lstodd

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by lstodd 4mo ago
> The combined expenditure of U.S. companies on management consul- tants and training in 1997 was over $100 billion erhm, if this figure is close to true i can see what market ai companies is after.
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by lstodd 4mo ago
Pretty much required in Eve Online.
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by lstodd 4mo ago
You might as well click yes, since it's all been uploaded as telemetry anyways.
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by lstodd 4mo ago
I short-circuited my microwave accidentally two years ago (don't power it up and then drop screwdrivers) and that was the best thing to happen to my meals.
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by lstodd 4mo ago
I'm tired of those references to "most" people. Maybe let's rename AI to AMI: Artificial Mostly Intelligence ?
246.
by lstodd 4mo ago
I sorta remember Quake console running on an 486dx2 ..
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by lstodd 4mo ago
Then people raised $1e12+ on claims that it's conscious. Of course everyone debates it
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by lstodd 4mo ago
Thank you for writing this out.
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by lstodd 4mo ago
Axing the whole nuclear generation was a disaster.How many GW were not even planned, not to mention built in all those years? And don't try to slide out on "nuclear build-out takes too much time". It does not if there is a wi
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by lstodd 4mo ago
And if Germany did not phase out nuclear, EU would not have relied on russian LNG for so long. But we live in an imperfect world.
251.
by lstodd 4mo ago
As has been mentioned in the sibling comment it already is. Consequences are: financial crisis.
252.
by lstodd 4mo ago
Germany is producing some solar energy. This is of course indisputable. They paid for that by selling most of their industry to China because energy costs became unbearable. Was this the right tradeoff?
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by lstodd 4mo ago
You just get drunk from the vapour way faster than it can have a measurable impact on the lungs. (you can actually drink it if it's reasonably pure. it's even less toxic than ethanol, but the hangover is terrible)
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by lstodd 4mo ago
The entire Energiewende for example.
255.
by lstodd 4mo ago
yup. shnorhakalutyun is a bit of mouthful :)
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by lstodd 4mo ago
yup. it's nbd and userspace making it slow. zram on the other hand adds little. one can get rid of zram and just reimplement some compression in shaders but I think that would be a pointless optimization.
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by lstodd 4mo ago
I actually loathe those "approx whatever time to read" notices for about the same reasons the OP lists. You or your model do not have and can not a clue how fast or slow I read, or, and that is the point, how much time I intend to
258.
by lstodd 4mo ago
Ports, man, ports.. datatypes I think weren't #1. oh well...
259.
by lstodd 4mo ago
that depends on floating width. might also end up being a NaN.
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by lstodd 4mo ago
From the article and their paper it is not clear how they intend to scrape the salt deposits from the untreated part of their panels. If you ever tried to clean seasalt from your car or boat for example, it's not a trivial process and
261.
by lstodd 5mo ago
Well, geothermal is basically it, so not very much trouble.
262.
by lstodd 5mo ago
And everyone forgets Dead Can Dance ofc
263.
by lstodd 5mo ago
Why would you waste sunlight on light->electricity->heat conversion? Just do direct evaporation like it's been done for thousands of years. If you don't like brine, leave it to dry out too. If there is not enough sunlight,
264.
by lstodd 5mo ago
2bpp is indexed obviously, question in 1994 would be is it bitplane or packed
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by lstodd 5mo ago
I think later systems were at a core an attempt to implement something like high-frequency (which is a misnomer, it's more like low-latency) trading over 1960-70s tech at a scope that we still have no means to do now, in 2020s. "t
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by lstodd 5mo ago
Mirrors the Amiga experience. PC architecture still is a hack compared to 1200.
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by lstodd 5mo ago
If people keep suggesting solutions that were tried and failed of course other people will point that out. 1930-s Gosplan, 1950-s Gosplan, OGAS, Cybersyn, they all failed. Come up with something new maybe?
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by lstodd 5mo ago
Where I studied there was a tradition to throw out the TV out of dorm room window at graduation. Now that were early nineties, ~21" CRT TVs and a 24 storey dorm.
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by lstodd 5mo ago
Early 2024 being assigned to "GenAI DX"? I would have interpreted that as being politely shown the door and quit at the spot.
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by lstodd 5mo ago
If the requirements are self-contradicting while at the same time being non-negotiable their job is to quit.

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