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by pyrale 1y ago
Fascinating how people can make "counterculture" into a contest between nation-states.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> rust sprinkle ”?” everywhere and wants to avoid dealing with the error You certainly must handle the error if you want your computation to continue. > golang is more explicit Not sure how golang is more explicit. In functor-based st
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by pyrale 1y ago
> Sounds great for you but how would that work if everyone would do the same? I guess we would be free from companies such as Meta and Google? Where do I sign up? You also seem to think that advertisement has no impact on alternative dis
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by pyrale 1y ago
Oh no, instead consumers pick products because of advertising. What an improvement.
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by pyrale 1y ago
Slowly begun? I’ve received this kind of email since their beginnings. The only reason they’re not #1 at this is that linkedIn does even more of it.
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by pyrale 1y ago
The ddg browser part is simple to explain: you followed a link that was generated specifically for this email sent to you. When you click it fb knows who you are (so they directly log you in), but also that you reacted to this specific clic
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by pyrale 1y ago
I didn't understand why UK government numbers [1] were different from ofgem's numbers, apparently the government uses mean electricity usage (total power use divided by # of households), while ofgem uses a "typical" numb
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by pyrale 1y ago
You're missing the point. A law in the process of being voted is up for discussion and political involvement. Once the law has been voted, you can still complain about it, but it is not wise to use the talks given to you by the regulat
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by pyrale 1y ago
> It is an argument made in good faith. Then I suggest you rework your "good-faith" discussion methods. You're answering a poster who explained how companies are onboarded to new regulation with a gotcha question about a l
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by pyrale 1y ago
The issue pointed out is that you're comparing average power use to maximum theoretical production. These houses are going to peak way above 500W. If you want to compare power use of a household averaged on a year to yearly production
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by pyrale 1y ago
The 1.5MW number is what the generator is rated for according to the company building them [1]. i.e. it's what it's supposed to produce in ideal conditions according to the spec. Or, colloquially, the nameplate capacity. > The
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by pyrale 1y ago
In 2025, the large commercially deployed wind turbines are like 15MW for offshore and 6MW for onshore. GE's 1.5MW models are 20 years old.
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by pyrale 1y ago
Well, with 6.5 GW for 2.5M households, you’re at a peak around 2.6kW per home. Assuming these turbines are always at nameplate production, which they are not, they produce 6MW. Spread among 7k homes, that’s less than 1kW, which is not a lot
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by pyrale 1y ago
1.5mw is likely a nameplate capacity for the turbine, not the actual output (which should be labeled in GWh per year). The article likely double-dips on this by saying that 6MW could provide for 7k homes, which it obviously can’t at peak us
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by pyrale 1y ago
Tech industry has been perpetually growing in the last decades. That means juniors are always a large share of the tech population, and as any demographic, some are bound to be clueless and still vocal. The issue is that in more stable indu
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by pyrale 1y ago
I used to Find the renaming a bit ridiculous, but in light of the sweeping platform changes, I find that making the distinction between twitter, the somewhat reasonable microblog platform and x, the far-right psyops operation is useful. Als
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by pyrale 1y ago
The thing is, we have plenty of examples where systems that are not labeled as ai vastly outperform humans at searching knowledge bases. A google-like search tool would probably be all you need for citations if 1) Google hadn’t killed accur
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by pyrale 1y ago
How much prompt engineering was required to have Musk say the same kind of stuff? The article points out the likely faulty prompts, they were introduced by xAI.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> One of the potential uses of AI that I have most wanted is automated citation lookup and validation. Also one of the things AI is likely the least suited for. best I could imagine an AI can do is offer sources for you to check for a gi
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by pyrale 1y ago
You mean, that hypothetical friend who wants to see this particular piece of art in situ so much but didn’t bother to plan their trip accordingly?
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by pyrale 1y ago
sci-hub suddenly becomes legal if all researchers adhere to one big company, apparently. After all, illegally downloading research papers in order to write new ones is highly transformative.
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by pyrale 1y ago
Completely agree with the author. > This is contrary to my belief that any digital design process should start with rough sketches, but move quickly into code and iterate from there. As a dev, this is the point I resonate with the most.
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by pyrale 1y ago
It is not a problem if the plant respects regulation and industry standards... which in this particular case doesn’t seem to be a priority.
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by pyrale 1y ago
I know right, why do people care so much about air pollution? It’s not like it kills anyone, right? What’s smog anyway?
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by pyrale 1y ago
> How do they handle piracy, unless they don't? So your point is that you need to fuck your paying customers in order to mildly annoy people who don't buy your games? Besides, the proposal doesn't even require you not to h
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by pyrale 1y ago
That is fine. Other companies will fill that void. There are plenty of small indy companies that make great single-player games, that could benefit from the attention.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> Think about it - what does the gaming industry look like 100 years from today? This is something we can answer pretty easily by looking at the book industry. People do enjoy novelty. The pulp sci-fi/fantasy from the 60s-80s is lon
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by pyrale 1y ago
e.g. Factorio. e.g. Hades. Both games available offline and DRM-free.
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by pyrale 1y ago
> If you like video games so much but don't like the terms of serivce and price, have you tried making your own? No need to go that far, there's plenty of games sold with better terms of service than the ones your company offer
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by pyrale 1y ago
I'm fine with that. Others will come and fill the void.

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