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by olau 7y ago
The source you cite does not seem credible to me. It starts out with this statement which is obviously false: "Good judgment isn’t something they can excel in, at least not yet."
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by olau 7y ago
Had an unstable Asus board. We bought 3 in the company, got them all replaced - I think we got a slightly newer revision back. Same problem, watch video for 5-10 minutes and it would crash, despite temperature being fine. Eventually I moved
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by olau 7y ago
> If there isn't a lot of red tape and strict contracts then it's likely the government will get robbed blind I'm mostly in agreement, but regarding this point: What needs to happen here instead of the strict contracts is
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by olau 7y ago
Perhaps it would help if we stopped dubbing other people as cancerous tumors? I was reading about the decisions behind the nuclear bombings of Japanese cities near the end of WWII. I wonder how it felt being a physicist that contributed to
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by olau 7y ago
> The power itself is cheap. You state that as if it's a fact. > The amount of regulation around 40 year old reactor designs is high, so that's expensive. Implementation of a newer design would be much, much cheaper. That re
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by olau 7y ago
I accidentally clicked get PDF on the recommended paper from the page, this one: "Will EROI be the Primary Determinant of Our Economic Future? The View of the Natural Scientist versus the Economist" https://reader.elsev
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by olau 7y ago
Current grids are or have been mostly fossil fuels. You can displace a lot of those with renewables, no problem. It's true that to get to 100%, or to start a new grid, you need to have something to fill in the gaps. Here there's a
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by olau 7y ago
* The market situation was vastly different. Renewables were being developed in a mature market. * What you mean, but conveniently left out, is that nuclear reactors that are written off are competitive. Until they get too old to fix, then
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by olau 7y ago
> Batteries don't have the energy density needed ... today. There's a lot of money in batteries these days. But from what I gather, it's not just about the batteries, but also about coming up with a design that takes advan
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by olau 7y ago
Well, then wake up. We didn't solve it with nuclear tech, and we won't. It is too expensive because it is so complicated and not very popular to boot. It won't happen. And it prevents you (here I'm not talking about you
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by olau 7y ago
Agreed. The really satisfying part is when they do stuff on their own. Although getting a hug from time to time is a nice bonus. :)
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by olau 7y ago
It's enabled because it's a very old standard, just like Ctrl-C + Ctrl-V. If you were using Ctrl-V to scroll down, I guess you'd have the same kind of problem and could level the same complaint. Tangentially related, applying
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by olau 7y ago
I don't understand your clipboard remark. Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V works everywhere. Emacs by default uses a different copy-yank shortcut system, but that too works perfectly well with the clipboard out of the box since some years ago. In ord
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by olau 7y ago
Reproducibility is a little less convenient, but you can ask apt to dump which packages you have explicitly installed, and then clone the machine by asking it to install those packages again.
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by olau 7y ago
I am personally of the opinion that anything but a handcrafted API is dumb. The API is where you help your users while preparing for future. It's not something to be left to mere coincidence. HTTPS + JSON is relatively convenient for t
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by olau 7y ago
Here's one on clavichord: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Nto_-j5Ao
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by olau 7y ago
I think it goes both ways. If you know someone well, you can be a much better teacher to them. You can predict what they will have trouble with, what will make them happy, how and when to introduce things to them, etc. Same as interacting w
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by olau 7y ago
> Energy is a physics not a technology problem. There's plenty of energy out there, delivered by the Sun. You just need cheap tech to harvest and store it. Energy is most decidedly a tech problem. What has moved PV and wind turbines
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by olau 7y ago
Is suspect you can search for this, but here's a quick shot - how much living material is inside them? Let's say all the plants weight the same as one human. And they don't need to keep warm. So most likely they're not r
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by olau 7y ago
Yes. If you stick to using the ORM for what amounts to (mostly) just PODs, it's syntactic sugar that can really help readability.
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by olau 7y ago
It's interesting to ponder how a metric, through its design, is a psychological brain hack that trumps rational thought and common sense. Perhaps it's the gamification aspect that gets us? An example I think everyone can relate to
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by olau 7y ago
Maybe the author wants to improve our world? It looks like this is for people with modest needs. Thousands of people shouldn't be a problem at all, with the right architecture. And if we're talking millions of people, surely some
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by olau 7y ago
> Does this work in liquid markets though? Well, I think the idea is to try to the make the market for these stocks less liquid. And it might work, because the long run you're talking about isn't actually looking too bright due
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by olau 7y ago
Can I politely point out that the conversation is not about respecting robots.txt. If you want to talk about this in terms of robots.txt, Google is thriving on the fact that other companies don't block their content in robots.txt, but
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by olau 7y ago
I would imagine that if you contract with Deliveroo, they have some terms that say that you need to give notice when cancelling? I don't know Deliveroo, but I think a better analogy would be if you suddenly, even though it is not causi
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by olau 7y ago
Eh, I think you got this backwards. If you really want to talk about this in terms of freedom of speech, LinkedIn is in the act of censoring? Edit: What I mean is that freedom of speech is not the same as freedom of censoring.
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by olau 7y ago
I don't think that's true. Orchestra is probably difficult, but you can make a living giving recitals. It's not a salaried job, so you'll have to manage yourself and do the selling, building up your reputation in the rig
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by olau 7y ago
There was an interview with George Hotz from comma.ai where he talked about this. His fix is a very attentive driver monitoring setup. So if you are not paying attention, it will barf at you. IIRC he was also talking about how this driver m
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by olau 7y ago
Yes. And small electric planes are in fact beginning to show up. It is my understanding that going electric enables more efficient designs, and with those one or two decades of further battery tech development might actually get us large pl
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by olau 7y ago
From that comment I was expecting to find an essay claiming to have the silver bullets because hand-waving. I was not disappointed. It even listed functional programming. Yes, the tech landscape of today is vastly different from 30 years ag

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