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by rsynnott 2mo ago
“Everyone will simply do fraud” - it is a bizarrely immoral world that the LLMs seem to have unleashed on us. Tech was kinda heading that way anyway, but our friends the magic robots really seem to have turbocharged it.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
The EU AI Act requires them to do this. It would be pretty weird for them to say "we're not going to do this" while secretly doing it anyway.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
> Ganesh was active in Labour Students, the student wing of the Labour Party, having been inspired to join when he was 17 by Tony Blair's 1999 annual Labour Party Conference speech. In a 2001 interview with The Guardian, Ganesh desc
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
2005?! Delphi is from the 90s!
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
> Globalization has largely killed farming as a viable livelihood (in most of the EU at least) Honestly that was really primarily mechanisation and industrialisation. The number of people required to farm a given area of land has _plumme
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Might have been more. There were a lot of food additives in use in the early 90s which the EU subsequently banned.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
It was really more Johnson than Farage, though he was by no means the only mover. There had been a campaign to convince the British people that all their problems were down to the EC/EU since the early 70s. Remember, a lot of brexit vo
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Yeah, it's a bit confused. The map shows the EEA, not the EU.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Yeah, they may be defining 'freedom of expression'... interestingly. For instance, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT-free_zone - such freedom of expression!
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Ah, yes, when I think 'conservative', I think... revolutionaries?
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
It is fairly clear that all polling favours rejoining: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potential_re-accession_of_the_... Interestingly, the inflection point seems to have been within months of the UK actually leaving (wh
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
> They didn’t learn. Those That voted to leave are either dead now, or still think it’s right, but the uk was “holding it wrong” Recent polling shows that ~20% of Leave voters favour rejoining the EU, so, well, apparently some of them le
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
The UK was always, ah, _special_. Factions in the UK were propagandising for some sort of Brexit essentially since the UK joined the EC. That said, recent polling _in the UK_ shows a solid majority favouring rejoining the EU. About 20% of p
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Is this curtailment due to overproduction, curtailment due to inadequate _grid_ capacity, or some mixture? In Ireland there's now a _lot_ of curtailment, but it's mostly driven by inadequate grid capacity (wind power in particular
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
> I’ll be frank - I don’t buy this stuff because there are well funded agendas behind it. ... Hold on, you're worried about the vast economic/influence powers of the domestic appliance industry... but not the oil and gas indust
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
I think this is down to the American default of 120V power; 240V, while available, is more expensive to run there. A resistive/halogen stove running on 120V, assuming a non-absurdly-high-gauge cable, is going to be pretty terrible. In
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
My general impression of those big wide single-unit range things is that unless you're paying _silly_ money, you're getting a far worse product for the same money than normal separate cooktops and ovens. No idea _why_ this is, but
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
One thing I'd wonder about; my impression is that to some extent in the US, at least in some places, cooker extractor fans are treated as an optional extra, and that even where they exist recirculating (vs vented) ones are more common.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Hybrid batteries get much more of a work-out than BEV batteries, particularly light hybrids; they're tiny, and get a lot more discharge cycles.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Nissan Leaf went production-scale in 2010. There are still a surprising number of the very old ones around, even though the Leaf had a particularly _problematic_ battery by EV standards.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Eh, for cars _in particular_, people are quite resistant to doing the maths. If they weren't, then low-mpg cars would be almost unsellable. But people make decisions on cars quite weirdly.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
This is _very_ noticeable with buses. My local transport system uses a mixture of modern-ish (last 10 years) diesels, heavy/plugin serial-hybrid, BEV, and a small number of ancient (20 year old) diesels, all double decker. The BEVs are
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Generally, a gas central heating boiler should never exhaust inside the home _at all_. If it's doing so, that's problem.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Only in the US, really; some other countries have some sort of legitimisation of osteopaths, but the US osteopathic physicians are, as far as I know, unique.
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by rsynnott 2mo ago
Yeah, under most circumstances you're really going to struggle to hear much, because if they're going fast, well, there's a lot of wind, and _wind_ is noisy, too. They make _detectable_ noise, but under normal conditions it&#
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
> 1.2B gives you a 1-1.5GW nuclear power station Er... That seems optimistic. Even in China, which is the current world leader and has significant advantages of scale, nuclear capacity costs $2-3bn per GW. The most recent US construction
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
In rich countries, energy usage for a middle-class lifestyle isn't really rising anymore, and in some places is falling significantly (homes are _way_ more thermally efficient than they used to be, all appliances are more efficient, ca
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Here you go: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calaveras_Power_Station#J.K._S... - chimneys are 218m tall.
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
They're certainly not silent, but unless you're actually standing right under one they're rarely particularly noisy. Modern ones should be about 35 decibels at 300 meters distance. You're never going to hear an offshore
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by rsynnott 3mo ago
Ah, sometimes it can look quite nice, or at least striking. Though usually after end of life. The Tate Modern in London is an old power station, and a disused oil power plant in Dublin ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poo

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