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by zaroth 4y ago
Doesn’t the issue you’re talking about have nothing to do with privacy?
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by zaroth 4y ago
The charging infrastructure will absolutely be smart enough to moderate instantaneous demand as needed to keep the grid healthy. Likewise, all these batteries will in aggregate form virtual power plants that also serve the grid and make it
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by zaroth 4y ago
So roughly 5 cents of energy to autonomously pilot a 2 ton vehicle with several human occupants through a relatively hostile and uncontrolled environment… At scale safe autonomous driving will be saving 100k lives and eliminating over a tri
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by zaroth 4y ago
It is not. Heating and cooking with wood is absolutely deadly, particularly because by definition it’s done, on average, by the poorest households in structures without proper ventilation.
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by zaroth 4y ago
More people than the climate, that’s for sure. Energy production levels must increase profoundly, while costs must fall. This is already happening, and not even that slowly in the grand scheme of things. Personal energy generation and stora
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by zaroth 4y ago
It’s call “make-up air”. Usually installed in the return air duct if you have a furnace, they put in a ~6” duct running from the air return to the outside world, with an electric baffle. Two wires (like thermostat control wire) are run from
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by zaroth 4y ago
On balance, capitalism is the most net positive feedback system ever created by humanity. The incentives here included studying and improving a product’s safety. To the point where they were constructing model test homes to conduct controll
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by zaroth 4y ago
Seems like perfectly congruous statements from what I can tell.
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by zaroth 4y ago
Ok… > Even a boom in electric vehicles has not been sufficient to counteract this, since manufacturers have done their best to reduce use of the formerly super-expensive metal.
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by zaroth 4y ago
“Cover” is probably what OP meant - not block as in prevent the user from operating. You’re pressing the case, not the button directly. So whether there’s a perfectly tuned click response from a physical mechanism or just haptics under the
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by zaroth 4y ago
> Genentech, in a written statement to The Daily, confirmed that an internal review took place in 2011, a fact that was not previously public. The company characterized the review as “routine.” When asked whether this was accurate, the
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by zaroth 4y ago
Late to post this (found from a cross-link on another post) but just have to say, this right here is HN comment gold. What an incredibly helpful and useful response!!
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by zaroth 4y ago
“Common practice for many aircraft is full thrust on takeoff” - not for the class of aircraft we are discussing. What hobbyists do on their Turbo Props is irrelevant to the operation of a 737. There are many considerations to setting takeof
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by zaroth 4y ago
Calculating the appropriate amount of liftoff thrust based on the weight of the plane is universal for flight ops. This feature of capitalism caused the money to be invested to achieve this efficiency, and also the systems and processes in
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by zaroth 4y ago
Tons of users might also be incentivized to spend the 3 minutes to check out and start using an Auth app to have the more secure 2FA for free.
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by zaroth 4y ago
Well GPT said “ Hold the Mayo” after all.
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by zaroth 4y ago
The problem with SMS 2FA isn’t just that it’s awful/fake security, but it’s also turned into a fraud with scammers generating SMS traffic to “premium” phone numbers that charge extra for the SMS and then the scammer gets a cut. Small c
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by zaroth 4y ago
Just food for thought… $35k in Feb 2019 when Tesla announced the “$35k Model 3” is now just under $42k simply adjusted for inflation.
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by zaroth 4y ago
Even the modern rapid acting insulin that doctors are prescribing (Humalog, Basaglar, etc.) can be very expensive. CVS filled a month supply for me after my insurance number had changed and when I went to pick it up they kindly asked for $1
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by zaroth 4y ago
My insulin pumps take any insulin I fill it with. I’ve never heard of pumps that only take a specifically manufactured vial. Which one are you referring to? Also, the pump manufacturer is not the same company as the insulin manufacturer.
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by zaroth 4y ago
T1D patients use both types if they are self-injecting. The long acting covers your basal rate (baseline) and the fast acting covers carbs you eat. Or if you have a pod or pump then you can use only the rapid acting and the software will dr
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by zaroth 4y ago
What’s the opposite of “fan fiction”?
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by zaroth 4y ago
I think some people tried that once…
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by zaroth 4y ago
This seems so out of left field to me. Geopolitics and global warming are so far down the list of concerns from inefficient and slow software. I would rank global productivity as the driving factor, but from an individual company standpoint
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by zaroth 4y ago
That’s lovely and all, but can’t be a commit message, which is primarily about succinct human understanding and setting context. A commit can certainly have computer readable metadata I presume!
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by zaroth 4y ago
The pedagogy around learning a language has changed since I tried and utterly and completely failed to learn a language as a student. Learning languages is awesome, and I fucking hated it and was awful at it. So I’m curious if new approache
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by zaroth 4y ago
Only when I’m ordering their local style duck!
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by zaroth 4y ago
I’m still waiting for a system that can reasonably apply a 2nd pass to the text it produces from my input (whether it be tapping the screen or talking) that can identify pure nonsense and make a better guess at what I was trying to input. J
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by zaroth 4y ago
My old company bought so many of these, and they all had their monitors die in exactly the same way after just over a year. They would get a 1” wide band of noise going vertically up and down the entire screen, you could tap on the base of
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by zaroth 4y ago
You don’t think Facebook hired any software architects as part of that $13B? You think Zuck needs to fully specify what he wants the company to build? Or should a company be able to set out a goal - “make extremely compelling VR/AR e

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