Simon @spoltier@qoto.org
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
@neoslugman @ploum j'ai trouvé cet échange fascinant. Pour moi, cela suggère que féminin / masculin sont, pour le sport de compétition, des catégories comme d'autres, et ne correspondent pas strictement au genre ou au sexe.
On pourrait donc imaginer plus de deux catégories basées sur le taux de testostérone, comme les catégories de poids...
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@spoltier Terraform Industries is a bunch of dreamers with utterly unrealistic numbers.
Capex-light power-to-gas technology would indeed be a breakthrough; judging by their considerable output on X, they ain't going to be the ones to make that breakthrough.
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@solar_chase very interesting conversation! You mentioned electrolyzers, which made me curious on your take regarding terraform industries. They're trying to build cheap-but-less-efficient electrolyzers to take advantage of low solar prices.
https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/how-to-produce-green-hydrogen-for-1-kg/
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And here's the podcast. It was so much fun to argue with Michael again. He's wrong about 1 cent/ kilowatt-hour solar, by the way.
https://www.cleaningup.live/the-solar-revolution-past-present-and-future-ep173-jenny-chase/
@solar_chase very interesting conversation! You mentioned electrolyzers, which made me curious on your take regarding terraform industries. They're trying to build cheap-but-less-efficient electrolyzers to take advantage of low solar prices.
https://terraformindustries.wordpress.com/2023/08/16/how-to-produce-green-hydrogen-for-1-kg/
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Working on the next XLConnect release. The master branch build can be installed the usual way:
install_github("miraisolutions/xlconnect")
or using r-universe:
install.packages("XLConnect", repos = c("https://miraisolutions.r-universe.dev", "https://cloud.r-project.org"))
@mtraven23 @sneerclub semirelated: I suspect the optimal position on the tall poppy syndrome spectrum is not at the extreme (having none of it at all).
@lindsey @amattn @bangbangcon it looks like Matt is more active on LinkedIn. In general it seems to have benefited from the X-birb's decline.
@eed3si9n @rit could also be this 😁
https://youtu.be/qqpcBpSsj1A
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@simon In reality the Enterprise computer requests were sent to cheap labour on Zargon V.
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I'm fascinated by how difficult LLM-based AI systems are proving to use
Makes me realize that the Star Trek ship computers are actually a pretty good representation of this: you need to have a very high level of experience to know to say things like "Computer: reroute auxiliary power to the forward shield emitters"
Much like getting ChatGPT et al to reliably-enough perform useful tasks for you!
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@kellogh this stood out as I'm reading "the Courage to be Disliked" by Ichiro Kishimi, and it says something quite similar on self-acceptance.
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i’m definitely not against making big changes, quite the contrary, i just realize that i will always be me. no matter how much i grow, some things are unchangeable. i can see those as faults, or i can find a way to make them assets
@kellogh this stood out as I'm reading "the Courage to be Disliked" by Ichiro Kishimi, and it says something quite similar on self-acceptance.
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Serious question to people born on 1970-01-01: Did you ever encounter weird IT related issues due to your dob?
Sharing encouraged, because I'm genuinely curious
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Okay, this is part of my contribution to the idea of a monoculture on mastodon.
I'm Nigerian. Nigeria is about to go on a huge public strike, and I haven't heard anything about it here. Now, I don't blame anyone for that, obviously, but I think it shows the fact that perhaps there aren't as many Africans as I'd like.
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@oxidecomputer since I still haven't watched Silicon Valley, I learned while listening to this what Bryan actually means by "reporting to the chair" (I naively thought it was reporting to the chair of the board of directors)
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Curiosity: the ultimate business superpower. Get the full Software Misadventures podcast here: https://softwaremisadventures.com/p/oxide-ditching-the-rules?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
@oxidecomputer since I still haven't watched Silicon Valley, I learned while listening to this what Bryan actually means by "reporting to the chair" (I naively thought it was reporting to the chair of the board of directors)
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code / data wrangler in Switzerland.
Recovering reply guy. Posts random photos once in a while.
Joined Jul 2023
