teemur

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by teemur 6mo ago
We need to think that there is two oil prices. one the producer gets and another the consumer pays. High producer price is the worst thing that can happen from climate change perspective. That means also the more difficult to extract oilfie
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by teemur 7mo ago
I'm not sure coding has ever been the hard part. Hard part (to me) has always been to be smart enough to know what, exactly, I (or somebody else) want. Or has someone heard of a case when someone says something like "These requir
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by teemur 8mo ago
> The two-party system is fine. Is it? Many western countries are having more or less prominent populist right wing movements, and the two countries I can think of where that movement has gotten its hand in power on really significant is
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by teemur 8mo ago
> Is that the extent of your requirements (for now, at least) ? Well, if you ask my other wishes, once Europe has gotten its act straight and decides to tax/tariff/regulate/whatever (american) big tech to hell and back, I
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by teemur 8mo ago
Yep. I don't know if anyone is interested in anecdotes, but looking from Europe, I will do my best to avoid any kind of US dependency until US has a) overhauled the legal system starting from the Supreme Court and b) gotten rid of th
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by teemur 8mo ago
I'm too lazy, but I hope someone is less lazy and would set up a Kickstarter and collect funds to be given to every resident of US Virgin Islands once they rejoined[1] Denmark. Would happily chip in a hundred or two for a good cause
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by teemur 10mo ago
I think a decent middle ground would be to allow contextual advertising and ban personalized advertising. That is, it would be fine to show you ads based on where you are, what you are doing or what you are searching on the internet, but no
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by teemur 11mo ago
Don't forget Germany. If you look at the amount of PV built in Germany early this century and make some admittedly strong assumptions about learning curve, one could argue the Energiewende, then usually called failure, singlehandedly a
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by teemur 11mo ago
I wonder if one could write a skill called something like "Ask the damn user" that the model could use when e.g. all needed files are not in the context.
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by teemur 1y ago
The whole of trumps first stint? For this year's numbers there are two possible stories that come to my mind: 1. The jobs are going ~constantly downhill and any new, revised number is going to be worse than previous 2. There is a consp
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by teemur 1y ago
> People will have less or no motivation to create them Not sure if we surf the same internets... In the web I am surfing, the more "motivation" (trying to get ad revenue) the author has, the crappier the content is. If I want
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by teemur 1y ago
> Is this situation in any way realistic one? No, it's much worse than that. In real life you talk about pages and pages of documents and power points and meetings after meetings if you happen to need a computer/server/con
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Show HN: A rudimentary game engine to build four dimensional VR evironments(brainpaingames.com)
39 points by teemur 1y ago|2 comments
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by teemur 1y ago
> We know that universal solutions can’t exist and that all practical solutions require exotic high-dimensionality computational constructs that human brains will struggle to reason about. This has been the status quo since the 1980s. Th
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by teemur 1y ago
If you can identify blocks of code you need to write that are easy to define reasonably well, easy to review/verify that it is written correctly but still burdensome to actually write, LLMs are your new best friend. I don't know a
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by teemur 1y ago
Rent-seeking is a pretty well-known term that has not much to do with rents. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking
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by teemur 1y ago
"Paying" is a bit too ambiguous term. Let's say we go to have a lunch, but I forgot my wallet at the office. You pay my lunch and once we are back at the office, I pay you back. Who paid my lunch, you or me? Your company pays
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by teemur 2y ago
I think you can work around that messaging restriction by requesting desktop site from the mobile browser. Not saying it is not irritating, though.
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by teemur 2y ago
Is there a way to know beforehand if the e-book from Kobo is DRM or not? I thought they were all DRM free, but the last book I bought suddenly was DRM and haven't yet bothered to research (I have a couple of different size e-readers an
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by teemur 2y ago
Interesting. Could you provide a better alternative? Preferably even remotely as user friendly as signal/whatsapp?
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by teemur 2y ago
Oh, that video brought memories. I wonder if there is any good content about low code fallacy or cloud?
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by teemur 2y ago
What would you recommend instead for the ones that would be interested to start learning robotics stuff? (Not trying to be snarky but actually curious)
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by teemur 2y ago
My low, low priority side project has been to make a VR app that lets you (create and) move around 4d environments. I'm pretty sure that navigating even moderately complex 4d environment can be used as some kind of proof for 4d visuali
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by teemur 3y ago
Won't help on dirt and rain (and limited help on upwind and uphill) but using a low enough gear you should be able to stroll around with similar strain as walking. And you need to be able to accept a slightly slower speed, which is oft
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by teemur 3y ago
There is also a somewhat amusing argument that cycling does not waste your time. you get every hour cycled back as hour added to your expected lifetime: https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2015/10/12/cycling-add-
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by teemur 3y ago
I have been working on a project that puts you moving around and in 4d objects in VR: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37100760 It's really crude at this point, but I am "close" (who knows, days, weeks
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by teemur 3y ago
> road wear and tire wear and hence micro plastics, scale to the fourth with vehicle weight , (Emphasis mine) Do you have a source for this? I do not see how this specific claim could be true, and I am not sure how exactly that needs to
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by teemur 3y ago
Sorry, what does "structuring financial transactions" mean in this context?
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by teemur 3y ago
Do you use or have you considered using potential energy as energy storage? That is, using the solar power in daytime to climb higher and glide lower during night time?
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by teemur 3y ago
> and the massive productivity benefits you see (30x faster!) are for trivial tasks, not difficult tasks. Okay, I'll bite. I think quite often solving difficult tasks contain lots of trivial tasks. And speeding the trivial tasks can

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