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by krupan 3y ago
I always hear it's so expensive, but compared to what? Just continuing to burn fossil fuels? Costs I see to solar and wind that I rarely see anyone mention are: What happens when you cover large deaths of land with solar and windmills
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by krupan 3y ago
Yes, if it gets cheaper people will migrate to electricity and then wind will not be able to be the "main" source of electricity anymore. They'll have to burn more coal or gas. Yay?
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by krupan 3y ago
But the headline is very misleading. The article says a third of their electricity comes from wind. 1/3 is not what came to my mind when I read, "main source of electricity." And now knowing that electricity is only 18% of
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by krupan 3y ago
Heat pumps, however, do not work in all climates
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by krupan 3y ago
And people wonder why health care in America costs so much. You have two businesses (at least one of which is totally removed from the services being provided) trying to scam each other every time someone goes to the doctor.
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by krupan 3y ago
This is some of the best hacking I've seen on Hacker News in a long time! My son broke his arm skiing a few months ago and we went to the clinic that is at the ski resort. They x-rayed him, set the bone a little (thankfully it didn&#x
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by krupan 3y ago
"which eventually was it's undoing" Eternal September https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eternal_September
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by krupan 3y ago
Amazing! If you ever wondered how Linux and open source were able to completely destroy proprietary UNIX, this is a great example. Competing proprietary libraries on competing proprietary UNIX implementations all with subtle differences j
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by krupan 3y ago
So why remove the scp command then?
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by krupan 3y ago
If you aren't a Linux zealot then why are you even using Linux? Only slightly kidding ;)
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by krupan 4y ago
How then is that FULL self driving? Cruise and Wayno cars have driven millions of miles with nobody in the driver's seat and they have avoided killing anyone. They don't require a human being constantly alert and ready to take o
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by krupan 4y ago
100% genuine. I don't like that this will happen, but I believe it will.
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by krupan 4y ago
There will be ignorant arguments against this due to cyber security concerns, enemy nations benefiting from the code, the copyrights of the people/companies who are being paid to write the code, etc., etc.
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by krupan 4y ago
Cruise and Waymo have slightly inconvenienced emergency responders. Tesla crashed into a firetruck and killed someone.
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by krupan 4y ago
Check out the Cruise Origin
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by krupan 4y ago
Yes, you can a ton more code that you have to check over with a fine toothed comb in much less time! Is that a win?
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by krupan 4y ago
You have to be including Tesla's not actually self driving to get to that statistic for self driving cars.
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by krupan 4y ago
I’m sorry, but these arguments are terrible. I see them boiling down to this: “Use GPT to do this thing!” “But GPT is notorious for confidently getting things wrong” “That’s ok! Because you’ll know it’s wrong!” Maybe I’m a little sore rig
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by krupan 4y ago
This!! All the gushing over these GPTs doing what looks to me like, a bad job of talking smart without actually doing anything, make me feel like I'm going insane, or I'm the only sane person left.
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by krupan 4y ago
Ok, but take a step back and really look at the whole situation here. So you've created a machine that solves problems in kind of the same way humans do. Yay? What overall problem is a machine like this solving? How is this better
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by krupan 4y ago
Sorry you feel you have to duck after saying that, because it really needs to be said.
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by krupan 4y ago
There's a scam going around targeting teenage boys that I don't see people talking about. Scammer poses as a cute teenage girl on Snapchat/TikTok/Instagram and starts DMing a teenage boy late at night. Eventually convi
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by krupan 4y ago
They are in India or Africa and yep, it's only $350 so no nobody (police, bank, etc.) cares
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by krupan 4y ago
Sorry, but shit happens and so yes, we all need to learn and exercise some financial prudence. "Don't put all your eggs in one basket," is not a "weird financial hedging game," it's common sense.
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by krupan 4y ago
Even just two or three accounts at different banks would be more prudent and would have prevented the run on SVB that ultimately killed it.
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by krupan 4y ago
I promise you, differentiating these three absolutely does not matter
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by krupan 4y ago
Yubikey hardware is surprisingly robust. Mine has been on my physical keychain for years, getting thrown around and banged up and it’s fine
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by krupan 4y ago
Two words: Butlerian Jihad
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by krupan 4y ago
Is this actually giving you good results? The few times I tried to use chatGPT instead of google I got terrible results: - Horrible and wrong driving directions - Buggy incomplete code - long winded explanations of how it was just a chat A
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by krupan 4y ago
Basically just told the kid to stop staying up so late reading Harry Potter. He said to try a regular sleep schedule with an early bedtime first, and if that didn’t work to come back and there was some medication we could try. The regular

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