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by joak 3y ago
Announced officially to the mythical cypherpunks@toad.com mailing list... Fighting to legalize cryptography on the internet. PGP was banned. Sending encrypted emails was illegal... Cypherpunks won. Thanks to them.
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by joak 3y ago
"intelligence" is a quite imprecise term. What do you mean by intelligence, can you define? Is chatGPT intelligent?
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by joak 3y ago
"Sentient" is ill-defined, you can apply it to almost anything you want. From its Latin ethnology it means: able to feel or perceive.
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by joak 3y ago
Exactly, with renewables the marginal cost is zero (once the system is installed producing a kWh is free, no fuel to pay for). And when marginal cost is zero price goes to zero as well (unless there is scarcity or artificial scarcity thanks
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks, Upcoming Book by Yuval Harari(ynharari.com)
1 points by joak 3y ago|0 comments
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Hans Reiser Sends a Letter from Prison(news.slashdot.org)
2 points by joak 3y ago|0 comments
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by joak 3y ago
Agriculture is 44% of US land, PV on an area <1% is enough to power America. And this 1% can (and should) be deployed in deserts
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After big tech layoffs, Silicon Valley may have lost its monopoly on workers(cnbc.com)
7 points by joak 3y ago|1 comments
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NASA unveils the revolutionary X-59 Quesst 'quiet' supersonic jet(space.com)
1 points by joak 3y ago|1 comments
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What is going on with ChatGPT? Complaining that the chatbot has become lazy(theguardian.com)
2 points by joak 3y ago|0 comments
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by joak 3y ago
Microsoft was once on the decline and it's now bouncing back. Having billions and captive markets (by network effect) seems to help.
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'A mouse for your mouth': New device allows users to scroll with their tongues(nbcnews.com)
2 points by joak 3y ago|0 comments
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by joak 3y ago
Just incline your fridge a bit so the door closes on its own weight. A no tech solution is better than a low tech solution.
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A new type of jet engine could revive supersonic air travel(economist.com)
7 points by joak 3y ago|2 comments
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by joak 3y ago
Paywalled alternative link: https://finance.yahoo.com/news/type-jet-engine-could-revive-...
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Is climate-friendly flying possible? Biden administration places a big wager(msn.com)
4 points by joak 3y ago|2 comments
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by joak 3y ago
Why subsidize agrifuels instead e-fuels?! In one case you expand agriculture which is the main cause of biodiversity loss and in the other you subsidize (zero carbon) technologies to help them start. The agriculture lobby must be happy.
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by joak 3y ago
A kilowatt is unit of power. Joule is the unit for energy. A Watt is 1 Joule per second. A another common unit for energy is kWh (kilowatt.hour) A kilowatt generator can produce one kWh/h (by definition)
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Chatbot Arena: New models and Elo system update(lmsys.org)
3 points by joak 3y ago|0 comments
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by joak 3y ago
Why don't you mention "big batteries" ? These make wonderful peakers. Victorian Big Battery (VBB) in Australia is 300MW. Comparable in size with a nuclear reactor. Thanks to the EV success, lithium batteries costs are falling
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by joak 3y ago
I'm sticking with kiwi: Firefox is still missing the must needed "I don't mind about cookies" extension. In Europe, by law, each time you open a page you get a weird and annoying popup saying something like: "the we
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by joak 3y ago
I moved to kiwi as well. Same reasons.
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North Koreans use fake names, scripts to land remote IT work for cash(reuters.com)
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by joak 3y ago
Conflict of interest? This is no different than Google designing and manufacturing their own chips (TPU, tensor processing unit)
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by joak 3y ago
Exactly, the video is several time commented and rebuked in the subreddit. Trolls tend to be annoyingly persistent.
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by joak 3y ago
The second video is just a nonsense troll, if you want good level conversations and skepticism about Helion you'd better check what the fusion subreddit says about it https://old.reddit.com/r/fusion/search&#x2
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by joak 3y ago
Energy is getting cheaper by the day thanks to photovoltaics so I don't think it's a problem today. Computer energy needs grow exponentially so at some point we will hit a wall. Hard to estimate when. Energy tech is also an evolvi
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by joak 3y ago
This exactly what I find worrisome. They really need the money, no? As I understand the growth of chatGPT (both in number of users and capabilities) is only possible with more servers. I'm right now developing on top of openAI API and
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by joak 3y ago
Excerpts: - Thousands of solar farms have been successfully developed in the US with near identical EISes and ultimate findings of marginal impact, and yet every new development still has to endure the high cost and delays of yet another to
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Permitting Reform or Death(terraformindustries.wordpress.com)
1 points by joak 3y ago|1 comments

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