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by owenversteeg 1y ago
I've done this before (not indefinitely, but for many trips around the world.) I agree with the author on a lot: 1) it's not a good way to live long term, 2) traveling with as little as possible completely transforms the traveling
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
*energy And yes, 1% of German energy is a ton of energy; but that is an incredibly optimistic forecast of if _every_ German did this. There are 85 million Germans; they could do a lot of things with their combined efforts. Backyard furnaces
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
There's a funny comment downthread that says "It's like the backyard furnaces during the Great Leap Forward." Everyone replying disagrees, but I think it's a perfect analogy: just like the backyard furnaces, these s
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
The GP comment is technically correct, if somewhat incomplete. A 40 m3 room (about 14’x14’x8’) has about 50kg of air in it; that’s only ~300 Wh to heat every molecule of it by an entire 20C. The thermal mass of the other things is orders of
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Interesting, but I use a much more powerful germicidal UV source. Because of the power requirements it uses a fusion energy source located ~150M km away. (sunlight in fresh air.) In fairness to the article, ventilation was mentioned, but al
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
This is a phenomenal article. It is interesting even if you have no interest in war. There are countless scattered insights about culture, pedagogy, leadership, personal relationships, secrecy and others. The insights on pedagogy are some o
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Wow, this is a terrible interview. The interviewer repeatedly references his book Inferno. I like the Telegraph review of it, "Don't Make Fun of Renowned Dan Brown", available here sans paywall: https://onehundredp
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Hm, strange. That has been allowed for many years now, you do pay a fee of 10 euros though. There are no restrictions on where you can ride the bikes either. https://www.ns.nl/klantenservice/deur-tot-deur-diensten/
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
I see several comments here that misunderstand "perovskites", so to be clear: "perovskite" can refer to either the mineral or the crystal structures with the same structure as the mineral. Virtually everything written ab
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Interesting idea to use Apple Configurator, I like it! I use a combination of uninstalling any interesting apps + Foqos + One Sec + grayscale. This works pretty well for me, and the key part is Foqos, which is FOSS that allows you to disabl
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Nuclear and solar are actually pretty competitive here at MW scale, optimistic projections for both are in the ballpark of 100 tons per MW including associated power electronics. That's to say, if Starship continues on the trajectory i
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
It's not just banned in the US; it's also banned in France, the UK, Norway, Sweden, Iran, and Canada among others. It is legal OTC in India, the former USSR, China, Mexico, and most of South and Central America. It is the most pop
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Oh, don't get me wrong, I'm not making any sort of judgments about recycling your family heirlooms to feed industrial demand. None of these schemes would have a terribly substantial effect in the long term. Just pointing out that
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Few interesting statistics for people: 1. Only 12% of US adults have vitamin D levels in the recommended range [0] and while vitamin D levels are strongly associated with nearly every marker of health, supplementing vitamin D does not impro
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Funny enough, this sort of thing is _usually_ true. Civilians doing things in some sort of vaguely coordinated mass movement is typically a very weak force vs any industrial process. See, for example, WWII scrap drives, which were far more
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
(spoilers!) here's how to win: everything is cancer, except the common moles and the keratoses. OP, what are some of the other common options for a spot on the body aside from common moles, cancer, and keratoses? Solar lentigines, frec
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
This is a fantastic visualization, but it and the rest of the literature all boil down to "input text goes in, we do some linear algebra on that and the model weights together, and... magic comes out." Of course, the precise incan
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
The issue with harvesting the waste heat is the temperature of it (low.) I commented about this recently: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45007358
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
This guy is quite interesting, because he starts from scratch without reading or experience, so you end up with a really wonky machine, but it's wonky in unusual ways that really make you think. Like the sibling comment says, it's
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Wow, talk about a blast of nostalgia. I had a few of those as a kid. I do see one popular robot missing, Mr. Robot by Westminster, which could shoot foam discs, walk around, dance, and rotate his head. Seems like they have a similar robot:
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
I don't think it's that simple. Sure, it's true that the lesbian divorce rate is far higher than the gay male divorce rate, and sure, it could be from personality differences between men and women. Women do indeed score consi
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
Out of curiosity, I browsed comments from some of those accounts. #5 has a ton of obvious LLM-generated comments. #2 has some. I didn't see any in the most recent comments from #7 and #10.
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
I completely agree. On any other issue this would be considered a catastrophic failure beyond failure. This is an op-ed from a series of old army generals who lost the war because they were in bed with the enemy every step of the way. The C
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
From the image linked for the later "milder recipe", there was 0.12g mercuric chloride per dose. The article says that one dose during the expedition was 10 grains (0.6g) of Calomel. This seems like a fairly small amount of mercur
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
That's a nice combo. Disabling the web browser is a good idea, thanks :)
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
The comments here are full of people complaining about iOS alarm bugs, so for anyone else who is sick of this: Sharp makes a lovely selection of alarm clocks. For between five to twelve US dollars, you too can be freed for life from said bu
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
I can't stand the conflation of "satisfied" and "happy." It's insane. There is more happiness in one Zimbabwean (country "happiness" rank: 143) than in one hundred Icelanders (country "happiness&
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
I don't have any specific knowledge of Swiss co-ops, but I'd imagine it's some of the same reasons as other co-op buildings elsewhere: economic crash means residents can't pay rent or fees, improper budgeting for large f
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
The device in the article is $400 (and obviously requires migrating to a new phone.) Don't get me wrong, it does seem like a decent solution - but for those looking for a lower friction (or lower cost) way to use your phone less, this
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by owenversteeg 1y ago
This article is actually quite well written. "Lenin is a mushroom" ties in nicely, and I think it's the biggest factor - that LLMs have somehow ended up with this societal air of authority. I disagree that it stems from the f

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