manholio

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by manholio 4y ago
It's an excellent idea if the conversion market can be bootstrapped. In France there are already firms offering the service. Millions of cars exist in the roads and they have 90% of what an electric car needs. There is absolutely no po
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by manholio 4y ago
> Are you really running your test suite for every "i+=1" change on other languages? You don't have to run your testsuite for a small bugfix (that's what CI is for), but you DO need to restart, reset the testcase that
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by manholio 4y ago
The most annoying thing in my experience is not really the raw compilation times, but the lack of - or very rudimentary - incremental build feature. If I'm debugging a function and make a small local change that does not trickle down t
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by manholio 4y ago
My stated point was acid raid in the context of climate engineering , there was nothing said about quantity. Small quantities will cause acid rain in undetectable amounts, and have the same nil effect on climate, but presumably the end goa
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by manholio 4y ago
I indeed knew the scale, it's plastered all over this thread, but it's not relevant to the point being made. The whole scheme is harebrained regardless of the amount, what depends on the amount is the harm it can cause, in the ran
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by manholio 4y ago
Why yes, what could possibly go wrong by releasing the main constituent of acid rain in an haphazard attempt to cool down the Earth, a problem itself created by releasing uncontrolled quantities of other pollutants. Sounds like the setup fo
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by manholio 4y ago
But you will not use it if the depreciation on your car vastly exceeds what you could earn from the scheme.
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by manholio 4y ago
There is an economic case being made above that explains why, you might want to try and follow that and respond on point instead of mindlessly nitpicking. There exist large scale trials for this idea, you never heard of them because (aside
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by manholio 4y ago
It can't, because the distribution fee is an amortized cost of having distribution infrastructure built. Since that infrastructure still needs to exist regardless of where you get your energy (and in fact needs to be upgraded to handle
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by manholio 4y ago
But if that limitation is repetitive to the point of investing in infrastructure to use EVs, then some other large-scale investor will close that arbitrage opportunity. Basically, the next-day / week energy markets, where EV owners can
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by manholio 4y ago
Copyright exists to protect human authors and promote creation, which in turn leads to learning - from other human beings. Algorithms are not learning, they are automated tools which are consuming creative works and outputing derivative wor
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by manholio 4y ago
That just means people will buy daily drivers with small batteries and charge them nightly. 15 years out of a cheap compact car with near zero operating costs sounds like a good deal, still does not make sense to waste a cycle for $1 = 20kW
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by manholio 4y ago
This is never going to happen at scale. Energy is fungible: one cannot compete on "quality" of energy, just on price, a kWh is a kWh and the provider with the cheapest energy will always win in the marketplace. So this means any E
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by manholio 4y ago
It's about a law designed by humans to give everyone a chance to make a living and contribute to the common good. You think you have found a loophole in that law that lets you use that work for free and deny author's any compensat
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by manholio 4y ago
The crypto market is the trash, a decade old speculative bubble with zero real world applications.
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by manholio 4y ago
Well, here's my point of anecdata: despite Python being a very productive language and very easy to use, despite it existing for more than three decades and being perhaps the most massively learned language by aspiring programmers toda
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by manholio 4y ago
That example threw me off too because both the numbers and the perspective are non-nonsensical. 90% of the energy draw of those data-centers goes into things like inner video encoding loops, SSD/memcache storage and retrieval, ML algor
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by manholio 4y ago
What do you mean, autism is well established as a personality trait that diminishes empathy and the ability to understand other people's desires and emotions, while having a strong affinity to things, for example machines and algorithm
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by manholio 4y ago
What you and many other in the thread seem to be oblivious about is that algorithms are not people. Yes, it may come as a shock to autistic engineers, but the fact that a machine can do something to what a person does does not warant it equ
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by manholio 4y ago
The model can generate original images, yes, and those images might be fair use. But it can also generate near verbatim copies of the source works or substantial parts thereof, so the model itself is not fair use, it's a wholly deriv
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by manholio 4y ago
But they are not original works, they are wholly derived works of the training data set. Take that data set away and the algorithm is unable to produce a single original pixel. The fact that the derivation involves millions of works as oppo
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by manholio 4y ago
Well, it's only natural that technological progress and competition will reduce prices and allow the masses to enjoy products that were reserved for the rich in earlier times. There was no dramatic tech progress in Tesla in the last fe
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Sex, New Scientist and Me(thecritic.co.uk)
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by manholio 4y ago
They don't have the scale to sway large parts of the public opinion, so they are irrelevant. Also, what you call "left" might simply be the truth, and it's very hard to fight against that. For an example of toxic ideolog
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by manholio 4y ago
> Had it been built from scratch it could have run fine with its current staff. So you are essentially saying Twitter has an over-complicated architecture with regards to its real technical needs, so Musk was right to axe the microservic
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by manholio 4y ago
It's all fun and games until you are slain in the street because people chose to regard you as subhuman after a little bird told them so. Disseminating politically extreme misinformation kills people - look no further than Russia, wher
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by manholio 4y ago
> Is 16h of downtime acceptable for a $44b business? After a 70% reduction in headcount, is a 16 hour downtime acceptable in a 5% market? I'm going with yes, executives from all major corporations are itching to press that button if
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by manholio 4y ago
> Why does the EU believe every facet of life needs to be ordered and control by government regulation It doesn't, the author is just projecting their authoritarian nanny state fantasies. The EU regulates the internal market and set
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by manholio 4y ago
It's clearly a derived work, since the apparatus that has produced the work (the AI model) can only function when supplied with copyrighted works - in fact it cannot exists without copious amounts of such works. If there is even a pass
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by manholio 4y ago
The options are not always equivalent. 19 offers to work on blockchain scams are not equivalent with 1 offer from a top company that wants their products market ready and offers you a once in a lifetime opportunity. So get polishing.

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