Panzer04

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by Panzer04 3y ago
It's all tradeoffs. Desktop users are happy for 20% more performance at 2x power draw - and they get the fastest processors in existence (at single thread) as a result. Data centres want whatever gets them the most compute per dollar s
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by Panzer04 3y ago
It's difficult to compare because honestly most reviewers just suck at making meaningful comparisons. You can't compare a chip running at 3ghz with one running at 5ghz. It just doesn'tell you anything useful about the archite
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I don't see the distinction. What sbest for shareholders may well not be best for the employees of the company... but that's just how it is. Companies are run to benefit the capital that funded them, employees are just an expense.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
It seems like the bigger issue here is a complete lack of signs leading up to the bridge - If it's a contiguous road I can see how someone might be lulled into a false sense of security. Ultimately, the final responsibility is the driv
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by Panzer04 3y ago
The point is if you're in an environment the A10 survives in, so would the prop aircraft. If you aren't, neither works anyway. The A10 exists in a middle ground where it is much more expensive but not really any less vulnerable re
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Geeze, I didn't realise there was such a precipitous drop - I wonder how bad it is for smaller subs.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Depends if the capital cost of the increased manufacturing capacity is worth it to make up for lost winter production. I'm not all that convinced. Also consider the workforce differences too, since presumably this would also need to be
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by Panzer04 3y ago
The value in the perspective comes from realising what you're actually aiming for. Generally speaking, I don't think there's much evidence in that "healthy" foods are strictly better for you than processed food, bey
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by Panzer04 3y ago
The best thing anyone can do is to simply avoid overeating. If you're obese, it's because you're overeating - and you can fix the problem by just eating less. In some sense it's comforting, because it's so easy to d
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by Panzer04 3y ago
You're trolling, right? Discord's sign up pattern is similar enough I've actually made this mistake not once, but twice. I think it's closer to a failure of design than anything else - it's almost never correct to b
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I've done this at least twice for the same reasons, and it's lead to me pulling my number off discord twice now. It's stupid how similar logging in and creating an account look.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Presumably similarly to on the way in - but mostly high in the atmosphere where you, personally, don't care at ground level. Supposedly it's 1.3kW/sqm at the earth's atmosphere, so take 30% off on the way out and you&#x2
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Except the eternal problem with all "AI" so far is edge cases. A product that is 90% correct may as well be useless, honestly.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Yep. It seems like the most effective solution in heat islands would be to avoid absorbing the sun's heat in the first place. For perspective, white paint will reflect 80-90% of the sun's energy, while black paint would reflect on
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by Panzer04 3y ago
The root of the issue seems to be that general scans are simply not that informative unless problems are very obvious or couched with other symptoms. If they can't tell the difference between a benign lump and a tumor without additiona
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by Panzer04 3y ago
In concept advertising is good, I'd love to know about good products that serve my purposes for good prices, the problem is that as far as the people in these companies are concerned they just want to sell stuff. Many companies don&#x2
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by Panzer04 3y ago
The issue is they would charge you significantly more for the direct flight to the stopover location. It's a pricing model that works by charging for what people are willing to pay, not the costs incurred.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
How is that indicative of not developing talent? Sounds like they have a fairly robust pipeline if so many end up working at other companies... (Retention notwithstanding :P)
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by Panzer04 3y ago
A surprisingly large amount of people just don't believe the world looks this way, though. They are so wrapped up in some minute anecdotally supported factor (energy prices went up 20%! Inflation is running wild!) They don't recog
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by Panzer04 3y ago
The problem with nuclear accidents is the consequences can be so catosrophic that it's virtually impossible to accept failure. Irradiate a few hundred sqkm in an accident and you easily exceed every other expense of building the plant
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Swapping to a spinner made that memory borderline worthless, compared to modern SSD swap speeds, I'd guess is a better comparison.
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Making Tesla public was clearly elons best ever decision lol. The moment it went ballistic in early 2020 made it well worthwhile - Tesla has access to an effectively unlimited pile of cash from public investors (and gave Elon more money tha
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I think it will always be hard to justify. The amount of different configurations proliferate very quickly, so you end up spending a lot of die area etc on parts that much of the market doesn't need. Intel and AMD seem to have settled
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I see your point, but it's worth being clear about the meaning of "hard" here. There's hard as in effortful, which certainly you could make the argument that many jobs eclipse software or other technical positions. And t
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by Panzer04 3y ago
I guess there's probably some margin in it - if both parties seem about equally vulnerable, there's not much lost. You could expend a lot of effort into security, but the nature of these bugs is still that they are fairly rare, of
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by Panzer04 3y ago
That seems like an excessive amount of power. Does the running program/OS just have zero power saving consideration given?
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Given the classic stack overflow branch predictor question, you are underselling things quite a lot - a factor of 6 on those older processors in question, and who knows on modern processors. https://stackoverflow.com/questio
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by Panzer04 3y ago
If a bug is not known, most of the incentives to the vendor are to not bother investigating, I suspect. You could spend arbitrary amounts of time looking for these bugs and find nothing. Simpler and easier to offer a bounty or something and
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by Panzer04 3y ago
Right, but we were talking about the energy embodied in manufacturing a processor. It should be obvious that the price of the processor includes the cost of the energy needed to manufacture it, and therefore there is a clear cap on how much
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by Panzer04 3y ago
The price of a new processor readily embodies the energy used to create it (by a significant margin, because of all the other stuff that needs to be paid for by the price of the processor) It's a very safe bet that, assuming you do sig

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