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by jcattle 1y ago
I don't think that this is comparable. People who struggle with their electricity bills can not afford balcony solar. It has a ROI of a few years with a (low) but comparably large one time upfront cost. With potatoes you only really pa
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by jcattle 1y ago
Would you also agree that production of usable energy makes most sense at scale? With that I mean energy like heat and motion? Because so far it just hasn't been possible to generate electricity at home in a meaningful way. Unlike heat
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by jcattle 1y ago
That is definitely a factor. But depending on your energy usage and how smart your home appliances are, you can save a lot more than 10%. I.e. if you run all your washing and most of the heating of the water tank during your own generation
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LandShade(landshade.com)
1 points by jcattle 1y ago|0 comments
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Bill Gates - Computers don't know how to represent knowledge (2017)(old.reddit.com)
1 points by jcattle 1y ago|1 comments
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by jcattle 1y ago
In Bill Gates 2017 Reddit AMA, when asked "What kind of technological advancement do you wish to see in your lifetime?" The answer is what LLMs can do for us today: "The big milestone is when computers can read and understand
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by jcattle 1y ago
As someone who has watched this video approximately 100 times already I can tell you: it holds up.
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by jcattle 1y ago
And web developers everywhere thanked them for killing IE6
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by jcattle 1y ago
I mean, to me at least it is also interesting. Like Japanese writing or Arabic. It's interesting because it is different, there's a different predominant convention. You can also think further about how the writing convention migh
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by jcattle 1y ago
Your analogy is not quite appropriate. An upside down mug is "wrong". The mug looses its meaning and you have to turn it around to use it as a mug. That's not the case with a map. An "upside down" map is just as val
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by jcattle 1y ago
The less a traditional nuclear reactor contributes to the grid the worse its economics. If you have a nuclear reactor you want to run it 24/7 at max output for it to make any economic sense. Otherwise you have all your fixed costs whic
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by jcattle 1y ago
It's only fine passing between various tools if you tell each tool exactly how they should serialize your values. Each tool will interpret column values in some way and if you want to work with those values in any meaningful way it wil
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by jcattle 1y ago
If you don't care that much about the accuracy of your data (like only caring about a few decimals of accuracy in your floats), you don't generate huge amounts of data, you do not need to work with it across different tools and pa
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by jcattle 1y ago
Agree, but then throw away (or only have them as backup) the notes during the actual talk. Find the sweetspot where you've practiced enough that you remember all the content and how the different parts flow into each other but haven&#x
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by jcattle 1y ago
I mean, in this case who else should do it? If a fish in your local waters goes from relative abundance to critically endangered, who else but the government is supposed to step in?
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by jcattle 1y ago
Sure. War also makes Nordstream II a legitimate military target. You still have to weigh if it is worth it to risk your good relations with your allies over sabotaging infrastructure which is important for their national security.
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by jcattle 1y ago
I also find the last point which is teased in the article interesting: "States very infrequently get forecasts about the length of war right". I can see why that happens, but are there any good counterexamples? Are there any confl
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by jcattle 1y ago
Eh. If you care about relative measurements it doesn't matter much. Pick a sensible resolution, stick with it, you got yourself a ranking.
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by jcattle 1y ago
The US tends not to regulate what kind of services a bank has to offer to its customers. A bank doesn't need to offer any kind of transfer services to be a bank. As far as I know you can legally be a bank and only offer cash deposit an
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by jcattle 1y ago
Reminds me of a letter to the Times regarding German word order (and the fact that the verb often comes last) > Sir, Your reader's reference to German word order reminds me of a UN meeting at which I worked when the German delegate
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by jcattle 1y ago
However on AWS the difference between "generally working the way it should and not working the way it should" can be a 30,000$ cloud bill racked up in a few hours with EC2 going full speed ahead mining bitcoin.
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by jcattle 1y ago
[citation needed]
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by jcattle 1y ago
I was thinking exactly the same thing. It's the perfect analogy. What do HN comments and AI Overviews have in common? - All information went through a bunch of neurons at least once - We don't know which information was even consi
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by jcattle 1y ago
I love that the article mainly points out that it is unknown why asian women have an unusually high rate of lung cancer but the entire HN comment section (except for 1 thread) is just going on about radon.
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by jcattle 1y ago
Going to be honest: With uv it really isn't that bad anymore. Sure, the whole packaging ecosystem is still really bad, but uv abstracts over most of it. Unless you're doing some really esoteric stuff you'll be just fine.
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by jcattle 1y ago
Is it? I always thought the cheap ones were ceramic. Or is ceramic also somehow a type of plastic?
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by jcattle 1y ago
I love where he describes his minting facility: "My new state of some art facility is equipped with several tools and a powerful workhorse (me)!"
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by jcattle 1y ago
Indeed. I'm just more and more often thinking of it recently due to all the cases that LLM are now applied to. This was big news and the impact was sufficiently clear. However now people are applying LLMs to do OCR, to do Speech Recogn
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Xerox scanners/photocopiers randomly alter numbers in scanned documents (2013)(dkriesel.com)
3 points by jcattle 1y ago|2 comments
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by jcattle 1y ago
Both of these companies contributed approximately nothing to the advancement of Mass Transit.

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