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by lispisok 3y ago
I've done both. Software engineering is way easier. In traditional engineering you dont have "move fast and break things" and if you get sloppy with edge cases at best it could cost $$$ at worst people die. Cars have had comp
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by lispisok 3y ago
I saw a lot of comments like that on HN, especially about Copilot. Honestly they confused me because I used Copilot for a while and it was like they were using a totally different way better product.
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>I guess there is some sort of change happening to the climate making it more unstable and less predictable? I've been seeing this question come up a lot lately. The answer is no, weather forecasting continues to improve. The rate i
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by lispisok 3y ago
A lot of weather agencies across the world run ensembles including US, Canada, and the UK. Ensembles are the future of weather forecasting but weather models are so computationally heavy models have a resolution/forecast length tradeof
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by lispisok 3y ago
Been around a lot of climbers and skiers, many of whom at the elite level. The kind of lifestyle necessary to get to that level requires you to practice your sport instead of earning money, so you need outside support to live aka wealthy fa
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Upper middle class and wealthier parents. Even if they are living a budget "dirtbag" lifestyle they always have parents for a cash infusion if they need it. People who can afford not to work.
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by lispisok 3y ago
1. And if I win the lottery my financial needs are taken care of but I'm not planning on that 2. You are overestimating solar, wind, and energy storage and underestimating our energy needs, doubly so with transportation moving to elect
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by lispisok 3y ago
This is great to see. Enhanced geothermal is a grossly underrated technology. We're dumping billions into fusion energy research and wind and solar subsidies but it seems like we're really close to having "geothermal anywhere
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"Say a racial slur"
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Health insurance companies have a long and documented history of doing horrible horrible things. Are you really saying the rank and file at health insurance companies who are collecting middle class salaries at a white collar job denying pe
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by lispisok 3y ago
I knew somebody was going to regurgitate this. That's if you make up some number for fossil fuel externalities and count it as a subsidy. Pollution from fossil fuels is a very real and very big issue but it has been presented in such a
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Does take in account oil taxes and renewable subsidies?
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Regular people will do horrible things to keep their paycheck coming. It's an underrated phenomena of humanity.
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Embarrassing for Tesla but the worst 99% of trucks will ever see is some wash boarding on a gravel road.
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I've been following these global ML weather models. The fact they make good forecasts at all was very impressive. What is blowing my mind is how fast they run. It takes hours on giant super computers for numerical weather prediction mo
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>It's interesting that administration and spending has gone up at the same time funding has gone down. It's because state funding has become a small fraction of total income for many universities. It sounds counter-intuitive bu
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A minority of people got more into those activities but the US has a population of 330 million and the outdoorsy hotpots have little carrying capacity so now they are swarmed and overwhelmed.
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You can make just about any claim and say "because climate change" and people will believe it
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>Additionally, BlackRock invests in multifamily properties, apartment complexes, and other residential real estate. So what does that mean exactly?
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>I think what has been lost is that instead of a slave (not my terminology, it's the one in TFA btw) at your service, the computer has become a master and you're the slave. The gig economy apps like Uber and Doordash always see
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I think people like recycling so much because they can live their high consumption lifestyle then throw the guilt from their high consumption lifestyle in the recycling bin.
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Speaking as somebody who isnt into EA, I assure you most of the people criticizing EA havent donated a dime or spent a single minute volunteering. Everybody talks the talk about how to charity but nobody walks the walk
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Same. I've been hearing fire suppression was a mistake my entire life yet every year I see this come up in the news and especially HN as some kind of revelation.
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> The idea was supposedly that everyones ideas were valid and hierarchy didn't matter and that everyone should challenge anything no matter who they were in the organisation. Treating all ideas as valid is fine if that means all ide
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Are you not guilty for all the times you filled up your petrol powered car spewed all that carbon and air pollution into the air?
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A Rivian R1S is 8,500 lbs. These electric SUV's are insanely heavy. Like heavy enough a standard passenger vehicle driver's license shouldnt apply. A 8,500lbs suv with sports car acceleration. We're gonna see the pedestrian v
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Most of his points are about young people and universities. I dont think there has been a change in the intrinsic properties to those groups as he mentions. What has happened, and people are gonna think I'm a crazy Fox News boomer for
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RealPage wasnt suggesting rent prices based on local market conditions, they were telling you what to set your rent at and if you did not comply you got kicked. It was a cartel you joined and you got booted if you didnt go along with the re
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Almost every vehicle has, even sedans.
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>Those global stockpiles continue to be controlled by state actors though, not aggrieved civilians. How much death and destruction has been brought by state actors vs aggrieved civilians?

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