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by jacobolus 1y ago
Everyone is going to have a bad quality of life, to the extent they're able to live at all, if we don't act quickly at massive scale in a coordinated fashion.
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by jacobolus 1y ago
Air conditioning is a relatively small part of global CO₂ emissions (3%); you should be more worried about heating. I would expect air conditioning to also be among the easier energy uses to match with solar power as we go forward. Better b
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by jacobolus 1y ago
Chinese CO₂ emissions per capita are only about 60% as much as the USA, but in the past 25 years US per capita emissions have dropped by about a third and Chinese emissions per capita have almost tripled and are still rising rapidly. Consid
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by jacobolus 1y ago
I think it's possible to get a careful dark roast, but often "dark roast" coffee mainly tastes like burned toast. It's still warm and caffeinated, but it's not really that enjoyable. There's a reason so many pe
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by jacobolus 1y ago
Can you be a bit more explicit? Do you have a specific person in mind as a model of this "guy in the desert" that people keep calling a "dumb yokel" but who actually a power-grid savant or whatever? Aside: alongside your
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by jacobolus 1y ago
Perhaps the outlet isn't properly grounded?
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by jacobolus 1y ago
Considering how much the Texas state government has been illegally trampling its own residents’ rights recently, mostly for the sake of private corruption, and backed by incredibly bad faith anti-social rhetoric, perhaps reflexive anti-Tex
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by jacobolus 1y ago
This hasn't changed in at least 2 decades: I was getting zapped by Apple metal laptops circa 2004. But I have never encountered this problem when using a grounded plug. It was also a lot worse for me when plugged into outlets in an old
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by jacobolus 1y ago
A further problem is that Wikipedia is chock full of nonsense, with a large proportion of articles that were never fact checked by an expert, and many that were written to promote various biased points of view, inadvertently uncritically re
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by jacobolus 1y ago
In the San Francisco Bay Area, for example, the temperature commonly varies dramatically between some places which are a quarter mile apart. And one side of a hill can be persistently foggy while the other side is usually sunny.
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by jacobolus 1y ago
The whole region is relatively flat swampy area, so probably moreso than in more mountainous places. The soil and vegetation is quite varied though.
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by jacobolus 1y ago
The above comment was pointing out that each 1 centimeter is slightly less than 0.4 inches. If you want to be more precise, each centimeter is about 0.3937 inches.
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by jacobolus 1y ago
Why do you need to get rid of dandelions?
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by jacobolus 1y ago
Altman recently said, in response to a question about the prospect of half of entry-level white-collar jobs being replaced by "AI" and college graduates being put out of work by it: > “I mean in 2035, that, like, graduating co
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by jacobolus 1y ago
It doesn't present any such data. Only this one vague quotation from the manager of Polish vehicle history report website autodna.pl: "Premium brands consistently retain higher resale value than mass-market brands, for both ICE v
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by jacobolus 1y ago
Or to fit in a narrower window: Chip | Process | CPU | GPU | Neural | Memory | Unified | Geekbench6 | | Cores | | Engine | Bandwidth | Memory | Single / Multi -----|---------|-----------|
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by jacobolus 1y ago
It sounds like a fundamental education failure and/or an extreme failure of tool design and training in workplaces if new employees with relevant degrees don't have the basic knowledge to pick up new tools on the job. A liberal ar
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by jacobolus 1y ago
You can get a fair condition used hardback for $65 or a good one for $83 on Abebooks.
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by jacobolus 1y ago
If you were playing chess, and you could do whatever you wanted, you might want to, e.g., set up a beautiful mating combination using the minor pieces, set a brilliant trap with forced mate in 10 moves and then trick the opponent into falli
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by jacobolus 1y ago
One of the basic marketing claims of the language developers is that one author's algorithm can be composed with another author's custom data type. If that's not really true in general, even for some of the most popular libra
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by jacobolus 1y ago
Folks may be interested also in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_field
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by jacobolus 1y ago
You're skeptical that some people need to use the mouse a lot? Or you're skeptical that bringing the mouse closer to the mouse hand's typing position / closer to the body improves comfort? I found that when, e.g., using
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by jacobolus 1y ago
A person in good health with good form can type with reasonable (not ideal) comfort on a standard keyboard on any height table (within reason), but: (0) Try to feel in your body what kind of static load is on your muscles and joints. Ideall
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by jacobolus 1y ago
In other words, you think the Dems "should" have won the election in 2024, and that they didn't was entirely down to on Biden's personal decisions. Because they didn't win that election, everything that the GOP and
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by jacobolus 1y ago
The ACA was passed with 60 Democratic Senate votes and not a single GOP vote in House or Senate. Biden had a 50–50 Senate, counting Manchin and Sinema among the 50. If you think he "should have" passed similar legislation and cons
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by jacobolus 1y ago
You seem to be singularly focused on VC funding for startups and decision-making by managers inside large tech companies as your metric of how the US economy is doing. In my opinion this is a poor criterion for analyzing the success of nati
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by jacobolus 1y ago
What topic areas specifically are you interested in? I'm assuming you don't want a list of hundreds of bullet points of small legislative or administrative changes. The most newsworthy things are stuff like getting us out of the f
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by jacobolus 1y ago
I can't disagree with that. I was initially excited (and later pretty disappointed) with Obama, especially with the amount of time he wasted trying to engage with people obviously acting in bad faith, with the way he let himself be pus
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by jacobolus 1y ago
Biden came into office in the middle of a Covid crisis substantially caused by the previous administration (which he then was unfairly blamed for the effects of by people arguing in bad faith). During the first two years of Biden's pre
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by jacobolus 1y ago
Taking political constraints into account, the Biden Administration was just about the most successful and effective, in policy terms, of the past 50 years. Unfortunately the political landscape is pretty unfavorable, with GOP-supportive me

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