ragebol

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by ragebol 5d ago
Good!
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by ragebol 6d ago
My electricity contract in the Netherlands here is on a "Dynamisch tarief", with the most direct translation being "Dynamic tariff". It means I pay/get a different price for my power every 15 minutes. "Tarief&q
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by ragebol 8d ago
Because it's cheap and easy. Hold for many such questions... Why is all of the world dependent on tech an ever more hostile US? Same answer.
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by ragebol 11d ago
You don't think China (as a whole and as the government) is making it's money back? If not now, then in a few years
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by ragebol 12d ago
Odds are that agents use TFA's text and figure out how to stay undetected for longer. That'll be interesting I suppose, to say the least.
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by ragebol 12d ago
Being dependent on (cheap) oil can make economic sense as well. Unless you get cut off all of a sudden. Depending on local energy might make more sense in the long term. also for factor other than the economy.
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by ragebol 12d ago
> used public funds to make cheaper versions in the hope of leading the markets, including by being artificially more affordable while there is any competition If you replace 'public' with 'VC', isn't that the ex
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by ragebol 13d ago
I read new truck sales in China are about 30% electric and climbing. Apparently it does make sense for them
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by ragebol 21d ago
Fair enough. My comment was however asking about the difference in climate damage from local vs cloud inference, is either better in that specific regard. Or even the energy usage between the two. As for ethics, i don't see a meaningfu
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by ragebol 21d ago
> If Proposal H has a weakness, it's that it does not distinguish between local and cloud-based LLMs Is the energy usage so different between local and cloud inference? Both require electricity, the local option even more than the b
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by ragebol 25d ago
They won't. Hope to be wrong though
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by ragebol 27d ago
Wouter is a common Dutch first name
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by ragebol 1mo ago
I read the article, but still, how can anyone making such a mistake be deemed sane enough to still be allowed to drive a car? Alas, I'm far from 85, hard to imagine making that kind of error.
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by ragebol 1mo ago
How does pone drive 20 hours in the wrong direction, when trying to go to an appointment 19km away? What must go wrong when you are allowed to drive and not realize that mistake after at most an hour or so?
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by ragebol 1mo ago
Same amount of humans means no cost savings. More science is hard to value, while less salaries paid is easy to value.
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by ragebol 1mo ago
Ah, thanks, had to be something like that indeed. Had a hard time imagining putting work into an ICE and getting anything useful out.
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by ragebol 1mo ago
I don't see why that would be the case. Why is the 20% of eg. an internal combustion engine coupled to the 500% COP of a heat pump? I see a vague connection as an ICE also uses expanding gasses etc, but that's about it. What am I
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by ragebol 1mo ago
True. For residential heating, heat pumps make for a similar ratio as they make 3-5 units of hear for 1 unit of electric energy, depending on conditions. The challenge in heating is industrial heat, which is much hotter. Can't do that
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by ragebol 1mo ago
When looking at hat kind of graphs, it's good to keep in mind that burning hydrocarbons is relatively inefficient: only ~20-30% of the energy in the fuel turns into useful work, while electricity is much, much more efficient. So, we ne
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by ragebol 2mo ago
Since the advent of these coding assistants, I gathered a list of software tool ideas I usually discarded due to lack of time. No more! Main one on that list: grocery assistant, with a barcode scanner for empty packaging to order new stuff,
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by ragebol 2mo ago
Maybe so. That leaves just the hardware. Deprecates badly. Maybe gamers will take it off their hands gladly?
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by ragebol 2mo ago
Yes, they have assets: GPUs sitting in datacenters, and data. Question is: is that worth enough to cover the debt after the market crashed?
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by ragebol 2mo ago
I would have thought this would be about electricians and carpenters with camera's on their heads to train AI. Apparently not yet. Imagine robots (humanoids or something more specialized) building datacenters...
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by ragebol 2mo ago
My wife had a terrible fear of loosing me in this station, afraid she would loose me and never find me back :-) . It felt like the biggest station we knew before, multiplied by 10 and then molded and warped like a ball of dough. IIRC there
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by ragebol 2mo ago
We just want work done we don't want to do ourselves. Whether it's slaves, animals or dumb to smart machines and anything in between, that is an 'implementation detail'.
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by ragebol 2mo ago
These are called aptonyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym?useskin=vector
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by ragebol 3mo ago
Coming back for another 5% seems unlikely. But the whole thing is unlikely and uncommon, so what's it matter?
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by ragebol 3mo ago
Exacerbated by nothing being normal with this administration, to say the least.
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by ragebol 3mo ago
> I may have picked a bad example, but the principle stands. I know electric aircraft are not quite feasible on the same scale as airlines. On the other hand, China has an extensive high-speed rail network for inland travel. OI have no i
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by ragebol 3mo ago
I'd expect the competition for these companies to come in not from someone using the same technology, but a different technology that serves the same purpose. Eg. what happened to Kodak and Nokia. For jet engines, the only thing that c

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