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by meowkit 1y ago
Short answer is energy efficiency. All energy on earth derives from 1) the sun or 2) geothermal Energy is lost as you move further from those sources. Plants converting sunlight directly to usable energy are more efficient than a higher ord
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by meowkit 1y ago
It wasn’t marketed that way. It was a throwaway line that became a meme at Ignite back in 2015 It was meant to convey the change in delivery model for Windows updates. Windows 10 and 11 are the same kernel from a CI/CD perspective, jus
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by meowkit 1y ago
Zero knowledge proofs + blockchain stream payments + IPFS or similar based storage with encryption and incentive mechanisms. Its still outside the overton window (especially on HN), but the only way that I’ve seen where we can get the benef
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by meowkit 1y ago
> Once we have a universal automated judge that can judge any kind of human research output then sure your statement is true, If you've noticed, most LLM interfaces have a "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" response. T
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by meowkit 1y ago
There is also an argument that we should have fewer electronics too…
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by meowkit 2y ago
I have an M1 for personal use, and recently got a Surface L7 for work. Build quality wise, its the closet thing you're gonna find to a macbook that runs windows. I also run a custom Windows desktop and a synology NAS, so I like to cons
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by meowkit 2y ago
A Land Value Tax https://www.google.com/search?q=is%20land%20a%20big%20deal&i...
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by meowkit 2y ago
Already playing out, anecdotally to my experience. Its similar to losing callouses on our hands if you don’t labor/go to the gym.
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by meowkit 2y ago
Because they own the now hardware, and MacOS iOS run exclusively on their hardware Source: I work on windows power management and I know system engineers at apple.
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by meowkit 2y ago
Its not really an interpretation- he has literally talked about this as his playbook dozens of times. One step in the playbook is reduce - “if you dont break things 10% of the time then you are not reducing enough” is almost verbatim what h
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by meowkit 2y ago
Principles. Its about assuming most people operate on dogma and heuristics. This is extremely true in my opinion. By making this assumption, you dispel bad practices and behaviors that might have built up within an organization. Even more i
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by meowkit 2y ago
+1 for cold showers. Excellent for several things. Personally I recommend them at the end of a normal shower, before bed, to drop your core temperature. Takes a couple weeks to acclimate, but much easier afterwards, same benefits.
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by meowkit 2y ago
Anecdotal results are highly dependent on the provider. The scientific method is supposed to allow someone with no credibility to provide signal through >process< and then gain credibility. Anecdotes from >a credible< person are
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by meowkit 2y ago
Which law is being broken?
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by meowkit 2y ago
Not sure I follow your question. Pretty sure they tokenize LaTeX, which should be searchable if the unrendered LaTeX is available
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by meowkit 2y ago
Any precedent for language agnostic behavior (I genuinely don’t know)? Would be keen to have a common interface that languages implement into their standard libraries or keywords
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by meowkit 2y ago
Vitalik’s blog is pretty top tier Most coins/chains/platforms have some sort of newsletters. You can find most of this stuff by looking up the ticker on coingecko or similar. There are dedicated “crypto news” platforms (e.g. coind
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by meowkit 2y ago
Great wiki link thanks for sharing. Also commenting to reiterate that if one spends just a little time (with an open mind) in any of the camps (X/Mastodon/Bluesky, whatever) its just so obvious that while the messages differ, the
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by meowkit 2y ago
Its just one disincentive. Tax driving overall to push people to more efficient (from a tire plastic/energy usage) standpoint. Use those taxes to fund public transportation.
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by meowkit 2y ago
+1 to Nick Lane I’ve only read The Vital Question, but I felt it was a great introduction to biochem for someone not in the field.
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by meowkit 2y ago
“Fuck you, pay me” - Childish Gambino The whole thing needs a reframe. Ad driven business only works because its a race to the bottom. Now we are approaching the bottom, and its not gonna be as competitive. Throwback to the 90s when you pai
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by meowkit 2y ago
Musk and Trump Derangement Syndrome Is what the acronyms refer to. Its a meme for the obsession around them specifically. My two cents is that there are other billionaires doing significantly more harm than those two. They just keep quiet o
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by meowkit 2y ago
When you frame it like that of course it sounds bizarre. You just ignored the context of ketogenic metabolism being more similar in humans and mice than humans and chimpanzees.
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by meowkit 2y ago
As the other comments point out... most things are dynamical systems that respond to chaos theory (small inputs, big divergence in output). Many of the possible states can be reduced down to two or so poles (e.g. skepticism vs acceptance vs
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by meowkit 2y ago
Point == missed Its a tragedy of the commons style problem. The viability has to come from a group effort - as soon as there is a single entity running the show the economic incentives will warp or collapse the 3rd place into something diff
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by meowkit 2y ago
Because it wasn't an updated driver, it was a malformed blob config. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHrayP-Y71Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAzEJxOo1ts That verification is for interactions with t
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by meowkit 2y ago
They pull data from all kinds of things now. For example, satellite imagery of trucking activity correlated to specific companies or industries. Its all signal processing at some level, but directly modeling the time series of price or othe
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by meowkit 2y ago
Thats silly. The cars are private property and full of cameras being monitored by a tech giant. I’m sure the account agreement is going to require you to to accept being charged egregious bills for damaging or dirty-ing the cabin
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by meowkit 2y ago
Just sounds like simpsons paradox. Congressional approval rating - lowest its ever been Individual congressman? - highest ratings Tech orgs - bumbling if not incompetent Individual contributors at these orgs - very talented. Maybe not analy
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by meowkit 2y ago
This is why Confidential VMs have been a cloud priority. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/confidential-computi... https://cloud.google.com/confidential-computing/confidential... Hyperv

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