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gridspy
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About gridspy
Working at Light Pattern Ltd making a game.
I'd love to talk to any fellow hacker - tom at gridspy (.com)
Based in Auckland, New Zealand
I started my own Power monitoring startup ~2010 - http://www.gridspy.co.nz
Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/users/11440/tom-leys
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Comment #46698242
Random reply: 20 days ago you asked for my ChatGPT custom instructions to be more skeptical. It is : Use an encouraging tone. Adopt a skeptical, questioning approach. Call me on th…
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Comment #46697797
Wow, this was some slick long form sales work. I hope your SaaS goes well. Nice one!
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Comment #46697538
You know how to add logic on the outside of a function, by putting that function into a larger one and calling the function in the middle. However, how do you inject logic INTO the…
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Comment #46597142
Sounds likely it had an opening book dataset. You just needed a weird opening
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Comment #46597126
There is a strategy called alpha beta pruning meaning you can discard a lot of move options quickly based on the results of similar branches. That and caching similar board states …
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Comment #46440580
I told ChatGPT via my settings that I often make mistakes and to call out my assumptions. So now it 1. Glazes me 2. Lists a variety of assumptions (some can be useful / interesting…
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Comment #46225615
That's probably assuming a solar system sized to cover typical summer energy usage. You can simply over-provision solar until you have wasted capacity in summer and little to no st…
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Comment #46213183
Perhaps not in a 100% world, though I'll give you the point that they are useful now. In a 100% renewable world we would not be extracting or refining oil. Natural gas (used by the…
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Comment #46073508
The free market is an analyzable simplification of the real market, however I think the assumptions hold in this case. If a CEO delivers a certain advantage (a profit multiplier) i…
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Comment #46072756
They are a bridge between those with money and those with skill. Plus they can aggregate information and act as a repository of knowledge and decision maker for their teams. These …
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Comment #45998960
It's also a tower that has famously been deliberately un-straightend just enough to remain a tourist attraction while remaining stable.
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Comment #45975791
I'd imagine that as any variable that only has two states.
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Comment #45974432
In English, that's hard, but there are programming languages ... specialized in breaking a complex task down for computers to understand. ...
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Comment #45958286
Horizon Zero Dawn (the PlayStation and later steam game where you're an archer in a world of robots) There are probably a lot of open world RPGs which are all good. The linked site…
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Comment #45958206
Sure, but Fortnite's UI is set up to sell to you the whole time. After every match you can see unlocks. Before every match you spend time surrounded by other players with their ski…
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Comment #45922692
While true, at least Gabe proved you could make a profit while still remaining non-evil.
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Comment #45922688
I think that's more a situation where publishers demand some form of DRM so steam is trying to provide a default solution that most publishers are happy with.
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Comment #45881351
Sure, but you currently cannot teach AI models to generate novel art in the same way that you can teach a human apprentice.
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Comment #45817953
Also resolution & uniformity Color makes major compromises physically also, since it seems like the Red, Green and Blue channels are sampling from the same physical location but th…
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Comment #45752540
There are ads on the internet? Do you mean in that short window between installing a browser and installing the extensions?
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Comment #45716818
Thread exhaustion attack 1. Start connections to a server 2. Hold connections open 3. Do nothing else Server 1. Incoming connection. assign a thread. 2. Wait for request 3. Serve r…
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Comment #45631822
Note - Lorazepam is one of those drugs which causes dependance if you use it regularly. If you find you need it often, get a substitute which is safe to use all the time.
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Comment #45624859
Yeah, In application programming over the air is frankly terrifying because when it goes bad it goes really bad.
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Comment #45599604
If you want to stay in the bay area and leverage your experience, perhaps you want to become a technical co-founder for someone? Otherwise it might make sense to move out of the ba…
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Comment #45599331
I think the scammers created this time pressure by messaging and then suggesting they interview in 30 minutes from now (in real time)