Depending on where you live the heating might be nice.
In the US people use roughly 10 000 kwh per year.
Say we have a 40 watt bulb, say it burns on average 5 hours per day or 200 wh. In 365 days that would be 72 kwh which at 16 cents per kwh is $11.52 or 0.73% of the annual power consumption.
Say one uses 5 light bulbs. Something around $57.60. Say leds use only 25% of the power = $14.40 for $43.2 saved.
Between real jobs I once worked at a factory that paid the bare minimum wages, gave zero hour contracts and had the most unstable work hours I've ever seen. People who weren't needed showed up only to be send home, people who weren't planned for the day were suppose to be ready to jump in the entire day only to not be called for 3 weeks. They did shit like send one out of a team of 6 home just to see if 5 people could still do it. They would go out of their way to keep up for example for 2-4 hours but couldn't so someone else was called in for the last two hours.
I asked about the horizontal colored bars painted on the wall in the lunch room. It was the strangest selection of colors. Each bar about a fist width. It seemed someone went out of their way to invent the most boring bland colors possible.
They told me the factory had spend over 100 k on a color expert to increase productivity. Everyone who worked there for some time knew this.
I thought I'd observe the effect. Someone was released from the factory floor for 10 minutes because they by accident worked enough hours in a row to be entitled to a lunch break, in their own time of course.
They sat down at a table carefully positioned to look straight at the color bars. And then it started! I could see on their face their internal dialog as if talking with the hundred thousand euro color consultant. The sandwich went only half way up to their mouth and they slipped into a catatonic state looking at the colors.
It was facinating, I just had to see more. Turned out half the factory had this moment with this colored wall!
I didn't have to ask them what that expression was. I could look at the wall myself and the internal dialog stated immediately: How the fuck do they expect me to pay my bills if I have to wait by the phone all week but only get two 3 hour shifts? Why did they have to spend a hundred thousand on colors to make me more productive?
It was impossible to think anything else. It was almost a blessing to go back to the high speed conveyor belt. If I didn't see it myself I wouldn't believe color theory works in magical ways.
I keep returning to this thought: Assuming our abstraction architecture is missing something fundamental, what is it?
My gut says something simple is missing that makes all of the difference.
One thought I had was that our problem lives between all the things taking something in and spitting something out. Perhaps 90% of the work writing a "function" should be to formally register it as taking in data type foo 1.54.32 and bar 4.5.2 then returning baz 42.0 The register will then tell you all the things you can make from baz 42.0 and the other data you have. A comment(?) above the function has a checksum that prevents anyone from changing it.
But perhaps the solution is something entirely different. Maybe we just need a good set of opcodes and have abstractions represent small groups of instructions that can be combined into larger groups until you have decent higher languages. With the only difference being that one can read what the abstraction actually does. The compiler can figure lots of things out but it wont do architecture.
There's more to a function than just types. It's not sufficient to know that the function outputs a baz 42.0. You have to understand which one. The oldest? The latest? The one that matches the foo and bar input parameters?
I think that's the part where it remains difficult. Someone has to convey clearly what the semantics and side effects of the function are. Consumers have to read and understand it. Failing that, you get breakage.
If there is anything to know about the type register sub types for each.
Like the way we say something is an mp3. Why would it be good to have one unifying concept where we pretend a car crash and Beethoven are the same thing? It can be a WAV too!
walking away from the keyboard I thought I did a pretty poor job describing that one.
Ill try an example, those always have the potential to describe things even worse.
Imagine a type that is an outdoor datetimetemperature in utcc or a first name form value or a solitaire terms of service checkbox value. Have both the chewing gum balls in dispenser and a total weight of chewing gum balls in dispenser as well as a min-max weight per chewing gum ball in dispenser.
Make it just as ridiculous as it sounds. If you can quantify it a type must be registered. If there is a pair of quantifications to be had register that too.
The vision just expanded! Make for everything an xml implementation then do a ram drive and make all variables into files.
The idea sounds so ridiculous it might actually work. Think of the employment opportunities!
We should have some benchmark project that bluntly describes the issues with each democracy. Like, did elected officials dramatically change in appearance (length, ears, nose, teeth, chin, eyes), election agenda points that don't match execution, issues with method of voting, issues with vote counting etc
I once made a list of various issues raised in various elections in various countries. The instances describe a whole spectrum of cheating. The only consistent factor is that no one believes there was cheating. The funniest was an order to change punchcards that made the holes not line up. People still found room to not see a problem with it.
I think it's great. The focus on the disagreements is useful. The humans made considerable effort bending reality into something they want to hear both in the training data and in the llm dev asylum. The round table can only agree on things shared by multiple models.
Fiat is actually a warped backroom version of money. It's a measure of trust I think? You could replace it with something that represents resources, perhaps even [future] labor.
I've made that website! Just put the name and a big fat print phone number in the middle of the page.
There use to be a windows shop around here that had a game on the website where you have to throw stones at windows. Limited time per house, limited stones, more points for big windows, run away when you hear police sirens.
Hard to estimate how much extra work they got out of it but I imagine it > 0.
In the US people use roughly 10 000 kwh per year.
Say we have a 40 watt bulb, say it burns on average 5 hours per day or 200 wh. In 365 days that would be 72 kwh which at 16 cents per kwh is $11.52 or 0.73% of the annual power consumption.
Say one uses 5 light bulbs. Something around $57.60. Say leds use only 25% of the power = $14.40 for $43.2 saved.
Well over 10 cents per day.
What are you going to spend your 10 cents on? lol
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