pedrocr

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by pedrocr 23d ago
Infinite growth is possible as long as your economy trades things that are not physically constrained. Art can grow in value over time without hitting any constraints. And even if your economy doesn't grow in real terms, to service deb
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by pedrocr 23d ago
You can deficit spend indefinitely as long as your deficit percentage is below your economic growth percentage. That keeps the total debt as percentage of the economy stable and the amount of tax you need to service the debt a stable percen
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by pedrocr 2mo ago
That gave me something to play with with these models and this came out as a claimed disproof of the Dixmier Conjecture: https://gist.githubusercontent.com/pedrocr/51157b9b2eed8152e... It seems mathematics has at least
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by pedrocr 2mo ago
What you are describing is what's called free float market cap and is generally what market indices use to weigh stocks. That way you're only trying to replicate the market of stocks that are actually available to trade. There&#x2
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by pedrocr 2mo ago
> If I was an APT, compromising Tailscale would be priority number 1! Crowdstrike would be at a much higher priority. They already have a cloud connected root console to all the machines in entire corporations. Compromising your network
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by pedrocr 2mo ago
> The computer I'm writing this on has 64 GB of RAM, 1024 times as much. By comparison I have a 20-core Intel CPU with up-to 3GHz speed or somewhere around there, even pretending each core could run at that max speed simultaneously
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by pedrocr 3mo ago
It was still more secure than the default if I understand this correctly. On resume from suspend the laptop would still be locked by the encryption key and without access to the disk even if you can somehow circumvent the lock. The only ins
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by pedrocr 4mo ago
+ battery too. I've wondered if a mini pc with battery would make for a good form factor. I often move between places where I have a desk with a screen but still use a laptop because I want to just suspend and resume. If a mini pc had
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by pedrocr 4mo ago
In the AMA you link they say the tulip mania was probably a bubble just not a major one that impacted the economy meaningfully.
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by pedrocr 6mo ago
That seems wrong. If you have a way to maintain enough propulsion for long enough you can escape the gravity well at any arbitrarily low speed. You "just" need to maintain that speed long enough for the escape velocity from the gr
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by pedrocr 7mo ago
There seem to be some 15 inch all-in-ones but these days if what you want is a small form factor the answer is surely a laptop. Even if you're just going to keep it on the same desk forever that's what you'd get if you want 1
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by pedrocr 7mo ago
I once made a criminal complaint because of a sewer line that was frequently allowed to overflow into a creek. The prosecutor refused to prosecute the case with the argument that the root cause was "real estate pressure" and so th
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by pedrocr 8mo ago
Another advantage is you can place the fans all along the wing getting you better stall resistance as the flow doesn't detach as easily. There's already a prototype of a hybrid plane that does this: https://www.electra.
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by pedrocr 8mo ago
One of the authors of this paper did a pretty long podcast with Huberman about this topic: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/red-light-to-improve-met... The show notes have links to quite a few more papers. I have no
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by pedrocr 10mo ago
That's great if you're compiling for use on the same machine or those exactly like it. If you're compiling binaries for wider distribution it will generate code that some machines can't run and won't take advantage
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by pedrocr 10mo ago
I'm curious if that's still the case generally after things like musttail attributes to help the compiler emit good assembly for well structured interpreter loops: https://blog.reverberate.org/2025/02/10&
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by pedrocr 11mo ago
This seems to be the Ubuntu bug report: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/rust-coreutils/+bu...
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by pedrocr 1y ago
> agents were previously spending 3-5 minutes after each call writing manual summaries of the calls Why were they doing this at all? It may not be what is happening in this specific case but a lot of the AI business cases I've seen
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by pedrocr 1y ago
> They are perfectly good machines as servers and desktop terminals. On the power usage alone surely an upgrade to a still extremely old 64bit machine would be a significant upgrade. For a server that you run continuously a 20+ year old
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by pedrocr 1y ago
Thanks! By retrofitting I mean having to have a new protocol with this new opt-in method where some apps will be getting integer scales and go through a transform and some apps will be getting a fractional scale and rendering directly to th
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by pedrocr 1y ago
Seems like the support is getting there. I just checked Firefox and it has landed the code but still has it disabled by default. Most users that set 1.5x on their session are probably still getting needless scaling but hopefully that won&#x
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by pedrocr 1y ago
That's what I referred to with "we'll be finally getting that in Wayland now". For many years the Wayland protocol could only communicate integer scale factors to clients. If you asked for 1.5 what the compositors did wa
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by pedrocr 1y ago
> Originally OS X defaulted to drawing at 2x scale without any scaling down because the hardware was designed to have the right number of pixels for 2x scale. That's an interesting related discussion. The idea that there is a physic
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by pedrocr 1y ago
That's probably better than most scaling done on Wayland today because it's doing the rendering directly at the target resolution instead of doing the "draw at 2x scale and then scale down" dance that was popularized by
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by pedrocr 1y ago
Wouldn't that need a huge amount of extra hardware to do that filtering when the routers in each customer's home are mostly idle? Just setting egress filtering as the default and letting users override that if they need to for som
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by pedrocr 1y ago
You've now ignored the simulations others have done, after insisting on those repeatedly, and have started making your own to again conclude solar and wind must not be viable and nuclear necessary. Meanwhile I'm still waiting on a
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by pedrocr 1y ago
> No I'm not, I have no idea how you are getting that idea. I'm asking for an analysis showing that Minnesota's winter needs can be met without building nuclear plants. That's it. You can solve that problem in any way
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by pedrocr 1y ago
> I don't know what a "nuclear roll-out simulation" is, exactly. Any simulation where building nuclear power plants makes economic sense would do. > I'm unconvinced that renewables+storage alone can solve the Minne
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by pedrocr 1y ago
You're again talking about simulating only Minnesota I suspect. If you want a realistic simulation there are others in the thread and RethinkX has had a whole-US simulation for a long time. What I've never seen is a nuclear roll-o
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by pedrocr 1y ago
I'm confused. Who has agreed that solar+wind is off the table? Approximately no one has effectively decided nuclear is the right answer for a long time. If the proof is in what the market is actually building, solar and wind are the wi

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