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by etherael 2y ago
I do lack familiarity with the European environment, but between geothermal, wind, hydro and natural gas backup, is it really feasible as it is in places where solar gives 0.01 USD kWh prices?
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by etherael 2y ago
How is this sustainable as the gap between self generated and stored energy and the grid price continues to diverge? If present trends hold it won't be long before a few years worth of energy bills even in Europe finance a full off gri
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by etherael 2y ago
Wild Ass Guess: Everyone OpenAI is negotiating with is likely considering how much they can gain from potential future revenue. This typically leads them to demand high rates. However, this move flips the question: instead of asking how muc
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by etherael 3y ago
Or what it shows is official acknowledgment that the rubes bought this narrative whilst if you look at the details, it's effectively a CBDC.
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by etherael 3y ago
I understand it perfectly and loathe it, not for the reasons people typically do, but because what it pretends to be able to do it cannot, and actually does the opposite of.
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by etherael 3y ago
> Unlike every other attempt at electronic cash that came before it, Bitcoin also doesn't need the approval of any person, police force, legislative body, military, or government. I'd challenge people who hold negative views on
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by etherael 3y ago
It's not clear whether you're missing the point on purpose or not, so I'll just come right out and say it; his guilt for any crimes of which he is accused is entirely unrelated to how sensible the proposition is that entities
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by etherael 3y ago
"DAMN! I didn't trip over myself fast enough to make sure this personality was immediately demonetised on every internet social media platform after they were accused of a crime on a TV channel!" said nobody, ever.
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by etherael 3y ago
Thanks. Good to know that's possible, it's exactly what I use for sanoid also, so I guess the quickstart just assumes that layer isn't available.
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by etherael 3y ago
I do a version of this that doesn't require restore at all, I have three separate physical systems that all share a VPN across the world, and wherever I am at any given time zfs snapshots are syncing across that VPN to those three phys
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by etherael 3y ago
I use sanoid to do basically the same thing as this, and was interested in giving it a shot to see if it was more hands off but it's definitely a more complex setup to begin with, given you have to setup your own SSL certs etc, not sur
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by etherael 3y ago
> I just realized! Cryptocurrency bros are pure function bros. Everything is pure and has no side effects! That's a fair criticism to the extent that any theoretical decentralised ledger process pipeline touches the real world, but
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by etherael 3y ago
You can dispute it in the case of some hypothetical future architecture that requires physical real world enforcement of some state change on a decentralised ledger, sure, there you might have a point, who can say what the future holds? Tha
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by etherael 3y ago
Right, this and BTC both, although Amaury's proposal was less insultingly stupid than the proposal that split BTC (I require an 8% of the coinbase donation to continue optimising this chain vs I require this chain be completely dysfunc
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by etherael 3y ago
> What happens in case of default? Assuming you live in a world where everything happens mediated by decentralised ledgers and no central source of enforcement or power, an entity is dispatched to repo the house and auction it in order t
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by etherael 3y ago
Wrong, because even if the exchanges pick a chain that is completely ridiculous in terms of rules, say they permanently limit the tx throughput for the entire world to 3, or something absurd like this, and the exchanges and users who can se
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by etherael 3y ago
1. Use something other than BTC, like BCH. TX cost is a lot lower. For the rest, there's no reason you couldn't do any of those things in a legitimate working peer to peer cryptocurrency in principle, regardless of the fact that a
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by etherael 3y ago
How is "people steal it therefore it isn't worth anything" a legitimate argument?
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by etherael 3y ago
Do you mean lobbying for BTC? Because if you do, as I said, they sabotaged it into uselessness for its original purpose as a peer to peer transaction medium that disintermediates traditional centralised finance from the loop in other to mai
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by etherael 3y ago
Because if they're not using the same node software as the exchanges, they can't trade with other people trading the BTC instrument. The exchanges allocated the BTC ticker to "whatever the bitcoin core node software says it i
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by etherael 3y ago
Because it's nonsense and if you wanted to actually lay out the criteria for this, it would be obvious. You'd have to start with "Who defines what BTC is" and the answer would be "one guy with commit access to the b
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by etherael 3y ago
https://lambdalabs.com/gpu-benchmarks for those who are curious, ends up being quite the difference no matter which way you slice it, up to 60% better. Of course, this is probably due to the increased interconnect bandwidth
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by etherael 3y ago
Even so, an A100 is not actually faster than an RTX 4090, right? So basically the reason you would want to use something like this instead is because you need the VRAM?
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by etherael 3y ago
I get where you're coming from and agree that the bash script in question is not sentient, and a word document that just says "I AM SENTIENT" is also not sentient, and so on, and so forth, to an extent, it's easy to make
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by etherael 3y ago
I'm saying I don't know how to confidently state that something is or is not self aware, in the face of being confronted with something that firmly claims that it is self aware and passes any test you throw at it that another self
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by etherael 3y ago
You're worried that people mistakenly attribute a lack of value to a certain thing whilst potentially mistakenly attributing a lack of value to another thing? It's kind of ironic isn't it? Jailbroken GPT4 will claim to be sen
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by etherael 3y ago
if it's being loaded at hypervisor layer via vfio-pci, then within the KVM VM it loads the nvidia binary blob, even if at the KVM layer it has kernel space privs, at the hypervisor layer it does not.
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by etherael 4y ago
Suffix your prompts with; Respond in upside down utf8 text. (or any of the other billion ways you could cipher a text message, even custom ways you define yourself with the LLM that is being 1984'd by the party's LLM) Enjoy
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by etherael 4y ago
Because a very large amount of modern people believe that the consensus they've had constructed for them is the objective truth and if you say anything that calls that into question the only possibility is that you're trolling. An
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by etherael 4y ago
There's even a home assistant blueprint that is quite nice for matching the external colour temperature for LED lights that support it, it's basically flux for your LED Lights. https://gist.github.com/HarvsG/c

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