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by fpoling 4d ago
LLMs are good at refactoring. So function color mismatch is no longer a problem while explicit io helps to read and understand the code.
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by fpoling 5d ago
Swap is required for hibernation. And with fast ssd or properly tuned zram/zswap one can run task that use 10%-20% more memory than installed RAM. Surely there is a slowdown, but it is not that big especially when SSD can read write mo
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by fpoling 5d ago
Zram also supports a block device for pages that do not compress. So the primary advantage of zswap is that one can use its swap for hibernation while it does not work with zram.
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by fpoling 5d ago
On x64 CPU for laptops the memory bandwidth is rather limited and a fast compressor like lz4 can saturate it. As the result latest SSD are faster then z-ram when using hardware encryption on SSD.
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by fpoling 5d ago
EV is committing irrespectively of what refineries are doing at this point. The latest Chinese models with a reasonable range are cheaper to manufacture than ICE cars. So I can see why refineries want to get as much money as possible now be
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by fpoling 5d ago
Russia stopped exporting diesel due to Ukrainian strikes. That badly hurt Turkey and to lesser extent Brazil. And Brazil started to get diesel from US allowing US companies to make a lot of profit. So Ukrainian strikes clearly affect global
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by fpoling 5d ago
Refineries in US are making even bigger profits. They even skip on maintenance running at 95% capacity non-stop.
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by fpoling 7d ago
In Soviet Union times in eighties in Belarus it was considered ok that a child could stay alone at home from age of 7 when they started a school. Some parents opted for after-school programs and some relied on grandmothers like it was f
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by fpoling 8d ago
The article title is misleading. It is not that Rust compiler was not able to optimize some low-level operations. Rather the author came up with encoding schema that fit most things the interpreter dealt with into 64 bit. This replaced the
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by fpoling 8d ago
Arbitrary subranges of int types were available in Ada for over 40 years via static enforcement via Spark and compilers were able to optimize them nicely. For a system language I wish Rust would support such things rather than coming with N
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by fpoling 13d ago
After certain size benefits of hyperscale do not compensate for the harm done to society.
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by fpoling 13d ago
A phone line from before WWII works fine to make a call but absolutely sucks for DSL. And in London many buildings are declared as historic making it hard to get a permit for any work. The best chance is to wait until old pipes bursts and
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by fpoling 13d ago
In London in many apartment blocks one can only get wired internet via an old copper cable with speeds like 80mbit/s download in theory but in practice it can be below 30 with ping in 50ms range and much slower upload. And 5g does not
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by fpoling 13d ago
A progressive tax on the size of the company can do this.
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by fpoling 16d ago
Presence of many options directly affect equity prices.
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by fpoling 16d ago
If it will be true, then we should have many superb books by new authors at this point. But we do not. This is similar to observations that effect of AI on quality of apps in stores is mostly non-existent.
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by fpoling 16d ago
Unfortunately the answer is no. Reading or just owning a book by a certain author can be a matter of fashion or prestige. That allows for really bad work still be published.
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by fpoling 16d ago
The same is in many public toilets in Norway. I suppose holding both a syringe and a source of light at the same time is not that convenient.
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by fpoling 17d ago
EV only this year became comparable in prices to gasoline cars thanks to massive efforts by Chinese companies to reduce battery prices and improve drivetrain. With that further changes can be very quick as forcing EV no longer requires real
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by fpoling 19d ago
Ammonia does not require a plant to generate electricity. While fuel cells running on it require temperatures over 600 Celsius to get to 70% percent of efficiency and not exactly small, with cheap way to produce ammonia they would provide e
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by fpoling 19d ago
Helion most likely would not work. Even their own optimistic modeling gives very thin margins and even they completely ignore radiation damage to equipment. Commonwealth and other tokamak designs are too optimistic as well. We do not know
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by fpoling 19d ago
Sodium batteries are cheaper for storage and does not require any rate/expensive minerals, just scaling up production. Then in Scandinavia the main problem in winter is heating and using heated water as a battery is already a thing. Th
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by fpoling 19d ago
If solar becomes 2 times cheaper, it will be economical to capture nitrogen from atmosphere and produce ammonia and use that for long-term energy storage and fuel. And with that one does not need massive solar overbuild. This does not requ
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by fpoling 19d ago
Data centers with good load balancing between regions do not need exactly the same power 24/365 so the latest solar-wind-storage is already cheaper in theory. But it would take few years before production of sodium and other batteries
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by fpoling 19d ago
And they build a lot of modern coal power station with over 45% efficiency and flexibility in power output.
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by fpoling 21d ago
It can be Russia to limit availability of AI heavy drones for Ukraine. Or it can be a small private organization using the strike as a mean to manipulate market.
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by fpoling 22d ago
Memory orders for the whole 2027 were already reserved. There is little indication that in 2028 situation will be any better unless something drastic happens like AI crash. And then the opposite can happen like an unknown drone with 100 kg
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by fpoling 22d ago
Unfortunately there is nothing that works as nicely as Windows Remote Desktop. Probably the best option is various commercial offerings as Apple Remote Desktop is rather buggy and unstable.
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by fpoling 26d ago
If one needs to dig history, then git log -p and similar are way more useful and reflect the real history rather than LLM inference about it. Comments reflecting the goal are more useful as neither history nor code itself covers it.
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by fpoling 2mo ago
Index is just a part of the model. The nice property is that the index for LLM does not need to be updated often so LLM plus index can be static. This even works for the latest news as LLM can fetch major news sites to learn the latest stor

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