Symmetry

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901.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Those biases exist but don't explain why we see more asteroids between Jupiter and Mars than between Mars and Earth. There really is a much larger concentration of asteroids in the asteroid belt.
902.
by Symmetry 5y ago
It's not really practical if you need more than just a browser and command line right now to run a pure Fuchsia system. But there's dahliaOS which is a sort of hybrid Fuchsia/Linux that I haven't used but is supposed to
903.
by Symmetry 5y ago
The yield issue is going to be much more of a factor when a process node is young and defect rates are high. The big savings is in engineering hours where you can re-use a design across multiple products.
904.
by Symmetry 5y ago
You could use the dew point to combine humidity and temperature?
905.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Nvidia switched to lead free solder while retaining the same potting material. This led to a mismatch in thermal expansion coefficients which caused strain with repeated thermal cycles and eventually some of the solder bumps just broke. Y
906.
by Symmetry 5y ago
And Cloudflare maybe? They just announced they wouldn't be cutting off Russia which might have been the reason but I think the other services affected use Google Cloud?
907.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Well, high energy prices meant that when Lehman Brothers was collapsing in late 2008 the most recent data the Fed had said that inflation was running above 5% and they thought they had to be careful about that. In reality deflation had alr
908.
by Symmetry 5y ago
This one has a smaller core than a RBMK so it was cheap enough to have a containment shell that the Soviets were willing to pay for one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVER#Safety_barriers
909.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Safer than the plant at Chernobyl, thankfully, with a real containment building. I'm still worried though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VVER#Safety_barriers
910.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Having a relatively sophisticated core you can take off the shelf and modify for your own research can be incredibly useful in academia, I would have really liked that when I was doing my thesis. For large companies too who might want part
911.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Could Mars have developed chemosynthtic life? Sure, it happened ridiculously fast on Earth and I'm quite prepared to believe it happened on Mars before it lost its liquid water. Photosynthetic bacteria? That's a stretch but I co
912.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Also, it's a pretty unpopulated region and for that reason easier to move large forces through without trouble. And as a minor consideration, "We captured Chernobyl, protecting you good Russians from Ukranian nuclear threats"
913.
by Symmetry 5y ago
In addition to what other people have said, there's a lot of shared code between the various open source Linux drivers making things easier for everybody. Not just at the driver but I think stuff like Mesa[1] would be part of the driv
914.
by Symmetry 5y ago
The AMD vs. NVidia driver situation on Linux is the opposite of what it is on Windows.
915.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Intel has a lot of irons in the fire and some very talented engineers, but they've always competed with a process advantage behind them and been able to use it to recover from the occasional architecture misstep like Itanium or the Pen
916.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Are they having architecture issues? I guess I could criticize them for too-aggressively pursuing small microachitectural advantages leading to failures like Meltdown and making them spend more engineering-years than AMD for products that
917.
by Symmetry 5y ago
I've got an IPD of 77 and I'm extremely grateful to see a good VR headset that supports how far apart my eyes are.
918.
by Symmetry 5y ago
I thought this was spot on so I quoted it, with credit, at the /r/hardware discussion. https://www.reddit.com/r/hardware/comments/svk7m4/dr_ian_cut...
919.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Dune 2000 was really Command & Conquer reskinned more than a successor to Dune II, at least in how it played.
920.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Reading this I did a brief search and Kobo looks sort of interesting in offering combined book/audiobooks. A subscription for 1 book a month at $9.99 with no option to buy more credits means I'll be spending a bit more but the ex
921.
by Symmetry 5y ago
There are some interesting datacenter interconnect implications, especially around the new CXL spec. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compute_Express_Link
922.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Wind and solar are great but they use up a lot of space and ideally we'd have more electric power than can be provided with just those two.
923.
by Symmetry 5y ago
It's fuzzy. I know exactly what a terraflop is including that most people use it to refer to 32 bit floating point operations by default but it can still mean other widths if specified. I thought a parsec was somewhere between 2 and
924.
by Symmetry 5y ago
I think I first ran into "degauss" in a documentary talking about German magnetic mines in WWII.
925.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Men don't generally have a doula guiding them through giving birth.
926.
by Symmetry 5y ago
Ok, so with each kg of kerosene burned emitting 3.6 kg of CO2 about 85% of a launch is due to the kerosene. Whether 15% is significant or not is in the eye of the beholder but I don't think my contention was unreasonable. There are,
927.
by Symmetry 5y ago
It takes about .7 MJ to refine a kg of lox, compared to 43 MJ released by a kg of kerosene. So that's not really a significant fraction.
928.
by Symmetry 5y ago
A Falcon 9 caries just a bit more fuel than a fully loaded 777. Which is big, to be sure, but still a drop in the bucket just in terms of transportation.
929.
by Symmetry 5y ago
I finished the piece noticing times that "heuristics that almost work" were a genuine temptation for me to adopt and having more empathy for people who end up adopting them. If you really don't feel like you could ever be te
930.
by Symmetry 5y ago
You have to ask questions about expected value rather than just accuracy to figure that out.

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