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by KMag 4y ago
Note that there are two common uses of "geothermal". One is for geothermal power generation, and but there's also an unfortunate use of the term in describing ground-loop heat pumps and similar technologies. Ground loop hea
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by KMag 4y ago
I grew up in Minnesota, but left before there was much wind farming in the SW part of the state. (I've been told, SW Minnesota is one of the best places for wind farming.) Wind farming does work well in SW Minnesota. However, I also
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by KMag 4y ago
I'm naturally less compassionate towards mean/cruel/"evil" people, or to be honest, people I just dislike for less reasonable reasons. It takes mental effort for me to attempt to feel as much compassion for all peo
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by KMag 4y ago
My chief complaint about Win7 is how much slower it seemed to perform than Win2k on late 90s/early 2000s hardware / on a virtual machine. (Also, IIRC, the licensing terms for Win2k were better regarding running on virtual machine
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by KMag 4y ago
I'm a little surprised we haven't seen governments try offering identity-based encryption as a way to head off encryption that's harder for them to wire-tap. For the unfamiliar, with identity-based encryption, the recipient&#
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by KMag 4y ago
Honestly, the best of both worlds would have been to have the simple kernel implementation and put the boilerplate recovery code in the system libraries. For instance, libc's write() should handle interruption resumption, and libc sho
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by KMag 4y ago
To expand a bit more on this, one consequence of increased transparency is fewer back-room deals. This means that instead of one backroom deal getting support for bill A in exchange for support for bill B, and another backroom deal getting
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by KMag 4y ago
I get you, but are you implying that we should only work on reducing one dimension of human cruelty at a time? That degree of serialization seems highly inefficient.
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by KMag 4y ago
The meat is less valuable than the fins on a volume basis, and volume of the cargo hold/transport rate back to shore is likely the limiting factor on their harvest rate.
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by KMag 4y ago
How is this not whataboutism? I suspect there's significant overlap between the group of people opposed to shark finning and the group of people opposed to factory farming. We don't need to solve one before the other. Why not ma
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by KMag 4y ago
I agree that humans do some pretty crappy things. I'm all for equal rights and treatment for trans folks. However, that sounds like a straw man: I don't think I've ever read or heard anyone claim that trans folks shouldn&#x
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by KMag 4y ago
> I'm trying to find words, but it is a bit weird seeing people being so compassionate about an apex predator. Humans are the most apex of apex predators... I hope that doesn't disqualify us from deserving compassion.
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by KMag 4y ago
I fully agree. In addition, to those who seem to feel we should extend compassion to creatures based on the degree to which they appear to extend compassion to other creatures... that would imply that to maximize the amount of compassion th
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by KMag 4y ago
That reminds me of a time I went camping on a beach with a group of about 6 people. We found out one of the guys was afraid of sharks. We were walking after dark, about 20 meters from the water and a friend of a friend make a joke about &
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by KMag 4y ago
> Most of them would never think twice about murdering thousands to propagate their own species. Such is the fundamental nature of life we all were born into But if part of your reasoning for not extending compassion/humane treatmen
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by KMag 4y ago
Does the fish struggle with less might if it's being brought in more slowly? My naive guess is that it doesn't struggle appreciably less if being reeled in 25% more slowly. In that case, minimizing temperature is primarily a mat
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by KMag 4y ago
> With progressive taxation of corporations, we could disincentivize the existence of trillion dollar corporations In my misspent youth, I worked on a 10% project that helped consolidate and free-up racks of servers so that they could be
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by KMag 4y ago
Presumably, in cases where performance really matters, they're using single-threaded processes pinned to cores and shared memory ring buffers to communicate across processes. It ends up looking not that much different from a high perf
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by KMag 4y ago
Itanium or PA-RISC?
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by KMag 4y ago
Note that The Whitespace Thing actually preceded F#. (Mike and I were in the same fraternity, I remember talking to him about TWT, and we haven't talked much since our college days, which pre-date F#.) IIRC, Mike was also doing a bunc
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by KMag 4y ago
The "rapidly absorbed" qualifier is an allusion to this. Fiber has several benefits, one being blunting the spike in blood sugar by slowing absorption. Some foods are healthiest when unprocessed (other than the minimal processing
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by KMag 4y ago
Side note: tractor tire inner tubes make great trampolines. My aunt and uncle run a small farm (one farm over from the farmhouse where my mom was born) and gave us a tractor tire inner tube when I was young, and we jumped on it enough to r
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by KMag 4y ago
Exactly. Lots HFCS is pretty bad for you. Lots of table sugar is also pretty bad for you. From the evidence I've seen, we should be railing against all quickly absorbed sugars, not specifically HFCS. Unfortunately, the naturistic fa
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by KMag 4y ago
> Unless one of those people is my cousin Charlene The GP's statement can be reworded as a kept secret implies at most one living person knows it. Leaked secrets aren't counter-examples to the GP's statement. Assuming Cha
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by KMag 4y ago
Also, they usually had a tiny magnet at the tip of the bimetallic strip to make their decisions path-dependent (more "sticky"/less flip-flopping).
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by KMag 4y ago
The rate at which your house warms while the heat is on is an indirect measure of the effect of both the temperature of the outside of your walls and the amount of solar radiation coming through your windows. As others have indirectly point
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by KMag 4y ago
As far as Blake3 in hardware for anything other than very low-power smart cards or similar: Blake3 was designed from the ground up to be highly optimized for vector instructions operating on four vectors, each of 4 32-bit words. If you alr
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by KMag 4y ago
Note that if the above is the case, that would imply that the tracking error of your USD-pegged asset is correlated to the non-USD components of your numeraire. In a risk-off/flight-to-quality environment (depending on the exact circu
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by KMag 4y ago
I'm pretty sure optimal layout in the general case is NP-hard, even if you have a perfect predictor for future access patterns. It's been a while since I've read the Garbage Collection Handbook, but it cites several studies s
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by KMag 4y ago
As others have pointed out, there are 2^31 non-negative values an Int32 can take on, and linear growth is probably a bad assumption. I should also probably point out some ambiguity in your analysis. To be clear, under the faulty assumption

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