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Phenomenit··on The Waymo World Model
Seems like a good description on current events.
Phenomenit··on Finland looks to introduce Australia-style ban on social media
They should just ban showing ads to people under 18. That will remove the incentive to produce and feed dopamine garbage to kids with unfinished brains.
Phenomenit··on The biggest heat pumps
You never go below 1 in efficiency. Worst case the water is heated directly with electricity.
Phenomenit··on 2025 Infrastructure Report Card
Don’t they have daily de-railings? I remember some YouTube video talking about derailings with hazardous materials.
Phenomenit··on Musk-Trump dispute includes threats to SpaceX contracts
That’s the key right? It’s world as content. Nothing means anything anymore as long as it gets spread on media platforms. The easiest way for the US to get out this downward spiral is to just ignore the medias coverage of ”politics”. But that’s not gonna happen is it? Gotta se what happens next!
Phenomenit··on Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
It doesn’t, I use the starter plan, that’s the lowest paid tie.
Phenomenit··on Kagi Assistant is now available to all users
Yeah I concur.

As an early adopter I first got forced off my grandfather plan to the regular one(at least I got a T-shirt). Now I have a limited number of searches that I have to keep track of and this has made me only use Kagi if necessary. This has dropped my number of searches significantly but at the end of the year I’m still being charged for renewing my plan even though I haven’t used a quarter of my allotted searches.

I don’t care about LLMs so this brings nothing of value to me. Give me an email account or some backup storage and open source office suite and I would be willing to pay and pay more.

I’m seriously considering not re-newing my subscription for the first time in ages.

Phenomenit··on Ereader Easy Swedish
Is there something similar in French? Preferably from French/English to simplified French?
Phenomenit··on String of recent killings linked to Bay Area 'Zizians'
So you’ve discarded a lot of modern , post modern and contemporary thinkers without offering some alternative or do you mean that there isn’t much to philosophy in general? I’m curious because I have also come to a similar conclusion but I have to admit that I have not read everyone that you’ve mentioned but I have read summaries and analysis.
Phenomenit··on The largest solar farm just came online in China
But let’s not ignore the average down time of 35-40 days per year for refueling nuclear PP.

https://www.statista.com/statistics/185276/us-nuclear-refuel...

Phenomenit··on Roman Roads (2017)
So he rode really fast, reckless and sleep deprived to his brother who’d been injured in a horse riding accident?
Phenomenit··on Reddit is full of bots: thread reposted comment by comment, 10 months later
Yeah the problem is that academia has the same issue with garbage papers. As long as information has some ad value, be it commercial or political it will fill all spaces with garbage to make a buck.
Phenomenit··on Jasmin Paris Becomes First Woman to Finish Hardest Race
”it's forbidden to attempt these ultra races in that way, the competitors aren't even allowed to help each other during a loop.”

What? No that’s not right, of course they stick together or else no rookie would ever finish a loop.

Phenomenit··on Homeless Mortality Data
And therefore they do not deserve to live.
Phenomenit··on Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history
This is definitely encouraging but I’d rather see a study about people forgoing consumption or voluntarily imposing self austerity rather than what their opinions are.
Phenomenit··on Earth just experienced its hottest 12 months in recorded history
The Change needed is refused by the people. We would rather die and kill most of the biological world than face economic austerity, so we get what we order.
Phenomenit··on Researchers shed light on higher energy yields in vertical PV systems
We don’t have AC installed so our only major energy cost during the summer is hot water . Yeah it’s definitely worth doing som maths. One major pain point though is that we need a permit for vertical panels because it affects the look of the house.
Phenomenit··on Researchers shed light on higher energy yields in vertical PV systems
I live in the edge of a row of townhouses and have a huge wall doing nothing but cooling the house. I’ve been thinking about having vertical panels on the wall and my fear is exactly what you described, that all RoI calculations are based on producing a lot of power during the summer half of the year and I that I will not recoup the money but the problem is that when it’s sunny outside everybody is producing electricity and the prices are low so I think the RoI don’t really take this in to account. My wall is on the sout side and gets sunlight all day, is much larger than my roof, doesn’t get covered with snow. The prices electricity are usually 10-20x higher during the winter and our consumption is also 10x higher. I don’t know it just seems to make more sense to put them on the wall.
Phenomenit··on World surpasses key warming threshold across an entire year
Yeah doing more of the thing that screwed everything up is usually the best solution. /s
Phenomenit··on The rise of batteries in six charts
Yeah, I think my question was a bit fuzzy, what is the definition of long term? Batteries are excellent for short term storage, days or weeks but they don’t have the same storage performance as fossil fuels of where talking months and years.
Phenomenit··on The rise of batteries in six charts
What is the use case of long term storage in batteries? As some kind of reserve?
Phenomenit··on The rise of batteries in six charts
2. If batteries are growing exponentially right now then we are in the beginning of the S curve.
Phenomenit··on Daft Social: Anti-social social network for minimalists
So is there just the one feed? I mean how do you browse what’s posted? You need to know exactly which account you want to follow?
Phenomenit··on Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop
Sharing files is great but what I’m looking for is simple QR code ephemeral chat. Like if a want to copy a link or password between my phone and some device. Tried a bunch of different ones that I’ve found on search but they’re clunky and kind of work.
Phenomenit··on Engineers harvest clean, continuous energy from air
Didn’t it say cubic meter, not square?
Phenomenit··on Europe needs to escape providerism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoarding_disorder
Phenomenit··on Candela P-12 taking off – Electric hydrofoiling passenger vessel [video]
This one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i2Zf9WVlNY

Phenomenit··on Candela P-12 taking off – Electric hydrofoiling passenger vessel [video]
There is another video on their channel that shows the technology in rougher weather and sea, seems to work fine.
Phenomenit··on Starship Integrated Flight Test 2 at 7 Am Central Time
I believe that the crewed version is way in the future when operations are much better understood. There’s no chance in hell they’re catching that 2028 window to march.
Phenomenit··on Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
I think you’re on to something, especially when that’s where most of the big scale enterprises end up.
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