haweemwho

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by haweemwho 3y ago
Modern crisis research [1] shows that a sudden loss of just 10% of a population (that is, essentially over night) would have devastating consequences. Basically, breakdown of society as we know it. Now combine that with nuclear winter and r
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by haweemwho 3y ago
I appreciate that you elaborated your thoughts. That makes for a much nicer discussion! I'd turn your argument around. We seem to not care about any of the N-1 species. Why treat the remaining one specially? Because we belong to it? I
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by haweemwho 3y ago
That academia job is less stable. Bring in grants or go home. Compete with others to climb a pyramid that gets more and more narrow at the top. Even if you are laid off at Google or Facebook, with those on your resume, anybody will take you
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by haweemwho 3y ago
> IMHO, right now, tenure is the only edge Academia has in many areas of STEM compared to industrial labs. This. Even with tenure in place, I'd never go to academia. So much politics, worry about grants, immobility in what to do re
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by haweemwho 3y ago
Cf. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humboldtian_model_of_higher_ed...
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by haweemwho 3y ago
> but it is one of the fields that was necessary and instrumental in the development of the of the universal Turing machine. You'd be shocked how many people in the software industry regard Turing machines as some esoteric construct
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by haweemwho 3y ago
> I honestly believe that most of the carbon calculations come from the pro-renewable folks to promote whatever pet project they’re on about. Sounds like reflection to me, if anything.
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by haweemwho 3y ago
Again measuring with different standards. Depending on the design of a typical wind turbine, you can recycle 90-95% of those as well. And that's without a prime design criterion of maximizing recyclability, which could be mandated by l
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by haweemwho 3y ago
Isn't Siemens in the wind power business as well?
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by haweemwho 3y ago
> At peak, we had about 80k nukes (way less now). That’s nowhere near enough to kill all 8bn people (as spread out as we are). Directly? Probably not. But the contamination from fallout is more than sufficient to poison a significant fra
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by haweemwho 3y ago
> a FUD spreader like you Eh, what? That's not a very nice thing to say. > So tell me No, I don't need to. I refuted a claim. You can move the goal posts, but I won't participate in that game. Obviously a coal plant emi
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by haweemwho 3y ago
Geez, I'm really worried about discussion styles here. Nobody claimed that other species do. That has little to do with the question of why I should care about our's surviving.
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by haweemwho 3y ago
> The truth is that the once the power plant is built it generates clean power for decades. That is not the truth. The typical fuel cycle in fission plants is 3-6 years.
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by haweemwho 3y ago
"X is the only foo that doesn't suffer from Y!" "But it does!" "Well so does every other foo!" You see that this is not a good argument, don't you?
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by haweemwho 3y ago
So, AI prompt is the new language/stack/API that you refuse to learn?
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by haweemwho 3y ago
Would you like to elaborate your reasons?
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by haweemwho 3y ago
> what to do about it? Celebrate.
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by haweemwho 3y ago
No? How many ovens, washing machines and dryers usually run at 2am when it's dark? Sure people don't charge their Tesla at noon when solar production peaks, but saving that until the evening when the 15 miles use of the car batter
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by haweemwho 3y ago
Good example with Ukraines power station that's actively targeted. What type is that one? It's a nuclear plant as I'm sure you know. Which basically the whole country depends on. I think if anything then that's a counter
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by haweemwho 3y ago
Even if that's true, it's hard to criticize while doing the same thing.
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by haweemwho 3y ago
I did address your first remark in the end of my comment: > All those factors are usually brought up in detail for things like solar and wind plants. It's just disingenuous not to count them for nuclear power. I did not talk about h
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by haweemwho 3y ago
Well, you didn't actually address my comment, which had nothing to do with solar working at night or similar. It's useful to keep separate arguments separate since jumping around if something doesn't suit your liking is not a
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by haweemwho 3y ago
If you have solar on every domestic rooftop, you can't bomb all of them. I mean, you can try, but then energy shortage is not on top of the list of problems that the population has.
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by haweemwho 3y ago
> Soon you're going to run out of land for your renewables. Ramping up from 40% to 100% increases land use by orders of magnitude? Did I miss something?
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by haweemwho 3y ago
Storage can provide base load and for anything non-critical you have flexible pricing that automatically lets people stop doing things that can be done later the week, like charging your Tesla. Markets work. Use them.
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by haweemwho 3y ago
It's rare to see flaute all over Europe at the same time. You just need some ways to transport energy as well as supplement that with storage and you can compensate most of this. If this sounds too complicated an engineering challenge
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by haweemwho 3y ago
> Only nuclear power is carbon-free [...] You can stop reading right there as this immediately identifies this piece as disingenuous at best, more likely though propaganda. The whole process is definitely not "carbon-free". Ura
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by haweemwho 3y ago
Thanks for your perspective. I'm wondering how this squares with the tendency of formal language theory folks to push for functional languages. It's clearly a preferred approach if rigorous correctness is your main goal, but don&#
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by haweemwho 3y ago
Probably just a coincidence that he publicly asked for competitors to suspend working on their products for 6 months.
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by haweemwho 3y ago
The original article from back then: https://gcn.com/cloud-infrastructure/2021/02/hacker-tried-to... Something does not add up here. The original article claimed that an employee saw the mouse pointer move an

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