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by addaon 1y ago
> Proton on Steam Deck is indistinguishable from Windows. Really? I haven’t used it, but I’ve mostly heard good things. It really has ads everywhere and needs regular reinstalls and malware scrubbing?
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by addaon 1y ago
> duel booting with Fedora Please report back on who wins the duel. I assume lances, not pistols?
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by addaon 1y ago
Why should the nuclear physicists have all the fun? Let the chemists play too. I assume the huge density difference between plutonium allotropes contributes to making a density wave (explosion) an effective way to trigger criticality?
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by addaon 1y ago
Titan is outside the frost line. There’s no question that there’s a huge amount of water in solar systems, the question is if there’s a consistent transport system (comets, in this case) that moves it inside the frost line to where liquid w
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by addaon 1y ago
UWB, used by CCC keys (iOS and Android; UWB might be optional for Android?) definitely is — TOF distance precision in the inches.
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by addaon 1y ago
Yep. See eg the TI AWR1843 and related AWR parts.
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by addaon 1y ago
I’m sure that that one line manager who reported the fraud to the CEO was well rewarded. How he learned what he did? We’ll never know. Too bad his team had to be let go.
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by addaon 1y ago
I use my M1 Max MacBook Pro for pretty serious CFD with OpenFoam. It’s astonishing how good it is… but a newer machine would be nearly 2x faster, which matters when single runs can take 1-3 hours.
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by addaon 1y ago
HBM4 is limited to a few thousand bits of width per stack. eDRAM bandwidth scales with chip area. A full-wafer chip could have astonishing bandwidth.
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by addaon 1y ago
> Isn't that something that's more the responsibility of the airlines, who decide how many seats are put in a plane, following the limits of the aircraft? For pitch, yes. For width, no —- you run into quantization pretty quickl
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by addaon 1y ago
> SRAM has virtually stopped scaling in new nodes. But there are several 1T memories that are still scaling, more or less — eDRAM, MRAM, etc. Is there anything preventing their general architecture from moving to a 1T technology once the
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by addaon 1y ago
And option-hyphen has typed one directly for even longer… wait, is AI coming for my option-semicolon too?
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by addaon 1y ago
Yep. The right solution here is to make latitude and longitude distinct types. The way to turn that into an even wronger solution is to create a helper just_apply(function, lat, long) that passes the arguments to the function in the (hopefu
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by addaon 1y ago
> how does a Forth interpreter work in a Harvard architecture microprocessor You compile to "direct threaded code" in data memory; direct threaded code represents a sequence of calls as a sequence of addresses to call. So while
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by addaon 1y ago
> If understanding this special IMMEDIATE mode is required to understand the Forth interpreter for something as fundamental as control-flow, it seems fair to say that Forth is not a simple language. It's not just an advanced program
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by addaon 1y ago
Oh, and because I didn't address it directly in the longer answer... > Does the interpreter hit the WHILE token, goes into IMMEDIATE mode, remembers the location of the WHILE, then dispatches all the subsequent code, until it hits t
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by addaon 1y ago
I've actually never worked with a "pure" interpreter in Forth, only compilers of various levels of complexity. Threaded code compilers are (in my experience) by far the most common way to deal with forth -- and they are very
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by addaon 1y ago
> Unlike most languages, Forth has two stacks. Like Forth, Ada has two stacks. Unlike Forth, which uses two stacks to simplify the language, Ada uses two stacks to complexify the language. This generalizes to other language features.
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by addaon 1y ago
> So there must be something else fundamental in the Forth interpreter that I don't understand. The missing bit is IMMEDIATE mode. Words can be tagged as IMMEDIATE, which means that they get executed at compile time (or parse time,
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by addaon 1y ago
> How is Mercury further? Δv, the only metric that matters. Mercury is at 5.5 km/s from LEO, vs 3.6 km/s from LEO for Mars.
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by addaon 1y ago
> So I'd say you need at least a week without electricity in the best conditions to make a solar panel worth it, preferably more, which I believe is rather uncommon. That's basically my use case. I have a "15 W" panel
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by addaon 1y ago
Potentially? I have an iPhone 15 Pro now, which I got both because it was lighter than previous equivalents, and was the first (?) with direct-to-satellite, which I definitely value. I know I can get ~5 days of navigation (but not reading)
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by addaon 1y ago
I live in southern Utah, between Zion, Bryce, and the Grand Canyon, right next to Escalante. There's plenty of stuff within a day's drive of here; previously mentioned, plus Canyonlands, Capitol Reef, Arches, and all the state par
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by addaon 1y ago
I don't carry a battery, but I do carry a solar panel that weighs around 300 g. I use my phone when backpacking as a GPS receiver, map, flashlight, and eBook reader. Phone + solar panel weighs less than paperback + paper map + flashlig
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by addaon 1y ago
I'm down to around 10 lb base load. And then I hike in the desert where I carry 5 - 7 liters of water (11 - 15 lbs). And food. Saving a pound here and there is totally worth it, but there's a large part of the country where pruden
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by addaon 1y ago
And LTO, which is what I actually want, is 2.3 - 2.4 V.
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by addaon 1y ago
Pretty cool hardware. Count me in if and when it supports interesting software.
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by addaon 1y ago
No. The Nobel Peace Prize is awarded by the Norwegian Nobel Committee, while the Literature prize and the other prizes defined by Nobel’s will are awarded by the Swedish Academy.
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by addaon 1y ago
This is true, and others have mentioned it, but I think people are underestimating just how universal sensor dimensions being a multiple of 16 is — I really can’t think of any exceptions.
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by addaon 1y ago
Coffee takes compensation, but even ambient pressure extraction can be tuned for great results — Denver and Boulder have good coffee scenes, for example. The bigger challenge is that Mr Coffee style brewers (bubble pump) have no way to adju

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