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Same amount of humans means no cost savings. More science is hard to value, while less salaries paid is easy to value.

Ah, thanks, had to be something like that indeed. Had a hard time imagining putting work into an ICE and getting anything useful out.

I don't see why that would be the case. Why is the 20% of eg. an internal combustion engine coupled to the 500% COP of a heat pump? I see a vague connection as an ICE also uses exp…

True. For residential heating, heat pumps make for a similar ratio as they make 3-5 units of hear for 1 unit of electric energy, depending on conditions. The challenge in heating i…

When looking at hat kind of graphs, it's good to keep in mind that burning hydrocarbons is relatively inefficient: only ~20-30% of the energy in the fuel turns into useful work, wh…

Since the advent of these coding assistants, I gathered a list of software tool ideas I usually discarded due to lack of time. No more! Main one on that list: grocery assistant, wi…

Maybe so. That leaves just the hardware. Deprecates badly. Maybe gamers will take it off their hands gladly?

Yes, they have assets: GPUs sitting in datacenters, and data. Question is: is that worth enough to cover the debt after the market crashed?

I would have thought this would be about electricians and carpenters with camera's on their heads to train AI. Apparently not yet. Imagine robots (humanoids or something more speci…

My wife had a terrible fear of loosing me in this station, afraid she would loose me and never find me back :-) . It felt like the biggest station we knew before, multiplied by 10 …

We just want work done we don't want to do ourselves. Whether it's slaves, animals or dumb to smart machines and anything in between, that is an 'implementation detail'.

These are called aptonyms: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aptronym?useskin=vector

Coming back for another 5% seems unlikely. But the whole thing is unlikely and uncommon, so what's it matter?

Exacerbated by nothing being normal with this administration, to say the least.

> I may have picked a bad example, but the principle stands. I know electric aircraft are not quite feasible on the same scale as airlines. On the other hand, China has an extensiv…

I'd expect the competition for these companies to come in not from someone using the same technology, but a different technology that serves the same purpose. Eg. what happened to …

Besides direct control, what could a dividend on the profits do what a well-proportioned corporate tax on profits cannot do? The state would only get dividends assuming it would no…

Discussed also https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15789108 .

I'm using DeepSeek v4 Flash through OpenCode and OpenRouter, and works just fine. It's not the bottleneck, I am, for what I'm building. That involves understanding the problem I'm …

Someone keeping an eye on their (illegal?) cannabis pants in the UK? https://ipcrawl.com/?cam=3892f36f150ff9db

According to Kimi, I'm a Dutch robotics engineer. Got that part actually right! Not so much for the rest, about First Lego League. But I did RoboCup, so close enough I guess. The o…

It will be a spectacular crash if/when it crashes. But there is this old adage of 'the market can remain irrational much longer than you can stay solvent'. I'm not holding my breat…

> 10% of the US economy is IT The US is the IT-supplier of the world. I don't know how large a % of that comes for outside the US. But with all the 'shenanigans' of the Trump regim…