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looofooo0··on Tallest Wooden Wind Turbine
https://gicon-hoehenwindrad.de/ They test-building a 380m wind turbine in such a style now.
looofooo0··on Building my own solar power system
There is no implied meaning, you cannot derive PV building intend from it.
looofooo0··on Building my own solar power system
Ok what do you do after 5 darkdays? You will need the grid.
looofooo0··on Building my own solar power system
Would be nice, the rate could be grid size battery/PV + cost savings from localized production. Not sure if it is economically feasible then.
looofooo0··on Building my own solar power system
magnitude less power from PV than in the summer

magnitude more power from PV than in the winter

That is a tautology.

looofooo0··on Building my own solar power system
Not so easy to reduce the grid load all the time, needs a big battery for every night and for multiple dark days you still need the grid a lot.
looofooo0··on Building my own solar power system
Well big chunk of the electricity cost are fixed cost, meaning if enough people lower their bill with PV and batteries then prices will have to rise for their connection. In fact some suggest that it would make more sense to let people pay a flat rate.
looofooo0··on Building my own solar power system
Well problem in the UK is that in summer there is like a magnitude more power from PV then in winter.
looofooo0··on Proton threatens to quit Switzerland over new surveillance law
I think Sweden was one of the best countries how it handle Covid. Assange is a farce on the other hand.
looofooo0··on Coding without a laptop: Two weeks with AR glasses and Linux on Android
There are fairly long arms which any vesa mount monitor can be attached to. This is no option for you?
looofooo0··on AlphaEvolve: A Gemini-powered coding agent for designing advanced algorithms
Ironically their AI can cite the relevant paper with 46 steps if asked: https://gemini.google.com/share/b0d5d6a76c87
looofooo0··on Coffee for people who don't like coffee
The cheapest delonghi will produce decent espresso with a good mill.
looofooo0··on Google to back three new nuclear projects
Think 20% power cost, 80% infrastructure where most are fixed cost.
looofooo0··on Google to back three new nuclear projects
Well then you only get 50% of your compute, hence your compute is twice as expensive (ignoring power costs.)
looofooo0··on Google to back three new nuclear projects
we can make food from oil, gas and other hydrocarbons.
looofooo0··on Google to back three new nuclear projects
Ok, how many are democracies of those 21 without nukes or have or had a defense alliance with a country with nukes?
looofooo0··on Google to back three new nuclear projects
Lets face it deploying nuclear around the world will add other mayor headaches like nuclear profileration.
looofooo0··on Ghost students are creating problems for California colleges
Read Ross Anderson book Security Eng., it deals a lot with these types of issues. In short, banks try not do anything about as long they do not have to pay for it.

I suspect the issue is similar here with the multi stakeholder problem here. The college needs as many paying students as possible, the workload of the staff should be as low as possible, the office giving out loans wants to have a low workload... All in all good scammers will serve all these needs and happily take the money in the process.

looofooo0··on The US has approved CRISPR pigs for food
Lol, achieving the neccesary characteristics (cloven hooves and rumination), i am not sure that thing would be called a pig anymore.
looofooo0··on In the US, not even $11,000 a month can buy you dignity at the end of your life
For 11.000 Dollar you can hire like 3 people living with him.
looofooo0··on Chain of Recursive Thoughts: Make AI think harder by making it argue with itself
If you think about marginal cost, such experiments can be run almost at only the cost of extra electricity used for that computation, which in Europe is often zero, at least by the ones who own the compute.
looofooo0··on The Jevons Paradox and its implications in the AI era
Ok, but now getting rid of your legacy Cobol system becomes 10x cheaper, hence replacing it becomes feasible. Deploying an industrial robot with sensors to do specialized complicated thing x is now only a few skilled queries away and costing you only one workday. Writing software to replace manual process which n many workers do and would lead to savings but not enough to justify a normal programmer writing the code... if price of code goes down, short term fixes become worth the money.
looofooo0··on The Jevons Paradox and its implications in the AI era
This is a reminder to the hacker news community, that most likely if you increase the efficiency of anything the demand will go up, not down. So taking this to Developer-AI Cyborgs, being as productive as n-many Developer in 2022: the demand for these Cyborgs will be higher than for pre Cyborg developers.
looofooo0··on Ask HN: AI Replacing Engineers – Firsthand Stories?
Jevons paradox here, if you increase the efficiency of anything, the demand goes up, not down. So any Dev-AI Cyborg will be in hot demand.
looofooo0··on Attacking My Landlord's Boiler
No, this does not work. Solar thermal will not work without power. Any battery solution monitoring your home temperatures are enough. Then you can travel home or ask your neighbor.
looofooo0··on Presentation Slides with Markdown
Just use e-vi-l-mode for text
looofooo0··on Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and LLMs replacing human programmers
But the LLM interacts with the program and the world through debugger, run-time feedback, linter, fuzzer etc., we can collect all the user feedback, user pattern ... Moreover, it can also get visual feedback. Reason through other programs like physic simulation etc. Use a robot to interact with the device running the code physically. Can use proof verifier like lean, to ensure its logical model of the program is sound. Do some back and forth between the logical model and the actual program through experiments. Maybe not now, but I don't see why the LLM needs to be kept in the Chinese Room.
looofooo0··on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
I mean, probably many assume that we drive around our kids everyday (which we dont) cause they can walk or bike to school. Then that on every small trip they get a phone or tablet (neither true). It is just for 1 hour or more trips which are once a month or less.
looofooo0··on Show HN: Formalizing Principia Mathematica using Lean
Nice, really great work. How did you get into lean?

Few style Remarks: I personally would not call them Prof. Or Dr. In formal English that would be the latter. But the name of them stands for itself.

looofooo0··on A $20k American-made electric pickup with no paint, no stereo, no screen
Lol, yes we just throw a phone and a Tablet with headphones to the kids.
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