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by hedora 9mo ago
This is happening in the US too. We're creeping closer and closer to the day where just installing off-grid battery + PV is cheaper than dealing with regulations + politically inflated grid prices. In most states, the power company ca
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by hedora 9mo ago
For values of ⅔ ~= 40% and rapidly falling. https://www.economist.com/interactive/trump-approval-tracker https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trump-approval-ratin... https:/&#x2
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by hedora 9mo ago
Yeah; golf course land tends to be in places with high property values. If we normalize by $ instead of by acre, the hypothetical golf course conversion would produce >> 10% of land requirements.
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by hedora 9mo ago
It's probably easier to build a solar farm than prepare new land for hay production at this point. Have you noticed the price of beef going up? It's because we're losing arable land to climate change. It takes a large numbe
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by hedora 9mo ago
What was his point? If he'd been more specific, his comment would be true: "If you don't give a fuck about [extracting revenue from poor serfs], of course we can do net zero." If we lived in a more just society, we&#x27
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by hedora 9mo ago
The US did too, despite Trump trying to block it.
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by hedora 9mo ago
It's simpler and cheaper than any alternative. You just need ultra high voltage transition lines and a grid that can real-time redistribute load + generation. Ultra high voltage towers are all over Texas. If they can make them work th
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by hedora 9mo ago
Corn ethanol isn't a renewable resource. The land use of corn is a problem, but it's rounding error compared to the petroleum consumption of that industry, or the topsoil degradation. To get one Joule out of corn ethanol, the US
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by hedora 9mo ago
Two things: - US states should either join the ICC, or if that's not legal, cooperate with its ability to serve warrants with precedence over the feds, especially in cases where the warrant is for a federal employee. California could
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by hedora 9mo ago
It’ll happen the day this bill is passed. If they cared even a little bit about gun violence, they’d focus on mental health and other preventive measures. If they just wanted to provide the illusion that they cared about gun violence, they’
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by hedora 9mo ago
I’m new to 3d printing. I saw bambu pushed a firmware update that bricked offline mode, so didn’t really consider them when shopping around. I’m really liking my (better specs for less money) elegoo centauri. I compiled the slicer from so
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by hedora 9mo ago
This looks like it’ll run easily on a Strix Halo (180W TDP), and be a little sluggish on previous gen AMDs (80W TDP). I can’t be bothered to check TDPs on 64GB macbooks, but none of these devices really count as space heaters.
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by hedora 9mo ago
They’re not calling 911, so their phones wouldn’t respond with a gps location. I’m not arguing all locations should be collected, just that “during a 911 call” is a really reasonable time to do it by default.
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by hedora 9mo ago
It’s more about predictive modeling: At what time + temperature do you close windows, given predicted cloud cover and overnight temperatures/wind? Come to think of it, if we had a big salt slurry that transitioned at 72F in the floors
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by hedora 9mo ago
I’m saying they’re not going to ship privacy preserving AI.
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by hedora 9mo ago
There’s no way to set up Windows to respect your privacy at this point. Windows 10 was the turning point on this. They charge you for the software, and charge you again by stealing your data. They even used to have a whitepaper explaining
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by hedora 9mo ago
Our recent computers all came with a copy of Win11 that never made it past the setup flow. However, they regularly run win 3.11 under “dosbox staging”, which is a greatly improved, but poorly named fork of dosbox.
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by hedora 9mo ago
The only thing my 2010 desktop can’t do well is run a local LLM. It can even run diffusion models. I spent a few hundred on a video card for it during the pandemic. Why should I want to add a TPM to it (assuming it’s even possible)?
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by hedora 9mo ago
I wonder if this can store any heat or just heat pump heat. If it can store any heat, it would help a lot to further reduce heating costs in our modern energy efficient house. Sometimes, in the winter, we get too much solar forcing, so if
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by hedora 9mo ago
It replaced expert with “people that know how to do that”, which probably makes sense for the target audience. (If you’re illiterate in the US, it’s probably because of choices you made, and those choices are correlated to listening to news
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by hedora 9mo ago
The difference between fifth and sixth grade reading levels doesn’t have much to do with sounding out words. Reading text aloud to the illiterate group is not sufficient to let them understand the material. Arguably, an LLM could rewrite th
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by hedora 9mo ago
None of the statements I’ve seen from Meta, people formerly involved in WhatsApp that chimed in here (thanks!), or the quotes from the investigation are incompatible with the whistleblowers’ allegations. At this point, I won’t trust anythin
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by hedora 9mo ago
This is why signal supports reproducible builds.
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by hedora 9mo ago
> Tons of "free" and crapware apps are also recording location, and sending it to data brokers The last time I checked, that included Google Play Services, and some of their iOS apps.
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by hedora 9mo ago
“A mentally ill person called 911 and said they were going to kill themselves” is a much better justification for pulling GPS data off a phone than any of the rationales I’ve heard from US companies or the government.
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by hedora 9mo ago
Committing a crime and also abusing your authority to aid in the crime should be greater than the penalty for just committing that crime. Qualified immunity is the only legal doctrine I can think of where piling on extra crimes reduces yo
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by hedora 9mo ago
My one experience with swift involved calling a macos api not written in swift, but that had ergonomic swift bindings from Apple. My code was data race free, but the underlying OS primitive wasn’t, so my program crashed out about 10% of the
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by hedora 9mo ago
If the threat model includes surveillance capitalism, then the faraday cage is actually a pretty reasonable counter measure. It blocks nfc, bluetooth and wifi. The last time I checked, airplane mode left those on, and so did the toplevel “
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by hedora 9mo ago
I’ll relax when the state courts get jurisdiction over rogue federal employees.
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by hedora 9mo ago
Historically, this has backfired in the US because we have low turnout elections. The people whose votes are being blocked get pissed and get off the couch on election day. The groups that would normally support the side that’s loudly suppr

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