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by nerdbert 3y ago
Uh huh, and where are these places? I've worked remotely from literally a hundred countries over the past twenty years and can count on one hand the number of such cases I've even heard of. Nobody gives a shit, as long as you&#x27
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by nerdbert 3y ago
The purpose of the visit is still tourism, even when people are also working remotely. Otherwise they could have stayed home and worked remotely.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
In what places has it led to trouble for tourists to work remotely in their hotel rooms or Airbnbs? Leaving aside cases when those tourists brought that trouble and scrutiny on themselves through other actions like getting into barfights or
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Many people can get a mouthguard-type thing that has the same effect.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> I bet no one in major European cities requires to bike like ten miles each way. I am in Amsterdam, and lots of people bike 15km each way, including many students at the high schools my children attend.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
It's still waste, because if you're in a fixed location (which you'd have to be in order to benefit from much of the heat) you'd be better off running a heat pump.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> In a petrol car, only 20% of the energy is converted to motion. In electric cars, this is around 80% How does it settle out when you take into account the significantly higher weight of EVs?
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by nerdbert 3y ago
You don't need as much grid capacity if houses have their own generation and storage.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
According to this: https://foodprint.org/blog/plastic-water-bottle/ it costs about 5 liters of water to make one plastic bottle, so based on that, yes, it wastes a massive amount of water.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
If a private company is doing it - and presumably not paying what the water is worth - that takes away the public's ability to decide how to prioritize the limited remaining water. Also, according to these people - https://f
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Desalination means killing some ecosystem, wherever you choose to dump the brine, with waste salt.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
You can't have theories without life to conceive of them, so in fact life is inevitable under any theory.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
It takes energy to move a rock to the top of a mountain, and you can get some of that energy back (minus friction etc) if you let it roll down. So it's got something.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> I was speaking to sun setting IPv4 in general. It's 2024 and Fidonet still works. Nobody's sunsetting IPv4. It will fade into obscurity on its own as IPv6 adoption increases and IPv4 addresses become increasingly hard to get
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by nerdbert 3y ago
SLACC dynamic address are basically the same as IPv4 NAT from this perspective. Everyone who cares has tables of the prefix size assigned to customers in various providers' IP space.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Is everything NATted? With such a high population it seems hard to manage with limited IPv4 addresses.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Someone's working on that. http://www.clustered-pi.com/blog/clustered-pi-zero.html
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> I've yet to be in a friend group that wasn't willing to switch to Signal once I explained my security concern. I've found that works with friends, yes. But it's too much to ask in cases like a whatsapp group for par
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by nerdbert 3y ago
My favorite detail in the article was about the intersection with beg buttons, where the robot people were trying to get the city to convert them to a properly functioning crosswalk that always showed a "walk" when the parallel ro
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by nerdbert 3y ago
The fact that some things turned out to be possible, is not an argument for why any arbitrary thing is possible.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
> Companies declare that they are trying to build better AI, and the ultimately purpose is AGI. They do declare it, but nobody has even come up with a plausible path from where we are today, to anything like AGI. At this point they might
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Canada likes SPOF bridges. There's a single bridge - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipigon_River_Bridge - that is the only paved land path between the eastern and western parts of Canada. When that bridge is out,
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Bezos optimized the peeing-in-bottles aspect.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
How much heat do you need? We've renovated a row house in the Netherlands - very similar climate - with solid foam insulation and triple glazing. Haven't gotten to installing a heating system yet. Even in the current cold period i
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Require more accountability if a company wants to enjoy the benefits of incorporation. Decision processes have to be documented and responsibilities clearly delineated. Employees have the opportunity and duty to ensure their work is correct
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by nerdbert 3y ago
XS4ALL sort of lives on in the form of Freedom - https://freedom.nl/en
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by nerdbert 3y ago
I think most of my local status, such as it is, comes from being generally amiable and having helped out at least half the people on the street with repair/lifting/moving tasks at some point. Also I suppose living in a desirable n
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by nerdbert 3y ago
If they remain pleasant, carry their weight around the house, and don't mind that we are going to be moving somewhere much warmer the day they both finish high school, then sure! I like them.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
Almost certainly, yes. But they also have to carry around their resource gathering and self-repair systems, something phones don't have to worry about.
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by nerdbert 3y ago
If nobody is looking at web pages, and therefore nobody is making web pages, then where is the training material for LLMs going to come from?

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