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by roryisok 4y ago
> driving a used car might produce more CO2 (Which the author is alluding to as being dirtier after X years of ownership) but has none of these secondary effects. You're comparing a new EV to a used ICE car. Brand new ICE cars have
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by roryisok 4y ago
heartBash
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by roryisok 4y ago
exactly what a bot would say!
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by roryisok 4y ago
oh great i'm gonna use this next time someone asks me
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by roryisok 4y ago
https://roryok.com/dystopia/ - a random dystopia generator in the style of a movie title sequence
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by roryisok 4y ago
I got stuck at #16 because it wouldnt let me progress past that point
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by roryisok 4y ago
Actually, to be honest, I don't know if I regret building it, really. Sometimes I find it comical that it has been such an enormous distraction, but it's also been very educational and rewarding, and probably much more of a succes
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by roryisok 4y ago
Which one are we talking about? Because for me its the middle one - mountains of US conservative propaganda masquerading as investment news, neither of which I have any interest in.
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by roryisok 4y ago
I've been using whisper from openAI to transcribe stuff this month, and its incredibly accurate. would be a good base for something like this
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by roryisok 4y ago
I built a distraction free writing app in 2012 to help me write, and it has been the single greatest distraction of all. it was successful, becoming the number one writing app on Windows store for years. I now have thousands of users, and i
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by roryisok 7y ago
Actually the estimates are that the Irish coast alone has enough potential wind energy to power all of the planet, during peak seasonal wind, and at least all of Europe during the less windy summer season. Building the infrastructure to tra
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by roryisok 8y ago
> Just nail fusion reactors and bam - energy too cheap to meter. Fusion reactors like ITER are still hugely expensive to build, so I don't think it'll quite be "bam" or "too cheap to meter". Builders of toka
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by roryisok 8y ago
> Also BECCS cost a land and water, something which will be a luxury when we are going from 7.5 billion to 10 billion people in 2050 This is going to be the biggest challenge. It's going to be a struggle to maintain biodiversity and
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by roryisok 8y ago
The problem in that solution is the "we" part. There is no global authority to take the responsibility or initiative, and nobody who wants to front the cost. It's so stupid that we have the technology and knowledge to save ou
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by roryisok 8y ago
Didn't someone try this in Canada with disastrous results?
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by roryisok 8y ago
Right now they do.
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by roryisok 8y ago
This passage caught my eye : > Researchers have estimated that sustainable use of biocharring could reduce the global net emissions of carbon dioxide (CO 2), methane, and nitrous oxide by up to 1.8 Pg CO 2-C equivalent (CO 2-Ce) per year
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by roryisok 8y ago
> To put it differently: If conflict were to break out in some region of the universe, could the relevant governing authorities respond soon enough for it to matter, for it to make a difference? Surely the relevant governing authorities
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by roryisok 8y ago
That was my first reaction. If I was pulled over in Ireland with no dash the car would be impounded . And the speedometer is great but what about the other info? Fuel gauge? Mileage? Battery Charge? Engine faults?? Geolocation won't h
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by roryisok 8y ago
> When I finished writing, I’d carry the puzzles to my commute or the shower, and I’d talk to people about them I do find myself shower-coding most days, but I never talk to people about it. There's never anyone else in the shower.
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by roryisok 8y ago
I built something similar a while back and billed it as "a note taking app that stores everything in .md files" or words to that effect. Use the banner feature to differentiate
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by roryisok 8y ago
The main reason you can't do that here is because notes are stored in a local files directory which couldn't be accessed by the browser without using java. Although there author also mentioned using Dropbox so I guess if you trust
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by roryisok 8y ago
I actually built something very similar as a UWP app but didn't get as far as you have with the feature set. The "no proprietary formats" thing is the most important to me. All files stored as markdown in a simple file struct
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by roryisok 8y ago
I agree. Saying your editor doesn't suck implies that all others do suck, which is just shitting on everyone's work. Don't be that person
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by roryisok 8y ago
Well great, I just did this last night. Goodbye HN.
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by roryisok 8y ago
> I’m really curious because I pretty much see a dead rock and humans under domes, in the far future. > Is there some other plausible outcome? Completely implausible. Who's going to pay for these "domes"?
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by roryisok 8y ago
Nice, been looking for an open source dictionary!
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by roryisok 8y ago
That's amazing. I had no idea data centers used so much!
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by roryisok 8y ago
> I'm culpable for what we are doing to this planet You didn't ask to be born, and you're doing your best to avoid harming the planet. You can't hold yourself responsible for the extinction of another species. Humans
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by roryisok 8y ago
Should mummy dinosaur have immediately drowned him in tar just in case?

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