DustinGadal

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   by DustinGadal 4mo ago

   > This means that the ratio of the costs of the output to the costs of the physical inputs (drywall, lumber, concrete, etc.) is around 2. > You could find a way to use fewer and/or cheaper raw materials. You can delete almost all
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   by DustinGadal 3y ago

   On platforms that allow overcommitment, you can guarantee your commit charge is physically backed by writing to each page in a memory pool at allocation time (probably at application startup, or at the end of the main loop), then allocating
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   by DustinGadal 4y ago

   Be careful with that: https://qntm.org/mmacevedo
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   by DustinGadal 4y ago

   They'll be pumping neutral gas (probably N2 or argon) to purge the borehole. I would expect the ablated material to resolidify as fine particulate, which would get carried to the surface at ambient temperature and trapped in a filter.
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   by DustinGadal 4y ago

   Global energy production in 2019 across all sectors was ~18TW. Excess radiative forcing from anthropogenic greenhouse gas emissions was ~560TW. So we have room to ~20x our energy consumption before we start having to worry about climate cha