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by zizee 10mo ago
The SLS is widely understood to be less about research and development, and more about pork barreling, and jobs program. I don't buy that humanity should avoid investing in space travel because US Congress and surrounding governmental
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by zizee 11mo ago
Why does the reportimg say she "abandoned" her car at the beach? She was at the beach when she was located. People usually do not take their cars with them once they arrive at their destination. To get out and walk is not abandoni
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by zizee 11mo ago
Sorry, what is the previous dependency? If you're talking about longevity of solar or wind turbines, given that their lifespan is measured in tens of years, it does give you some ability to respond to some external group cutting your s
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by zizee 1y ago
Does React have story for backend? I should have mentioned that my interests lie in building backend/back of house functionality.
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Ask HN: Are startups still using Ruby on Rails to start new products/projects?
19 points by zizee 1y ago|18 comments
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by zizee 1y ago
Has it been decided that training models is fair use? Has it been decided in all jurisdictions?
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by zizee 1y ago
The vast majority of people cannot do the structured thinking to model the real world in a fashion that a computer can understand. That is a key attribute of a good dev. If someone can do this, and describe it well enough to a LLM, they are
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by zizee 1y ago
Then they should easily fall within the regulation section posted earlier. If you cannot see the difference between BitTorrent and Ai models, then it's probably not worth engaging with you. But Ai model have been shown to reproduce the
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by zizee 1y ago
It doesn't seem unreasonable. If you train a model that can reliably reproduce thousands/millions of copyrighted works, you shouldn't be distributibg it. If it were just regular software that had that capability, would it be
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by zizee 1y ago
So because sometimes a regulation misses the mark, governments should not try to regulate?
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by zizee 1y ago
I personally don't think we'll all die due to climate change, but i could easily see it set off massive problems like wars over resource shortages. The pandemic demonstrated that the global economy is a finely tuned machine. It do
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by zizee 1y ago
Does this mean the H1B visa program will be curtailed? /s
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by zizee 1y ago
The point of trying to address climate change is not that it's impossible for us to adapt, it's that to adapt to the predicted rate of change is going to be a lot more expensive/disruptive than trying to slow the change to mo
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by zizee 1y ago
There are many nuclear powered ships. If the decision is between nuclear proliferation, or the end of the global economy, I'm betting we'll choose the former. If you have enough electricity, you can manufacture avgas, methane and
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by zizee 1y ago
Sometimes it is good to tradeoff solving a known short term problem, by taking on a solution with a uncertain long term issue. If the world had continued to adopt nuclear power unabated, it is likely that climate change would not be a probl
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by zizee 1y ago
Better than what some people do: argue that the problem you have raised doesn't exist.
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by zizee 1y ago
Normal blenders have substantially more cleanup work involved.
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by zizee 1y ago
How do the costs of long distance, high voltage lines compare to batteries for addressing solar intermittency?
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by zizee 2y ago
> That means the technology problem is now a money problem. This is such an odd insight. Most problems in the world can be described as a "money problem", and it's usually the problem that problem solvers are pushing up ag
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by zizee 2y ago
Honest question: are you asking them to not express this idea? Or that they used uncouth language?
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by zizee 2y ago
Fibre will always be better for densely populated areas. But for less dense satellite is making a lot of sense. However, for nation states there is a lot of value in having redundancy and sovereignty over your telecommunications infrastruct
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by zizee 2y ago
I have yet to see a starlink proponent suggest starlinl is a good solve for densely populated areas. Are there some misguided/uneducated people saying dumb stuff on the internet? I am sure they are out there, but you can find someone s
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by zizee 2y ago
Your dislike of Musk is clouding your judgement. They're not using semantic versioning. SpaceX hasn't even finished a production ready starship, they are still very much in the R&D stage. Just because the latest iteration is k
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by zizee 2y ago
English speaking countries are always popular to move to.
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by zizee 2y ago
> South Africa ... if they can see eye to eye on political and economic issues. That's a pretty big "if". Right now South Africa is a basket case, with corruption at the highest levels of government, and one in five citize
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by zizee 2y ago
Wasn't the federal government of the US formed with a very narrow mandate, and then ratcheted up control with the the innocuous sounding Interstate Commerce clause? Disclaimer: I am neither American, nor very educated about what I just
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by zizee 2y ago
What are the benefits that cannot be obtained by signing trade agreements? Canada is already part of NATO for defence, so joining the EU does nothing for defence. Does Canada want freedom of movement of EU citizens into Canada? They already
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by zizee 2y ago
It is in the Commonwealth?
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by zizee 2y ago
We've happily fucked future generations by being scared of nuclear (with the fear campaign funded by fossil fuel companies), and bring about climate change. That is shameful, and the anti-nuclear crowd can take responsibility for that.
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by zizee 2y ago
> Remember, it is hundreds of thousands of years Remember that I have already said I disagree with this as something we should be worried about.

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