hissingmeerkat

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[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

My non-adderall prescription has been on backorder for weeks.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 6 points 4 months ago

New?! This is the original area in which China excelled at producing electric vehicles. London's early electric buses were European licensed production of BYD buses (or more likely BYD licensed powertrains)

Is China even allowing electric buses to be exported yet? The last time I looked it was still going to take over a decade to replace all the buses in China, but a chunk of a decade has passed since then.

There's an old report from New York City putting the value of an electric bus at about $1.2 million, mostly the health benefits from no emissions not fuel savings. At the time there was no way for New York City to buy them because there's no way to fund transit out of healthcare when the state pays for one but not the other, there were no non-Chinese manufacturers, and then shortly after they couldn't compete with London that valued an electric bus at £1.7 million if I remember correctly, and the UK could justify funding buses based on healthcare. I think those first buses were about €600k. At the same time kneeling electric transit buses in China were about $90k, and small electric buses were $30-$40k.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 1 points 4 months ago

Random word generator

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works -3 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is the Biden administration. On immigration the US is now more xenophobic than the Republican primary between Reagan and Bush in 1980.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 months ago

No. This is the alternate history of energy. We could have been building primarily molten salt solar plants for the last 40 years. They had similar costs to coal, fuel plants, could be built with no semiconductor manufacturing bottlenecks, provided more consistent base generation than wind, had no fuel dependencies, combustion emissions. Now photovoltaics and battery storage are cheaper, more efficient, don't require water and cooling, and work with wind as well as solar, and aren't really bottlenecked by manufacturing.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

Silly. The limit should be 0. You can take no gas that you don't pay for. You can vent/leak no methane except for emergencies, some tiny fraction of leak/well or pipe distance. If you flare gas you have to pay for both the gas you took and the lost utility of the gas to other users.

And that's not even getting to addressing climate issues.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 16 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Based on what they've done in the past, they're going to write it off on their taxes when though the titles aren't even games that they own.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 5 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

In terms of abilities, there's problems other people can solve that I never will even with years of study and training, and there are problems I can solve that my immediate peers never would, even with years of study and training.

In terms off knowledge, everybody you meet knows something you don't. (They might not have the ability to help you find what it is though)

In terms of skills, behaviors it seems like nobody ever considers trying and finding out for themselves, which is endemic across all levels of academia, government, business, and profession, and in that matter they are all as dumb as a bunch of rocks.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 6 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

The USPS board of governors has 11 seats.

  • 2 are held by the postmaster general and deputy elected by the board (Louis DeJoy and Douglas Tulino)
  • 2 are remaining Trump appointees
  • 5 are Biden appointees
  • 2 are vacant

Biden appointees already control the board and Biden could appoint 2 more

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 7 months ago

EIH is probably Everyone's Illogical Here

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 3 points 8 months ago

Whether or not you use downvotes doesn't really matter.

If what you like is well represented by the Boba drinkers and the Boba drinkers disproportionally don't like Cofee then Cofee will be disproportionally excluded from the top of your results. Unless you explore deeper the Cofee results will be pushed to the bottom of your results. And any that happen to come to the top will have arrived there from broad appeal and will have very little contribution to thinking you like Cofee.

If you don't let the math effectively push things away that are disliked by the people who like similar things as you then everything will saturate at maximum appeal and the whole system does nothing.

[–] hissingmeerkat@sh.itjust.works 15 points 8 months ago (2 children)

There's two problems. The first is that those other things you might like will be rated lower than things you appear to certainly like. That's the "easy" problem and has solutions where a learning agent is forced to prefer exploring new options over sticking to preferences to some degree, but becomes difficult when you no longer know what is explored or unexplored due to some abstraction like dimension reduction or some practical limitation like a human can't explore all of Lemmy like a robot in a maze.

The second is that you might have preferences that other people who like the same things you've already indicated a taste for tend to dislike. For example there may be other people who like both Boba and Cofee but people who like one or the other tend to dislike the other. If you happen to encounter Boba first then Cofee will be predicted to be disliked based on the overall preferences of people who agree with your Boba preference.

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