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by tzs 4mo ago
What is significant is production of batteries for grid storage. In 2020 and earlier domestic production in the US was under 10 GWh per year. Incentives from the Inflation Reduction Act let to a big increase in that. By 2025 it was 70 GWh p
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by tzs 4mo ago
Unless I made a wrong turn upthread, I think the context was alternatives to US cloud services like AWS for organizations that are trying to develop their own frontier or near frontier models. My understanding is that Bedrock is for those w
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by tzs 4mo ago
An ongoing business that intends to remain ongoing has to charge current customers based on the replacement cost of consumable items used to service those customers. That's why for example gasoline prices react almost immediately after
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by tzs 4mo ago
Are you referring to the services offered or just to the number of servers available?
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by tzs 4mo ago
Aren't you assuming that current approaches to AI won't plateau? There's only so far you can push things before you need breakthroughs that give new approaches and when that happens it is often a new playing field.
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by tzs 4mo ago
I don't see any evidence that the level of fear of needles is different now from what it was 10, 20, 30 or more years ago, so it is hard to see how it could be a significant factor in falling vaccination rates now.
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by tzs 4mo ago
> Every single urban area in Texas is now heavily aligned with the Democratic party, and the vast majority of those areas are affordable places to build a life and build wealth. How much does that matter with the state legislature firmly
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by tzs 4mo ago
Are we talking about life expectancy at birth, or life expectancy of the current population? If the later I'd expect Florida to get a big boost because so many people retire there.
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by tzs 4mo ago
Only around 1% or less of graduates from top schools (the Ivy League, MIT, Caltech, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, etc) end up with 6 figures of debt. In the Ivy League about 80% graduate with no debt. At top non-Ivy League schools average de
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by tzs 4mo ago
(Spoilers ahead for the first few minutes of "Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse") After I watch a movie for the first time I like to check out a few YouTube reaction channels to see their take on it. They sometimes catch interes
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by tzs 4mo ago
> I don't understand the negativity here Most of the commenters are experienced programmers, and like many experienced programmers have largely lost the ability to think about things in non-binary terms. You see this on most threads
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by tzs 4mo ago
I was curious how people working on self driving cars handle the large variation in local and region traffic laws and did a bit of searching. For example in some places a car making a turn that will cross a bike lane is required to merge in
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by tzs 4mo ago
There's also the issue of scaling. Say you can make the engineering work for building a data center in space. Nobody wants to build just one, or even just a handful. Musk has talked about 10000 launches a year for deploying and maintai
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by tzs 4mo ago
It has definitely been a crazy few months for prices. On 2025-12-18 I bought a RPi 5 kit on Amazon from CanaKit that consisted of an 8 GB Pi 5 with the official RPi 5 256 GB SSD, case, fan, 45W power supply, and some cables which came fully
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by tzs 4mo ago
About Britain:> 1/10th of the population are on a waiting list for care. 1/10th have done DIY dental work 1/10th the population of Mississippi does not have health insurance. 55% of adults in Mississippi over 65 have lost
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by tzs 4mo ago
That makes no sense whatsoever. Thought experiment: Household #1 uses 7 kWh of electricity per day. They install a solar + battery system that produces 7 kWh per day, covering 100% of their use. This costs them $C, and the reduction in the
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by tzs 4mo ago
The US is a large country with a large economy and a very diverse economy. It is probably not feasible for Congress to deal with the low level details of managing all that.
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by tzs 4mo ago
And then most users soon have given permissions to a ton of apps with sketchy records of protecting user data, so what was the point of even trying to protect privacy?
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by tzs 4mo ago
Would that be allowed under EU law? Apple is building a system that is more private than EU law requires. If they tell say Facebook that Facebook can integrate in but first must meet the same more than is legally required standard Apple i
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by tzs 4mo ago
That's not a third option. It is the second option they listed.
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by tzs 4mo ago
The function call approach can be a lot less readable. Consider using Shamir secret sharing to share a secret, D, among several people with two people required to recover the secret. D is a positive integer, such as a randomly generated 128
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by tzs 4mo ago
I too have seen conflicts between CarPlay and the radio. My car's a Hyundai. I mostly listen to the radio, with an occasional trip where I instead listen to a podcast or music via CarPlay. What I've found greatly helps is when I f
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by tzs 4mo ago
In MCU land you can definitely listen to and decode OTA sensor data without using something as powerful as an RTL-SDR. Consider common consumer wireless indoor/outdoor thermometers which have a temperature sensor you place outside and
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by tzs 4mo ago
That doesn't seem very persuasive. The one example of a non-A GI we have, humans, does the same thing. We've been offloading arithmetic for at least 4000 years.
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by tzs 4mo ago
I’d love to see a discussion just like this one except with everyone including how much the AI use cost.
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by tzs 4mo ago
> When the economy is growing, investment makes sense. Why put your money under the mattress when it could be out there, working for you? > When the reverse happens, investment stops making sense. Why risk your money when it becomes w
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by tzs 4mo ago
A similar effect with human controlled switches happened once, according to a story I heard about a prank some people pulled on a student a few years earlier in the house I lived in as an undergraduate at Caltech. The target of the prank li
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by tzs 4mo ago
Sometimes it works out opposite. Freakonomics talked about a man in NYC who named one of his sons "Winner" and then another son a few years later "Loser". Winner ended up as a homeless petty criminal. Loser ended up a NY
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by tzs 4mo ago
> Median pay for SWEs according to ZipRecruiter is $118k, which is $40k in 1987 USD (the year the person in the article started). That's using CPI inflation to compare pay across years. I've heard it suggested that for comparin
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by tzs 4mo ago
This sounds similar to relational databases vs document oriented databases, at least when I briefly looked into database like MongoDB when such things were all the rage 15-20 years ago. For the internal web site that customer support people

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