hutzlibu

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by hutzlibu 3y ago
Posssible, but unlikely. It is rather likely, that AI will become a increasing useful tool for human engineering. But replacing would require something fundamentally better.
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
It did rust. But apparently it was preserved under good conditions (without much oxygen) so it is still in quite good condition.
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
You can also completely override the browser style sheet. That is the idea of CSS ..
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"Per unit energy D-T fusion, the fusion reaction most likely to be viable near term" Ok well, I see the use of tritium only as a step towards normal hydrogen as fuel in fusion reactors. Tritium as fuel is just the "easy"
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"But from that very starting point, it's clear that there will always be better ways to generate electricity than fusion: solar and wind combined with batteries." I am 100% for renewable energies and would not wait for fusion
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
Oh the technology per se is definitely something amazing, that warrants more research. I was just referring to this question of the thread, of can this be a useful energy source for the earth in the near future? And I think no. Rather fusio
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"solar roads for sci fi fans" Solar roads are expensive and worked out economocially nowhere, where they were build. Unless you mean roads that have roofs of solar panels - that is a sound concept, because you can have standard ch
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"Also considering that there has been a lot of investment in space launch vehicles of late the cost to lift things into orbit are lowering." Yes, but the cost of installing solar panels on the ground are astronomically cheaper tha
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"It only takes a simple back of the envelope calculation to show that space based power makes no sense even in theory." That would be my gut feeling, but what simple calculation would you use to disproof it? Fusion is currently no
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
All your points would imply that the original art was degraded somehow. How?
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"Venice never developed a professional spy force, like the professional cryptologers. Instead it relied mostly on amateurs, criminals and other people paid for with sometimes huge, sometimes only meagre amounts of money, and sometimes
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"I have read numerous posts on HN where Miele appliance owners swear by their reliability and repairability." Used to be. We had the same Miele devices for years, but I think their modern versions got downhill as well.
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
If a car makes a misstake - that is a 2 ton fast projectile. If a cyclist does, it is a 150 kg and way slower one - that's the difference and the post I replied to did not say anyone was breaking any rules. Just that there were so many
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
Now imagine all those cyclists and pedestrians would also drive a car, would also be on the road at the same time. You think driving would be less stressfull then?
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
I have understood, that this is the current most plausible theory, but not much is actually "understood" about that time and cultures. In most cases, we don't even know the name of the culture and they are named by the places
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
Ah, but this time it is for real ..
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
I think (hope) it was sarcasm, but one sign of this time and age is, that it is increasingly hard to tell. Often people themself don't know anymore .. So anyway, in this case I think the bitterness is real and the awareness, that it mi
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"He deal with security threats at the source, by tracking down the hacker and kicking them in the head." Not just any kicks, but roundhouse kicks of course.
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"but I doubt that people paying top dollar for these appliances are the type to keep an eye on such things." Some people do - to brag in their circles (and to their own consciousness) how green they are. So then you can go flying
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"Even easier if it's in XML or JSON rather than a CSV." Yes indeed, but compression algorithms are not that new.
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"But on the other, most people haven't read the books." People still enjoyed it, though. I read the books after the movie and yes, there is so much more to the whole world, but apperently other people enjoyed it without furth
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"if Gow really thinks his porn appearances don't impair him in his job as university Chancellor in small Wisconsin city, he's probably also too social judgement impaired for the job anyway." He clearly stated, he was awa
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
Same reason they did not block us yet - better to have some users that block ads, than have those users on other plattforms. Now too many people used ad blockers - so step by step they want to "encourage" people to look at ads aga
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
Same for me, but it might also be youtube, that is giving us more time.
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
Sometimes a not so perfect option is better than no other option.
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"Words are meant to communicate things through shared meaning and this is what seniority means to ~everybody else except you" Apparently you need one more counterexample? I certainly do not think one can be considered senior after
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
The world is a bit more complicated I think. The US is the leading power (west) - but I don't think you can call Iran and NK russian satellites. They do their own thing and they don't really like each other - they are just united
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"How much more hilarious would Fallout be with the option to just say anything to anyone instead of picking one of four lame options." Only if those dialogues lead to something real. Just doing small talk with NPCs is easy to acc
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
"I'm sure my perceptions were colored by being at a Gymnasium, but I did also interact with kids from other schools." I was at a gymnasium as well ... and we were drinking with the teachers on occasions. "However the dat
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by hutzlibu 3y ago
Cultural war it seems. "VLKK Chairperson Violeta Meiliūnaitė claims that legalising such a spelling would “violate the Lithuanian name system and have a negative impact on the country’s linguistic and cultural identity and distinctiven

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