kwhitefoot

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by kwhitefoot 1y ago
> there are often fire vaults[ Many years ago I was Unix sysadmin responsible for backups and that is exactly what we did. Once a week we rotated the backup tapes taking the oldest out of the fire safe and putting the newest in. The fi
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by kwhitefoot 1y ago
I was hoping the FAQ would answer that but, as I expected, I was disappointed.
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by kwhitefoot 1y ago
We should all strive to make it so.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> "It's not that I don't want to stop smoking, but the cigarette companies put chemicals in that keep me addicted" > "I live in an environment that pushes me to smoke" But those two things are true. The
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> what specific actions to gain power over us can be achieved now with LLMs, that could not be achieved before using a few tens of thousands of paid humans? It's being able to do it without having to employ the tens of thousands of
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Pretty much all the old Teslas in Norway have been retrofitted to allow them to connect to CCS only chargers as far as I can tell. Had mine (2015 S 70D) done years ago when it became clear that future Tesla chargers would be CCS only.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Cotton socks exist as well as wool worsted, so not a huge problem as far as I can see. Tights and stockings will be a much bigger challenge.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
In Norway this is flatly illegal and the relevant government department would probably get involved. Here in Norway companies are legally required to make accommodations for people who fall ill in order to keep them working, so the new CEO
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Why is it impractical? It would be unpopular and put prices up but it could be done. We would have to reduce the amount of clothing that is produced but that is hardly a problem as we produce vastly more than we need. We could eliminate
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
In Europe Tesla offer a subscription that gives you the same prices as Teslas get. Otherwise you pay more. Of course Tesla then makes a profit on the subscription cost.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Tesla chargers are CCS. It's just that in the US they use a different plug, in Europe Tesla chargers uses CCS-2 connectors.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Sounds like something Peter Watts might have invented. I like it, sort of; almost plausible, barely survivable, and deeply unpleasant.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
That's enough to vaporise about 100 g of water according my back of the envelope calculations. Overkill? Or is modified for an entirely different purpose?
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
One could even have the occasional face to face meeting, at the office, at either party's home, at the lab, the shop floor, at a co-working space, or even just at a cafe or bar.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> it actually cost the firm money while "saving" the team money. Only in the short term. It left the desirable parts of the building empty. It might be possible to rent out this space. That's what happened when the comp
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
The proximate cause is obvious: more calories consumed than are necessary to maintain weight. I do understand that the causes of over eating are not necessarily so simple. What I wonder about is that essentially no government has an explici
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Ai in practice doesn't have anything to do with simulation, nor with 'solving a significant part of the most complex brains'. The immediate threat is that humans will use the leverage that LLMs give to replace and to influenc
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
I'm still wondering why so many people are so much heavier now than they were fifty years ago and why instead of attempting to medicate our way out of the problem we don't try to attack the actual cause.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
In the end we had sufficiently good tests to detect such foolishness. But even that isn't good enough because if the result of the test is merely slightly off some people will just adjust the assertions!
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> Norway is special I know, I live there. Been driving electric since 2017.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
Could you explain why?
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
We all have to sell ourselves in order to live. I'm sure that there are plenty of people working at jobs that they thoroughly dislike. Shouldn't we concentrate on making sure that people really have a choice rather than on discr
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> the additional toll it will take on the creators in terms of social ostracism, future prospects, future opportunities, and mental health. Is it such a big problem nowadays as it used to be? My impression is that society in general, an
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> Foreigners certainly don't want our cars (outside of maybe tesla in the nordics, The Nordics are not all the same, Norway is far ahead (20% of private cars already full EVs) of the rest with Denmark a distant second when it comes
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
People have been getting into taxis for over a hundred years. Uber is just a slightly sketchy taxi service. What shift of thinking is involved?
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> As long as there's any amount of leeway in enforcement of the law, things like courtesy cards will exist Do they exist somewhere else? The police have wide discretion to issue a warning instead of a fine in most countries as far a
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
But the properly made microwave of that kind will probably carry on living after you. Mine (Moulinex) outlived my mother and has been working for me for the last thirty years.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
I inherited my Moulinex microwave from my mother thirty years ago. Apart from the internal lamp failing it is in perfect order. No electronic controls just a power dial, clockwork timer.
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
> writes comments that explain why the code isn't written in another way." Exactly! I have written code that required comments five times as long as the code itself to defend the code against well meaning refactoring by people
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by kwhitefoot 2y ago
But are you the right person? :-)

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