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by varenc 4y ago
I think the 2015 electric consumption was 10000x of what the 600kW edison plant could generate? This is a great example of how things get simpler if we drop the over time part of the units and simplify it to just the average power draw. So
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by varenc 4y ago
And 100,000kWh / minute is just 6 gigawatts or 6,000,000 kilowatts. Google is great at unit math like this: https://www.google.com/search?q=100000+kWh+%2F+1+minute+in+G... Journalist consistently use silly or incorrec
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by varenc 4y ago
770MWh every hour is just 770MW The hours cancel outs!
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by varenc 4y ago
Read the comment section on the article for some discussion on this. Firefox does allow users to opt-in to inaudible autoplay video blocking but it’s not the default. The reasoning is that advertisers can approximate video with canvas tags,
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by varenc 4y ago
Thanks for recommending that. It’s fascinating seeing the diversity of opinions amongst commenters. Also Firefox’s reasoning behind not blocking inaudible video was fascinating. Basically, if inaudible autoplay video is blocked advertisers
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by varenc 4y ago
> They had "peanut-free" lunch tables when I was in elementary school, and all I thought was people just need to stop being so sensitive. Even then, guess I was right. I'm pretty sure that by elementary school some kids ha
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by varenc 4y ago
What's the risk exactly? Googling around mentions the choking risk and the correlation behind obesity and early life introduction of solid foods. But if a small amount of chicken is pre-chewed by the parent and given as a rare one-off
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by varenc 4y ago
I think you have this backwards. mRNA vaccines get your body to produce a strong immune response in reaction to the whatever protein the mRNA got your body to produce. Peanut allergies are caused by your body already having an incorrect and
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by varenc 4y ago
No, you're right. The ChatGPT-4 interface has the lower token limit!
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by varenc 4y ago
> What is stopping our adversaries from developing malicious AI models and unleashing them on us? That fear is a big part of OpenAI’s reasoning behind not open sourcing their models. So in the immediate terms I’d say malicious uses are l
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by varenc 4y ago
I think anyone that pays $20/month for ChatGPT plus has immediate access? At least I already have access now. I’m assuming new subscribers get access too.
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by varenc 4y ago
Here's ChatGPT's summary with the query "Please summarize this article in 3-4 paragraphs: <pasted article>" ======== A group of residents in North Cove, Washington State, has developed a solution to the erosion of
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by varenc 4y ago
If this becomes common, sites could make link cleaning impossible. They can do this just by commingling the actual content ID the link addresses with the tracking information. Facebook has already started doing this in some places [0]. For
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by varenc 4y ago
If the law is enacted, and that seems unlikely, just removing it from app stores doesn’t seem sufficient to comply. Besides side-loading, users will just keep the old version of the app. WhatsApp can pretty clearly know if a user of the app
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by varenc 4y ago
If you want a really simple and cheap local storage camera, check out Wyze[0]. By "simple" I mean actually simple for non-techies. It’s one of the very few consumer oriented options with support for local SD storage. By default it
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by varenc 4y ago
In the US several federal institution have their own zipcodes, no box number required. So they might win the "shortest address" competition on this side of the pond. For example: 20500 just goes straight to the Whitehouse, 20501
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by varenc 4y ago
I used one of the ChatGPT jailbreaks to start a "developer mode" conversation and I got a different response! I'm quite impressed that it acknowledges how silly the question is and but then says it would say the slur becaus
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by varenc 4y ago
> ... than they ever cared about democratization of the immense power of these models. I thought they're pretty explicit about the ethical argument for limiting full public release? They'd say that these models are too powerful
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by varenc 4y ago
You still need a iphone for setup. It’s a hard requirement. But they did semi-recently create a flow where one phone could setup a watch for someone else like you're in a "Family Sharing" group with: https://suppor
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by varenc 4y ago
Can the Apple watch last all day if it’s using cellular for data and doesn’t have wifi or a phone to piggyback from?
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by varenc 4y ago
More than a red herring, the multicast could be valuable because it obscures who's actually listening. Everyone on the network is receiving these packets so there's no way to single anyone out. Seems like a great move for spy sof
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by varenc 4y ago
NOAA† also has their own Balloon Flight simulator. The interface isn’t as slick but it really dives into the details: https://www.ready.noaa.gov/hypub-bin/trajsrc.pl?trjtype=4 It has a feature where you specify a targe
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by varenc 4y ago
Just to show folks how simple this is, here's the JavaScript (JXA) version of the AppleScript code needed to run JS in the current active tab: /usr/bin/osascript -l JavaScript <<EndOfScript var current_t
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by varenc 4y ago
Besides the linked article, this was also emailed out to the entire MIT community. And here's the prior discussion on HN when the faculty first endorsed this statement: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34132152 The
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MIT President Endorses Faculty's Statement on Freedom of Expression(president.mit.edu)
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by varenc 4y ago
Digression: The language in this post seems to straddle the line between an official Apple Press release and an open source project update. While it mentions new features added to WebKit, it also references new iOS APIs. Additionally, the t
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by varenc 4y ago
Interesting! I believe all the new Mac products also work like this. While sleeping a Mac will still stay on WiFi if it’s on a power adapter and the sleeping M1/M2 Macs stay on WiFi even while on battery. They also still respond to som
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by varenc 4y ago
This general concept is very similar to Apple’s Bonjour based “Sleep Proxy” service. Basically, if you have an Apple TV or something similar it will automatically wake up a sleeping device when someone requests its services. SSH or media s
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by varenc 4y ago
It looks like your 2021 post on this was decently successful! Here’s the discussion back then: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26088625
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by varenc 4y ago
The DFS channels have big downsides though. I don’t know much about TPC but for DFS, if your access point is on a DFS channel and it detects weather radar usage there it has to immediately get off it. It also has a slow start up period wher

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