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by 323 4y ago
Waste allows scale, that's a general civilizational rule. You wouldn't be able to write your comment if the browser were written in extremely efficient assembly code because it wouldn't exist. NASA and every big organization
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by 323 4y ago
It makes concurrent programming much simpler than using threads. Very few locking and care is needed with asyncio, as opposed to using threads. Race conditions are basically not a thing if you write reasonably idiomatic code. It might be (o
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by 323 4y ago
Or you can get payed to do your activism. There are groups paying for activism on all sides. Just go and find it for your side.
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by 323 4y ago
It won't be long until they connect AI to a robot with a paintbrush in it's hand.
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by 323 4y ago
Have you seen the size and cost of an fMRI machine? We are a long way away from worrying about this. Cheap cameras everywhere on the other hand...
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by 323 4y ago
prices.loc['2023-01'] *= 1 You can always do df.to_pandas() ... prices.loc['2023-01'] *= 1 ... from_pandas() :) More seriously, you are right, this is a tough one to do in polars. Polars seems to want to work wi
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by 323 4y ago
> If you run as a user who doesn't have admin access you should be protected, That's not very reassuring. Privilege escalation on Windows is a well studied subject: https://github.com/swisskyrepo/PayloadsAl
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by 323 4y ago
> consider also overhauling the API besides the internals This never happens. Angular does not become React, React gets created instead. CoffeScript does not become TypeScript, etc. There is too much baggage and backward compatibility th
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by 323 4y ago
Polars is more verbose, but simpler. It's core operations "fit the brain". I've used pandas for years, but I still have to regularly google basic indexing stuff.
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by 323 4y ago
And now that China is thinking of helping Russia militarily it suddenly surfaces...
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by 323 4y ago
Toxic to whom? The scientists which are trying to bury this because it's putting their careers in danger?
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by 323 4y ago
> the media negated him based on political views No, the media negated it because all the notable scientists and publications (Nature, Lancet, ..) said it was a crazy conspiracy theory.
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by 323 4y ago
Windows can also run floss and Linux software too.
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by 323 4y ago
What does it mean then that Windows is a walled garden? That it can only run Windows software? How is then Linux also not a walled garden?
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by 323 4y ago
WebGL is very low-level. And there is no good Flash-like editor where you work with shapes and animations and which compiles and outputs to WebGL.
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by 323 4y ago
This article is omitting a lot of facts, like the multiple times Russia tried to implement coups in Moldova to bring Russian-aligned people to power.
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by 323 4y ago
Right, I used the correct MWh in Wolfram, but for some reason wrote MW/h, I think it was written like that a long time ago on electricity bills.
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by 323 4y ago
Please do tell. Or better provide your estimation. I just took raw calorie intake, no heating/transportation/lighting/computer usage/....
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by 323 4y ago
The old "not my problem how people use the gun, I'm just a manufacturer" defense.
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by 323 4y ago
> we used 2048 A100-80GB for a period of approximately 5 months Do we know how much total energy a human consumes from birth to 20 yo? Something like 2000 calories integrated over 20 years. How does it compare to the GPUs above? Wolfra
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by 323 4y ago
The directors which decided to rely on Russia got millions in bonuses. Just like the ones which pivot now to China will. Classic incentive duration mismatch. Short term bonuses vs long term profits.
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by 323 4y ago
It's complicated, first there is not just one H5N1 virus, there is a family of them. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H5N1_vaccine
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by 323 4y ago
> lockdowns being politically unfeasible I bet 50% mortality will really focus the mind of the anti-lockdowners.
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by 323 4y ago
Don't worry, surely there are some virologists in some lab mapping right now exactly what mutations would make it very transmissible between mammals. So that we are ready and prepared, of course.
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by 323 4y ago
I thing DfWalker would be a better name.
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by 323 4y ago
Why wouldn't summing all possibilities be the simpler solution? Thing about Monte Carlo simulations - it's simpler to just try all possibilities than to figure out what is the formula of the correct result. Neural networks also wo
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by 323 4y ago
But you still don't see them on very pricey bikes ($15k+). So they are very expensive, without being premium, which is a weird place to be.
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by 323 4y ago
Why not offer two types of pricing, a flat (expensive) one and a usage-after-the-fact (cheap) one. Like in Electricity markets - you can either get market pricing (cheaper, but very volatile) or fixed price.
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by 323 4y ago
> amazed with hub gears I've never seen hub gears on light or even medium weight hybrid/city ALU bikes. Which suggests there is a problem with hub gears. Maybe they are heavier, or more expensive, or harder to maintain, but t
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by 323 4y ago
People are paying $500 for bots used to buy the latest Nike/Adidas/... limited edition sneakers. Or videocards a few years ago (for crypto mining). It's a whole industry. > If we consider a user base of ~175 users, and a

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