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by allenrb 2y ago
People are talking about replacing cells within packs, not disassembling the cells themselves!
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by allenrb 2y ago
What does “fifo” mean in this context? I’m thinking it is not “first in, first out”?
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by allenrb 2y ago
Elon has pissed me off beyond all reason these last few years but when he says “excitement guaranteed”, it’s the truth.
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by allenrb 2y ago
Short of the moon landings that I never got to experience, the dual landing (especially that first one!) is the coolest thing I’ve ever seen in space flight. Could watch again and again.
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by allenrb 2y ago
Bah, how many autistic people can there be in one place?
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by allenrb 2y ago
Tbh it’s probably been a decade since the last time I looked into it. Glad to hear some ad blocking is doable on the iPhone. Certainly I use an ad blocker everywhere else. Will see what’s available. Thanks!
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by allenrb 2y ago
Since I’ve made pihole a part of my home infrastructure, using this same phone away from home is noticeably much more painful.
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by allenrb 2y ago
So AMZN wants to have layoffs without using the word?
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by allenrb 2y ago
Oh man. I never noticed that, but played many many hours in the same hardware. Remember how you could tell if you’d be getting more than merely gold after a fight based on the Disk II sounds?
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by allenrb 2y ago
I’ve just got to say that this kind of thing enraged me. Who cares about the impact on people hit with sudden expenses? Or the environment when we dispose of e-waste? No, we want to goose profits by being despicable. As I creep closer to re
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by allenrb 2y ago
Maybe because there’s a larger overlap between HN demographics and those of the Democratic Party versus those of the GOP? That’s beside the point, though. NASA is an agency of the United States Government. The idea that politics do not come
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by allenrb 2y ago
From NSF’s “about us” page: NSF is not affiliated with and does not represent the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA initials are used with NASA’s permission.
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by allenrb 2y ago
Was summarizing this article for a group of friends who largely met during the Apple II days and wanted to repost a bit of that here: The optimized code at the end takes 94 nanoseconds to sum an array of 1024 32-bit floating point numbers
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by allenrb 2y ago
Sure did! The Kestrel engine (had to double-check that memory) was a cute little thing, but it did the job.
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by allenrb 2y ago
This appears to be a pressure-fed rather than pumped engine, so limited real-world utility. Nonetheless, it’s incredibly impressive especially given that it seems to have been successful on the first try. I wonder how practical it might be
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by allenrb 2y ago
Seriously, my high school was mostly boring and pointless. I’m in awe of the opportunities some kids are able to find/create today.
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by allenrb 2y ago
Seriously. A good place in the United States will give you four weeks of PTO. Couple that with a decent holiday schedule and unlimited sick days (limiting sick days is a red flag, imho) and the only other thing you need is a big check. Full
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by allenrb 2y ago
We all understand that this cannot and will not continue, right? One of two things happens: 1. The AI boom goes bust. Nvidia sales and/or margins crater. The stock craters with it. 2. The AI boom is the real deal. Companies aren’t stup
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by allenrb 2y ago
I’m with you. It’s hilarious to think back on, but I got a “no” from my present employer after the first technical interview because I didn’t remember the options to one particular tool. Thankfully a somewhat distant inside connection was a
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by allenrb 2y ago
Good news, you can have both!
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by allenrb 2y ago
Fun thought exercise, thanks! My question is, what advantage would a large exchange find in moving to cloud? They’ve already got the personnel capable of managing their environment. They’re not a rapidly-growing startup in need of flexibili
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by allenrb 3y ago
Unintegrated or, perhaps… Dis-integrated?
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by allenrb 3y ago
I think that’s not quite correct re: the Cray 1 having 64 copies of certain units. True, the vector registers did have 64 entries but the vector functional units were pipelined. They could return a result each cycle (once past the initial l
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by allenrb 3y ago
Very excited for this as usual, and thanks to a few delays, I won’t be on the train at T-0. As for expectations, I’ll be thrilled to see Starship reach orbital velocity. Last time was so close. Engine restart and intact reentry? Even better
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After Months of Preparations Starship Is Ready for Flight 3(nasaspaceflight.com)
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by allenrb 3y ago
Agreed re: being a non-profit. My great hope was that Elon might do that with Twitter. Needless to say, I was… not right about that.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Developers can be very adept at making money for themselves even as the project tanks. Not saying that’s what will happen here (I lack data) but it happens often.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Busted. Saw this and immediately thought it had to be a Raymond Chen post. Whatever he’s getting paid, it probably isn’t enough.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Ah, the days when signals changed slowly, gently enough to wire them up by hand. We’ve gained a lot in the intervening ~30 years but lost a little bit too.
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by allenrb 3y ago
Can you share anything more about the project? This sounds fascinating.

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