happosai 4mo ago
Will we get enterprise ready open firmware too instead of this "we missed DOS so we invented UEFI" for boot firnware?
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by happosai 5mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_punishment_by_country Vast majority of death penalties happen in countries where citizens don't have much of a say what their government does...
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by happosai 5mo ago
Will they announce anything that isn't shoehorning AI?
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by happosai 5mo ago
It is, but every enterprise is just looking at the next few quarter results. ROI looks so great when you don't invest in anything and just lease / subscribe / SaaS everything. Time bombs are just a concern for the future.
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by happosai 5mo ago
I think that comment meant it's 2-4 years until local models are good enough that it's worthwhile to burn an ASIC of them. Not that it takes 2-4 years to make an ASIC chip.
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by happosai 5mo ago
Sunsetting subscription service is fine IMHO. The deal is clear when buying (you get X months of play). Just like Netflix vs buying DVD. Also the financial incentives align - as long as someone pays monthly, money comes in to keep the light
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by happosai 5mo ago
Austria could be there but they would need to build oversupply of solar, wind and (pumped) hydro to saturate the export grid lines. And currently Austria isn't building renewables at scale. I think there is a strong NIMBY movement so t
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by happosai 5mo ago
Not most of EU but geographically large and diverse and low-latitude countries will. Spain has winds from three different sea areas and is known sunny, so they are in a good position.
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by happosai 5mo ago
The word you are looking for is "invention". Innovation instead means exactly refining and improving existing things.
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by happosai 6mo ago
There are lots of non-violent low stress games. It's just a challenge to find the good ones. Some ones I have enjoyed - spirit farmer - planet of Lana - far: lone sales - Dave the diver - art of rally
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by happosai 6mo ago
Well hydropower is the "easy" level of the decarbonization game. So it's not really surprising first countries to leave fossil fuels behind are also countries with mountains and rivers.
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by happosai 6mo ago
The reason to leave ex-twitter and the reason to keep using lesser platforms may not be the same reason. Probably the reason EFF keeps using mastodon/bluesky is not for reach, but to support federated platforms. As an activist organiza
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by happosai 6mo ago
Energy consumption in total in Germany will only go down if you decide to export your steel and chemical industries to china. The high temperatures needed by industrial processes can't be achieved with heat pumps.
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by happosai 6mo ago
Electrifying reduces energy consumption only in selected use cases. Such as EVs yes. However other usescases such as making steel with hydrogen, plastic fromwaste or fuel for planes require vastly more energy when electrified. Unsurprisingl

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