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by slashdev 3y ago
We don’t use rare earths in batteries. All the big manufacturers are moving from using nickel and cobalt to cheaper materials. There is tons of lithium on earth, that won’t be an issue, especially once we start recycling the batteries as we
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by slashdev 3y ago
The power plants are a lot more efficient, but it does require converting the electric grid over to renewables and nuclear. Natural gas is cleaner, but it’s a stop on the way to the destination, not the destination. We will also achieve tha
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by slashdev 3y ago
This article irritates me. Yes there are some emissions involved in mining and manufacturing to produce electric vehicles. No, it does not outweigh the emissions of the vehicle over its lifetime. That’s straight up FUD. I’d like to point ou
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by slashdev 3y ago
It's obviously not for the $100, that's just a small, round value to make it legal (some money has to change hands, even if just $1.) Likely the CEO explains that it's worth nothing, they're re-organizing things for such
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by slashdev 3y ago
Emergency broadcast isn’t quite the word. Canada also has a similar emergency broadcast mechanism. This is more like updates on an ongoing situation. Social media is a reasonable way to deliver that.
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by slashdev 3y ago
> What governments should be doing is set up their own social media servers sharing across all open protocols. An emergency broadcast that reaches nobody is just as useful as a tweet that doesn't go out. Maybe that changes one day,
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by slashdev 3y ago
Niche also means it will be expensive.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Meta is not the one at fault here. This is like blaming the garbage collector for you throwing out classified documents. Maybe they looked, maybe they didn't. But it's on you, not them. I mean it is on them too if they took advant
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by slashdev 3y ago
Except when it is. You'd be surprised what systems programming looks like. Reference counts are not re-used when memory is re-used. And again, even if for some reason you had a global 64bit counter that you incremented on every allocat
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by slashdev 3y ago
That is part of the reason they offer these services for free. Number one it's about supporting their ads businesses, but they also use it for other things to further their own objectives. People should stop using these analytics servi
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by slashdev 3y ago
Analytics is normal practice in any web application. However, using third party analytics in sensitive web applications is a bad idea. It is leaking private information, as you correctly point out. > Why are you straight up attacking the
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by slashdev 3y ago
If your program is allocating so much that you can exhaust a 64bit counter, you have a seriously bad program plus a serious memory leak. Exhausting the counter would be the least of your worries. Practically speaking you could never allocat
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by slashdev 3y ago
They didn't share financial information, they used meta and google analytics on their sites, which can leak financial information by showing what page the user was on (e.g. pages specific to certain deductions or benefits.) Most people
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by slashdev 3y ago
I questioned if the gain from the heat pump really exceed the losses from generation and transmission. It seems CC plants are 45-57% efficient, so let’s go with 50%. A gas furnace is from 80% to 95% depending how old it is. The heat pump wo
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by slashdev 3y ago
It’s much better than extracting it from the ground, hence carbon neutral. It is not carbon negative though. The article was reasonably well written, but I can see how you’d draw that conclusion if you only read the title.
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by slashdev 3y ago
That’s nonsensical, because you burn the methane and put the carbon right back into the atmosphere. It didn’t clean anything. It’s merely a carbon neutral form of chemical energy. H2, ammonia, methanol would be just as carbon neutral.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I guess we can’t escape it. Hopefully it’s not too harmful.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Agreed, copyright has gone too far. I hope the advent of AI serves to weaken it.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Ah, got it. That makes sense. Very reasonable tradeoff for an application server, which is embarrassingly parallel and holds little state.
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by slashdev 3y ago
One of the big reasons I left Canada is I didn’t like paying for the freeloaders. I didn’t like the high taxes. The other big reason was the insane real estate bubble that priced me out of the market. Between the two of those, I have better
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by slashdev 3y ago
This is objectively true. There are plenty of people who would rather have a meager lifestyle on welfare than have to work. You can argue what the percentage is, but you can’t deny that’s above zero.
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by slashdev 3y ago
I’ve used gevent, but I don’t remember this behavior. How does it prevent the GIL from being released when running Python code?
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by slashdev 3y ago
No, I wouldn’t call it cooperative threading, it’s still preemptive in that any Python thread can be switched with another at any instruction. That’s the same behavior as the operating system with the same potential for race conditions (exc
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by slashdev 3y ago
Correct. Python multi-threaded code is not magically thread-safe. What it did do is make C functions atomic, like dictionary and list methods, since they're implemented by C functions. The reason is the GIL is released and re-acquired
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by slashdev 3y ago
That’s a lot of resources for a low success rate though. The obvious question is could you get a better result using those resources elsewhere? Like education?
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by slashdev 3y ago
Who’s going to pay for that? Why would those people want to work if they can just freeload? There are serious problems with welfare programs. They’ve been the downfall of entire countries. Look at Argentina where the bloated government payr
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by slashdev 3y ago
It’s very low, lower than regular rehab, which is already not that effective.
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by slashdev 3y ago
Or, more likely, if people no longer need to work they no longer provide utility and are dead weight that needs to go. I don’t think work will go away, it will just change, maybe too quickly for people to keep up. Post AGI nobody knows. It’
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by slashdev 3y ago
Jocko Willink has a great quote on this subject: Rome wasn't built in a day. Everyone knows that. It took hundreds of years for Rome to reach its peak. But Rome also didn't fall in a day. It also took time, hundreds of
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by slashdev 3y ago
I've seen numerous findings that support this. It could just be cherry-picking, so do your own research. - High incidence of MS in northern hemisphere compared to low incidence near the equator. http://www.bandolier.org.uk&#

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