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by richardw 3y ago
EU obviously has many reasons to shift to renewables, but a huge amount of urgency was provided by the Russia/Ukraine war. There was both effort to shift supply to other countries, and reduce overall demand. "A regulation on co-or
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by richardw 3y ago
Agree, need to do this properly. What's a fair cap in our solar system? "Neptune’s winds are the fastest in the solar system, reaching 1,600 miles per hour!" What category is that? https://scijinks.gov/planeta
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by richardw 3y ago
Not a physicist, but my impression is that you're always going 0 percent of the speed of light (in all directions) from your own frame of reference. All you notice is that our solar system is moving away, faster. I guess you'd not
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by richardw 3y ago
I'm using "Freedom", which locks my Mac and iPhone and includes apps and websites and I think blocks notifications. I don't use it as much as I should, but I think it does the things you said? Not "default function
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by richardw 3y ago
I'll go with an example to demonstrate why that's not always enough. Many people are quite keen to know what this (for example) is actually doing: float InvSqrt(float x){ float xhalf = 0.5f * x; int i = *(int*)&
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by richardw 3y ago
I think it’s a smart option. Fair chance there was a LOT of thinking that went into it. For example, wondering about the characterisation of it with processing in the battery appliance. It would be “an expensive portable device with a dumb
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by richardw 3y ago
What about the dark web? It’s already not trying to be too visible and I assume many participants would be happy to jump through hoops. Or something crypto. Pay to your IPv6 address, or nodes must be IPv6. Or social network. Start with an e
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by richardw 3y ago
The auto industry is a competing use of oil, isn’t it? So halving demand is more likely to reduce prices. Car industry obviously helped to build the infrastructure but I think now that it’s there, fair chance there’s going to be a lot of oi
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by richardw 3y ago
Use it. It's going to sometimes accelerate your understanding hugely because you can interrogate it about a new area. It's also going to lie to you, quite often, and give you rubbish code / suggestions. Learn to figure out wh
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by richardw 3y ago
No, I just assumed they would exist. I’ve seen things like this: https://product.okfn.org/ But the product open data link is dead. So there is both 1) a need and 2) a reason it’s not ongoing. The idea is a lot smaller. Some
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by richardw 3y ago
It’s probably Bose as it’s printed directly on the rubber at the bottom. No other barcodes of any kind. Oh well, thanks for taking the time to reply.
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by richardw 3y ago
I'd like to recognise the QR code on my Bose speaker, which comes back with a serial number that GS1 doesn't recognise. I scanned the barcode on my TP-Link mesh router and GS1 doesn't recognise that either, because both have
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by richardw 3y ago
Thanks. I've seen the GTIN, but...no OpenStreetMap-like initiatives, for something so obviously useful? My question is just why nobody has persisted with this.
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Ask HN: Why is barcode data so hard to find?
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by richardw 3y ago
> I'm a Brit. You're talking to me like I'm an American. You got me. > whataboutery Since we’re slinging terms around: false dichotomy. I’m not arguing that they should have ignored it. Fix the specific issues without c
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by richardw 3y ago
Given you only want to measure US impact: The US lost more soldiers in the war on terror than people killed in 9/11. And spent by some counts $8 trillion. Compared to the threats posts by MAD, 9/11 was a rounding error and wasted
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by richardw 3y ago
Might well be true. But the advantage is still the ability to focus on a task indefinitely with no physiological impact, and clone a mind, and communicate between thousands of collaborators instantly with basically no lag or bandwidth limit
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by richardw 3y ago
Agree on the agreeing, and thanks for the Sam/John note - that's great :) No chance LLM's will get us there, I'm referring mostly to the general drive to reach AGI. I spend some of my mental cycles trying to think about
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by richardw 3y ago
Ok so propensity and outcome: Propensity: Risk doesn't imply a guarantee of a bad outcome. It means "if you put your five year old in the sea, their risk goes up". It doesn't mean "they will definitely die". Ri
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by richardw 3y ago
"Long. Term." Winters are seasonal. People are trying supersonic planes again. Rockets are improving again.
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by richardw 3y ago
That's like saying arrows are not nukes so don't worry we won't hurt ourselves. Focus on the unceasing progress we are surrounded by, not the level of current technology. Humans keep at it. We're all trying to unlock the
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by richardw 3y ago
Given history, it's infinitely more dubious to link our future safety to some idea of progress stopping for some reason. We'll have increasingly smart AI and your go-to position is that progress will...stop? It's literally he
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by richardw 3y ago
I keep thinking: this is what eg Google has done all along. The content it uses to train models and present the answers to us absolutely belongs to others, but you try get any content (eg maps data) out of it for free at scale. But the busi
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by richardw 3y ago
Progress in AI is one way. It doesn’t go backwards in the long term. As capabilities increase, the resources required to breach limits become available to smaller groups. First, the hyoerscalars. One day, small teams. Maybe individuals. For
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by richardw 3y ago
I fear the horse has very much bolted, carrying the door. Local models, state actors, foreign hyperscalars, very motivated private money. Given the “benefits” due to the winners, I expect a shitshow. This is with a voting community who does
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by richardw 3y ago
- Generate testimonial (I kid. Hope you do well with the app, just get some real testimonials in there if they aren't already.)
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by richardw 3y ago
My favourite, has website and app, is https://www.worldtimebuddy.com/ Simple no-clicking view. If I need to share a time range, it’s easy to select. Mobile app pics, one with with range selection: https://imgur.c
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by richardw 3y ago
I got an HTC TyTN once. I hated that phone so much. Keyboard slipped out, which I guess worked. It was the phone that made me religiously stick with Apple all this time. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTC_TyTN Before
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by richardw 3y ago
You think the GM and Ford gigafactories would have taken up the slack, ignoring the chance to milk existing ICE investments for another decade? The charging network would have spontaneously emerged and somehow been as good as what Tesla del
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by richardw 3y ago
We’re looking for the shreds of evidence. What would you prefer people do?

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