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by nkurz 4y ago
I downvoted this because I think you are wrong about some crucial details. Woodstoves have in fact improved considerably since the late 70's: higher efficiency, longer reload times, and lower emissions. Modern woodstoves do not need
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by nkurz 4y ago
I haven't finished reading the decision yet ( https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/22417924/5th-circuit-... ) but it would seem to hinge on two distinct questions: 1) Should large internet communities be trea
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by nkurz 4y ago
Here in the US I don't think I've ever heard of a shared burner between multiple homes. It seems like an interesting idea. How common are these? How does it typically work? Does one home owner sell heat to the neighbors, or is
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by nkurz 4y ago
Great post. We're in a parallel situation in Vermont: current EPA woodstove using locally harvested wood, fuel oil backup that we use only when we aren't home. We did install a heat pump hot water heater and have been happy with
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by nkurz 4y ago
I watched this, and enjoyed it, but was later surprised to learn that Herzog had started with a completed documentary but made major changes to the narrative---for the worse! There are few scenes that he edited to tell a different story tha
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by nkurz 4y ago
> Sorry, I should be posting under a throw-away Nice post, and I upvoted, but it might say something about your personality that you seem to consider 'throwaway2037' a part of your identity and not a throw-away. It makes me wo
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by nkurz 4y ago
The article went through the "second chance pool", and the timestamp was changed. To make this less jarring, the timestamps for the comments are "relativized". More details can be found among Dan's comments here:
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by nkurz 4y ago
No, the temperatures are in Celsius. From the white paper linked from the main article: "This paper makes a distinction between low temperature (<200°C) and high temperature (>200°C) process heat". https://www.s
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by nkurz 4y ago
> depending on local regulations, they may have been able to insulate to a higher standard Are you implying that some places have maximum amounts of insulation that are allowed for new construction? This seems backwards.
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by nkurz 4y ago
There's an interesting post from last year by Moon explaining his choice to use Cloudflare for DNS: https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2021-10-28/where-sidewalk-end... . quasar posted it on HN, but it's not
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by nkurz 4y ago
How do you differentiate between "if enough people demand it on Twitter" and "if our consciences demand that we act"? I agree that they don't seem to be adhering to the policy that they published just last week, but
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by nkurz 4y ago
Regardless of your feelings on KiwiFarms, this is a topical article with some prescient quotes regarding their choice of relying on Cloudflare: "Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare, is an outlier in the elite of Silicon Valley. He is
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by nkurz 4y ago
> Someone please give me the wink wink defactos here HN as a website allows many unpopular opinions to be expressed, but a minority of users will flag just about any unpopular opinion. If two (three?) people flag the same comment, it di
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by nkurz 4y ago
Technical question: Cloudflare says they are currently intercepting requests for Kiwifarms and redirecting them to the linked blog post. What does Kiwifarms need to do to remove their dependency on Cloudflare and make their forum visible
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by nkurz 4y ago
I mostly agree that is the claim that they are making. I already quoted the relevant part of the earlier blog, so here's the part from today's: "While we believe that in every other situation we have faced — including the Da
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by nkurz 4y ago
From the blog post linked by the GGGP: "In 2017, we terminated the neo-Nazi troll site The Daily Stormer. And in 2019, we terminated the conspiracy theory forum 8chan." https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflares-abuse
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by nkurz 4y ago
While Aereo is certainly relevant, the 2011 "Warner Bros. Entertainment v. WTV Systems" is even more similar: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._Entertainment_Inc... . WTV ran service called "Zedi
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by nkurz 4y ago
There's no particular trick to freezing them. Maybe you used the wrong sort of bag? Most people use Ziploc style freezer bags or their generic equivalent. You do need to carefully squeeze all the air out before sealing. A vacuum se
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by nkurz 4y ago
I'm only a former resident, but I've downvoted him on your behalf. :)
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by nkurz 4y ago
In New Mexico at least, you buy them inside the store in large quantity, take your shopping cart full of them out to the propane fired roaster set up in the parking lot, help the attendant dump your chiles in the barrel, watch them tumble a
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The AI Art Apocalypse(alexanderwales.com)
246 points by nkurz 4y ago|324 comments
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by nkurz 4y ago
Do you happen to know if is also true for the C replacement languages mentioned in the article: C3, Zig, Odin, Jai and eC?
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by nkurz 4y ago
> And worse, what if the language omits crucial features that are present in C? Features that C advanced programmers rely on? Seems like this might be a good place to ask: which of the C replacement languages mentioned (or not mentioned
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by nkurz 4y ago
> You're gonna be disappointed in the rest of the internet and a significant amount of the adults in the world if this language is so foul as to bother you Yup, you've got that right. > Completely unnecessary callout. Nope,
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by nkurz 4y ago
> which as I pointed out is actually a more useful comparison point for harvest date since AFAIK there's been less change in the grapes grown or style of wine produced. Sorry for the late reply, but you should check out the underlyi
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by nkurz 4y ago
Tamino helpfully linked the underlying paper in his first comment: https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpls.2016.00069... . It's a clear and well written paper. While I assume its main conclusions a
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by nkurz 4y ago
You know more about this than I do, but I wonder whether the switch to grafting on American rootstocks in the late 1800's ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_French_Wine_Blight ) might have had an effect on ripeni
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by nkurz 4y ago
If the abstract is too dry, here's a press release interview with the lead author: https://news.mit.edu/2022/neil-thompson-computing-power-inno... Neil has an impressive educational pedigree that positions him wel
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The importance of exponentially more computing power(arxiv.org)
72 points by nkurz 4y ago|23 comments
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by nkurz 4y ago
Here's the followup article about how it's holding up a year later: https://electrek.co/2022/07/25/electric-mini-truck-how-its-h... The quick summary is that it's still doing pretty well.

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