CalChris

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by CalChris 2y ago
My dad worked on Mercury and Apollo. The first put men in space and the second put men on the moon. There was a shit ton of spin offs from this. We got a step up on GPS because some grad students were saying what if after recording Sputni
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> A lot of government funded research is of that kind. A lot of everything is of that kind. Larry's folly is of that kind. Most defense spending is of that kind. Most startups are of that kind. BTW, my brother was one of those of
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by CalChris 2y ago
Vastly most of basic research is publicly funded.
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Richer people don't even pay capital gains. They borrow money on their assets at a low interest rate.
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Bunker oil is an orthogonal issue. Generally, it's restricted to offshore use. For example, ships have to switch to low sulphur 60 miles outside of San Francisco Bay. As for the IMO 2020 restrictions, I've read that they have sign
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There's a similar phenomenon in ocean shipping called Slow Steaming . https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slow_steaming First, the hull shapes of container ships are tuned for a particular cruising speed. They accelera
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https://chainsec.io/failed-stablecoins/
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Nikki Haley strongly endorsed Trump at the RNC in 2024. https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/16/politics/nikki-haley-trump-rn... So we can agree that there is no remaining resistance to Trump in the Republican Pa
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Yes, but conservatives are Trumpers.
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iPhone 16 already has satellite SOS.
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Or perhaps it will be the more experienced knuckle draggers, hardened in our ways.
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57% in Kansas.
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Matterport tour. https://my.matterport.com/show/?m=uLQ9ZMRpPWY
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Earlier compilers were a pipeline of specialized IRs. I used to think that MLIR was an acknowledgment that this specialization was necessary. Ok, it is necessary. But MLIR's real contribution is, as you say, a generic framework for e
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Yep, jus soli . And Dred Scott overruled that for blacks. And (after the Civil War which was about slavery) the 14th Amendment overturned Dred Scott with birthright citizenship.
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The pandemic killed off a lot of social structures. The casual carpool going from various East Bay locations to downtown San Francisco is gone. The reward for the driver picking people up (express lane, lower toll) is the same. The people a
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Yeah, I wouldn't include vitamins in lieu of more cash or calories.
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It is true that Reagan campaigned against Carter's 'profligate' spending. But then it's also a fact that Carter (2.6% in 1980) had reduced Ford's deficit (4.1% in 1976) and then Reagan's deficit (5.9% in 1983)
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But he didn't vote for Carter either.
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My dad worked for TVA (in Knoxville) on their nuclear plants. I got a tour of Oak Ridge including a test reactor where you could look into a reactor core … through about 20 feet of flowing water, an early unforgettable blue.
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Blame John Anderson as well.
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I didn't think the Cambridge Analytica scandal had anything at all to do with computer science. I thought it had to do with business and hence business ethics.
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The article did start off giving TCP as a good abstraction but then didn't follow up with examples of bad abstractions. Dynamic typing is an example of an indirection masquerading as an abstraction. You end up carrying around an object
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Laurence Tratt's paper Virtual machine warmup blows hot and cold [1] paper has been posted several times and never really discussed. It covers this problem for Java VMs and also presents a benchmarking methodology. [1] https:/&
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Depends on the sport. I used to play pickup basketball. Whereas I recognized the players week to week, I never knew any of them. I only accidentally ran into one of them outside the game once. BTW, I loved the game and remember the players
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by CalChris 2y ago
I wonder if the 7th edition will cover the Mill CPU. It should but I doubt it will. https://millcomputing.com
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If it saved power wouldn’t that lead to less thermal throttling and thus improved performance? That power had to matter in the first place or it wouldn’t have been worth it in the first place.
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… which is the way it should be. Users vote with their fingers and eyeballs.
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Why Venture Capital Firm Profits Are at an Historic Low(thelowdownblog.com)
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It's CAN Injection. Controller Area Network. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus

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