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by schneems 3y ago
Brawndo, it's got what plants crave.
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> So, while I agree that a solar farm needs virtually no safeguarding compared to a nuclear power plant, I don't think it would have any discernible effect in the overall state surveillance apparatus. This is the argument I suggeste
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The paper is not about absolutes and specifics: > nuclear makes states more authoritarian It is about relatives and the general: > adopting tech X will make it societies more Y So > I find that the evidence that nuclear power plant
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Yep, that’s where I was introduced to it.
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The point isn’t “nuclear makes states more authoritarian” the point is “adopting tech X will make it societies more Y”. Which I think it argues very successfully. So either you’re arguing that “no, artifacts do not have politics” which I do
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by schneems 3y ago
Whether pro or anti nuclear, one paper I feel every engineer should read is “Do Artifacts have Politics” that asks the question “divorced from creator or user intent, do inventions/technologies/artifacts contain and/or promot
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by schneems 3y ago
Dang. After all those “code ninjas wanted” posts I’ve invested all my character points into nunchaku skills.
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If the goal is to have a diverse economic mix of people to live in a city center, then let the results speak for themselves. If another city has the same goal and can achieve a better result with less resources then that’s worth considering
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by schneems 3y ago
> A learning thermostat, after training, does as good a job of maintaining the temperature if not better Maybe you’ve had more luck than me, I’ve hated every “smart” thermostat I’ve come across. If AGI is a bunch of smart thermostats in
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I’m very naive in this space. What percent of water extracted makes its way back into the water table and how long does it take? I assume you lose some to the plant that is harvested and some to evaporation. But how much makes it back?
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by schneems 3y ago
I feel this last paragraph accidentally explains it all > Please understand, gentle reader, I am all for creating hassles and headaches for the Empire. I just doubt that the Empire would have created so many for itself. The world of the
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by schneems 3y ago
Even at 15 years old you’re still a long way away from having a fully developed pre-frontal cortex. We used to think kids were like little adults, then we learned a bit about how the brain develops and how wildly wrong that mental model was
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by schneems 3y ago
About 8 or so years ago my wife and I were really excited to buy our first “adult” piece of furniture (read, not-ikea). And we found a leather sofa we loved the look of at West Elm. But it really sucked. Thankfully we had another room that
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Houston is by the coast. It is pretty damp and humid. More swamp than desert.
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I live in Texas. As soon as the sun goes away the temperature drops considerably.
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by schneems 3y ago
I recommend shellcheck as well. It might not catch your problem, but it will point out possible problems. Also I recommend: rewriting scripts in another language. At work we are converting bash scripts to rust and while it’s a high ramp-up
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If you do the ending pattern 8 times it becomes “shave and a haircut, two bytes”
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by schneems 3y ago
You are correct I meant QUIT https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/rails-unicorn
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by schneems 3y ago
Can it un-swap the behavior of SIGTERM and SIGKILL please?
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Bics on bikes? What’s next? Uniballs on unicycles?
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by schneems 3y ago
I’ve always dreamed of a social app that frog boils my brain to something useful. Like imagine mastodon, but posts start gradually transition to duolingo questions or paragraphs of a book I’m reading on kobo. My worry is that I would stop u
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The missing soundtrack to this article https://youtu.be/34CZjsEI1yU?si=HWSwnEf8o6_ehuo7
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> What difference does it make to us? Anything proven or disproven adds to our collective understanding. You could apply that new information to old or existing problems and possibly come up with new or useful results. Think “what would
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I’m very comfortable with AI in general but not so much with Machine Lesrning. I understand transformers are a key piece of the puzzle that enables tools like LLMs but don’t know much about them. Do you (or others) have good resources expla
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A union signup sheet.
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The sentiment from most of the replies, that others have to learn the way you did and that there’s not an accelerated way to learn a topic through explicit practice is deeply exhausting. Will people learn on their own? Yes. Is there a bette
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Unfortunately the English language makes me choose between completely conveying nuance at all times and being understood and upvoted (people prefer short and pithy over long and subtly more correct). I agree with your followup 100%. I didn’
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The forbidden sew-brew
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> Tucked under a Vancouver bridge, an energy centre sits on top of the existing sewage pumping station so heat can be captured before sewage reaches the treatment plant Seems like if they’re doing this right before a treatment plant that
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> avoiding imprecise or dual use terms like "waste." Reminds me of the Texas power grid failure due to being an energy market designed by ENRON (still is too!). Turns out the opposite of “efficiency” isn’t “waste” it’s “redunda

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