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by renjimen 7mo ago
Having less garbage is a whole other issue. Small utility vehicles makes a lot of sense but doesn't seem to be the way it's done in NA. Maybe it’s a labour cost thing. But even the long haul trucks are huge here compared to the re
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by renjimen 7mo ago
I assume you're being a little obtuse. The comparison to wherever manufacturers phones and EVs is implicit. They are manufactured somewhere with looser environmental regulation than California, where they are purchased en masse. You ca
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by renjimen 7mo ago
> Not sure what the point of the website is I think it's just informative. I found it interesting at least. I formed my own conclusions from it.
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by renjimen 7mo ago
We can't do without garbage trucks though
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by renjimen 8mo ago
For every scientific discipline that is well represented across modern corporate labs there are a dozen that are not. Most "serious" research is not directly connected to making money.
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by renjimen 8mo ago
Individuals can of course make choices to reduce their emissions, Americans more than most since they're starting higher. Buy less new stuff, eat less meat, fly less, etc. But policy is where real change needs to be made, and the effec
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by renjimen 8mo ago
Climate doesn't care about political borders either. But per capita is more informative when thinking about policy for curbing emissions, which is how we actually change our effect on the climate.
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by renjimen 8mo ago
Not per capita. The US is still the worst large country. If you account for offshoring manufacturing then the US looks even worse. https://ourworldindata.org/co2-and-greenhouse-gas-emissions
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by renjimen 8mo ago
We're going to need to become a lot more creative about what and how we test if we're ever to reach dark factory levels. Unit tests and integration tests are one thing, but truly testing against everything in a typical project req
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by renjimen 9mo ago
I do VIU in Canadian Dollars to help balance my other "global" ETFs that are over-reliant on US. VIU: Vanguard FTSE Developed All Cap ex N Amer Idx ETF
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by renjimen 9mo ago
I'm not dumping US, but since Trump got back into power, all new investment goes into ex-US funds to help balance what was previously a portfolio over-reliant on US stocks. I'm based in Canada.
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by renjimen 9mo ago
> You can't prompt 99.95% uptime on Black Friday. Neither can you prompt your way to keeping a site secure, updated, and running. Uh, yeah you can. There’s a whole DevOps ecosystem of software and cloud services (accessible via infr
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by renjimen 9mo ago
If you have pre-commit hooks it should do this last bit automatically, and use your project settings
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by renjimen 9mo ago
It’ll also save time on both sides. My experience is that companies can be open to it but there’s no way to know without getting into the interview process
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by renjimen 11mo ago
It's both disappearing opportunities for physical play AND addictive platforms
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by renjimen 1y ago
Many argument the current batch of models provide a large capability overhang. That is, we are still learning how to get the most out of these models in various applications
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by renjimen 1y ago
Cursor and the agenetic IDEs are great for this kind of context control. Although designed for code, I’ve started using them for regular language, by converting large docs to broken-up plain text files (which it can do for you). Then you ca
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by renjimen 1y ago
Love this idea of branching chat history and visualising it as a knowledge graph. Also, the site looks very nice and works well on mobile. Wishing you success
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by renjimen 1y ago
But new models to date have cost more than the previous ones to create, often by an order of magnitude, so the shoe metaphor falls apart. A better metaphor would be oil and gas production, where existing oil and gas fields are either alread
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by renjimen 1y ago
Ah, I misunderstood the parent then :) Seems unintuitive to include audiobooks if they're interested in literacy though (literally their first motivation).
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by renjimen 1y ago
There's a large difference between reading a book and reading social media posts or news articles: books require hours of concentration to consume, have long-spanning arcs of plot or other structure, and require significant use of our
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by renjimen 1y ago
One of their primary motivations was understanding changes in literacy, so it makes sense they wouldn't include audiobooks (or podcasts).
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by renjimen 1y ago
Outer Wilds is amazing if you like puzzles and/or sci fi.
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by renjimen 1y ago
Seconded. And play Half Life 1 and 2. They’re arguably the best single player FPS games of all time.
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by renjimen 1y ago
But there’s an opportunity cost that needs to be factored in when waiting for a stronger signal.
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by renjimen 1y ago
You can self host an open-weights LLM. Some of the AI-powered IDEs are open source. It does take a little more work than just using VSCode + Copilot, but that's always been the case for FOSS.
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by renjimen 1y ago
The imbalance between content and consumers on the internet is huge and just getting larger with AI. My advice having just started creative writing: Don't publish on the internet. Share with family, friends and colleagues if you want.
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by renjimen 1y ago
The speed this can build makes me think software is soon to become a lot more fluid than our traditional iterative approach. Apps could ship minimal and build whatever else they need to at the user’s behest.
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by renjimen 1y ago
Xarray is great. It marries the best of Pandas with Numpy. Indexing like `da.sel(x=some_x).isel(t=-1).mean(["y", "z"])` makes code so easy to write and understand. Broadcasting is never ambiguous because dimension names
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by renjimen 1y ago
As a data scientist, my main gripe with all these AI-centric IDEs is that they don’t provide data centric tools for exploring complex data structures inherent to data science. AI cannot tell me about my data, only my code. I’ll be sticking

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