exp1orer

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by exp1orer 16d ago
I tried switching from Spotify to Youtube Music but the "download for offline" functionality is incredibly broken -- often doesn't recognize that it's on wifi to start downloading, multiple minutes to download an album t
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by exp1orer 11mo ago
It might be too soon to call it abandoned, but I was very intrigued by the Austral [1] language. The spec [2] is worth reading, it has an unusual clarity of thought and originality, and I was hoping that it would find some traction. Unfortu
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The future is made out of energy(orcasciences.com)
2 points by exp1orer 1y ago|0 comments
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Chrome has built-in AI history search(support.google.com)
22 points by exp1orer 2y ago|9 comments
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by exp1orer 2y ago
if anything is fungible, surely mushrooms are...
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Post-apocalyptic life in American health care(metarationality.com)
210 points by exp1orer 3y ago|177 comments
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by exp1orer 3y ago
This is really cool! If the author is around, I notice in the README you mention the GNU units program, which I use quite a bit. I'm curious if you've made any notable divergences from it?
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Rhyme Theory (2022)(blog.chaselambda.com)
55 points by exp1orer 3y ago|8 comments
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by exp1orer 3y ago
a few clarifications (in the industry but not involved with this deal): * carbon removal credits are a subset of carbon credits * they are generally considered higher-quality than most other credits (which are "avoided emissions")
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by exp1orer 3y ago
I love this essay. Anna Weiner's book Uncanny Valley has a great line about it as well: > "it's like no one even read 'The Tyranny of Structurelessness,'" said an engineer who had recently read The Tyranny o
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Protein metabolism and hunter-gatherer subsistence strategies[pdf](deepblue.lib.umich.edu)
4 points by exp1orer 3y ago|0 comments
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Transparency in Recoolit's carbon credits(recoolit.com)
14 points by exp1orer 3y ago|2 comments
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by exp1orer 3y ago
I agree that this is likely missing data systematically. However note the difference between carbon offsets vs carbon removals. I don't know what kinds of offsets Google bought but given that they started buying them >15 years ago,
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by exp1orer 3y ago
I actually hesitated before posting for exactly this reason, and I don't think you're wrong to be sensitive to this. But you'll notice that there's actually no real political content in the link, nor was there any politi
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by exp1orer 3y ago
Ha, no, just a fun exercise sparked by a conversation with a friend. It also doesn't take the road network into account, just county adjacencies.
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by exp1orer 3y ago
Vaguely related, a few years ago I made a map of "how to drive from SF to NYC while passing through the minimum number of Republican-voting counties": https://github.com/louispotok/blue-road-trip
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by exp1orer 3y ago
(OP but not author: the original seems to only have releases for windows, there's a python fork here: https://github.com/dlenski/wp2git )
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Wp2git: Wikipedia page history –> Git repository(github.com)
3 points by exp1orer 3y ago|2 comments
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Mozilla's AI Crusade(politico.com)
2 points by exp1orer 3y ago|0 comments
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Tumbleword(tumbleword.glitch.me)
1 points by exp1orer 4y ago|0 comments
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by exp1orer 4y ago
This was the bit that got me: > People have this aspirational idea of building a vast, oppressively colossal, deeply interlinked knowledge graph to the point that it almost mirrors every discrete concept and memory in their brain. And I
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Unbundling Tools for Thought(borretti.me)
337 points by exp1orer 4y ago|192 comments
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by exp1orer 4y ago
If I'm reading your comment correctly, you may not be aware that methane abatement is also eligible for carbon crediting programs, which operate under the framework of "global warming potential" (GWP) to translate different g
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by exp1orer 4y ago
Maybe virtual assistant?
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by exp1orer 4y ago
1. Incredible line. 2. That 6% is based on the most recent IPCC report which estimates 1.4 GT from HFCs, and another ~1.4 from CFCs+HCFCs, so 2.8 total. OWID seems to get its data from climatetrace, I haven't dug into their data, but i
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by exp1orer 4y ago
Tradewater is great, they are one of the original inspirations for this approach. The key differences are geography (they are mostly US-focused) and that they pursue stockpiles of gas where we go after the emissions from end-of-life equipme
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by exp1orer 4y ago
It's 2000x worse on a per-pound basis, using the Global Warming Potential (GWP), and 6% of total emissions on a CO2e basis. They are separate facts which are mentioned to serve different purposes: 6% is to emphasize the scale of the ov
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by exp1orer 4y ago
Yeah, R600a is a so-called "natural refrigerant" with a GWP that rounds to zero. Not even close to in scope for us -- the lowest GWP gas we touch is R32, with GWP 750.
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by exp1orer 4y ago
Your bio suggests you know more about the chemical details than I do, but we do have 1. A trial burn done by an independent lab to make sure that under normal operating conditions, when destroying refrigerant the levels of those + other che
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by exp1orer 4y ago
That is a super interesting idea! Hadn't considered it, have you seen anyone doing this with carbon credits before?

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