Symmetry

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781.
by Symmetry 4y ago
Decades of tradition. And it's not clear exactly what they would switch to, in general transistors double every node but different processes tend to have different design rules so different processes might give you different densities
782.
by Symmetry 4y ago
Names are going to switch to use Å soon and by the time we get to low single digits in that we're certainly going to be needing to move to a whole new computational substrate than MOSFETs to advance.
783.
by Symmetry 4y ago
It's less that they're marketing deceptively than that the measure they were using stopped making sense. If the ITRS back in the day had known we'd stop using planar transistors they could have named their nodes for the tran
784.
by Symmetry 4y ago
Fukayama's perspective is a very Hegelian one. Some countries might be threatened by wars with other countries but he contends the dominant paradigm of liberal democratic capitalism doesn't have any real contenders against it and
785.
by Symmetry 4y ago
People keep complaining about "The End of History" but never for good reasons. It predicted president Trump as the sort of "megalothymia" that that might come to power in the end of history! It's just about the la
786.
by Symmetry 4y ago
If we have governments specifying what a company does in those circumstances, wouldn't you expect that they would mandate that Google not accept these credit cards? Accepting them sort of flies in the face of the whole "Know you
787.
by Symmetry 4y ago
In the US at least I think it would be better to describe the rate at which we add solar to the grid as limited by regulatory and grid management issues. The backlog of projects waiting to be approved, in terms of capacity, is about as lar
788.
by Symmetry 4y ago
Huh, looks like I've been using Gnome for most of its history (since Feisty). Replacing the default window manager with xmonad has gotten a little more complicated over the years I've been doing it but I'm still happily writ
789.
by Symmetry 4y ago
Well, presidential systems like the US has mostly don't remain democratic for that long, we were lucky to have the spoils system moderating ideological conflict for most of our history and a period of unusually low polarization in the
790.
by Symmetry 4y ago
For a bus line with only a few people replacing the bus with a car is going to reduce pollution on net. Replacing a full bus with a number of full vans will be bad for the environment, of course, but on most routes and most of the time bus
791.
by Symmetry 4y ago
Streetcars, combining the routing inflexibility of trains with the vulnerability to traffic of busses. We could have saved them if we'd banned cars from city centers and you can argue that if you want to but it wasn't GM that did
792.
by Symmetry 4y ago
Most people believe that they're the same person who went to bed last night despite all the changes that happened in their brain while they were asleep. They even believe that they'er the same person after a full decade despite t
793.
by Symmetry 4y ago
I don't expect mind emulations to ever be an economical alternative to AIs. But if they are Robin Hanson wrote a book[1] trying to think through what would end up happening using as much boring social science and engineering as he cou
794.
by Symmetry 4y ago
I don't think of ideology as the right way to look at this, Soviet ideology was very much pro progress and pro labor saving devices. But in any organization bosses often don't like to have the number of people under their command
795.
by Symmetry 4y ago
To me the most interesting thing about early USSR computer development was their use of balanced ternary in the Setun. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Setun Instead of the first bit being 1 or 0, the second being 2 or 0,
796.
by Symmetry 4y ago
I'm not familiar with the Chola but one problem the Arab world had during this period was their equivalents of corporations dissolved upon the death of any of the principals. For a trade expedition that might last a year or two this i
797.
by Symmetry 4y ago
Pushing against a magnetic field. There are a lot of ways to do it, including the generators that turn mechanical energy into electricity. My favorites are flux compressors though, for when you to turn the energy in a stick of dynamite in
798.
by Symmetry 4y ago
Of the current fusion startups I'm generally most optimistic about Helion because they have a plausible solution for generating energy that produces electricity rather than just heat. Having to couple large amount of turbine with pote
799.
by Symmetry 4y ago
Andrew and Barney are shipwrecked on an island with nothing but their clothes, the cash in their wallets, and a book Andrew has. Barney pays Andrew $100 for the book since he hasn't read it but Andrew already had. Later, after finish
800.
by Symmetry 4y ago
In this particular case EpiPens are protected from substitutions: https://abcnews.go.com/Health/epipen-users-options-generic-a...
801.
by Symmetry 4y ago
From a doctor compaining about the difficulties faced by generic alternatives to EpiPens: If you know anything at all about doctors, you know that they have way too much institutional inertia to change from writing one word on a prescripti
802.
by Symmetry 4y ago
One interesting thing about the trolley problem is that while most people won't pull the lever when the people involved are all random strangers, most people will if the people are are all relatives. That makes me think that, subconsc
803.
by Symmetry 4y ago
Just like the Radioactive Boy Scout. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Hahn
804.
by Symmetry 4y ago
Like the Pershing IIs the US deployed in 1983. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pershing_II
805.
by Symmetry 4y ago
One way that I've seen attempted steelmaning go wrong is that the the inferential distance between the disputants is much larger than they think it is[1], leading to a false steelman that is actually a far less persuasive argument than
806.
by Symmetry 4y ago
Most of those seem like a consequence of good design? I don't want one process to be able to decide that it's windows should be higher priority than another process, or see what's displayed on another processes windows, or s
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by Symmetry 4y ago
Realizing that I'd be a small cog in a large team for most of my career down that path.
808.
by Symmetry 4y ago
The obvious thing to do is put the address translation between the CPU cache and system level cache.
809.
by Symmetry 4y ago
I'm sure there are improvements to be made but there are pretty fundamental physical reasons why reading a random piece of data from a large pool of memory is going to take longer than reading random piece of data from a small pool of
810.
by Symmetry 4y ago
Channeling my inner Linux, defaulting to larger pages means a drastic loss in memory efficiency when mmaping lots of small files as happens when someone compiles the Linux kernel. If you've got a 2kb file and 4kb pages then half the m

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