N1H1L

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by N1H1L 6y ago
> Think about the quality of their hardware products. I thought about their butterfly keyboards and didn't want to think further.
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Yes and no. No institution (maybe 1920s Gottingen?) ever matched Bell Labs in their glory days.
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Yep. Sometimes I see these type of comments online (mostly on libertarian leaning subs in Reddit for example) and the commentators fail to grasp the error behind their reasoning - not everything in this world is a zero sum game .
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by N1H1L 6y ago
This is just not true, and sounds like someone talking about a field about which they have no idea. NSF mostly for example doesn't give a shit about your results, all it matters to them you publish something (productivity). I have work
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by N1H1L 6y ago
See that's the problem. It takes a hugely asymmetrical effort to counter obvious bullshit than to spew it.
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Mikhail Budyko accurately predicted global temperature increase 50 years ago(eos.org)
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Yeah - seeing the ascendance of ARM in recent years Nvidia entering the processor market seems a very logical step. In fact Jensen Huang himself hasn't ruled out the possibility. https://www.tomshardware.com/news/j
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Do you see Nvidia offering ARM based CPUs in the near future? And maybe a complete unit with a CPU and dGPU along with unified memory?
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Is executive power in US this unchecked? If anything, Trump has shown how vulnerable security wise the unitary executive model is.
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by N1H1L 6y ago
The glue layers speedups are really bothering me. I absolutely fail to understand how a data science heavy language in 2020 can have such convoluted parallel processing. Dask, numba, joblib all are unfinished projects and absolutely not hea
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by N1H1L 6y ago
I read the thread, it's from 2016. But hasn't numba made some big progress in JITting CPython?
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Yes. In fact the thinking is that increasingly grid batteries will be sodium-ion, because weight is not that big of a deal. Additionally, we have enormous quantities of sodium available, which is why it's predicted to be significantly
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Also softcore porn. Tumblr used to be pretty well known for that before Yahoo shut that down - and now Vimeo is the refuge for it
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by N1H1L 6y ago
TV has also become shit in India. Indian news is now on a whole new level of shitshow - leaving even the US behind.
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by N1H1L 6y ago
What's even more broken is that impact factors and h-indices -- all that data analytics we use to measure science is fundamentally broken. They are worse than useless
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by N1H1L 6y ago
This is cool. Is this the same group that were shown in Netflix's Pandemic?
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Max we are looking at 1000 TWh, that's two days of global energy demand. Rule of thumb we need 300gm of sodium per kWh. That's 3 billion metric tons. Which is a lot - but for the entire global energy demand it's peanuts
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by N1H1L 6y ago
At this point fusion is an elaborate high energy physics stimulus package.
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Why do you need increased storage density for grid level storage?
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Yes. Also for grid- level storage space and weight are not at a premium - so cheap, comparatively in efficient solutions like sodium-ion batteries or redox flow systems is where the field is moving to.
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Also disco, when it first appeared on the scene was strongly associated with an LGBT audience, and the Moral Majority crusaders then absolutely denigrated it. Good art is by definition subversive, and you won't find subversion in the B
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by N1H1L 6y ago
The past decade has been acknowledged as the Golden Age of Television. Art evolves - and Breaking Bad is as much art as Anna Karenina. There is a very irritating snootiness in the review that only thinks classical music as art, and just pas
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Why is not the internet a shared cultural moment? Why is the smartphone of today a lesser innovation than the Saturn V? I really don't get the nostalgia in the article
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Even with music for example - look at what indie artists are doing. Touareg rock for example, or Altin Gun for Turkish folk psychedelia, Newen Afrobeat who are combining Chilean folk with Afrobeat or Coke Studio in Pakistan will be marvelle
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Yes absolutely. What qualifies Anish Kapoor's Bean for example as art above the Shadow of the Colossus? And there was an absolute explosion of written works only starting two centuries ago - due to mass scale printing. And even in book
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by N1H1L 6y ago
But isn't this a subtle diss against capitalism or a purely market based system? A free market results in _efficient_ allocation of capital, resulting in a _fragile_ allocation.
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Microsoft is huge for legacy companies. It integrates really well now with Office and while it was worse a few years back, it definitely seems to have improved now.
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by N1H1L 6y ago
And letting society pick up the tab through food stamps is a tax on the rest of us too.
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by N1H1L 6y ago
Great question.
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When the MBA guys and Wall Street starts drinking their own cool-aid and believes that finance is what creates money - you have a problem. Lee Hutchinson of Ars Technica once wrote that a junior engineer now at Boeing has no viable path for

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