joak

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Boquila trifoliolata mimics leaves of an artificial plastic host plant(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
2 points by joak 2y ago|1 comments
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by joak 2y ago
If you dress lightly temperatures below 100°F(36°C) feel good if you take the time to adapt. The problem is at night, a mattress is a very thick cloth covering half your body. The solution is to sleep without a mattress. Sleeping on the flo
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I Swore Off Air-Conditioning, and You Can, Too(nytimes.com)
11 points by joak 2y ago|17 comments
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A solution for making your hamburger less bad for the planet(washingtonpost.com)
2 points by joak 2y ago|0 comments
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by joak 2y ago
I already have kids, love them, happy to have more. My kids, others kids make me happy. Is this generation going to have a better life than the previous ones? I think so. I don't understand too frequent self defeating doomism.
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by joak 2y ago
https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/aba7e7?... Here the estimate for solar radiation management injecting aerosols in the stratosphere is estimated at $18B/year per degree Celsius. For t
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by joak 2y ago
Agree, net zero carbon emissions is mandatory. But it's not enough because the greenhouse gases already in the atmosphere will continue to heat the planet and have to be removed. This not carbon capture vs net zero, the goal is net zer
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by joak 2y ago
Solar is the cheapest and the one that grows the fastest. So eventually it will become dominant.
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How Safe Are Driverless Cars in China? I Rode in Some to See(nytimes.com)
6 points by joak 2y ago|1 comments
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by joak 2y ago
Excerpt: «In addition to cities designating on-road testing areas for robot taxis, censors are limiting online discussion of safety incidents and crashes to restrain public fears about the nascent technology»
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China is testing more driverless cars than any other country(nytimes.com)
7 points by joak 2y ago|2 comments
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by joak 2y ago
"removed but only in Russia" the only place where the extension is relevant is in Russia. The extension is intended to circumvent Russian censorship. You conveniently leave this part out. Do you work for Russia censors?
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by joak 2y ago
Maybe we need a different approach or maybe more is different. More training, more data, more parameters, more compute power... and voilà. Hard to say... but we've been surprised more than once in machine learning history.
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by joak 2y ago
What about chromium alternatives like Arc and Kiwi? Will they keep manifest V2?
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by joak 2y ago
It's June 5, 2024, 12:30 UTC | 07:30 CDT
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Upcoming launch: Starship's fourth flight test(spacex.com)
2 points by joak 2y ago|3 comments
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by joak 2y ago
AI makes coding cheaper, easier. With an elastic demand there will be more code not less coders.
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by joak 2y ago
I use my iPad pro mostly to read pdfs. Neither my laptop nor my phone are practical for that. Otherwise I didn't find many things the iPad was better at.
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by joak 2y ago
This is why it makes sense to synthesize methane in summer, when electricity is super abundant, to use it in winter when energy is most needed.
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by joak 2y ago
A typical example is cooking fire in Africa. This is a major cause of deforestation. The introduction of cheap e-methane is the best solution in sight. When off-grid, cooking with electricity does not make sense.
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An integrative, multiscale view on neural theories of consciousness(cell.com)
1 points by joak 2y ago|0 comments
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UC Irvine-led team uncovers 'vigorous melting' at Antarctica's Thwaites Glacier(news.uci.edu)
10 points by joak 2y ago|0 comments
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by joak 2y ago
«we are unlikely to come up with a magical technological fix to compensate for our bad behavior» Bad behaviour... We have sinned, apocalypse is coming for us... Wondering which magical technological fix they are talking about. Using bicycle
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GPT-4o Benchmark Results(github.com)
3 points by joak 2y ago|0 comments
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by joak 2y ago
Voice input makes sense, voicing is a lot faster than typing. But I prefer my output as text, reading is a lot faster than listening for text read out loud. I'm not sure that computers mimicking humans makes sense, you want your comput
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First sodium-ion grid battery opens with cells that can be charged in 12 minutes(notebookcheck.net)
28 points by joak 2y ago|5 comments
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by joak 2y ago
Remember that nuclear is not that 'dispatchable': you need several hours/days to switch off or ramp up production. Switch off (curtailment) is almost instantaneous for wind and PV. And otherwise, batteries, hydropower and gas
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by joak 2y ago
An alternative solution to hydrogen could be methane synthesis from captured CO2 and green hydrogen. The infrastructure to transport, store and use methane (aka 'natural gas') is already there.
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by joak 2y ago
Quote from where? Could you please indicate sources? BTW: you count a lot of "proposed" reactors. Proposing is easy, building is harder.
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by joak 2y ago
Super traumatic for his girlfriend though...

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