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by jes5199 3y ago
we’re crossing a tipping point where new solar is cheaper than existing coal in many places. So this is a short-term problem
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by jes5199 3y ago
how do I get one for my Chevy Bolt?
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by jes5199 3y ago
a surprisingly what
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by jes5199 3y ago
no one. can't see past the event horizon.
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by jes5199 3y ago
for years, every time I tried read Seveneves I got bored before I even found out what the plot was. There's something about the description of the ISS that I find tedious even by Stevenson standards
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by jes5199 3y ago
I prefer the beginning of Anathem. Once the plot stuff happens I'm less interested
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by jes5199 3y ago
I hear people say that a lot but I don't get it. I experienced it as a hopeless, depressing slog, where things just got worse and worse. But fortunately I wasn't attached to the characters so it wasn't so bad watching them al
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by jes5199 3y ago
personally, I found Anathem to be fun the whole way through, but Baroque Cycle has like only one enjoyable part at the end of book two
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by jes5199 3y ago
things you still can't do on Bluesky that you can do on Twitter, Threads, and Mastodon: * pin a post to your profile * disable reposts from an account you follow * edit a post
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by jes5199 3y ago
I would love a side-by-side comparison of AT and ActivityPub. Shouldn't it be possible to build a translator between them?
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by jes5199 3y ago
shouldn't Metcalfe's law apply here?
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by jes5199 3y ago
thanks, I didn't recognize the name
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by jes5199 3y ago
glass was cheaper and smaller, and still too expensive and too obtrusive
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by jes5199 3y ago
google glass looks downright subtle by comparison
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by jes5199 3y ago
was it in the 1968 Batman cartoon episode “How Many Herring in a Wheelbarrow?” where the Joker refers to it?
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by jes5199 3y ago
facial computing
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by jes5199 3y ago
I got an Apple Watch in 2019, and I don't wear it anymore. It was just another thing that needed to get charged every day, and none of the apps are very useful, and most of them are buggy and poorly supported.
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by jes5199 3y ago
optimistic take
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by jes5199 3y ago
it’s really about price and the technological learning curve. Currently it’s expensive, but that won’t be true forever
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by jes5199 3y ago
check out https://www.rethinkx.com/food-and-agriculture
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by jes5199 3y ago
precision fermentation and lab-grown meat both exhibit cost curves analogous to Moore’s Law. within the next ten years, they’ll outcompete animal products in many situations. the first domino to fall will be milk-extracts used in processed
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by jes5199 3y ago
the impending collapse of cattle farming will cause the majority of agricultural land to return to the wild. This is a larger amount of land than all other human activities combined
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by jes5199 3y ago
this is the Tesla/SpaceX synergy. Apple needs to start a rocketry program or it’s gonna fall behind on the software subscription market
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by jes5199 3y ago
it makes sense, you wouldn’t want to give people the impression that the car could still drive while it’s plugged in
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by jes5199 3y ago
A car and a smartphone are both basically just big batteries with some peripherals attached and a minimal computer interface
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by jes5199 3y ago
you cannot, you have become addicted to the salary
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by jes5199 3y ago
I think we've hit peak density already and the rest of the 21st century will be defined by people moving into former farmlands
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by jes5199 3y ago
no, having to implement the rule where a click from the app lingers and changes the pricing logic for the website, I am relating to that as a form of contamination. The old rules may have been less permissive, but at least they were walled-
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by jes5199 3y ago
this can't be stable forever. Eventually people will move to some new form factor of computing and it's unlikely it will be Apple
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by jes5199 3y ago
I'm not going to say that Apple doesn't have the "right" to make these rules, but on an intuitive level they gross me out _more_ than the old version, and it makes me, personally, less likely to invest in writing native

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