fch42

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by fch42 8d ago
well, if money were to be spent, in that case better build electrical charging infrastructure than upgrading the gas pumps ...
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by fch42 10d ago
Well they sell that liquid explosive terrorists use to make molotov cocktail firebombs, at every fuel station without particular volume limits at all. It's also sufficiently toxic that care is taken at salespoint to limit customer expo
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by fch42 1mo ago
The paper linked at the "see also" section ? (thx)
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by fch42 1mo ago
Mapping the abilities of (fixed-function) "stream transformers" to compute is old, much older than "GPU libraries" or render pipelines and all that. I remember the Commodore Amiga used the blitter's combine to decod
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by fch42 2mo ago
unfortunately they never are. Brightness-adjusted, that is. Everyone installing lighting fixtures these days believes they must be daylight-level bright. The only ghosts you see are afterimages if you happen to look straight at the streetla
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by fch42 3mo ago
the sad thing, in a way, is that the law entitles the pedestrian here but doesn't protect them. One could make an argument that cars which take the "visual" away from the driver should simply be illegal. Why can they even be
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by fch42 3mo ago
There probably is an EU derangement syndrome. If it can afflict the English, it can afflict everyone. Maybe the original poster should consider a sightseeing trip to Europe.
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by fch42 4mo ago
Ranking software engineers is famously hard. What does "top 40%" even mean ? Skills/Experiences/Productivity in that sector are not some Gaussian Distribution of trivially-measurable output. But even if measurable, they&
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by fch42 4mo ago
These relative figures mean nothing. Your usage of one specific ultra-new model went from one hour a month to seven? congrats to the 600% increase. Your use of a widespread common model went from 1M tokens to 7M tokens ? Also a 600% increas
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by fch42 4mo ago
"velocity" is not "frequency"; someone throwing semi-finished products at the wall to see what sticks surely has frequent product launches. But even if these ship fast from inception to launch, this scattergun approach d
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by fch42 4mo ago
German 50 Trillion (Marks) _stamps_ from 1923 are (literally) a-dime-a-dozen because postal services had a giant amount of them printed for issue in fall-1923 - just to have the whole lot rendered obsolete by the November currency reform. U
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by fch42 5mo ago
can't help but wonder if the aggregate of the solar PV subsidies made in the last 25 years are higher or lower than the aggregate of energy price subsidies made when the Ukraine and/or Iran wars made fossil fuel prices spike... An
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by fch42 5mo ago
xor'ing the elements of lists together also allows a test of "unordered equality" because 1^2^3^4^5 == (xor of any permutation of [1,2,3,4,5]). Yes there are false positives, and the false negative of all-zero/all-equal,
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by fch42 5mo ago
I always thought I had learned to successfully mask as one of my compatriots, but the test ruthlessly exposes me as 80% Autistic / 20% German. The test is broken, if you ask me.
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by fch42 5mo ago
https://docs.rs/tokio-console/latest/tokio_console/ comes to mind. I'm not aware of eBPF-based dynamic instrumentation for either tokio or other async runtimes, but I'm also not (in need to be) debu
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by fch42 6mo ago
> "... handwavy crap ..." handwavy argument. Yes, in the (sub)tropics the argument is even stronger pro-PV, not the least because it'll give you the opposite of heating - aircon - for free right when you need it. And consi
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by fch42 6mo ago
Definitely not a usecase for Starlink. For the microseconds-chasers, there's microwave relay links, say between Chicago and New York (ref e.g. https://bullseye.ac/blog/economics/inside-the-world-of-high-... ).
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by fch42 6mo ago
Air pollution (from smog) in India is already at a "seasonally deadly" level. If you haven't been to India during late autumn, it's hard to imagine how bad it is. Your eyes burn and every breath stings, you literally tas
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by fch42 8mo ago
Sometimes, not to do something can be the right (morally, technically, economically, ...) thing to do. You don't always need to present the other cheek to do right. Neither do you always need to retaliate. Nord Stream finally made it c
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by fch42 8mo ago
Except funding is not everything that's needed for long term projects. There are other resources - workforce, supply chain integrity, legal entitlements and approvals, etc, that are all contributing to "plannable delivery" of
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by fch42 9mo ago
Impossible to raid ? It's definitely much easier and much much cheaper to send a single rocket there blowing the assembled rather large target into still sizeable chucks of orbital debris than it is to deploy and assemble the thing the
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by fch42 9mo ago
Fighting wars (more than one, in fact) to force a country into permitting unrestricted sale of opioids has historical precedent of course. The victim then was China, which tried to enforce their laws on drugs ... to the dislike of English B
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by fch42 10mo ago
A "do not connect to the cloud" physical flip switch on the IoT device is what I want. Where can I sign the petition for that?
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by fch42 10mo ago
Include it and it's still cheaper than, say, nuclear. Also ... even when storage is included, you still gain freedom from opex spending for fuel (that is, lining oily pockets). Once there, renewables are "pure payoff".
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by fch42 10mo ago
on the m68k, the "cisc-y-ness" is in the many many addressing modes, whereas x86 in that particular aspect of the architecture has always been rather "risc-y" (read: rather limited compared to other CISC architectures, i
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by fch42 11mo ago
you really believe that were such a "gag order" to exist the current US government never mind its health secretary would have done an "Epstein" about that and upheld it? Truly alien. Completely beyond understanding.
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by fch42 1y ago
A mandate for government orgs including the military to exclusively use "all domestic" suppliers is laudable but also subject to graft and corruption - companies need to compete to get into the "in" club and admittance w
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by fch42 1y ago
Only in the sense of (helping to) "move on". When you find yourself at the receiving end of monopoly extortion (at least as it appears to you), then best do what you can to get away. It seems they are on that path now.
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by fch42 1y ago
why would you not be sad about something great you lost ? Even if it was "just a freebie" ?
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by fch42 1y ago
They weren't "starting a job" in the US. Their (foreign) employer sent them onto an assignment abroad (to the US) to do their job. That's the difference here. Even under ESTA, you can do some such activities - call'

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