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by melling 3y ago
He wanted to work in meters? Closer to his final result? (setq km (* m 1000.0)) (setq cm (* m 0.01)) (setq foot (* 0.3048 m)) (setq ft (* 0.3048 m)) (setq mile (* 5280 foot))
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by melling 3y ago
I think we realized that half a century ago in the 1970’s https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1970s_energy_crisis But hey, feel free to make it up as you go. Most of the time people won’t call you on it. I’m not a Donald T
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by melling 3y ago
Norway doesn’t decide to phase out oil, consumers do. The world needs 100 million barrels a day. We are at peak coal too. https://www.iea.org/news/global-coal-demand-set-to-remain-at...
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by melling 3y ago
“but things like this to me are a much more pressing issue” That’s what we’ve been saying for almost half a century. Guess what, we can do both.
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by melling 3y ago
“more pragmatic way” What other options did you have in mind?
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by melling 3y ago
Guess we missed this story yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37345565
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by melling 3y ago
Here’s the short version: https://youtu.be/iL117MO4pbo?si=T1Zw1NIME4ptIqLB
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by melling 3y ago
Isn’t that exactly what I said
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by melling 3y ago
Better camera and a bit faster. Probably doesn’t deserve an upgrade every year but every 3rd year should be a nice bump. That’s where I’m at.
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by melling 3y ago
The Chinese car market is about 23 million a year. The United States is about 13 million. https://www.statista.com/statistics/269872/largest-automobil... China will be soon be shipping more EVs than the US ships
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by melling 3y ago
Getting >10x speed up isn’t exciting enough for many people? I’ll take it. This is all pretty impressive if I can take my unmodified (slightly modified?) Python code and get that sort of improvement.
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by melling 3y ago
“Pollution cuts have diminished “ship track” clouds, adding to global warming” So during the age of sailing ships the oceans were warmer? We’ve likely only had a 100 year period where we had a sufficient number of polluting ship to have mad
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by melling 3y ago
That’s a lot less suspicious than falling out of a building or hanging oneself.
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by melling 3y ago
Why does chess have gender based events? Don’t men and women usually compete together?
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by melling 3y ago
Hurricane “Hilary” Are Hillary and Hilary pronounced the same?
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by melling 3y ago
This will accomplish absolutely nothing. Make a green grid then we can stop having these silly discussions. Burning all that coal for electricity is the real problem “The coal fleet grew by 19.5 gigawatts last year, enough to light up aroun
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by melling 3y ago
Dying healthy in your sleep at home costs society a lot less. No expensive medications, hospital visits,in home nursing, etc I suppose if everyone lived, say 5 years longer, and only delayed a disease by 5 years, it would be a break even in
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by melling 3y ago
The diseases of the aging cost a fortune. Alzheimer’s alone is about $300 billion annually in the United States. Keeping older people healthier would save a fortune. https://www.jec.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/demo
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by melling 3y ago
Person 1: “An electric vehicle will never work for me because…” Person 2: “I want an electric vehicle because…” Is that a better example to convey my point?
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by melling 3y ago
Good, then you should set your filter appropriately. Depending on the effectiveness of the product, you may trust it for certain articles but not others. Certain sources but not others.
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by melling 3y ago
Actually, we’re not unique and often predictable. There usually is someone who says “I’ll never use the product because…” And it’s often a top comment. e.g. Smartphones with GPS, Amazon Alexa,… To me it’s simply a noisy discussion with li
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by melling 3y ago
“ 12-month mean global temperature likely will pierce the 1.5°C warming level before this time next year” This happened much sooner than expected. In fact, the goal 25 years ago was to make that the upper limit. This was the thinking in 200
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by melling 3y ago
But human drivers have similar accidents. The good news is they can fix the self-driving software then replicate the solution forever in millions of cars. Now, how to prevent the small number of humans who do the same thing?
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by melling 3y ago
He’s offering innuendo. Climate change deniers have a whole lot of it. You don’t need to prove causality to throw a wrench in the argument. Make a statement then say “prove me wrong”
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by melling 3y ago
Yes, the global usage of coal. The fact that if India and China start using a lot of it…. Watch the video Coal usage is at all time highs: https://www.pbs.org/newshour/amp/world/coal-burning-capacity...
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by melling 3y ago
I didn’t say we discovered the greenhouse effect in 1985. I said we started addressing the issue about 40 years ago. Actually, the Carl Sagan video is still worthwhile. He did an excellent job.
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by melling 3y ago
“Gotta start somewhere” We’re about 40 years into “getting started”. One of the main problems was identified in 1985. https://youtu.be/Wp-WiNXH6hI
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by melling 3y ago
I have a 10 year old MacBook Pro that works perfectly too. Unfortunately, Apple doesn’t allow OS upgrades. I’ll probably get an M3 and use it for 8-10 years.
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by melling 3y ago
The United States needs a million electricians https://amp.theguardian.com/environment/2023/apr/20/us-elect... We have the discussion on HN about how we need skilled workers. It does make the news https
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by melling 3y ago
Yep, illegal/legal immigration can cost elections. It’s also a very tiring topic. Perhaps we should address the problem rather than leave the current mess in place thus removing it from politics? Kind of strange that people bought into

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