helsinkiandrew

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Super El Niño bursts through temperature record months ahead of peak(theguardian.com)
16 points by helsinkiandrew 11d ago|0 comments
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by helsinkiandrew 12d ago
At least they claim they will give 'reasonable advance notification': > We’ll provide you with reasonable advance notice via the email address associated with your account to remedy the activity that prompted us to contact you
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by helsinkiandrew 12d ago
> not to charge fully at home, e.g overnight, which is what Porsche aims for. Wouldn't an overnight (usually cheaper) 10+ hour charge be a great use for (slow) 11 kW charging?
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by helsinkiandrew 13d ago
> "We will not, in no universe, have 50 megawatts hit full operation in 2028," Helion public affairs director Jackie Siebens said https://www.axios.com/pro/climate-deals/2026/09/08/helio
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by helsinkiandrew 13d ago
So it went: > HEIF upload → libheif overflow → code execution on the forum → over-permissioned SSO tokens → employee ChatGPT/Codex account → connected GitHub → pull request in openai/openai Server side bounties aren't that
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Miniaturism: A Small Hobby Is Having a Big Moment(bloomberg.com)
2 points by helsinkiandrew 13d ago|0 comments
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by helsinkiandrew 15d ago
> It is getting a lot closer than many people realize Even Commonwealth Fusion Systems say it will be early 2030s before they produce commercial power and have a target of about $50/MWh - which is only marginally less than existing
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Nuclear Fusion's Moment of Truth(email.newsletters.ft.com)
2 points by helsinkiandrew 15d ago|3 comments
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by helsinkiandrew 15d ago
> Upon Claude's compilation of the project, I asked it to prepare the required files for JLCPCB, and tell me what to select on their GUI It would be an interesting step to get Claude (or other LLM) to do order the PCBs itself on the
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EU Floats Canada Becoming the Bloc's First 'Associate Member'(bloomberg.com)
72 points by helsinkiandrew 16d ago|159 comments
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by helsinkiandrew 17d ago
Jared Diamond (not sure which book - perhaps Guns, Germs and Steel) makes the claim that it was because areas were productive enough that people didn't need to move and also heavily protected from other incursion from other tribes - tr
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by helsinkiandrew 18d ago
Perhaps better info on VWs own press release: https://www.volkswagen-newsroom.com/en/press-releases/missio... This is concept car that has no planned release date.
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Anthropic Says Yemen Group Used Claude in Missile Development(bloomberg.com)
5 points by helsinkiandrew 21d ago|0 comments
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by helsinkiandrew 21d ago
You were half way there! > The guiding principle of the Chorleywood Bread Process (I’m paraphrasing, of course) is that instead of depending for the most part on fermentation to generate all those bubbles of CO2 that later become the “ce
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by helsinkiandrew 21d ago
The (naive or forward thinking depending on your opinion) is that cheaper 'inference' will result in more demand, like the more efficient Watt steam engine increasing consumption of coal. https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by helsinkiandrew 22d ago
> Hmm, did not know Miro was in the sh*tter I think Bending Spoons buys companies that are profitable with a good customer base but have perhaps lost growth - it provides investors an off ramp when a successful IPO isn't likely, or
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by helsinkiandrew 22d ago
Year one costs a dollar, year two is half price, and by year three nobody remembers how to write a memo without it. > OpenAI is ending a pilot program that allowed government agencies to use its models for only $1 per year and moving to
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OpenAI Gives US Agencies 50% Off Models, Ending $1 per Year Deal(bloomberg.com)
2 points by helsinkiandrew 22d ago|1 comments
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Bending Spoons Agrees to Buy Miro for $1.36B(bloomberg.com)
12 points by helsinkiandrew 22d ago|4 comments
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by helsinkiandrew 22d ago
> Isn't Tesla already there? Those operate in constrained areas of a few cities though - with a control room, that's a long way from telling your car to drive across state unattended.
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by helsinkiandrew 24d ago
Gift article: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-09-08/eu-and-ca...
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EU and Canada Plan Far-Reaching Alliance to Strengthen Partnership(bloomberg.com)
7 points by helsinkiandrew 24d ago|2 comments
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by helsinkiandrew 24d ago
> Communism: everything must be “modern”, bland, and sterile Have you ever seen the Moscow Metro? https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/oct/31...
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by helsinkiandrew 24d ago
> I only counted companies that actually run a CDN. If a company serves its site straight from its own origin, it is not in these numbers at all Doesn't this miss websites that serve their own site html but serve (static) assets fro
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by helsinkiandrew 24d ago
> If this claim had any truth to it you'd see significant gun involvement in neighbour disputes That’s not what I’m saying, I’m saying there’s more likely to be gun involvement in disputes when people have easy access to guns than w
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by helsinkiandrew 24d ago
> That information is easily available other places Often ease of access in the moment is all that matters. If there's a gun nearby you might shoot someone or yourself in a heated argument, but are less likely to go and find/b
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by helsinkiandrew 25d ago
> alleged that the city knowingly allowed residents to drink unsafe water. Surely knowingly letting people drink lead contaminated water breaks other laws rather than their constitutional rights?
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by helsinkiandrew 25d ago
The vast majority of "generally intelligent" 17 year old humans on this planet can be taught to drive a car in 10-20 hours - can any AGI system do that? Whatever the capabilities of todays AI, AGI seems to fit as a "wishful m
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by helsinkiandrew 27d ago
Good opportunity to post Periodic Videos tour of a Bank of England vault: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CTtf5s2HFkA
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by helsinkiandrew 28d ago
A GNSS (Global Navigation Satellite System) receiver, it can produce your location down to a 10cm resolution (depending on which satellite system you use). The software on the phone presumably is the logger that lets you 'click'

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