alsimoneau

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alsimoneau ,

Because that power could have been used by someone else who's depending on coal instead. You cannot separate power sources when on the grid.

alsimoneau ,

The article you linked doesn't support your claims, is unpublished and reads like the homework of some undergrads.

Training AI models, while computationally expensive, cannot compare to crypto farms the size of warehouses everywhere around the world.

alsimoneau ,

I have the same PC as your mom.... I'm really fit for an upgrade.

Biden Administration Tightens Mileage Standards to Buoy E.V.s | The new rule requires automakers to achieve an average of 65 miles per gallon across all models by 2031. ( www.nytimes.com )

The new standards require American automakers to increase fuel economy so that, across their product lines, their passenger vehicles would average 65 miles per gallon by 2031, up from 48.7 miles today. The average mileage for light trucks, including pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles, would have to reach 45 miles per...

alsimoneau ,

I think the point is that EVs are at 0L/100km, therefore lowering the average.

Why Assassin's Creed has lost its identity?

Remember those iconic games before 2014? The OG, while dated was really unique for its time, the Ezio Auditore Trilogy that became the standard for the franchise, 3, that was very ambitious (probably too much) with it's setting and story telling. Even 4, although it was the first time AC escaped from the base of what an...

alsimoneau ,

Rogue was barely advertised and the concurrent release with unity was doomed. Unity was so full of bugs (and there was the whole sexual assault scandal) that Ubisoft lost a ton of goodwill before syndicate.

They fired the lead designer in the middle of Brotherhood because he didn't want to push shit games and you feel it. The only good things in Revelation is nostalgia and the bombs. After that you lost the parkour in 3 (although Rogue has some).

I'm tentatively hopeful with Mirage but I don't expect the Japan one to be any good.

alsimoneau ,

That was a symptom. The only inspired thing in Revelation was the bombs.

alsimoneau ,

Changing settings, changing tools. Hell, they could have made a modern one playing as Lucy or Desmond and interwoven it with Watch Dogs.

But people liked the first 3/4 games for the story and the movement. The Ezio trilogy is pretty much the same game three times! Make good stories and keep/improve on the core mechanics and they would have been successful.

Regarding sleep quality, why did humans evolve to require full darkness?

I know evolution is governed by chance and it is random but does it make sense to "ruin" sleep if there's light? I mean normally, outside, you never have pure darkness, there are the moon and stars even at night. In certain zones of the Earth we also have long periods of no sunshine and long periods of only sunshine....

alsimoneau ,

You should come to the ALAN conference next year if you can.

alsimoneau ,

Yes. It gathers up people from every field working on Artificial Light At Night (ALAN) every two years. It's always very interesting and brings forth a lot on international and interdisciplinary collaborations.

Plus, it'll be in Ireland next year.

alsimoneau ,

I've heard it's less about the weight than the torque.

alsimoneau ,

Unless you're left handed and the ballpoint gets gummed up in paper fiber.

alsimoneau ,

Yes but our writing isn't. When you write right handed you pull the pen, whereas left handed you push it. It changes the angle at which the pen rests on the paper and makes it so the pen scrapes along the surface and digs into it.

Most of my cheap ballpoints have stopped writing with half the ink left because of that.

alsimoneau ,

Oh you totally can (as long as you're working with implied limits, which you have to if infinity is in the mix), you just have to specify if it's a positive or negative zero.

alsimoneau ,

Just use UTC then.

alsimoneau ,

My point is you use UTC to plan international meetings but keep timezones for day to day stuff. Better yet with computers meeting planning software takes timezones into account.

When I do a when2meet with my colleagues everyone fills it in their local time and it's fine, and then the calendar event is timezone aware as well so it's completely a non issue.

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