toasty228

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by toasty228 1mo ago
That far north batteries and solar don't make much sense in winter, by the time you can cover three cloudy winter days you'll generate enough energy in summer to be legally considered as a small local electric plant.
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by toasty228 1mo ago
80% of panels are made in China, if they were all so terrible I doubt they would dominate the market so much
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by toasty228 1mo ago
If anything it'll speed up their progress by forcing local solutions. https://www.heise.de/en/news/DeepSeek-orders-160-000-Huawei-...
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by toasty228 1mo ago
They have such a weird and outdated view of China, it's almost comical. It's like America's answer to everything bad coming to them is protectionism. They still think China is a third world country with a bunch of factories a
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by toasty228 1mo ago
Wait until a blue one does it
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by toasty228 1mo ago
It took 200 years of industrial revolution to irremediably fuck up our paradise, sadly it would take much longer to terraform a dead rock to even 1% of what we had on earth
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by toasty228 1mo ago
Same, I recently upgraded to a similar car but slightly different segment, same brand. I couldn't find any data about it, I asked llms and they all told me given the available data the cabin size should be basically the same in term of
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by toasty228 1mo ago
Someone has to lie somewhere. We're supposed to all be 10x more productive yet it has no effect on the economy? Where is all the productivity going?
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by toasty228 1mo ago
You might want to read the whole comment, renewables are only cheap now because every single step of their creation involves fossil fuels. Once everyone wants 60kg of lithium in their car and 100kg for they're home we'll quickly r
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by toasty228 1mo ago
The insiders that said every tech workers would be unemployed in 6 months and every white colar would be unemployed in 12 months like 2 years ago? The insiders who are about to file for IPO? I'd trust anyone but them personally
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by toasty228 1mo ago
> You can definitely replace petroleum for many of the things you listed - or find alternative technologies that don’t require it. You can live without plastic bags or plastic clothes for instance. Not really, not at this scale, or this
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by toasty228 1mo ago
We're an energy civilization entirely built around fossil fuels, mostly petrol, on top of that we "optimized" everything to the max, which means any little inconvenience will now break several systems/sub systems. We&#x2
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by toasty228 1mo ago
Monday: Skynet is coming next week Tuesday: oopsie we ran out of compute Wednesday: btw we should really slow down or _something_ Thursday: anyone got $7b to loan? Friday: we just cured cancer (maybe?) Saturday: We just invested 5b in nvidi
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by toasty228 1mo ago
Reddit is probably 80% bots by now, you thought wrong
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by toasty228 1mo ago
Why would you bring sea water if you're hundreds of km away from the sea? Either the entire world is stupid and has been for decades and you're a genius. Or your 5 minutes take on the subject is completely unrealistic and you&#x27
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by toasty228 1mo ago
If you can't do that it definitely is a sign you don't exercise anywhere close to enough, I know 80+ years old who could still do this
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by toasty228 1mo ago
It was a real workload from my day job, a modest merge request, I asked for a review and for an implementation plan to fix the findings, nothing crazy. It's the most simple thing I could think of that wasn't an artificial benchmar
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by toasty228 1mo ago
> You are not wrong, but there is no reason to assume that things can't change. No reason to assume that we can change either. 99.99% of progress we enjoy today came from burning non renewable shit, if you think we can change paradi
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by toasty228 1mo ago
There are plenty of places built around water for obvious reason which are now experiencing droughts at an increased rate... It's not a problem for most of us yes, but it's a problem for more and more people. https://ed
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by toasty228 1mo ago
Ah ok, then drought aren't a problem I guess? Guess what happens when you pump ground water faster than rain water replenishes it? Guess what climate change is disturbing? This your your typical HN take, aka "I thought about a ran
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by toasty228 1mo ago
I'll tell that to the dude who pees in my staircase every other week, I must be just confused and too rich to understand.
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by toasty228 1mo ago
Sure buddy, now go make me a solar panel without using fossil fuel, including mining, refining, processing, etc.
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by toasty228 1mo ago
Most clothes, food, medicine, every bit of plastic you own, the tools used to make your heat pump, the rebar in your apartment walls, etc. none of this exists without fossil fuel, or at least not at this price/scale
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by toasty228 1mo ago
I'd wager 90% of things you own and do wouldn't exist without fossil fuels, including your heat pump and your apartment
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by toasty228 1mo ago
Looking at physical markers Europe has been in degrowth for 20 years, less things produced, less sqm of new building, less tonnes transported by freight, the GDP is saved by maths tricks and hopium
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by toasty228 1mo ago
Unless you're ready to give up on a lot of convenience this is just not happening.
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by toasty228 1mo ago
There is no clean energy, we don't know how to build any of the "clean energy" harvestors without using massive amount of fossil fuel.
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by toasty228 1mo ago
Every single article and banchmark say pi saves token by default, the more I add extensions the more token hungry it gets. pi used 2-3x the tokens of codex. pi with subagent pkg used 8x-10x the tokens of codex. I don't see how adding b
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by toasty228 1mo ago
A bit off topic because I'm not using local models, but I recently benchmarked codex vs pi vs omp with my workload and found codex to be both faster and more token efficient than pi/omp. There was not a single case for which pi wa
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by toasty228 1mo ago
It's web only? No cli?

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