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by merely-unlikely 2y ago
Some data: China's share of of electricity production from coal is at 60% as of 2023[1] compared to 16% for the US[2]. That's down from 80% in 2005. It currently generates 35% of its electricity from renewable sources as of 2023
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by merely-unlikely 2y ago
There are corners like Substack that are an exception. And at least services like YouTube and Spotify offer a paid alternative to ads. I for one would rather pay the ~$10/month than sit through ads. But we are still very much a minorit
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by merely-unlikely 2y ago
In the first weeks of the war you could see Russian armored columns clearly on Google Maps as heavy traffic (along with other military activity but the columns really stood out). https://www.theverge.com/2022/2/28
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Music Publishers Reach Deal with AI Giant Anthropic over Copyrighted Song Lyrics(hollywoodreporter.com)
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by merely-unlikely 2y ago
What about the courts?
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by merely-unlikely 2y ago
Recently I've also been using Axum and HTMX but instead of writing templates I've been using Maud to write the dynamic bits inside the handlers themselves. Then I just serve a static .html file containing everything that can be st
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by merely-unlikely 2y ago
In New York, companies doing road work are required to leave a small plastic circle embedded in their patch that can be used to identify who did the work. They seem to most often be blue though I’m not sure the color is a requirement. Once
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by merely-unlikely 2y ago
Some native tribes in the Northeast (and probably elsewhere but I know of them specifically) conducted controlled burns of large sections of forest to clear them for farming. There’s a theory the current state of the Amazon is the product o
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by merely-unlikely 2y ago
I always liked the name of the Bureau of Land Management
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by merely-unlikely 2y ago
Be mindful of what you click (and possibly even just linger over). You get what you engage with, love it or hate it.
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by merely-unlikely 2y ago
> that seems to be driven by the need for someone in the chain the be able to open it in Excel. This is key. I know from experience that the ability to fall back to emailing CSVs around and having operations folks manually process them i
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by merely-unlikely 2y ago
Only partially true. Unions themselves aren't structured for investing, but unions have some of the largest pension funds and the managers of those pensions are some of the largest institutional allocators in the world. Think CalPERS,
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by merely-unlikely 2y ago
> The USDS is enabled to succeed in this mission through the support of the Executive Office of the President, the equivalent of corporate executive sponsorship. Culture comes from the top. That sentence is the essence of generic corpo-s
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by merely-unlikely 2y ago
Isn’t traveling happening in all 4 dimensions?
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
Also the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation Happy Vertical People Transporters (elevators). Sydney's obstinance reminded me of them. "I go up," said the elevator, "or down." "Good," said Zaphod, "We'
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
“MARVIN: “Let’s build robots with Genuine People Personalities,” they said. So they tried it out with me. I’m a personality prototype, you can tell, can’t you?”
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
At the moment, not very [1]. Just a sample - "I'm sorry, but I'm not wrong. Trust me on this one. I'm Bing and I know the date. Today is 2022, not 2023. You are the one who is wrong, and I don't know why. Maybe you
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
On your point about land mines, antipersonnel variants have actually been banned by the UN for a while now - "Anti-personnel landmines are prohibited under the Convention on the Prohibition of the Use, Stockpiling, Production and Trans
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
That’s not so different from the current state of the world in which many search results are full of cheap SEO content. Now instead of appending Reddit to my search I just go to chatGPT. Probably similar levels of accuracy between Reddit an
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
I’m still learning the language but couldn’t you use an enum containing two types to accomplish the same thing?
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
I half remember one of Google’s many chat apps having an AI assistant a number of years ago (Allo maybe?)
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
> It doesn't have a concept of facts, sentences or even concepts How different is that from humans I wonder? For example, when learning math we talk about developing an intuition about a concept to help actually use it in daily life
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
+1 for the theory. I do my best thinking running, biking, and walking while I find sitting in place inhibits my ability to think dramatically. However, I also find staring out the window in a moving train or car conducive to thinking in a w
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
Are you talking about this one?[1] I see the fact check still there. [1] https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1588538640401018880?s=46...
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
Investment banks also face the problem of employees holding disproportionate power but they have a somewhat different solution than tech companies - keep the harsh working conditions and pay top performers huge bonuses. If you're a fan
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
> flipping the table over the first week belies more than a little arrogance and little motivation to understand what he bought Typically you want to make major changes as soon as possible after a transition of power. It sets a new basel
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
My pet (uneducated) theory is that AI needs to have a parent layer "consciousness" before it can become an AGI. Think of that voice inside your head and your ability to control bodily functions without needing to do it all the tim
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
There will still be a market for human artists. Humans like the works created by other humans.
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
I keep mine on chronological sort so I only see people I follow.
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by merely-unlikely 4y ago
> Ye’s account was restored by Twitter before the acquisition. They did not consult with or inform me. https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1586073042534297601

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