gasdive (he, him, ia)

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• Commented on An AI app walks into a writers room
  I'd be highly sceptical if any "app" that could reliably tell if text is ChatGPT or not. From what I've read, at least part of how it was trained involved it producing text and a classifier giving it feedback on...
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  People did die, but it's interesting. Another food flood. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Molasses_Flood...
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  Do Marx hours include training hours? Though it's debunked, 10,000 hours to become an expert is often bandied about. Is food prepped by a 10,000 hour expert more "hours" than food prepped by a 30 minute trainee, when they both...
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  On Android, Long press gets you a menu, and at the top of the menu there's the url. And I do prefer naked girls, but it's been a few years since I've been around a plural....
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  I also prefer naked urls. I won't click on urls that I don't know where they're going. You can pay them here by giving them their own paragraph. (2 carriage returns) https://www.repco.com.au/en/tools-equipment/tool-kits-sets/socket-sets/mechpro-blue-10mm-socket-rail-set-mpbsk141k/p/A5440551 Note, this is a link to a socket...
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  I guess I'm a CoE atheist because that's what I used to write on forms at school back when they asked such things. Greg's ranting certainly strikes a chord with me. My dad couldn't remember what he'd been raised as,...
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  Religion is an accidental misuse of the human instincts to look after each other. It's functionally the same as birds feeding fish because they gape at them and look like baby birds, triggering the feeding instinct. (religion being the fish...
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  PS, Seals in general. Most static seals can be made such that elastomeric seals aren't needed. Metal to metal seals work absolutely fine. Elastomeric seals are popular because you can make and break connections without tools, and they're a bit...
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  A bit of a throw back subject, but I've been away. Seasaw style manual compressors (oxygen booster actually, but to a layman, "compressor" is close enough) using wet leather seals were in active military use as recently as 30 years...
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  Moz said: I assumed that was a cultural thing where USA small communities have much more extensive libraries than equivalent villages in Australia or Aotearoa do. I grew up in a town of ~5000 people... That might be a good...
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  Poul-Henning Kamp said: If China spent the "quarantine" period vaccinating as much of the population as they could, this should be a non-event. Yes. There's a lot they could and should have done to prepare. Indoor air standards, U bends...
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  Robert Prior said: I wonder how long they would be able to stay running without spare parts. We're about to find out. Covid has been released in China. When 20% of the people who make all our stuff lose the...
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  That's very on brand. A week or so ago the local news... Aside, not really local, but loss of profits in conventional media means I get "local" news from about 200 km south of me to about 300 km north....
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  Moz said: It's also slightly possible that gasdive's 10kWh is net after solar, since he's likely in the 35%+ of Australians that have PV on their home. I've got solar. My net is negative 0.67 kWh/d over that winter bill....
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  Atropos asks, May one ask how? Err, I dunno. I've got 4 kW of solar on the roof. That gets me about 4-6 kWh/d during winter and the pool is on a timer to coincide with the solar. The water...
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  Port Macquarie. I guess it's technically a bit warmer than Sydney, but there's not a great deal in it. Overnight in winter I hold the house about 10C (+-5) warmer than the outside air temperature. Basically for the dogs. We...
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  Atropos said: daily use dropped from ~65kWh Jesus Mary and Joseph. I just got my winter bill, for an all electric 3 bedroom house with a pool (and the pool draws about 5 kWh per day) my partner working from...
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  Here in Oz there's an app called emergency plus. Open the app, it will give you the address, lat/log decimal, and the what3words location that is easy to remember and repeat to the operator. Press a button on the app...
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  Re: Cell towers, POTS and VoIP running out of charge. There's a couple of companies putting cell towers in space over the next few years. So this problem may go away/change/get worse over the next half decade or so....
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  PS CONTAINS SPOILERS FOR RINGS OF POWER...
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  You need to see this then... A bit more than some blinking. https://youtu.be/9POcNCMlP_s...
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  JHolmes said: A city built round cars, OTOH, requires massive rebuilding. Does it though? The city centre, even the centre of cities built since cars appeared won't need rebuilding. The very centre is always walkable anyway. The outskirts of the...
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  Richard H said: Sieverts per excess banana That would be good, except that it's zero. In a healthy person potassium levels are held pretty tightly. If you eat an "excess banana" you just excrete the excess potassium and so the...
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  Scott asked about Ladds Addition It looks really nice, but it seems to me to be suburbia done well rather than the kind of medium density stuff I was thinking of. Most suburbia seems soul crushing, and this isn't. It's...
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  Doire asked: Are those figures realistic? I tried to make them realistic. I stayed with a guy in Florida who lived in a hut he'd made out of what was once a caravan and building waste he'd collected off the...
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  JohnS said: You're all wrong and too blind to see and too stuck up to consider alternatives that include the economic underclass. I wouldn't say I'm "too blind to see". I said at the start I was wrong. And I...
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  PS. If the doctor says to you, "you need to get some exercise, and ideally, a young man like you should be able to run a marathon" then you need to look at what the blockers are. Why are you...
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  Which is why I also say, "you can't get there from here" Even with Heteromeles' tempting solution of nuking the USA flat and starting again....
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  Gahhh, just did a Mars climate orbiter. 11 minutes to get to the other hospital....
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  There's some weird preconceptions here. Medium density housing and slow commutes = modern slavery. Take major hospitals as an example. A major hospital needs a population from which to draw patients. That's roughly 800,000 people. Housed in typical US suburban...