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by alecmg 1y ago
the mechanism of it is not that paper is saturated with water, but that while there is water in the container, paper doesn't get hotter than 100C and a bit, not enough to ignite.
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by alecmg 2y ago
nothing like Russian, South Asian maybe
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by alecmg 2y ago
oh great, they are not using a confusing name anymore... wait, now they are using a stupid name!
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by alecmg 2y ago
Phoronix regularly tests this, search for keyword mitigations https://www.phoronix.com/review/amd-zen5-mitigations-off
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by alecmg 2y ago
Could it be quantified how much UK is using coal power of other countries? Since industry is moved outside, the products we consume use power of producer country, mostly China. Is there a correlation in reduction of local coal power and amo
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by alecmg 2y ago
I WISH it would be prefetching video in background while showing ads. But no, always goes to spinny wheel buffering after ad ends. Oh, and thats after having some spinny wheel to load the ad in first place ffs.
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by alecmg 2y ago
~100 MB/s write speeds? what use case needs an SD card that can be written for 40000 seconds?
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by alecmg 3y ago
> The new 4K 32" 3rd gen QD-OLED panels seem to be the closest to perfection, but I'm not sure if they're suitable for long sessions of programming, web browsing and reading documentation (i.e. displaying static UI element
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by alecmg 3y ago
Not an issue if they have a means of propulsion capable of delivering 1g the whole way Which is necessary to go any meaningful distance in space anyway
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by alecmg 3y ago
ahh, I wish they included speed comparison to numpy.average I know, thats not the point and average was only picked as a simple example, but still...
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by alecmg 3y ago
definite deja vu from Optane Capacity and price killed it, no word about these in the article
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by alecmg 3y ago
I saw comments that if introduced together with Faster CPython single thread performance optimisations, nogil would end up no slower than previous version. So it is best time to implement
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by alecmg 3y ago
maybe its a reference to Amdahl's law? If you can parallelise 90% of your code, you get only 10x improvement even on infinite number of cores
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by alecmg 3y ago
I think that site opted for consistent graphs - points lower on the graph is faster/better, indicated by blue down arrow
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by alecmg 3y ago
without knowing much of either, sounds like petalisp to lisp relation is numba to python. Or numba to numpy?
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by alecmg 3y ago
Started getting RSI symptoms in right hand years ago. Mainly from heavy gaming, but I needed to use mouse at work as well so right hand was not getting any rest. Switched to using mouse in left hand for work, right hand for gaming. Never lo
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by alecmg 4y ago
I think Windows is even more permeated with legacy Off the top of my head: Nobody questions why main drive is C:, remnant of [an] early computer having two floppy (not sure) drives on A: and B: Or more recent - C:/Windows/System32
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by alecmg 4y ago
Its ironic and scary how 3.11 was the last Windows with consistent a) UI design. It was either a DOS box or a Win 3.11 style window b) file sharing, simple and intuitive c) integration with browsers. Browser was standalone. There was no int
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by alecmg 5y ago
We were getting 1000km between fill ups (60L tank) on a family road trip in a bog standard 1.8L gasoline (!) Ford Mondeo, seating 2 adults 2 kids and with trunk loaded to the brim and A/C running on full. Really difficult to be excited
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by alecmg 5y ago
Any of these use FLAC? Or does everyone invent their own wheel?
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by alecmg 5y ago
Last I was dealing with zip files in Python 3 years ago, I was unpleasantly surprised that there is no way to open Zip64 archives. It is a semi-proprietary format not supported by zlib. Some tools, most notably Windows will sometimes use it
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by alecmg 5y ago
If questions are from specific field (combinatorics/algorithms etc) then general intelligence doesn't help. Even if your IQ was 150, you won't answer those questions without study and practice.
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by alecmg 6y ago
I remember reading Donald Sadoway got inspiration for developing liquid metal batteries [1] from watching how aluminum smelting is basically a battery already. These batteries are more efficient than aluminum energy storage, and were also a
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by alecmg 6y ago
Like with any condition that your body is expected to take care of. Drink lots of fluids, rest. If you have excessive fever 38+, use fever reduction medicine of your choice. Unlike a common cold, vaccination after effect should go away afte
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by alecmg 6y ago
Found a random improvement: Kraken 1.1 benchmark runs faster now. Improved from roughly 760 to 700ms on my 5800X. Still ways to go to reach Chrome at 560ms
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by alecmg 6y ago
graphs don't show for me on page
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by alecmg 6y ago
Axial flux electric motor, cool.
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by alecmg 6y ago
Mandatory xkcd https://xkcd.com/949/
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by alecmg 6y ago
But then your C++ code will grow to be multiple times bigger than Python. And you will spend even more time on implementation.
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by alecmg 6y ago
This article sounds like "sour grapes". Keeps comparing hypersonic missiles to ballistic. Concluding there is no benefit. But what about cruise missiles and air launched long range missiles? Also assumes that all hypersonic weapon

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