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by pshc 4y ago
The Netherlands used to be car-centric in the 70s, but they cleaned up their act. Paris is banning cars in the center of the city. Policy choices and incentives drive these trends. The car industry and fossil fuel lobby have a crazy strongh
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by pshc 4y ago
In that case we’ll have to get an even bigger car to be safe. And now we all live in monster truck land.
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by pshc 4y ago
Try Flutter (Dart). Picked it up for a gig this summer. Strong typing, great performance, diagnostic tools are capable, instant hot reload, and it can be compiled for any platform. The main factor that might make or break it for your usecas
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by pshc 4y ago
Ultimately we have to ask ourselves what’s more likely, super intelligent aliens getting almost-caught sneaking around in the liminal zones of perception? Or human error, sensory fallibility, and ghost stories?
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by pshc 4y ago
Right? I've met thousands of people, maybe tens of thousands who have done psychedelics. The bad cases are just the most memorable.
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by pshc 4y ago
I’m sure you meant something more along the lines of “strncpy is better than strcpy”.
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by pshc 4y ago
This article is just apologism for the status quo. Nothing new here. > Memory allocation, array and string handling are often tricky, but with the right libraries and a sound memory strategy, it can be minimized. Such a handwavy deflec
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by pshc 4y ago
Everyone around me seems to be fixated on gas prices and bigger vehicles. It’s pure myopia.
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by pshc 4y ago
> For example, Wilbur and Orville Wright were quite aware that they stood a high chance of dying in their airplane experiments. Neil Armstrong figured that he had a 1:3 (or something like that) chance of dying going to the moon. The peo
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by pshc 4y ago
At least cleaning it up is an embarrassingly parallel problem, so if you had the resources to throw incentives at millions of casual gamers, you might make a nice dent on Clip.
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by pshc 4y ago
I see you’re trying to sneak XML into common use again. Haven’t we already suffered enough?
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by pshc 4y ago
My guess is that existing scripting languages don't mesh well with all the parallelized staged simulation, entity content systems, and lack of tracing GC that game engines like Unreal tend to have. I don't know much about Verse bu
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by pshc 4y ago
> Infura collects upwards of 80 percent of the fees that flow into Ethereum This is obviously false. Can you provide a source? What does the discouragement attack paper have to do with this?
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by pshc 4y ago
ethereum PoS finality is part of the mechanical consensus protocol and established every epoch or two automatically, vs Bitcoin “checkpoints” that were hardcoded into clients. not really comparable
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by pshc 4y ago
Even if you controlled 51% or even 67% of the staking power, you would not be able to “rewrite” the blockchain to give yourself free money. A common misconception. All state transitions must follow the rules of the chain.
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Ethereum Energy Consumption(ethereum.org)
74 points by pshc 4y ago|140 comments
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by pshc 4y ago
> it worries me that none of those porcelain-looking “K-pop” Ken dolls carries enough testosterone in their bloodstream Yikes. Go worry about your own T levels.
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by pshc 4y ago
Yeah, I infrequently get a “too many requests sorry!” backpressure error. Sometimes my votes get lost to this? And once in a blue moon, HN gets hammered by unusual traffic and becomes somewhat unusable while logged in.
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by pshc 4y ago
Yeah, I use it for most logins. Quite capable and entirely free.
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by pshc 4y ago
Often these side artifacts turn into a make-work time-sink. Stuck on a hard problem? Distract yourself with a new ToDo app. Fix the auto diagram generator. Honestly, freehand diagrams are best. You’ll exercise your own understanding of the
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by pshc 4y ago
> almost nobody can store and process the whole chain Maybe if you’re talking about Solana? Projects that actually take decentralization seriously (like Ethereum) ensure that you only need consumer hardware to run your own node, and ev
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by pshc 4y ago
Perhaps to avoid this issue, future versions of the model would throw an error like “bias leak: please specify a gender for the nurse at character 32”
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by pshc 4y ago
I think it is problematic, yes, to produce a tool trained on data from the past that reinforces old stereotypes. We can’t just handwave it away as being a reflection of its training data. We would like it to do better by humanity. Fortunate
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by pshc 4y ago
A blockchain without those properties might as well be a SQL database.
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by pshc 4y ago
This seems a little absolutist. These traits exist on a spectrum. Are personalities and minds really that predictable and non-malleable?
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by pshc 4y ago
A heroic dose of shrooms might be one vital component of a solution.
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A Decentralized Protocol for Remunerating the Open-Source Ecosystem(tea.xyz)
1 points by pshc 4y ago|0 comments
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by pshc 4y ago
Neal Stephenson in his book Fall riffed on a near-future like this, in which young people no longer rely on the recommendations of social media and news aggregators. Instead, they outsource their feeds to a mix of human and AI curators.
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by pshc 4y ago
We currently live in a car-infested inferno of a planet, what's the use in pointing out that people outside of urban centers often need cars? We still need to drastically and urgently reduce car dependence.
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by pshc 4y ago
OP might be living in the future a bit, because yeah, fees are still too high right now, and there's too much friction. For now. But in principle I agree. If you have a wallet set up and are used to using it, it's pretty quick and

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