olau

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by olau 2mo ago
You start with the queen. Everyone knows who she is.
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by olau 3mo ago
Probably only few. Nuclear attracts dreamers. But would they pay the price, literally? Cost is the real reason nuclear is dying.
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by olau 4mo ago
Can I recommend playing Bach? The specialization goes both ways, though, I'm much better playing Alberti bass with my left hand compared to the right.
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by olau 4mo ago
Diamonds? You can use them in a drill bit.
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by olau 5mo ago
No, you need to match the demand curve at all times.
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by olau 5mo ago
Source please? The numbers I have seen of real opex paint a different picture. In general, nuclear plants close because of cost.
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by olau 6mo ago
You just write "spent two years raising my youngest kid [building tree houses and whatnot]". If you keep a bit up with tech, why would anyone think twice about that? They wouldn't where I live.
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by olau 7mo ago
Yes. Some years ago we ported some code from querying out the data and tallying in Python (how many are in each bucket) to using SQL to do that. It didn't speed up the execution. I was surprised by that, but I guess the Postgres interp
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by olau 7mo ago
The suggestion was not to use an LLM to compile the expression, but to use an LLM to build the compiler.
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by olau 8mo ago
Not sure, but I solved a similar problem many years ago, and ended up concluding it was silly to send all the data to the client when the client didn't have the visual resolution to show it anyway. So I sampled it adaptively client-sid
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by olau 8mo ago
Original Flot maintainer here. I once had to deal with many million data points for an application. I ended up mip-mapping them client-side. But regarding sampling, if it's a line chart, you can sample adaptively by checking whether th
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by olau 10mo ago
The ones about Calvin having an awful day due to what's demanded of him are honestly heartbreaking.
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by olau 10mo ago
Yes. DJGPP and Allegro was a great help, and a big step up from the old Borland Turbo Pascal I started out with. I remember trying to rotate an image pixel by pixel in Pascal. Allegro simply had a function to do it. And yes, the mailing lis
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by olau 1y ago
Some years ago I bought a little pamphlet with a few mental exercises by Rudolf Steiner, known for the Waldorf school system. One of them was about building a habit. You find a small meaningless thing to do, it must have no purpose at all,
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by olau 1y ago
Prepper store is potentially misleading, it's shops that are prepared to respond to a crisis for those that didn't prep.
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by olau 1y ago
Greenland can become independent if they wish. There would be some things to work out, but the legal framework has been in place since the 1970es. And they seem to be working towards the goal. The reason it hasn't happened yet is that
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by olau 1y ago
Yeah, the only dumb thing about the digital mail is that they're not just using email with an official registry. They could have started some kind of certification thing for email providers and even funded a couple of certified email p
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by olau 1y ago
I enjoyed reading most of that. One thing to watch out for with immutability is that if you're dealing with personal information about people, immutability is probably illegal. You must be able to forget information, and not just simul
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by olau 1y ago
The UK used to have very high subsidies for offshore wind for some reason. The last I've heard, subsidies for new plants are much lower today. As for being cost effective, onshore wind is probably the cheapest option, and I think it&#x
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by olau 1y ago
This is false. Take a look at Denmark. This argument was repeated there in the past for "above X", with X being 15%, 20%, 30%, 50%.
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by olau 1y ago
I think the problem is that then you need two energy harvesting systems, and there's not just that much to eat nearby. I guess to effectively live a long life by eating other stuff, you need to be able to move, or what you eat need to
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by olau 1y ago
I was taught something of the same. But I think it was misguided. I'll note that 1/3 is not a number, it's a calculation. So more complicated. And fractions are generally much more complicated than the decimal system. Beyond
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by olau 1y ago
Seeing like a state does not argue against the meter system. It just explains that many of these things got traction despite the resistance against them only because the state needed them. In the case of measurement units, one was that the
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by olau 1y ago
I recently bought a second-hand Microsoft Surface tablet, installed Debian and now run GNOME on it. The first time it came up and I logged into a familiar GNOME environment was a profound experience. I was pretty sure what was going to happ
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by olau 1y ago
When you buy one, they come with the warning to drive around first without cargo. But yeah, you need to take it easy. Safe speed is perhaps 10-12 km/h on a bike path with other bicycles, and you need to slow down to almost a complete s
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by olau 1y ago
Biology is so complex that extremely little is known about details. Grab a college textbook on introduction to zoology, and prepare to be blown away.
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by olau 1y ago
One thing that helped me was reading a book on good political discourse. It basically said what the GP said, that good discourse is about exploring the world. It also pointed out that vilification in its many forms is counterproductive. It
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by olau 1y ago
I have also dealt with EU compliance, and I have never seen the EU act quickly on anything concerning business. It's a slow, bureaucratic institution. With all due respect, when you are given years to comply, the problem is not that th
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by olau 2y ago
If you charge the buses over night, then you don't need 100 kW. I think the battery sizes are something like 100-300 kWh. So with 9 hours of charging, you need only perhaps 30 kW at the most. Anecdotally, the town I live in invested in
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by olau 2y ago
I find it slightly odd that you get hung up on the file format thing. The law as you quoted it says "including but not limited to" and the first example given is then "software".

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