himinlomax

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by himinlomax 12d ago
No, morphogenesis is a more general problem and we know very little about it.
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by himinlomax 12d ago
It's missing an obvious one: morphogenesis.
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by himinlomax 22d ago
Just by what you're describing, that 2h train ride is in fact close to a 3h walking+waiting for the tram+climbing stairs+waiting for the train+finding a seat+climbing more stairs+finding another seat+climbing more stairs+finding anothe
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by himinlomax 22d ago
The global warming potential of hydrocarbons as such is generally overblown, since they oxidize into CO₂ in the atmosphere with a half-life of a decade or two.
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by himinlomax 22d ago
A 2h train ride is not a problem, but what is is the trip to and from the stations. A 2h autonomous car ride removes that entirely.
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by himinlomax 1mo ago
It demonstrably was in Germany. Look up Greenpeace Energy, and what cushy corporate job Schroder got after leaving office.
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by himinlomax 1mo ago
I didn't claim it was orchestrated by them, it may or may not be, but it is evidently aligned with their interests. Exactly the same as shutting down perfectly fine German nuclear plants was aligned with Russian interests.
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by himinlomax 1mo ago
> i dont think the CCP cares whether there's data centers in rural america. They certainly care that the US loses the race for AI.
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by himinlomax 1mo ago
1. They don't HAVE to use water. Air cooling, closed loop cooling, waste-water cooling, and so on, are options. Easy to regulate. Evaporative cooling is more energy efficient though, but a complete non-issue in places with abundant wat
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by himinlomax 1mo ago
It's possible for a datacenter to use scarce well water irresponsibly. They don't have to, and the vast majority don't. The lie and moral panic is that all datacenters necessarily waste precious drinking water; it's pate
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by himinlomax 1mo ago
They're not destroying rare manuscripts or incunables. They're destroying one (1) copy of a mass-produced item for each AI company. Public libraries destroy millions more yearly as a matter of routine. This is just part of a CCP-a
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by himinlomax 2mo ago
They provide a service that simply nobody (except GCP and Azure) can easily match. It's expensive, but you get what you pay for.
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by himinlomax 3mo ago
*Digital Versatile Disc
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by himinlomax 3mo ago
> They were never "purchases" and it's more that the terminology has been faulty and misleading, more so than the business model. They were advertised as purchases. That they were not in actuality has a name: fraud.
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by himinlomax 4mo ago
They died of it too early for that.
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by himinlomax 4mo ago
What's ADB?
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by himinlomax 5mo ago
Prusa, but it's more expensive.
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by himinlomax 9mo ago
The promise of self driving is what's driving Tesla stock. Two things can happen: The dream is a bust, and Tesla is worthless. Or the dream pans out, and almost all other car companies are worth a lot less. Unless you absolutely want t
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by himinlomax 10mo ago
A distinction without a difference.
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by himinlomax 10mo ago
I don't think we read the same Deep Work book.
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by himinlomax 11mo ago
You can't protect against _latent bugs_ with phased rollouts.
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by himinlomax 1y ago
Before Uber, in France half of the time you got an irascible driver who never had change and whose credit card terminal was non functional.
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by himinlomax 1y ago
There are many aspects that point to the text not being completely random or clumsily written. In particular it doesn't fall into many faults you'd expect from some non-expert trying to come up with a fake text. The age of the doc
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by himinlomax 1y ago
10% on British Indian Ocean Territories, whose sole inhabitants are US soldiers at the Diego Garcia base.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
> That said the ability to describe desires in "fuzzy" ways is a usability value unlock. Ctl-Shift-P does the job where available. Not entirely sure how AI makes it any better.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
> An entire generation of women from conservative backgrounds couldn't attend university in Turkiye until the 2000s because of the hijab ban. They could have just removed their hijab. Nobody was forcing them to keep it on.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
> For European reactors that seems to be either Mali/Niger, or Russia. Both not excellent if the goal is geopolitical independence. Australia, Kazakhstan and Canada are main suppliers.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
What's the price of solar power at night?
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by himinlomax 2y ago
The solution may already be here, in the form of ceramics already used in aeronautics. A French startup is working on a small reactor for industrial heat with them.
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by himinlomax 2y ago
There's just no economic case for fusion. It's useful research, but current fission does the job better, and we already have decades of proven reserves, centuries likely if we kept looking for new reserves ... and then thousands o

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