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superklondike··on Eunice is almost here
If anyone is enjoying the Jackpot series, I highly recommend 'Daemon' by Daniel Suarez (2006). He completely nails the technological capability / potential of an autonomous ChatGPT. I'm surprised it's not mentioned more.
superklondike··on Mastering Monero: The future of private transactions [pdf] (2019)
Pretty much anything: https://monerica.com/
superklondike··on Ask HN: What Linux Desktop Environment do you use on tablets?
I use a Lenovo X1 Yoga 2-in-1 for my daily and tried Ubuntu, Manjaro and PopOS. All of them sadly completely paled in comparison to Windows for out of the box tablet experience. Weird sizing issues, high battery usage, no face recognition login (extremely useful in tablet mode) I’m back to using WSL2.
superklondike··on After many false starts, hydrogen power might now bear fruit
EV owner here. Why would I want to drive to a fueling station when I can fuel up at home with electricity? And from a maintenance level, ev’s have substantially fewer parts and almost zero maintenance, whereas hydrogen perpetuates the ICE-engine paradigm... frequent oil changes, many moving parts, lots of service costs at the dealership. The economics of H2 may be different at the commercial scale, but we use a Chevy Bolt in a far northern climate and get nearly 200 miles of range in the winter. The future is already here, and H2 missed the consumer vehicle bandwagon.
superklondike··on After many false starts, hydrogen power might now bear fruit
Why would I want to drive to a fueling station when I can plug my ev in at home?