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by manmal 1y ago
The cheaper suppliers actually bid with their prices, and why wouldn’t those prices be fair then? The EU then goes and gives them more than they offered. Make it make sense. Google „merit order“. It‘s still a gamble for suppliers btw. The p
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by manmal 1y ago
Yes, for one town that’s a solution, but not one for the whole of a nation.
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by manmal 1y ago
> why should a gas plant get more for its electricity when it's indistinguishable from solar electricity? I already wrote it: levels of service. A gas plant powers up in minutes. A coal plant in hours. A nuclear reactor in years. So
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by manmal 1y ago
That’s just media hype. You need orders of magnitude more of these plants to prevent blackouts entirely.
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by manmal 1y ago
> the fundamental logic of markets is that there's a price point consumers will pay that's also profitable for the company Electricity demand is price inelastic, meaning the consumer has no direct influence on prices, and will
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by manmal 1y ago
> Soon there is so much solar that you don't need the expensive gas most of the time. In the EU (winters with weak solar radiation) this only works if you can store power over multiple months. Getting rid of gas means purchasing and
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by manmal 1y ago
Here in Austria, grid costs are now on par with the actual electricity cost. Each are ca €0.1 per kWh now, plus again that in taxes. Once the EU finally gets rid of the ridiculous pricing model where spot prices are dictated by the most exp
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by manmal 1y ago
I‘m not sure this is still the case with codex. In this instance, restarting had no strong effect.
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by manmal 1y ago
With Claude Code, you can intercept its prompts if you start it in a wrapper and mock fetch (someone with github user handle „badlogic“ did this, but I can’t find the repo now). For all other things (and codex, Cursor) you‘d need to proxy&
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by manmal 1y ago
Yes they do, most of the time. Then they don’t. Yesterday, I told codex that it must always run tests by invoking a make target. That target is even configurable w/ parameters, eg to filter by test name. But always, at some point in th
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by manmal 1y ago
Those rules are often ignored by agents. Codex is known to be quite adhering, but it falls back to its own ideas, which run counter to rules I‘ve given it. The longer a session goes on, the more it goes off the rails.
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by manmal 1y ago
Relevant: https://steipete.me/posts/2025/claude-code-is-my-computer
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by manmal 1y ago
I felt just a tiny bit violated by that. Why does this person care about whether I have JS enabled? What’s the term for author’s affliction? Militant techno-minimalism? The cynicism is also pretty strong, in the first call-out, asking HN au
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by manmal 1y ago
This is the kind of thing Claude Code (bypassing permissions) shines at. I‘m about to setup HA myself and intend to not write a single line of config myself.
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by manmal 1y ago
Thanks for putting these sources together. It’s impressive that they got to this level of accuracy. And is your argument now that an LLM can capture arbitrary state of the wider world as a general rule, eg pretending to be a Swift compiler
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by manmal 1y ago
Unfortunately we can’t know at this point whether transformers really understand chess, or just go on a textual representation of good moves in their training data. They are pretty good players, but far from the quality of specialized chess
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by manmal 1y ago
That‘s quite a big leap, and sounds like a philosophical question. But many philosophers like late Wittgenstein or Heidegger disagreed with this idea. On more practical terms, maybe you‘ve experienced the following: You read a manual of a d
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by manmal 1y ago
Yes, not of the world, but of the ingested text. Almost verbatim what I wrote.
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by manmal 1y ago
> Basically an LLM translating across languages will "light up" (to use a rough fMRI equivalent) for the same concepts (e.g. bigness) across languages I thought that’s the basic premise of how transformers work - they encode co
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by manmal 1y ago
I'm a tap water drinker myself, but only after moving away from a city where water from other areas had to be imported to reach safe levels (according to EU regulations) because several garbage deposits of thousands of tons leaked for
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by manmal 1y ago
Why did you tell others to drink tap water if you haven’t verified it’s safe?
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by manmal 1y ago
Patches for old OS versions are unfortunately not 100% covering all security issues. Apple is often arguing that vulns can only be fixed in actively supported versions.
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by manmal 1y ago
Electricity was a 10x productivity boost, just over a way longer timespan. We‘re just speedrunning this.
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by manmal 1y ago
WebOS, the palm smartphone OS. It was beautiful at the time and predicted many of the swipe gestures iOS and Android adopted much later.
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by manmal 1y ago
I agree, but as a quite heavy user household, switching to Unifi 10y ago has fixed our issues, and they haven’t returned. With most devices on WiFi, on 3 APs.
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by manmal 1y ago
Of course, that’s true for those web servers. If kept up to date. If not, the attack surface is actually huge because exploits are well known.
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by manmal 1y ago
Yes. And a web server has an attack surface, no?
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by manmal 1y ago
That really depends on the web server, and the web app you'd otherwise be writing. If it's a shitty static web server, than a JVM or BEAM based web app might be safer actually.
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by manmal 1y ago
A static site does run on a web server.
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by manmal 1y ago
You can even tell it how many questions to ask. For complex topics, I might ask it to ask me 20 or 30 questions. And I'm always surprised how good those are. You can also keep those around as a QnA file for later sessions or other agen

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