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by sambeau 2y ago
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting . That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity. Off-Topic: M
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by sambeau 2y ago
The issue isn't current electricity use—it's current power use and most power used isn't electricity (by a factor of 4-5x).
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by sambeau 2y ago
Especially, because most energy used is currently not electricity:it fossil fuels. We need 4x for a zero-carbon grid and to be secure we need over a week's stored electricity: 10s of TWh. The plan for the UK grid has 50 Two in it. Will
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by sambeau 2y ago
To secure the grid in a zero-carbon world, we need to supply 4-5x as much electricity and be able to run without renewable generation for over a week.
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by sambeau 2y ago
No-one wants to listen to a Jazz band with bad players. A good band leaders hires great players and lets them shine.
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by sambeau 2y ago
Jazz Bands have band leaders, they choose the players, the tunes and lead the concerts.
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by sambeau 2y ago
Of course—that's how a Jazz Band works.
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by sambeau 2y ago
My metaphor for product leadership is a Jazz Band: step back and let your players shine.
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by sambeau 2y ago
Pumped Hydro and battery storage are a drop in the ocean of the amount of storage needed to secure the grid, especially as people shift to electric cars.
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by sambeau 2y ago
Isn’t this likely to add to global warming by adding huge amounts of heat into the atmosphere at night, when it would normally be radiating it away? It also has the potential to disrupt local ecosystems with light and heat pollution.
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by sambeau 2y ago
I thought this was stupid. Then I tried it. It's awesome. I can't tell you why, but there's something about it that, I guess, has been programmed into my brain over decades. Great work.
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by sambeau 2y ago
I am writing children's books. One mantra I try to keep to is to make my chapters ~15 minutes long when read aloud by a parent at bed time. This gives them the ability to be consistent in their bedtime routine. This way children don&#x
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by sambeau 2y ago
Most techie people I know have an Apple TV, most of the others have a Chromecast. I'm in the UK, I don't know if that makes a difference.
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The Capacitor Plague(en.wikipedia.org)
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by sambeau 2y ago
"Hello, Bignose!"
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by sambeau 2y ago
I worked at Realtime Worlds, maker of Crackdown. In the first week of joining I was privileged to attend a small talk where Hugh Malan explained how he rendered the skybox. It was fascinating, if somewhat over my head. I still think that Cr
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by sambeau 2y ago
In parts of the UK it's often called 'tig' in the US and other parts of the UK it's called 'tag'
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by sambeau 2y ago
In parts of the UK it's often called 'tig'
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by sambeau 2y ago
It occurred to me recently that tig/tag has probably been passed down through oral tradition from child to child for millennia. It's possible that it's older than homo-sapiens, older than the taming of fire. Millions of years
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by sambeau 2y ago
Here's the paper if you'd like to skip the horribly ad-laden science alert site. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41531-024-00724-z
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by sambeau 2y ago
I think you have that the wrong way round. They are the way they are as a result of play. Play is fundamental to their adult behaviour.
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by sambeau 2y ago
<3
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by sambeau 2y ago
If only I still had it. It was literally printed out and put in a plastic binder. I think it was written on a Sun Sparcstation in LaTeX.
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by sambeau 2y ago
This is interesting. I came up with a very similar idea in the late 1990s to JIT a lazy functional language. The idea was to only compile the code that you needed to execute next, so you could run lazy code without needing to compile it (re
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by sambeau 2y ago
This is a rather good YouTube documentary about it. "Bionic 3rd thumb: The future of human augmentation | Hard Reset" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ba4YklRq0Po
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by sambeau 2y ago
A film literally about the consequences of a young fish 'booping' a boat. Ah, is it because Orcas aren't fish?
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by sambeau 2y ago
My rules on code duplication: - For code in different files you get 3 - For code in the same file you get half a dozen - For code in the same function you get more like a dozen - For code in a single repeated block you get as many as you wa
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by sambeau 2y ago
They knew what they were doing. It would be funny if it wasn't so common.
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by sambeau 2y ago
>scratches meet the needle once per revolution, regardless of the needle's position I need to go away and think about that :D
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by sambeau 2y ago
Or the plot to Finding Nemo

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