peterashford

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by peterashford 2mo ago
"the language. Or the standard libraries"
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by peterashford 2mo ago
Scott base in Antarctica (NZ's scientific research base) is installing wind turbines and batteries and getting rid of diesel generators.
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by peterashford 2mo ago
So, everywhere, in a Capitalistic society
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by peterashford 2mo ago
Show me where IStatusChangeEntityCreationManagerFactory is in the language. Or the standard libraries. Or anything like it
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by peterashford 3mo ago
what has that got to do with what we name the field?
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by peterashford 3mo ago
I've been using the Vector API in Java to get some massive speedups for flowfield generation. There's no guessing with that approach - if the hardware supports SIMD, you get it.
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by peterashford 3mo ago
The field has been called Artificial Intelligence for what, 60 plus years now. Why is it a problem now?
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by peterashford 3mo ago
I'm a New Zealander. Farmers here are disliked by a large percentage of the population
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by peterashford 3mo ago
Because its dominated more by businessmen than engineers c.f. early days of IT
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by peterashford 3mo ago
"History" is generally used to mean when humans were around writing stuff down. And no, CO2 levels have never been this high during the entire history of human civilization, and likely the entire existence of Homo sapiens
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by peterashford 3mo ago
Yeah, but they're not going to expand by taking on coal and fossil fuels. The third world is taking on green energy alternatives at a great rate. Not least because it's cheaper and more convenient. These countries can grow without
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by peterashford 3mo ago
They can have Russell Crowe. But you'll take Lamingtons from my cold dead hands!
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by peterashford 3mo ago
how do you know?
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by peterashford 4mo ago
Wikipedia suggests hundreds of deaths in various regions around the world - more common in the past, which suggests, I think, more wolves = more deaths.
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by peterashford 4mo ago
You sound like someone who might be closer to one of those sides than the other
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by peterashford 4mo ago
Yeah, me too. Java always seemed to consider design a lot more than C# which seems to have taken more of a kitchen sink approach to language design. That stuff piles up over time (see c++)
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by peterashford 4mo ago
The guy who is on track for causing 9 million deaths? That guy is your example of someone who made the world a better place? The guy who supports far right groups, white supremacists, throws nazi salutes, pushes an AI that makes child porn
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by peterashford 5mo ago
Its a reference to an Onion article about gun violence in the US
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by peterashford 5mo ago
We've had deaths due to climate related storms in NZ now, and we haven't been hit anywhere near as hard as, say, Pakistan who had 1/3 of their country flooded in one go. And it's getting worse. That may not be human exti
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by peterashford 5mo ago
Climate change is the result of aggregate human actions. What we contribute per human is exactly the metric to use.
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by peterashford 5mo ago
Java EE is pretty darn retro right now, and it was never core Java
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by peterashford 6mo ago
This is exactly me. Been switched for 6 months. Loving it. I find I'm enjoying my computer so much more now that I feel it belongs to me rather than being an advertising surface for MS and their partners
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by peterashford 6mo ago
Hey! Thanks for responding to my comment. And welcome to HN!
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by peterashford 6mo ago
Even US Intelligence didn't believe they were close to getting a nuke. And given that they were in negotiations about controlling their nuclear program before the US attacked, it's hard to credit US foreign policy on this front
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by peterashford 6mo ago
Thanks for the feedback about inverters - I was unaware.
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by peterashford 6mo ago
I think that's the point about the lake Onslow project - its MASSIVE. So yes, expensive, but months of backup for the whole country would not be cheap even with batteries
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by peterashford 6mo ago
I wasn't saying its fine, I was saying it was a tradeoff. And I wasn't making an argument about Nuclear, either.
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by peterashford 6mo ago
Yup. What amuses me is that people think that decimate is to massively degrade something. I assume they're thinking "reduce to 1/10th" rather than "reduce to 9/10th". The effect is markedly different
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by peterashford 6mo ago
The literal meaning was removing 1/10
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by peterashford 6mo ago
And sun isn't uncommon. I was chatting with a person in Auckland, NZ. He said it was a cloudly day and he was producing much more solar power than he needed. His take: the panels are the cheapest part of the system so they just over-pr

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