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New programming languages? Doesn't seem needed anymore

Is there a list of useful science/inventions that this project has led to?

I think explicit management of the event loop and the associated potential for grievous bugs has a lot to do with it.

Construction costs have been outpacing headline inflation by a huge amount. This has accrued to costs of repairs easily exceeding 20-30% over a few years ago.

I applaud the aim to make lean and fast websites, but the lack of timer and drag+drop on this game makes it unusable, so I think this actually makes the reverse point -- one should not put non-functional requirements ahead of the function of a product. In other words, this was not a good compromise.

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* Vim ;)

Great interview with Boyan Slat on AO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNWiqq0UxN0

K8s is an abbreviation of kubernetes K3s is an abbreviation of k8s

Ah, that makes more sense -- it might be a good idea to integrate with the upstream library as a submodule rather than lifting the actual .cpp/.h files into the bindings repo. That way people know the upstream C++ code is from a much more active project.

Despite my snarky comments, thank you for contributing to the python ecosystem, this does seem like a cool project for high performance URL parsing!

This is the commit history: https://github.com/TkTech/can_ada/commits/main/

I guess you are right that there are 2 commits from a different dev, so it is technically not a solo project. I still wouldn't ever use this in production code.

It seems unlikely that this C++ library written by a solo dev is somehow more secure than the Python standard library would be for such a security-sensitive task.

Hard to imagine the tradeoff of using a third party binary library developed this year vs just using urllib.parse being worth it. Is this solving a real problem?

Read gödel, escher, bach by Douglas Hofstaedter

I'm really curious what a tech-focused car manufacturing company like Tesla would use for something like this.

This doesnt take into account capacity factors. A "800MW" solar plant would be expected to actually product 10-25% of that after day/night and seasons are taken into account. Nuclear plants are more of a 90+% capacity factor.

Nope very common all over the world

Agreed. I read your original post during a time where I was starting up a solo company and it's great to see you've eventually seen success after all these years! The points you make about which problems seem interesting as an engineer and which ones lead to actual success resonate a lot. Congrats on TinyPilot!

This is specifically about plastic recycling. Metal, glass, organic waste recycling are very much economical and good for the environment.

Solar isn't a useful source of energy for heating in California, since the demand is almost entirely during winter mornings/evenings where the sun is down.

Experimental methods and data analysis are usually scrutinized in peer review, whereas wild, unsubstantiated economic claims such as the above are not. I think we need a higher bar for making claims like the above.

Sticking points for me were, massive chlorine gas production (extremely toxic...) and requiring extremely high purity iron ore, with costs to purify it hand waved away.

Plastic is about the best carbon sink you could imagine, locks up those Cs for hundreds of years, unless it gets combusted.

One of the worst things to ever say: "I love your accent!"

The trick is to go to bed earlier. This doesn't seem to actually solve any problems

You need a nice wood tree in the tank, can increase your grass area a lot

Driving in Boston it can very easily take 5 minutes to get from point A to point A

Pause notifications for 30 while you do pomodoros. Works well for me

Very accurate. The dysfunction of congress led to a much slower economic recovery after the GFC due to sequestration and partisan debt ceiling games. Then went far the other way with huge tax cuts, huge spending, followed by even more spending by the current admin, and claim surprise at the resulting inflation. If we do have a recession coming, we are in a very bad position to cushion it at the moment due to political partisanship.

Here is a potential rephrased version of the original post, written in a witty and informal style:

"Yo, AI-generated answers on Stack Overflow sound like a real bummer. First of all, the quality might suck compared to human-written answers. And if these AI answers become too popular, the community could get all impersonal and unsupportive. Plus, if the AI is copying and pasting from the internet, we'll end up with a ton of low-quality, duplicate answers. In short, using AI on Stack Overflow could really suck."

OK I'm genuinely curious now.. wouldn't the fact that a computation has taken place mean that energy has been used to do work (non-heat)? My intuition tells me that it would not be possible to simultaneously use energy 100% to generate heat and do something else at the same time. For example if you used an electric motor to move a weight against massive friction, it could be that 99% of energy is lost to heat due to resistance in wires and friction, but if the weight moved, it would mean that not all energy was lost to heat.

If you think of a computer as a heat engine.. some energy goes to heat, and some goes into doing "work". For analyzing the efficiency of a computer as a heater you have to subtract out the "work" which would be the hashing computations, making it less efficient than a pure heating coil (assuming the crypto hashing is 100% worthless)