Panzer04

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by Panzer04 2y ago
The thing with FPGAs is if they do something fast, and that thing becomes actually important, they are inevitably replaced with an ASIC. So they are mostly used in the small-medium business space where you need to do serious parallel proces
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Well, the general idea is that it's presumably beneficial to apply a CP charge on net. You discourage people from driving into the city where there's insufficient capacity to move all of the vehicles efficiently. It's basical
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by Panzer04 2y ago
It's not that hard? You just need a programming header at this point. Do the Dev with a full size board, then get whoever your PCB mfg is to P&P the real chips for cents.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
This isn't quite the same thing, I think. The Cypress one has decent software for reading individual PD packets and debugging PD/TCPM implementations. Even if you can read out the packets with that, it doesn't look like it ha
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Nicer in what way? I've used the one referenced in the first comment (CY4500) and it worked quite well. I'm not entirely sure what could be done better. Nice to know that cheaper ones exist though - is the supporting SW any good (
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Handling it with early return in this way still seems odd. I guess if everything is built to be done with automatic handling via scope, I can see why this way is OK. The way this would be done in my experience is just checking a return code
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by Panzer04 2y ago
fwiw, I have to agree that having "?" at the end of a call act (as I parse the explanation) as a "return" statement seems like a very odd and deceptive semantic to have (and as you say, harder to spot). It seems to deriv
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by Panzer04 2y ago
It sounds like a decent idea. It doesn't really resolve the problems with calories in vs calories out, though (ie. by and large you still need just as much feed). It also might not be cheaper - lots of meat agriculture largely leaves t
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by Panzer04 2y ago
2x daily 30 mile commute sounds like a (relatively) substantial risk to me? Driving is already more or less the most dangerous activity most people engage in nowadays, tolerated by long acclimatization and sheer utility. Moreover, people ge
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by Panzer04 2y ago
The same people that get you into power are rarely the same ones you want when you actually have it!
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I agree with you, fwiw. I don't get the hate for landlords either. There's just a large segment of the population that want to own a house and don't care who gets stepped on once they own it - which is really how we got into
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I think this mindset comes from a misunderstanding of the cost of capital. Buying and owning a house is not free - even if the entire thing had zero upkeep and maintenance. The money spend on the house (lets say 1m) has a cost associated wi
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Not sure why you got downvoted. Its high value-add, but I would have thought competition would push prices down too.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Are these really the problem? I feel like new cars are obscenely expensive right now. Even a basic car can easily run you 30-40k, the same thing a few years used will be <20k, and a few years more <10k (this is in Australia). The diff
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by Panzer04 2y ago
As much as these sorts of questions get complained about, it occurs to me that they have their own convenient benefits if you take part in the system. Plenty of training resources, constrained problem space, etc. Want to get a tech job? Pra
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Dumb Acronyms Must Pay?
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Maybe at utility scale? Household batteries are so stupidly overpriced there's no financial justification sadly.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
More like these days everything is already clocked hard by default. There's basically no point overclocking modern unlocked chips, they are already clocked to 90% of their max speed. Compare that to the above example with 600 vs 900 Mh
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by Panzer04 2y ago
But then you go play a game on windows, and everything works instantly. When performance is critical to have a good experience, it can be done, and pretty well. Most desktop software just doesn't give a shit about performance.
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Really? I feel like this sort of thing is hugely dependant on start and endpoints. Trains crush cars during peak, and are usually still better in dense areas, but add 10-20 minutes of last mile either end and driving quickly ends up faster
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by Panzer04 2y ago
It doesn't. Solar is so cheap now that it makes sense to build huge amounts of it, but most of the existing infra still needs to be in place for times where solar doesn't generate. We save some money on fuel costs, but those other
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Beyond fire risks or whatever, I actually don't see a problem with different battery models etc. The interface to the grid isnt exactly complicated, and decentralised storage seems like it would actually be quite robust and useful. In
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Well, they are - you can move more people with a sidewalk :P. That being said, obviously most people aren't going to walk much more than maybe a km before looking for alternatives. Usually the comparison comes up in cities where throug
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Roads already occupy massive fractions of most cities. Making cars drive closer together or collaborate will make roads environments more hostile to pedestrians than they already are - and arguably in many places we shouldn't even real
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by Panzer04 2y ago
I don't follow. If you make holding an investment property more expensive than owning, than fewer people will own investment properties, reducing supply and increasing rental prices. Yes, the investor makes less, but the expected resul
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Depends on the country I guess. Mortgage interest in AU is not tax deductible unless it's an investment (ie. owner-occupiers don't get a deduction). Consumption is not generally tax deductible, was my understanding (and living in
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Largely we rebase so that all PRs are defacto Fast Forward merges. Rebasing on publicly visible branches (PRs and the like) is common, although rebasing major branches (Master or a release) is not. We're small enough that we can get aw
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by Panzer04 2y ago
The fixed prepayment is what makes them insane. Fixed interest instruments are common, at least at the institutional level, but no penalty prepayment option is the crazy part, because it exposes the lender to all the downside if rates go up
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by Panzer04 2y ago
How do you figure? Its heavily market-dependant, but assuming rent expenses = the cost of interest, from a financial perspective they are close to equivalent. If you take the money that would be paying off the mortgage to invest, you should
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by Panzer04 2y ago
Rents are certainly not always higher than costs. Plenty of "investor" landlords buying properties that return less in rent than the mortgage expenses of said property (or the cost of capital). Making 4% in rent isn't great w

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