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by zdragnar 10mo ago
One thing getting better at writing does is make you better at organizing your thoughts. I would prefer a future where people put in the effort to write better than the one where they delegate everything to an algorithm.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
I heard the other day that LLMs won't replace writers, just mediocre writing. On the one hand, I can see the point- you'll never get chatgpt to come up with something on par with the venerable Crafting Interpreters. On the other h
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
I don't think it is intended to be commercially viable on the basis of benzene production alone. Rather, it is a more permanent solution compared to sequestration, where the benzene production offsets the cost. If, as they plan, it can
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Well, cleaning in this case would be removing the remaining DMSO, which is probably not too desirable to have in your soil. Considering the existing DDT contamination, ending up with dirt that needs to be fortified with compost is hardly th
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Assuming it doesn't break down under electrolysis, the DMSO can be recovered, so you only use as much as you can process at a time. It is apparently used in some battery chemistries, so I'd expect losses to be pretty low if the eq
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
DMSO readily absorbs through your skin, meaning it is a great carrier for pretty much anything else that you don't want in you. At the scale of "washing tons of soil to remove DDT" it'd be quite unfortunate if something
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
DMSO is a pretty common solvent. It's still nasty stuff, but easy to clean from a sample. Take a bunch of contaminated soil, wash with DMSO, filter out soil, wash again, take all of that and electrolyze it. Take the soil, dilute with l
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Benzene is toxic, but it still has industrial uses. From the article: > The reactor used by the researchers consists of an undivided electrolysis cell in which dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is used as a solvent They remove the DDT from the s
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
It's in the article: > The reactor used by the researchers consists of an undivided electrolysis cell in which dimethyl sulfoxide (DMSO) is used as a solvent They move the DDT from the soil to the solvent, which is the medium for el
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
The DDT is soluble in DMSO, so it is already possible to separate from soil. The problem has been that the DDT isn't really useful, so you're still left over with DDT tainted DMSO. Hence, most cleanup efforts focus on sequestratio
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Not all libraries are publicly owned or accessible. Most are run by local municipalities because they wouldn't exist otherwise. Data centers clearly can exist without being owned by the public.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
How is that distinct from any of my other examples which listed factories? Very few factories in the US are publicly owned; citing data centers as places of production merely furthers the argument that they should remain private.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
There are arguments aplenty that schooling and a minimum amount of healthcare are public goods, as are roads built on public land (the government owns most roads after all). What is the justification for considering data centers capable of
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
My very first sentence: > And everyone else's work has to be completely put on hold On a big enough team, getting everyone to a stopping point where they can wait for you to do your big bang refactor to the entire code base- even if
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
And everyone else's work has to be completely put on hold or thrown away because you did the whole thing all at once on your own. That's definitely not something that goes over well on anything other than an incredibly trivial pro
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
That would go over on any decently sized team like a lead balloon.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
This is an interesting take, considering several EVs from traditional manufacturers have been canned entirely.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Google claims the original build was supposed to take 50 years, and it will take 62 due to delays from a funding crisis before de blasio. However, this is only the second phase of the plan, with two more phases broken out into separate proj
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Funny, last time I used macos there were so many annoyances and every suggestion was to use some paid third party app. I finally caved and used hammerspoon to write everything I needed myself. You pay for it in lots of ways, including an ob
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Because if it is dynamically priced, people won't know until they already need to go to their destination if the tollway will be affordable. The volume on the tollway itself may decrease, but only because drivers suddenly need to take
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Until your client tells you that it doesn't work in Edge and you find out it's because every browser has its own styling and they are impossible to change enough to get the really long options to show up correctly. Then you'r
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
People already driving generally aren't likely to change their destination, and all the traffic headed toward the dynamically priced toll road still needs to be diverted in a way that they will reach wherever they were going. You aren&
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Star Wars only ever had three movies. It'd be neat if they made some prequels though!
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
https://www.acer.com/us-en/chromebooks/acer-chromebook-315-c... 10 hour battery life, 15 inch screen, not bulky, $200. A bit more money will get you better specs, screen or battery life from this or another brand,
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Not to mention one could easily search Google for "wealth versus value" and get tons of explanations in a few seconds. People just like having things handed to them I guess.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
Go for a midrange Chromebook then. It's all my wife uses, cost about $250 and has better battery life than most laptops on the market.
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
I've owned two LG gram laptops. Neither were milspec, but both were really nice. Sure, the screen quality isn't going to win any awards, nor will the speakers, but the light weight, fantastic battery life and snappy performance al
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
I honestly think the single file thing is best reserved for C, given how bad the language support for modularity is. I've had the inverse experience dealing with a many thousand line "core.php" file way back in the day helpin
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
It isn't just copilot that these laptops come with; manufacturers are already putting their own AI chat apps as well. For example, the LG gram I recently got came with just such an app named Chat, though the "ai button" on th
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by zdragnar 10mo ago
All that case settled is that AI cannot hold a copyright. Humans can still claim copyright if they put their name on a largely AI produced work. Your original complaint was that humans were saying "I wrote this", and those people

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