hnaccount_rng

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by hnaccount_rng 1mo ago
I would have formulated it less dismissively than my sibling but yes. There are ~no scenarios, where the Cloud act is not the more straightforward solution. Even factoring RSA-1024 will take non-zero compute time. And that can be spend more
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by hnaccount_rng 1mo ago
You are right that there are better options and there is no excuse not to choose something better today. But that’s not what GP is arguing! It’s just that: For any given interest level there is no way that expending the resources to attack
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by hnaccount_rng 1mo ago
Because there is nothing not already automated here. RSA will either be cracked because some assumption about prime numbers doesn’t hold or because we throw more and more brute force on it. And if it were the former it wouldn’t be the “next
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by hnaccount_rng 1mo ago
Sure, and in a zero marginal cost world that would be fine and dandy. In practice, it would mean significantly increased development and documentation costs for a low percentage increase in sold units. Selling spare parts was worth when thi
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by hnaccount_rng 1mo ago
You have trade offs though. Both with added effort during the development but also just physical limits with the amount of additional losses you have over clicked vs soldered connections
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by hnaccount_rng 2mo ago
I think the term information is misleading here. In any encrypted message there is the original information, it must be because we are able to decrypt it. So from an information theory point of view that the server can "distinguished m
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by hnaccount_rng 2mo ago
You are aware, that the normal Balkonkraftwerk is plugged in with a standard Schuko plug? This _only_ works because there is no licensed electrician involved. The personal cost would add at least 50% of the total expenditure and it is made
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by hnaccount_rng 2mo ago
They need the grid frequency to generate AC. Those inverters are only allowed to be grid-following (at least for the plug-in part. I think there are systems that provide a -to-load socket that can be a PSU)
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by hnaccount_rng 2mo ago
That’s largely correct but misses the point that the battery+pv system is legally only allowed to feed in 800W [1]. On our circuits you can draw ~3.5kW without tripping the breaker. This brings you to 4.3kW max load, which - as far as I und
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by hnaccount_rng 3mo ago
You are of course somewhat correct. But - I think - only technically. In practice what happens is that the “maintenance”[1] costs on solar production is extremely limited and should (that’s not yet possible to reliably say) be much lower th
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by hnaccount_rng 3mo ago
But it’s also environmentally better for you to take the resistive heating thing. As long as you never need to heat it up outside of the noon-window that’s strictly positive. Because the “additional” solar panels will be necessary anyways t
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by hnaccount_rng 5mo ago
But transit only solves your problem in cities like London. Some people - for some reason I’m still not entirely clear on - seem to like this. But other people - so far the majority - don’t. And for those, self-driving cars solve the transi
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by hnaccount_rng 7mo ago
Isn't the US example: Medicare/Medicaid? It has far less costs (i.e. more of the money spend ends up with patient care) and has a reasonably good reputation?
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by hnaccount_rng 8mo ago
But that is leas fundamental then you make it sound. LLMs work well with human language because that’s all they are trained on. So what else _could_ an ideal language possible look like? On the other hand: the usefulness of LLMs will always
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by hnaccount_rng 9mo ago
Depends on the future expected value that they assign to you. But.. yes
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by hnaccount_rng 9mo ago
I love that example. It’s a basic exercise in “for how little money can you break any amount of trust”. Not sure how they could avoid that (besides being competent in the first place..)
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by hnaccount_rng 9mo ago
I think we are pretty much past the "LLMs are useless" phase, right? But I think "super-charged search engine" is a reasonably well fitting description. Like a search engine, it provides its user with information. Yes, i
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by hnaccount_rng 9mo ago
If you are willing to ignore the mechanics, then the result rounds to: The operator will receive the auctioned value of x £/MWh for each MWh delivered to the grid If you are interested in the mechanics, then _I think_ (i.e. not first h
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by hnaccount_rng 9mo ago
That’s not necessarily true. In general a single windmill is more efficient at pulling energy out of the wind than two are. And the marginal costs of windmills are not zero. I.e. their maintenance cadence (also) scales with active hours. So
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by hnaccount_rng 9mo ago
Think of it this way: as a windfarm operator you know your costs and you know your expected amount of energy produced. But you don’t know the precise timing and therefore the market value at generation time. From the first two you can calcu
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by hnaccount_rng 9mo ago
Why wouldn't a few-occupancy sleeper bus work? I'd agree that this is a bit beyond "normal cars are autonomous". But I don't think the driving part will be particularly special to this application. It's just th
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by hnaccount_rng 9mo ago
I mean in the case in Lebanon they knew. They sold those pagers to Hezbollah.
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by hnaccount_rng 10mo ago
While you are correct, for any user this is completely irrelevant, right? I have the choice between picking up an MBA or a different laptop. One comes with a reasonable expectation of battery life. The other is a gamble
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by hnaccount_rng 11mo ago
My initial reaction was: Oh no, who would have thought? But then... 21% is almost shockingly low. Especially given that there are almost certainly some false positive, given that this number originates with a company selling "detecting
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by hnaccount_rng 11mo ago
Russia basically cancelled their support for the S-300 Turkey bought from them. A lot of the tourists in Turkey were from Russia, that basically stopped. A lot of collaboration projects (IIRC mostly energy) got cancelled/suffered unexp
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by hnaccount_rng 11mo ago
But neither was it only one incursion into Turkish airspace, not did Turkey not pay a price for it
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by hnaccount_rng 11mo ago
But you don't need 12kts, right? The ocean logistics is ~only about costs, as evidenced by the reduction in travel speed. That being said, cost is currently not dominated by fuel cost either. That means unless you reduce crewing requir
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by hnaccount_rng 11mo ago
Yes, and the Cloud Act pretty much forces upper management to ensure that there is always a US IT guy that can be compelled to implement the wishes of The US Federal Government, as the penalties apply to executives of US companies, too. We
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I was right about dishwasher pods and now I can prove it [video](youtube.com)
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by hnaccount_rng 1y ago
In addition to my sibling comment: The cost of the panels is a rather small fraction of the total cost of a typical installation. Most of that cost ist labor, some regulatory requirements and the inverter. Whether you pay a factor of 2 for

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