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> If Europe can make solar work Can you cite a region in Europe that physically independently covers its energy needs with solar+storage alone ? Stress on physical. Even if some re…

> The only common sense I can think of is solar+storage Even in Texas/California photovoltaic output in the winter is measly , anywhere more to the north and it's effectively inexi…

> I would argue that is not Jevons paradox but standard supply and demand (and this "reverse Jevons paradox" too). Kinda yes. How do you derive total spend from supply-demand curve…

What a serious security model for a meatbag agent looks like? No, but seriously, an admin in a small org is a huge key-person risk in that they (or their stolen creds) can wipe eno…

What makes this anecdote hard to believe is that seemingly two things happened simultaneously: 1. The layperson was able to to steer the session(-s) into full PM/PO mode ideating, …

You bootstrap css and harness js

You are assuming that the hypothetical friend has been isolated from any kind of technology from the last few decades. The friend can, presumably, use search engines and the very s…

Having an experienced friend looking over your shoulder and taking notes of every step might help a bit, I reckon

"rawdogging" - as the youth says - weights on local comodore cluster? They are either using some generic web frontend, ala chatgpt, some local app like claude desktop, or programmi…

> They didn’t even get to that point. Because my friend didn’t have the vocabulary to ask the AI to write code. What harness did you use? In e.g. claude, there are two modes: 1. Sp…

The thing is, humans make do. Given lacking, outdated documentation somewhere on sharepoint, big picture revealed somewhere in passing at some meetings or water cooler talks, under…

For the majority of people it's the opposite of utility. Not even inutility or uselessness, it's negatively useful. In any social network where "network effects" are a thing in the…

The point is lost somewhere. Prepared statements for SQL, innerText for HTML and similar do not show tractability of escaping, they sidestep the escaping problem altogether. Those …

While all you said is essentially correct, I want to nitpick that things like prepared statements quite specifically separate instructions from data and innerText is designed to sk…

No, that's a misconception that led to decades of vulnerabilities. You see, you can (usually) easily tell what a particular escaping transformation does. That does not tell you nei…

"if only we could align the models just a tiny lil bit better" is a rehashed "if only we could escape untrusted inputs just a tiny lil bit better" from 2000s, that were RIPE with v…

> Curious as to where the line between “addictive feature” and "good UX" is. Is deliberate pagination actual impedance to use or merely an annoyance that's been weeded out with mod…

> Obviously given that large scale persuasion is now cheap and automatable - even in a representative democracy you might well choose to set the political weather by directly targe…

It's 100% the money. Tests "would you vote the same as you favorite politician/party" routinely show parties to be way less aligned than the electorate tends to believe. The severa…

> The difference between lobbying for representatives versus people directly is that representatives have to answer to the people - whereas no-one loses their job as a citizen if t…

> However average people are actually pretty good at making the right moral, common sense calls, if not the technical legal detail. I suspect that's in part because they are not li…

First, my comment is a knee jerk reaction to the idea of representative democracy falling to authoritarianism, don't take it as seriously in favor of direct democracy. Second, your…

When you think about it, the idea of a representative democracy is rooted in the technical difficulties of implementing a direct democracy: both spread of information/discussion to…

In between flat material-ish (hehe) design windows and 3d compiz cube with burn effects we have settled on transparency and blur effects with a bit of visual planes thrown in. It's…

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