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by _0w8t 5y ago
I read an interview with a paleontologist and he pointed out two things. First, climate 9000 years ago was about 1- 1.5 degree warmer than today. Even 1000 years ago it was much milder in Arctic or Northern Atlantic/Pacific. Second,
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In seventies Soviet Union decided to stop developing own computers and just copy IBM and Intel. With big delays 8086 was copied. Then Intel released 286. Soviet intelligence was able to get all documents and blueprints for that processor. Y
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Thanks for the link. That explains a lot. Mafia state and high tech at scale cannot be compatible indeed.
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Soviet Union had relatively good infrared optics. I guess Russia missed even that ability. But then the parallel answer with twitter link described why this happened perfectly.
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The inability to mass-produce complex high-tech items is a known problem for Russia. It even effects chip production. For example, Russian flagship semiconductor company mikron.ru was not able to switch from 90 to 65nm for the last like 6 o
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Short-wave radio is an option
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The bandwidth of the soldered ram is much higher which makes it much faster for code that accesses a lot of RAM like video editors.
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Another thing to consider is memory compression. If Apple added dedicated hardware for that, it can effectively double the total memory with minimal performance hit.
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by _0w8t 5y ago
Note that this is not official words from Kremlin. Russia and even Soviet Union always tried to play a role of a trusted partner that would fulfill contracts no matter what. Using threat of cutting gas supplies can be used only once.
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As the last autumn in Europe showed solar and wind were not stable when for months there were quite heavy clouds without wind. Big energy storage is required.
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Putin did return quite significant territories to China in 2008 to settle a dispute that resulted in a small-scale war in 1969, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sino-Soviet_border_conflict .
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A lot of frameworks have queues bounded only by the available memory. As the article nicely demonstrates it implies that CPU must be idle at least 20% of time for that to work to have reasonable bounds on latency. With various GUI event que
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by _0w8t 5y ago
Typically in Russia it was possible not to support actions of the government even when working for the government directly or indirectly. The threat of being fired was empty as bosses did not want to report to superiors that some people did
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Yes, it looks like Japanese government just reminded about the position they always had that southern Kurils were occupied by Russia illegally. But the timing of the reminder is interesting.
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This looks like blocking any DNS outside Russia, not the networks.
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While quantum decoherence explains appearance of classical objects in simple models, predicting the results of real experiments still not possible. And given this has not changed much as far as I know for the last 20 years, I started to sus
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We have a lot of archeological evidence that at least from the end of ice age people did travel long distances within short period of time, like several hundreds of miles or more. That implies exchange of information on much greater scale t
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by _0w8t 5y ago
The notion of the wave function collapse is very specific to Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics that tries to reconcile classical and quantum world. But everything is quantum so there is no classical measurement device, just its
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It is not а fairytale. It just tells the state of Russian furniture industry if they cannot match even IKEA despite cheap labor and raw materials.
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It is not silly. It could be that wide spread and persistent use of herbs required a certain level of population density and people traveling far to spread the word and learn from others. That is why observing apes doing that was important
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I talked with friends in Moscow at the beginning of 2020. They said there were simply no good alternatives to IKEA. There were reasonable furniture from Belarus if one looked for things made from whole wood, but then one still may need to h
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There is a difference between eating random plants and relying on evolution to spread the trait of eating something beneficial and recognizing that a particular herb was useful for a particular symptom, then recognizing that symptom in othe
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by _0w8t 5y ago
We have archeological evidence for the last 5K years. While humans or our ancestors may have used herbs for literally millions of years as the article implies, we do not have any evidence for it.
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by _0w8t 5y ago
While sending data between C++/Go/Java processes as JSON is a waste, when one part is a scripting language, JSON can be more efficient than alternatives. Recently I benchmarked extension API in Chromium. Those can send arbitrary d
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by _0w8t 5y ago
Slavery is a strong word. But consider serfdom in Middle Ages. When some historian looked at it they found that on average a serf of a French baron say 700 years ago worked less than 40 hours per week on average. Perhaps even less than 30.
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For us the problem with hooks is that we have a lot of complex state that can be shown in different components. So global stores are a must. But then bugs in the hooks can be hard to debug. Also lack of forceUpdate for hooks causes to use a
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immer.js can have terrible performance for data structures starting already with 100 of elements. Using JS proxies is not cheap. We have found that continuing to use immutable.js Map and List but using plain JS objects, not Records is sort-
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React hooks is another attempt to gain ergonomics. The idea is to try to spread the virtual DOM into native effects. In theory the code specifies or declared the effects once and the framework takes care about subscribing/unsubscribing
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Apple does not allow to use their SDK on non-Apple hardware. So if you need to use MacOS headers and libraries, the hardware where the compiler runs must be from Apple. Apple has no problem if you run Linux on that and cross-compile from it
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Those threats are for internal Russian consumptions. Those around Putin, as good servants, try to predict what their master wants to please him or at least avoid humiliation. And if they do not do that, then others will report.

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