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by pydry 7mo ago
While technically possible, given that the vast majority of the cost is capex and not fuel and given that it is already five times the cost of solar and wind when producing at 100% 24/7 , setting literal piles of cash on fire might
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by pydry 7mo ago
No, you couldnt. Nuclear power is not dispatchable.
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by pydry 7mo ago
>We can get far without worrying about the last 5-10%. The solutions for the last 5-10% could be fossil fuels in the short-term, long-duration storage as it matures, or easily storeable e-biofuels. I think a lot of people truly dont get
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by pydry 7mo ago
It's more that in the past widespread surveillance required a lot of people, many of whom will have a conscience which will end up disrupting your surveillance. The movie Das Lieben der Anderen makes this point very cogently. Nowaday
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by pydry 7mo ago
I worked for one company that used it. Everybody on the ground hated it but the costs of migrating away were enormous because every system they relied upon was tightly coupled to every other system. It would have been a multiyear project to
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by pydry 7mo ago
The reality is that most of the Ukrainian leadership is like Timur Mindich - furiously stashing away cash for the day when they inevitably have to flee to the west like he did. For now they are generally safe in Ukraine as Russia avoids b
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by pydry 7mo ago
>We could learn from our allies in Ukraine. Give them capital and manufacturing bases in America. The soviet union collapsed as a result of military overspending and massive supply chain corruption in an attempt to keep up with an oppone
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by pydry 7mo ago
The supporters of imperialism all about nonviolent protest and democratic principles if it seems feasible it could bring about US foreign policy goals: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47111067 Or, if an anonymous and u
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by pydry 7mo ago
There are many examples of people into homeopathy, chinese medicine and even witchcraft using an identical (not similar, identical) argument to the one you just used to push it.
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by pydry 7mo ago
What if the agent fucks up the better approach but does a good job of the worst approach?
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by pydry 7mo ago
No, but this stuff would magically stop being newsworthy if the DNC linked oligarchy couldnt or didnt want to use it as a stick to beat the RNC linked oligarchy. It's good that this ulterior motive exists but it's not something yo
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by pydry 7mo ago
Jensen Huang knows that this is a gold rush and that his job is to sell shovels. He's not stupid.
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by pydry 7mo ago
Executive FOMO disease is being exploited by the model providers to push for maximal token usage even when it is pointless. This includes encouraging people to set up elaborate multi model set ups (e.g. "gas town") for coding th
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by pydry 7mo ago
>The typical person is using LLMs not at all as it pertains to their daily life tasks. This doesnt track at all with my experience. Everybody is using it everywhere. Moreover people are using them for daily life tasks even when it is not
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by pydry 7mo ago
Jevons paradox only applies if demand hasnt already been saturated. The fact that public LLM usage is leveling off at a price of $0 and Jensen "we make the shovels in this gold rush" Huang is rather desperately claiming that you n
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by pydry 7mo ago
Theyre replacing both with solar. Germany never had a huge amount of nuclear power anyway and keeping it going was expensive. Fukushima was just what pushed them over the edge. Meanwhile in the UK rate payers are being forced to subsidize n
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by pydry 7mo ago
The last ~4% or so when the sun isnt shining, the wind isnt blowing, the batteries and pumped storage are depleted can be supplied via power2gas. Unlike pumped storage and batteries, Power2gas has poor round trip efficiency (40%) but unlike
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by pydry 7mo ago
Areas where solar is much less productive (e.g. Norway, Canada) tend to have lower population density, more abundant hydropower potential (which also means storage capacity) and more wind potential. So, the ratio of solar, wind and hydro
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by pydry 7mo ago
A deterministic layer linter would be better for this.
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by pydry 7mo ago
The irony is that your comment should be entirely inverted. Renewables are not rewarded way over the odds - in fact the ruling party banned onshore wind entirely and i remember them banning at least one offshore wind farm. Luckily it is
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by pydry 7mo ago
It takes time though and it's hard to anticipate geopolitical shocks like the war in Ukraine and Iran.
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by pydry 7mo ago
>It's not like "the price is fixed to the price of gas" is some iron law of nature. It kind of is. Gas is the only source of electricity currently which can be scaled up and down at will and on demand. Even once grids even
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by pydry 7mo ago
There is. The cost of my electricity changes every half hour.
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by pydry 7mo ago
They're oddly credulous of the shovel salesmen in the gold rush, too. E.g. when Jensen Huang said that you need to pair your $250k engineer with $250k of tokens.
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by pydry 7mo ago
This exact same thing (literally another german state i think) almost happened about 20 years ago and Microsoft freaked the fuck out. Thats where all the TCO nonsense came from - just one german state trying to de-microsoft. I think Microso
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by pydry 7mo ago
>Here I'm not ignoring you though I probably should. Yes it is not wise to out oneself as a genocide denialist - whether it's the holocaust or (in your case) gaza. >The choice of the word "genocide" for the civilia
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by pydry 7mo ago
>Those days people that hate Jews claiming they're "only anti-Zionists" That's mainly what the more racist zionists claim. Most genuine anti semites are up front about their distaste for Jews and they tend to be on th
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by pydry 7mo ago
>Did I cite Mitch McConnell? No, I did not You didnt cite anything so i googled to see whom or what you might be talking about and thats all that popped up. It turns your vague accusation only matched the equally vague accusations of a
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by pydry 7mo ago
Yes, anti semites exist but trumped up accusations of anti semitism against israel critics is still one of the most reliable indicators of a vehement islamophobe. And, they hate anti-racists almost as much as they hate muslims.
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by pydry 7mo ago
I would expect nearly all of these developers to be technologically sophisticated and for most of them to have tried AI asssisted coding and to be unafraid to use it if they thought it brought some benefit.

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