kamilner (u/kamilner)

kamilner commented on Paris Olympics' AC-free ambition melts away as organisers order 2,500 AC units france24.com/en/live-news... · Posted by u/rntn

vel0city · a year ago

It is not just the energy usage but also the refrigerants used. Most common refrigerants used in AC systems are pretty bad GHG'es themselves, often 2,000x worse than CO2.

Are many small portable AC units these days running 1234yf yet?

kamilner · a year ago

I'm pretty sure most portable ACs sold in Europe these days are R290 (propane) which has a GWP of about 1/14th of CO2, so for those that's no longer much of a concern.

kamilner commented on I Received an AI Email timharek.no/blog/i-receiv... · Posted by u/_xivi

giorgioz · a year ago

Very cool! Could you go deeper into your setup? Which email client do you use to view/manage the catch all emails? Did you host the email on Google Gsuite or AWS SES or something else?

kamilner · a year ago

I do the same as the poster above, fastmail supports it directly and makes it very easy to manage. All you have to do is bring your own domain (they'll even manage your DKIM/SPF records etc as necessary if you want).

Edit: Apparently you can also purchase a domain directly through them if you prefer, although you have to be a paying customer for 7 days first https://www.fastmail.com/how-to/email-for-your-domain/

kamilner commented on A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history thebulletin.org/2024/05/a... · Posted by u/diodorus

_heimdall · 2 years ago

> Virus is not killing as much as it did.

Even that really is impossible to say. Our methods and frequency of testing for CoV-2 infections, both before and after death, have changed dramatically. Previously we were telling everyone to get tested when they feel sick at all, and considering anyone who dies after testing positive to be a Covid death. Now we rarely test and only considering it a Covid death when its as obvious a death from any other cold. We simply can't compare the numbers at all, at best we could say we have drastically reduced how often we mark Covid as the cause of a death.

Noe the excess deaths data has absolutely reverted to pre-pandemic levels, but again we were horrible about collecting unbiased data. Excess deaths actually seem to line up better with the vaccine rollout than with the initial viral outbreak. That could be completely coincidental and a sign that the virus was more deadly in its second year, but again we didn't collect the right data and don't know because during the rollout no one was willing to (or allowed to) consider that the vaccines could be killing people, leaving us with a gap in data that would have been really handy to now be able to definitively show that it was a more deadly virus killing people rather than the vaccine itself.

kamilner · 2 years ago

> Excess deaths actually seem to line up better with the vaccine rollout than with the initial viral outbreak.

This seems to be a bizarre statement. I can't speak to other countries, but at least in England the widespread rollout of vaccines (just beginning in January 2021) only started at the end of the final major spike in excess deaths.

It's simply not possible for excess deaths to line up better with vaccine rollout than with the initial outbreak, because both major spikes in excess deaths were before mass vaccination rollout.

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/excess-mortality-wi...

kamilner commented on Quantum Algorithms for Lattice Problems eprint.iacr.org/2024/555... · Posted by u/trotro

cryptonik · 2 years ago

Thanks for your comment, very interesting. About your last paragraph : Do you know why NIST refuses hybridization, when European agencies imposes it ? What is the political behind it ?

kamilner · 2 years ago

NIST does not refuse hybridization, they will be publishing guidance on hybrid schemes in the draft of SP 800-227 at the same time as the final standards. They don't impose it though, because at a large scale it's more efficient to run just (fast) ML-KEM instead of (fast) ML-KEM + (slower) ECDH, which more than doubles your computation time for what they see as no benefit.

kamilner commented on Earl Grey tea intoxication (2022) thelancet.com/journals/la... · Posted by u/disadvantage

throwup238 · 2 years ago

Earl gray with real bergamot oil is really expensive and hard to find nowadays. Most brands use “natural flavors”

kamilner · 2 years ago

Huh, that's somewhat surprising given bergamot fruit is not all that expensive. We may be spoiled in the UK but you can buy Earl Grey with real bergamot oil for a reasonable price here https://www.waitrose.com/ecom/products/brew-tea-co-earl-grey...

kamilner commented on Please don't make me use another QR code restaurant menu thewalrus.ca/qr-code-rest... · Posted by u/laurex

andylynch · 2 years ago

In UK. Even the stalls at the school fair take cards now.

kamilner · 2 years ago

I've even seen buskers in London with a machine set up so you can tap your card to tip.

Edit: apparently this was a thing even back in 2018 https://www.theguardian.com/music/2018/may/27/busking-joins-...

kamilner commented on Making Apple Vision Pro [video] youtube.com/watch?v=luFGI... · Posted by u/sctgrhm

gtvwill · 2 years ago

Lol zero surprises there. Apple loves wasteful design.

About as much environmental ethics as an oil amd gas company.

kamilner · 2 years ago

Generally recycling aluminium is incredibly cheap, especially if it's just a solid block without the regular potential contaminants, although I don't know what specific alloy they're using. If it's something like 6061 then it's especially easy to recycle, afaik, because it's very low in silicon and iron.

Do you know of any large tech companies that have more environmental ethics? I'm not sure Apple is good about it, but sadly I don't know of any better.

kamilner commented on Did I destroy my friend's TV with a magnet? (2022) fleet.org.au/blog/ask-the... · Posted by u/reqo

kamilner · 2 years ago

There's a throwaway comment in here about the earth's magnetic field affecting CRTs and turning the TV upside down, is that actually true? I would have thought the earth's magnetic field would be incredibly weak in comparison to the deflecting coils.

kamilner commented on Why are Apple Silicon VMs so different? eclecticlight.co/2023/12/... · Posted by u/ingve

AkshitGarg · 2 years ago

IIRC that runs a x86_64 userland (using Rosetta) on a arm64 kernel.

kamilner · 2 years ago

Interesting. uname -a reports x86_64, and lscpu also reports x86_64, although perhaps that's just the kernel being patched to lie about the architecture.