rickydroll

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by rickydroll 6d ago
Why would you measure transactions by the distance between Earth and the Sun?
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by rickydroll 10d ago
Look at the National Guard model. I'm also thinking that if we made it a regular thing, like the draft, employers could be required to hold the slot open for the person after they've done their tour of duty. However, as I think ab
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by rickydroll 10d ago
I suspect my opinion on this won't be very popular, but it's like driving a car. If you're going to learn how to drive four wheels, you should start by taking the motorcycle safety course and learn on two wheels first. We can
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by rickydroll 11d ago
today, the r9700 is 1800$ at micro center :-( so payoff is around 2 months?
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by rickydroll 11d ago
The gimmicky episodes were highly entertaining to my decidedly non-Trekkie wife. She loved the Star Trek Muppet episode ("Star Trek in Spaaaaaace") and the soap-opera episode. As for taking the show seriously, I don't take an
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by rickydroll 12d ago
The fundamental question is: why should I use Jabber? What's the use case that makes it better than WhatsApp, Signal, et cetera? My most-used messaging app is SMS because if you have a cell phone, you have SMS. Example this morning is
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by rickydroll 14d ago
I also like the idea of pacing the frontier and slowing down development so we all have a chance to stop and catch our breath. However, I don't think regulating AI is the way to do it. I would tackle the problem by constraining the res
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by rickydroll 14d ago
Whenever someone talks about regulation, I always have the same question: How do you enforce it? How do you keep companies from using the replaced talent as a seat warmer? Hire 1 or 2 accountants, give them a chair and a cubicle, and let AI
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by rickydroll 16d ago
It's not at all scary. I know some of my ideas are poorly remembered copies of other people's work. Whenever I'm trying to build something, I spend time going through technical journals on the topic to see who invented it fir
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by rickydroll 16d ago
I try to keep only 3 or 4 of the same cable, and if one gets damaged, I throw it away after the fourth or fifth time I look at it and wonder if I can fix it.
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by rickydroll 17d ago
The basic argument is extremely simple: - goats can, depending on context, pursue a task with complete disregard for humans/values - In the future, goats will have enormously more means and smarts - A goat could then assess that humans
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by rickydroll 25d ago
good points, using the grid as an export sink, incurs externalities. the choice is to pay them by accepting the net-metering rate or avoid them by running a zero export system.
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by rickydroll 26d ago
That's why I said kinda. Strictly speaking, you are right. They don't own your system. However, to me if somebody controls what you do with your electricity I.e export or curtailed, you don't own the the work product of your
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by rickydroll 26d ago
An alternative would be a local tax on generator hours.
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by rickydroll 26d ago
They kinda do via net metering tariffs and curtailment. I'm a big fan of 0 export systems as a way to keep more for yourself. Now if one could get spot prices and sell your power then...the system gets more interesting.
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by rickydroll 26d ago
Yes, a carbon tax would go a long way, but I think a broader view is to look for ways to use taxes to shift externalities back onto the organizations that created the problem. For example, data centers (a popular demon). The two main extern
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by rickydroll 27d ago
That's a really good point. I've seen some work on retaining moisture in the desert, and if memory serves, the successful ones create small check dams to retard water flow down a watercourse, giving it time to soak into the ground
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by rickydroll 27d ago
And they've been through significant financial and organizational chaos for probably 10 to 15 of those years. I really do hope they succeed and get a product out there. It would be a big win for a large group of people.
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by rickydroll 27d ago
Interestingly, back in my ill-spent youth, a few of my fellow astronomers and I were out in a very, very dark-sky location in the late 70s/early 80s, and we were able to consistently count and draw between 9 and 11 stars. Although we w
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by rickydroll 29d ago
You're probably right. I may have flipped the scale. I see most of what you describe in level 2 combined with significant difficulty being flexible. At the same time, he writes very well expressing his emotions and insights. He can han
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by rickydroll 29d ago
That's a good correction. Heck, leaving space for the child to grow up and have their mom when they need them and not helping if it is not asked for is difficult at times. From my admittedly limited experience, the parent and child hav
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by rickydroll 29d ago
It's one of those choice not choices. I love my partner a lot. We bought a house together with a great yard with a significant fruit and veggie garden. Separating would be significantly destructive / damaging on both a personal an
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by rickydroll 29d ago
Yeah, it does suffer but we make a conscious effort to find the positive things in our relationship and life. No, I do not have any children of my own. I am thankful for that because my ex-wife apparently was also autistic but not diagnosed
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by rickydroll 29d ago
He's never been classified that way as far as I know. I would say somewhere between level 1 and level 2. He writes very well. But speaking person to person, not so good. And as I described, there's significant rigidity in his beha
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by rickydroll 29d ago
You raise a good point. If nothing is special, what's our motivation, our purpose? Maybe our purpose becomes being comfortable with no purpose, and I am surprisingly okay with that. I know that my existence is finite, and the time I sp
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by rickydroll 29d ago
I live with a child who spends entire days with videos on his tablet. We can't take him anywhere because if the trip differs from what we told him (trip duration or locations), we have to abort the trip to prevent a meltdown. His infle
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by rickydroll 1mo ago
I interpret it as they think they can find treatments that will course-correct the development of a child, but they're not saying anything about fixing something that's already broken.
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by rickydroll 1mo ago
How can you ignore the 80%? Without it, you can't ship, and the 20% won't do a damn thing.
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by rickydroll 1mo ago
Well, if you throw a long-winded prompt over a fence and tell the agents to work it out on their own, yeah, you will spend a lot of time reviewing it. But if you use it as a form of pair programming and keep your scope of focus constrained,
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by rickydroll 1mo ago
The funny thing about that is, I would argue, the opposite. Much of what happens in software is like a factory producing goods. I've worked on many projects at many companies; 80% of the code was written some variation of what I'd

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