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New comment by dfjklseldklk in "Anchor Brewing Company ends national distribution, kills Christmas Ale"

dfjklseldklk — Tue, 13 Jun 2023 00:23:52 +0000

I agree the style of beers made "locally" is weird, but the justification for local beer, on keg at least, is that it does seem hard to transport them successfully. In the UK beers do taste best on tap when you're within about 50 miles of the brewery. I'm sure they could be transported further safely, but in practice them almost never are.

New comment by dfjklseldklk in "Apple Vision Pro: Apple’s first spatial computer"

dfjklseldklk — Tue, 06 Jun 2023 13:35:27 +0000

You could have described BlackBerry in similar terms pre 2008

New comment by dfjklseldklk in "Anthropic’s $5B, 4-year plan to take on OpenAI"

dfjklseldklk — Tue, 11 Apr 2023 12:45:04 +0000

This assumes that you can't steal information to catch up quickly, or that progress made isn't easy to copy once it's obvious that it works.

A big part of why chatgpt is a big deal is that it shows that the overall approach is worth pursuing. Throwing stupid numbers of GPUs at a problem you don't know will be solvable is hard to justify. It's easy to throw money at a problem you know is solvable.

Nuclear weapons are the prime example of this: Russia caught up both by stealing information and just by knowing fission was possible/feasible as an explosive.

New comment by dfjklseldklk in "More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade"

dfjklseldklk — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:48:35 +0000

Given the scale of investment we are talking about, it's also plausible that EU based manufacturing of solar panels could emerge given the right incentives.

New comment by dfjklseldklk in "More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade"

dfjklseldklk — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:43:04 +0000

In fact, solar on roof often loads the local grid in unhelpful ways (they were designed for asymmetric loads).

I'm in favour of renewables, but done in the way that actually makes most economic and environmental sense. In the Uk we threw money at rich people with £15k to install 4kwh solar rigs on their houses. That money would have been much better spent subsidising large industrial installations.

New comment by dfjklseldklk in "More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade"

dfjklseldklk — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:40:59 +0000

This is oft repeated, but once the cost of renewables is low enough it would have (usually un-modelled) second order effects on end users which may make this less important.

Some industries literally can't turn off production without damaging plant, but if some can then where energy cost is ~30% of fossil/nuclear than it might make sense to over-provision industrial capacity and only run it when the sun is shining.

New comment by dfjklseldklk in "More invested in nuclear fusion in last 12 months than past decade"

dfjklseldklk — Mon, 25 Jul 2022 18:37:52 +0000

This is a really lazy response, but given the possibility that you genuinely don't understand the gp: Writing better software and reducing the (currently massive) waste of energy on enterprise bullshit and cryptomining would have a meaningful impact on international energy usage, and so help climate change.