kamilner

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by kamilner 2y 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.
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by kamilner 2y 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: Apparen
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by kamilner 2y 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
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by kamilner 2y 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 t
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Microsoft and Quantinuum say they've ushered the next era of quantum computing(techcrunch.com)
2 points by kamilner 2y ago|0 comments
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by kamilner 3y 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&#x2
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by kamilner 3y 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
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by kamilner 3y 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 th
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by kamilner 3y 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
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by kamilner 3y 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.
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by kamilner 3y ago
I'm not sure how OrbStack does it, but it can run a fully x64 Linux using Rosetta with quite good performance.
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by kamilner 3y ago
I regularly use Orbstack to develop for x64 Linux (including kernel development). It works transparently as an x64 linux command line that uses Rosetta under the hood, so performance is reasonably good. It can also run docker containers, ap
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by kamilner 3y ago
RCS has no end-to-end encryption in the standard, though. That's a non-standard google messages extension. I think a better example would be the cross-device messengers like signal/whatsapp/etc.
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by kamilner 3y ago
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2022-10-06-new-analysis-shipping-e... is the most recent example I can think of, not being an expert in the field.
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by kamilner 3y ago
If you mean RCS, end-to-end encryption is not part of the standard, it is a non-standard extension supported only by the google messages app https://support.google.com/messages/answer/10262381?hl=en
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by kamilner 3y ago
Traffic restrictions are not part of the "15 minute city" initiatives. I think they are often confused because of Oxford's traffic filter scheme. As the article you link says, tying walkable city initiatives to one particular
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by kamilner 3y ago
Canada doesn't let anyone in? Over a fifth of their population was born outside of Canada. Edit: Actually over a quarter.
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by kamilner 3y ago
Notably it does bound the energy of gamma rays over long distances (as the higher the energy the more likely it will annihilate with other photons along the way.) The wikipedia article on the Breit-Wheeler process has some history of the wo
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by kamilner 3y ago
The more recent 4 bit quantizations are almost along these lines. Q4_1 in ggml for example takes a block of 32 weights and gives each block a scaling factor 'd' and takes the minimum of the weights 'm' to be the quantize
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Quantinuum’s New H2 Quantum Computer Has Created Non-Abelian Anyons(quantinuum.com)
5 points by kamilner 3y ago|0 comments
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A Race Track Trapped-Ion Quantum Processor(arxiv.org)
3 points by kamilner 3y ago|0 comments
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by kamilner 3y ago
QEC implies phase error correction (if you don't care about phase errors you could just use a classical error correction code). A 'logical qubit' refers to an abstraction layer that implements some sort of idealized qubit beh
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by kamilner 4y ago
You can run it on either now (for example, MochiDiffusion allows you to pick https://github.com/godly-devotion/MochiDiffusion#compute-uni... ). Anecdotally, the GPU seems to be faster for an M1 Max or up GPU, the ANE is
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by kamilner 4y ago
You neither need an app nor do you need to unlock your phone in order to use it for the ticket gates on the tube. Perhaps older phones need to be unlocked? I use my phone exclusively without unlocking it and there's no delay.
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UK Legal Curiosities: Fact or Fable? [pdf](lawcom.gov.uk)
2 points by kamilner 4y ago|0 comments
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by kamilner 4y ago
The amount of energy from a 1 tonne mass dropping 1 meter is about 10,000J ( https://www.wolframalpha.com/input?i=%281+tonne+*+9.82m%2Fs%... ) The amount of energy stored in a Tesla is about 100kWh or about 3.6e8J. You would
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by kamilner 4y ago
Surely this would be a DC line, right? AC induces resistance in superconductors because it necessarily induces a changing magnetic field, iirc (or maybe that's only particular types of superconductors). Edit: Found this, which isn&#x27
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by kamilner 5y ago
Why is it that LPDDR is recently faster than DDR of the same 'generation'? I thought LPDDR is purely a lower voltage version of DDR, so I naively would have expected worse performance. Is it because it's typically closer (phy
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by kamilner 5y ago
In UberEats (and many other apps) you can configure which push notifications you get. Is that functionally different than channels for the purposes of turning off marketing notifications? Both seem to rely on the App developer allowing you
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by kamilner 6y ago
> Am I also reading it right that the author is saying the axiom of choice is equivalent to the statement that every vector space has a finite basis? Not quite. The axiom of choice is equivalent to saying every vector space has a Hamel b

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