jcgrillo

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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Interesting, I've had rodents eat fiberglass and fiberboard materials in my cars but never wiring.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
If you poison them then they die in the walls or somewhere you can't get to them and stink. Shooting is the sporting method (a very low powered .177 air pistol works well indoors if you take careful shots), but trapping also works. You
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Plowing without reverse is a sport I'd pay to watch lol
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Nightshade (atropa belladonna) is another one to watch out for.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Then why do the rodents only eat wires on new vehicles? This is a recent phenomenon, like within the last ~15yr of vehicle manufacturing. Cars and equipment older than that don't get their wires chewed up. Source: talking to auto mecha
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
They do[1]. [1] https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a21933466/does-your-car-ha...
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Yet another reason to buy old cars. When I went for my annual inspection this year my mechanic was telling me about a 2021 pickup truck he had to do like $10k worth of rewiring on because of rodent damage. Apparently newer cars have delicio
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I read somewhere that you can just drill a well and install a big coil?
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I apologize for my tone. It's just very frustrating to ask a question about applying this technology in the real world, to actual commercial products, only to get reply after reply of hopes and dreams. 20 years ago Ray Kurzweil promise
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Yes, ground sourced is an excellent option, and I would also consider it for new construction in my area (Northern New England, US). The problem is finding installers that can do it.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Lowest temperature so far this winter has been -21°F and my Haier Arctic heat pumps kept going (although I concede it was only lower than -15°F for a few hours in the early morning while I was asleep). As for costs, they're pretty much
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
This is getting awfully tedious. Are you trolling or do you genuinely think responding to a question about actual compute cost trends with a venture fund's puff piece about sticker price trends is helpful?
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
[citation needed]
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
I'm sorry, what is incorrect? And the paper you linked appears to be about training, not inference? I wouldn't train a model in a user's session, instead I'd run the model. That's the cost that seems a blocker, al
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
As far as I can tell, those charts are merely describing the price per token that LLM hosting companies are charging, not what running the model actually costs. The distinction is important for two reasons: 1. These companies are heavily su
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
The cost of inference seems like a major barrier in making these things work commercially. If you put one in the user facing flow you'll need an extraordinary amount of compute that scales extremely poorly in number of users, given tha
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
The economic conditions that were present in both Italy and Germany in the inter war years just aren't present here and now. That's why I think there's a chance we can avoid fascism. Or maybe I'm wrong. We'll find
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
wE
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
When their children are being drafted to go die in some war things will change rapidly. I'd give it a coin flip that's where we're headed right now. EDIT: To be clear, that's predicated on assumption things are fundament
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
It sounds like they're distracted, tbh. It's hard to imagine how a company that specializes in getting children addicted to unboxing videos can possibly be good at killing people.. oh, wait, maybe not after all..
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
We allow them to live. Never forget how much we outnumber them by.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Thank you for writing this in such a polite and erudite manner. You saved me from posting an obscenity laden ad hominem.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
It wouldn't take much of that to completely destroy the U.S. food supply chain. Those 9 meals separating us all from anarchy will go by quick.
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
Half the computers at twice the price!
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
> Note this isn't representative of the tech industry in general. I'm not convinced. In the past half decade or so this industry has veered hard toward outright fraud and grift. I see this trend all over--adtech, cryptocoins, &
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
there are many parks, be the change you want to see in the world
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
these people are majestically stupid
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
We could have it both ways with a Convolutional News Network
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
nit: it's actually written on parchment
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by jcgrillo 2y ago
The same overcomplex, proprietary computer surveillance systems infect all electric cars because they're all modern. They're all (for some reason?) connected to the internet, subject to OTA updates, and completely locked down to t

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