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by afiori 2y ago
Quartiles are relevant for almost any distribution
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by afiori 2y ago
I always mix them up... :(
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by afiori 2y ago
I have an hard time coming to terms with this platonic view of the mind, as if our minds where some kind of extradimensional aliens playing with this sandbox of "undifferentiated quanta" sometime called reality. I understand how i
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by afiori 2y ago
There is a way in that it matters: in a vacuum tube you can have cathodic rays but (pragmatically) not anodic rays. IIRC a Veritasium video claims that these where essentially discovered by mistake in lightbulbs, so I suspect that Franklin
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by afiori 2y ago
Us? If one take the position tha minds are not part of the "real world" then you end up defining "reality" by some random model. It is just as absurd as saying that the only thing that exists is my own perception and you
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by afiori 2y ago
In particular I suspect that even the most reactive energy sources (which I suspect are fossil fuels) takes minutes to scale up or down to follow demand.
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by afiori 2y ago
The ship sinks faster but for a bit you rise above the others.
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by afiori 2y ago
To be fair if consumers where to en masse react to spot prices then the grid would open itself to gamestop-style failures. The mistake the big investors made with GameStop was assuming that retail investors would not coordinate, so when mem
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by afiori 2y ago
Being able to copy paste typescript snippets in the browser console is enough of a benefit in my opinion
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by afiori 2y ago
It is not that big of a deal, you can write import {} from "some/package" And then go back with working autocompletion
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by afiori 2y ago
I dislike the assumption that natural languages are a good base for the syntax of programming languages, In my personal contrarian opinion I would have wanted something along the lines of import "url" with {namedImport}, def
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by afiori 2y ago
On a sinking ship one way to get to higher ground is to go to one end and make sure that the opposite side gets more water faster.
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by afiori 2y ago
I agree that LED lights are a better example of planned obolescence.
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by afiori 2y ago
I believe that the main drive was to stop a race to the bottom where everybody would advertize 1000000 hours lightbulbs but they all sucked and the technology would be considered worthless. I seriously doubt you can recycle the tungsten as
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by afiori 2y ago
>It has unsafe IO primitives To be tongue in cheek then it also has the side effect of heating the CPU.
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by afiori 2y ago
I feel like exceptions where added as a mix of "look we can do that too" and "maybe if so many functions return optional values then it is going to be too much of a pain to use" In hindsight I think few would now regret
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by afiori 2y ago
Tivoization is completely orthogonal to the issue of opaque patched blobs. For example every software/firmware using custom Risc-V instructions is tivoized. The problem of blobs are inability to examine it and inability to reasonably m
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by afiori 2y ago
Planned obsolescence is very real, but the reality of incandescent light bulbs means that lifespan, efficiency, and luminosity are not independent. The 1000 hours limit is in practice a lower bound to a combination of luminosity and efficie
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by afiori 2y ago
Which to be honest has the power efficiency of a dim campfire
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by afiori 2y ago
I am not going to speak for others, but one can argue for LVT as a more functional system https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/does-georgism-work-is-land-...
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by afiori 2y ago
I think it is important not to take a moralistic lens to these topics but rather a more systemic approach.
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by afiori 2y ago
Under a full LVT system the price of the land itself should be 0.
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by afiori 2y ago
What I was trying to say is that the last point >- Nuvia’s derived IP is not transferable without ARM agreement Binds Nuvia and Nuvia's license, not Qualcomm. An analogy I can think of is how sometimes luxury brands give gifts or di
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by afiori 2y ago
I believe that Arm's argument is more in the other direction, that is that Qualcomm license does not cover IP developed by Nuvia.
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by afiori 2y ago
I believe that Qualcomm, like Apple has a perpetual license that could be hard for Arm to terminate
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by afiori 2y ago
The license belonged to the acquired not the acquirer. A more apt analogy would be if Microsoft gave the source code of Office to a research center and IBM then tried to resell their version of the office suite after buying the research cen
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by afiori 2y ago
> So if you open source your drivers and get them accepted into the kernel, then you don't need to rewrite[...] them for each new kernel version. You don't, but someone does. In the note linked above they give an example of how
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by afiori 2y ago
I believe they are talking more about the hardware abstraction layer, IIRC Android in recent years adopted a more stable interface for hardware drivers. To my understand in Linux most drivers are codeveloped with the kernel as it does not h
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by afiori 2y ago
Generally you deploy or use some sort of secret/config delivery service. For example most/all VPS provider allow you to give extra data to the machine; this could be the secrets directly or maybe a connection url to a local* redis
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by afiori 2y ago
From a modeling point of view it likely has order of magnitude of order of magnitude of too many parameters to be a "good" physics model. The standard model is considered to have too many free variables and those are few enough th

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