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by lambdaone 10mo ago
I found the whole 'activation' model deeply confusing and annoying. The underlying mechanism of venv is simple and elegant, but the original interface is terrible piece of design.
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
A microgrid lets you power your neighbors, or receive power from them. This paper cites several examples of peer-to-peer electricity trading: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S030626191...
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
If you want the job done properly, this already exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal128_floating-point_form...
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by lambdaone 10mo ago
This really is a Black-Mirror-esque hellscape, and the fact that this is marketed as something to be desired is absolutely astonishing.
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
No, they're not electrically powered, but given that you can buy an electrically-powered 5-horn kit from eBay for $20, it's certainly the cheapest way to go for a typical HN-reading hobbyist/hacker. Getting 14 horns is then $
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
There's also nothing stopping African communities from building peer-to-peer microgrids if they want to.
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
It turned out laws were only for little people, after all.
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
This is fantastic. The one-handed organ keyboard is a work of genius, and it all feels like very simple organic technology: sets of tuned car horns are really cheap, and the rest is just a matter of wiring. I'm severely tempted to buy
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
This is exactly what makes this such an interesting development. Standardization is part of the process of the CPU industry becoming a mature industry not dependent on the whims of individual companies. Boring, yes, but also stable.
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
Sadly, this is not true of a (admittedly very small) number of individuals.
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
RISC-V is well on its way to be a challenger to both, with (eventually) full support for Rust.
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
I would have thought that those participants who are published in peer-reviewed journals could be be used as a trust anchor - see, for example, the Advogato algorithm as an example of a somewhat bad-faith-resistant metric for this purpose:
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
It's about time. Critical infrastructure still written in C - particularly code that parses data from untrusted sources - is technical debt that is only going to get worse over time. It's not as if Rust is that much more difficult
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
People are absolutely part of an ISA's ecosystem. The ISA is the interface between code and CPU, but the code is generally emitted by compilers, and executed in the context of runtimes and operating systems, all designed by people and
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
If only someone had a way of automating this! Say perhaps using some kind of digital computer...
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
All the more reason to make it portable. I wonder if this can be implemented via LLVM?
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
You may see a mixture of sodium and lithium batteries in grid storage; one for providing very short-term grid stabilization of the order of seconds to minutes, the other for long-term large-scale storage, which is by far the largest applica
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
You can also put internal heaters within the battery compartment itself, as with current EV batteries, and have the batteries manage their own temperature automatically.
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
They also produce much less harmful combustion products when they do catch fire.
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
I can't stress enough how big a development this is in the process of making renewable energy not just the cheapest form of power, but one of the most reliable, something that will drive decarbonization in general, which will in turn d
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
This article leads to a paywall where I am, making it of no use. Perhaps someone else has done a better job of summarizing the paper elsewhere, and that should be posted instead?
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
We are lucky it's even a duopoly. All it would take is the demise of Firefox, and the entire web would be defined entirely by the implementation of Chrome/Chromium. Servo is very welcome; a third leg to the stool makes real divers
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
Grounding programming languages in mathematics like this is essentially the goal of Strachey and Scott's denotational semantics, which has been very influential in programming language theory: https://en.wikipedia.org/w
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
I had a client with a system just like this. EBS, S3, RDS, Cognito, the lot. It cost $00s per month under almost no load, and was a maintenance nightmare - which was the real problem, not the cost, as it stopped working altogether eventuall
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
Exactly. You don't need to really know how to program to use web frameworks, and web programmers are much cheaper than systems engineers. It's a no-brainer in short-term business terms. But there's a always a price to be paid
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
It's not a spacecraft issue. Encryption can be done at the ground stations, and mandated as part of the standards for interfsce equipment, just like with DOCSIS. There's nothing, physically, to stop you passing unencrypted traffic
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
It's absolutely jaw-dropping. Either no-one at these companies was capable of understanding the problem, or no-one cared enough to do something about it.
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
Absolutely mind-boggling that this is a thing; not just that satellite links aren't per-user link-encrypted, but also that people are still using unencrypted protocols to exchange sensitive information on the public internet in 2025.
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
Apple had a go at doing this with iCloud, but clearly there was enough consumer pushback (a friend lost all their files after cancelling iCloud, thinking it was a backup service, not realising it deleted the original copies on their machine
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by lambdaone 11mo ago
At this point, Windows has jumped the shark. It's clear Microsoft now see the future of their company as cloud services, with the desktop gateways just as an endpoint for that, and the progressive enshittification of the Microsoft ecos

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