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by tuatoru 1y ago
In the context of an overall spend on energy around five trillion dollars, ten billion is 0.002.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
The massive expense is, in the scheme of things, actually quite small. But there's no "there" there with fusion energy: the lower bound on its cost is the cost of fission energy.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Apple could afford to hire a bunch (10K? 50K?) of people to participate in multi-year user studies to mostly sort this out.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Use Diceware[1]; keep your passphrases on a piece of paper where you keep your other valuable pieces of paper. Advice I got soon after discovering the internet in 1994; still valid. 1. Not the online pseudo-diceware stuff, real dice.
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by tuatoru 1y ago
You are right, the explanation is glossed over. Perhaps because it is so simple: what matters for passwords is length. No other complexity metric (codeset, whatever) is even in the same race. Personally, my passphrases are seven words or mo
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by tuatoru 1y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siphonaptera_(poem) Big edge cases have little edge cases that require their own code / and those edge cases have smaller edge cases with yet more code. My shorthand is "the real
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by tuatoru 1y ago
I don't have the reference, but I read recently that incels are much less violent than average, and especially so towards women. Makes sense, because they stay in ther parents' basements. The real effect will be economic rather th
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by tuatoru 1y ago
Stethoscopes are an example where tech can help and is helping. Some sounds (a slightly leaky heart valve, say) are subtle and easily missed, especially if there is traffic outside the doctor's surgery or other noise. Even with good ea
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Nice to know that the UK Supreme Court has decided that 'woman' and 'sex' refer to biological concepts.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
I thought TFA was saying something important, but after reading it, it seems meaningless.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Security is not provided by having stuff, it's provided by having the capacity to make stuff. Importing now does not increase security. Edit: one thing the Trump-Vance administration has done is tear through the tissue-paper screen of
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Find the blockheads. (From Samuel Johnson's "no man but a blockhead ever wrote, except for money".
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Check out "The Price is Wrong" by Brett Christophers[1]. It explains at length that what matters is not price, but how profitable an investment is. And how wind and PV don't look great without subsidies in various guises. 1.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
One example action is not enough evidence to be able to use "completely". More data required.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Fractal branching structures (trees), which maximise radiating surface area, don't make good pressurised vessels.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Contradicted by comparing the performance of the the US and UK economies over the 21st century. Why do people write fantasy in these journals? 1. https://www.economicshelp.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Please engage with the data presented rather than the person presenting them.
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An Inconvenient Truth: Net-Zero won't save the environment (video)(youtube.com)
3 points by tuatoru 2y ago|2 comments
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by tuatoru 2y ago
I loved Spike, back in the day. High quality rust-porn, like Gormenghast [1]. I had no idea it was still available. Thanks for submitting this! Edit: If you like Spike Japan b/c Japan, you may also like Ken Seeroi's memoirs[2]. 1
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by tuatoru 2y ago
It is worth harking back to the Mertonian Norms of science[1], and seeing how we're doing. > The four Mertonian norms (often abbreviated as the CUDO-norms) can be summarised as: communism: all scientists should have common own
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by tuatoru 2y ago
The US is irrelevant. This is about the big coal-using countries.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
The one useful feature of syntax highlighting is easily distinguishing code from comments.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
This submission has an aspect that is relevant to this community: cybercrime. And Brian Krebs. So it is unlikely to be flagged.[1] Auditing the Pentagon, to take one example that I flagged, has very little tech relevance. This is not a site
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Making flights more expensive would also address the ATC shortage, by reducing workload. Good idea. (Econ 101 again: increased price -> reduced demand, i. e. fewer flights.)
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by tuatoru 2y ago
"You're holding it wrong"?
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by tuatoru 2y ago
No, not directly. but I've been reading news items about how military recruitment is falling well short of goals, and how traditional pools from which recruits are drawn are now ignoring recruitment offers.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
solve (make me a sandwich) Moravec's Paradox is still a thing.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
Now generalise this to education, and healthcare, and logistics.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
The fact that it was done in the first place is widely known and would discourage many from even considering a career in ATC. The negative effects are still in play. The same for military recruitment.
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by tuatoru 2y ago
> The world’s most valuable resource isn’t data, compute, oil, or rare earth metals; it’s dopa, i.e., the fuel of the addiction economy, which runs the most valuable companies in history.

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