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Has it become that cheap? Do you have a link?

Heat pumps have a COP value of around 4 to 5 (10 to 15C outdoor) and 3 (0C outdoor). The seasonal COP (or SCOP) measures the efficiency over a whole season, and that typically sits…

I think fear and being scared are starting to become rational emotions. We can assume these models are being used by "nation level attackers/organisations", which basically means U…

Me too. I love Snow Crash and re-read it recently. I started Cryptonomicon, but didn't even get 1/4th before giving up.

LLM's are trained on human phrasings. So now we can't use human phrasings anymore? I am one of those people that used to write em dashes – and now I self-censor them out of my writ…

I wrote a system for a medical lab decades ago and IIRC I did actually have to change some RRN's manually. It's been a while so I'm not 100% sure, but I do think the changes were d…

Not sure if still the case: odd numbers for males and even numbers for females. This also means a person’s Belgian RRN can change.

I'm super happy with an Odroid H3 as a NAS: low power usage, silent, x86, nvme + 2 sata ports. Runs home assistant, smb shares and a few more things

This seems a suspicious. How do you measure the CPU load of Ghostty? Is the measure/reporting method just attributing the cpu load of the commands/programs you're running in Ghostt…

Reading the Erlang ProgProgrammers book by Joe Armstrong made me a better Ruby programmer as it changed my perspective on functional programming and abstractions. I first reached f…

Genres are fuzzy. It opened the door for me towards Derrick May, Adam Beyer, Carl Cox, etc. If you had to put a label on it, what genre would you file it under?

I got into Techno by cheer coincidence. I was 13 in 1999 and browsing Napster. I had followed the 1998 World Cup the year before with France - Brasil in the final and (the older) R…

I am surprised that spending a day on the Ukraine front is equivalent to _only_ a year of smoking. That seems to clash either the average life expectancy I read about Russians on t…

Do you have an example? I don’t know of many diagnosis methods leading to significant injury.

I'm an engineer, not a clinical biologist or researcher. I have no idea. On a personal level: I used to struggle with "winter dip". Taking Vitamin D supplements, as well as moving …

The normal curve in the image is there for operators to visually check if the machine results are normal distributed or not. It's a "stencil", not data. The software actually does …

My family runs a blood analysis lab in Belgium for which I wrote some of the statistics gathering software. The thresholds for 25-OH vitamin D: When I looked at all 1738 blood samp…

It is 16GB plus an additional 8GB for graphics.

Thanks! As always, plenty of problems there too. The colonization of Congo was indeed horrible. Inconsequential clarification: Congo wasn't actually a Belgian colony, it was Leopol…

Does Elon _really_ support free speech? * He suspended multiple journalists from Twitter/X in December 2022 after they had reported on or criticized him [0] * He has been accused o…

Yeah, that seems like his goal. > If Tesla changes control Does selling Tesla to SpaceX actually satisfy "changing control" if he remains the largest shareholder?

I grew up and lived mostly in Belgium. Only a year in the US and a few years in South Africa. Belgium gets a lot of criticism for moving slowing, but it also rarely breaks crucial …

> Perhaps the only weapon is to teach how to think for oneself. Who is going to invest in that in a scale necessary? _Most_ developed countries do invest in the education and teach…

I understand Tesla acquiring other companies counting to the cap, but Tesla _being acquired_ by another company, why would that count?

I don't even think such a scale works for the kind of brilliant solutions Bellard (not Bertrand) creates. I don't think 100 1x programmers can create these solutions. So much gets …