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by audunw 3y ago
To me I feel the money Id save on using the credit card is so infinitesimally small that it’s easily worth it to use debit for the ease of mind that everything is settled and I truly can afford everything I pay for. I also hate credit card
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"Fracking" for geothermal wells will supposedly not use toxic fluids. The reasons they're used for oil and gas extraction does not necessarily apply to geothermal wells. There are some concerns about micro earthquakes and oth
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I was surprised to learn how significant the heat added from thermal power plants can be for global warming. Without technological improvements a massive scale up of nuclear energy would probably be a bad idea. There are panels that can rad
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So happy to see so much sane critical thinking in the comments here. What I’d like to add is that the article lacks any reflection over the long term perspective. Mining/transportion/refining of materials could be completely carbo
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Nikola Teslas contributions are generally vastly exaggerated. Saying he “invented the twentieth century” is certainly way over the top. Aside from Westinghouse ans Edison, I think Mikhail Dolivo-Dobrovolsky‘s contributions are arguably way
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What the hell are you talking about? I don’t see anything discussing the origin of the virus in the abstract. This is about the danger of the virus moving from humans to deers and then potentially back again. It’s right there in the beginni
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It'll generate more value for the world, but it'll less profitable for companies wanting to profit off the solution. That's a general problem in health care and why governments should be more involved in funding and supportin
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I think the comparison you're giving here is quite misleading. You're implying that we "only" need to scale up the objects we put in quantum superposition by tens of thousands of times. But that's not all there is t
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> Neither does a Mac, yet it's the only device that's allowed to develop for the headset. I'm willing to bet that you can develop a prototype for an app in Unreal Engine right now, and I'm willing to bet that Unreal
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I believe Zig is capable of this in a primitive way, and they got there by piggy-backing on LLVM development that Apple has contributed to. There's absolutely nothing Apple is doing to prevent you from developing on iOS from Windows or
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This is like fancy VNC. Apple doesn't have any problem with VNC, in fact they explicitly support it. I think Apple can feel fairly safe that the experience will always be so hacky and low quality that it's not going to be a threat
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Are they being dropped? Im guessing you'll have two categories of tier 1 support: - Built-in tier 1 support. - Tier 1 support through the optional LLVM backend. If they already have tier 1 support for an architecture, I don't see
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If you read the text in the linked issue you'll see that there they're not entirely removing the LLVM backend. They're just decoupling it from the main binary, so you can still easily use LLVM as a backend if you have it inst
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Ah, the obligatory comment from Walter Bright talking about D in posts about Zig (Nothing wrong with it, just a bit funny how predictable it has become) I guess the interesting difference in approach here, is that D seems to have completel
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By your logic the EV subsidy (or, tax cut relative to gasoline cars, but it should be the same effect) in Norway shouldn't have worked. Yet it has been wildly successful. Yes, it may encourage manufacturers to increase price, but that
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That's a terrible analogy, because everything we're doing, every day of our life, is essentially like tinkering with no backup. If you could take a backup of our brain from then it would be a common recommendation to take a backup
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That's like saying that only studying the universe with the frequencies of visible light will be more effective. It's probably the most effective, since we're biased towards being capable of analyzing data from those wavele
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> I think if it did you would get obvious visual tearing at the boundaries of the different areas. They could gradually blend the area with higher refresh rate to the peripheral images with lower refresh rate. You would probably not noti
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In 100 years we won't need it. In 100 years we'll be asking ourselves why we bothered with nuclear energy at all. Look at the fundamentals. There's more than enough free energy all around us. In 100 years the world population
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There's many ways to judge what "80%" is. The batteries will cycle many times every week. They will have much more energy flowing through them in a year than the storage we need for dunkelflaute would. Yes, in terms of amount
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I think the Apollo creator mentioned the fact that Reddit doesn't even inject ads in the posts it delivers through its API. He seemed confused about why they hadn't. Which begs the question why the hell they didn't work on ge
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This is not much more different than the first iPhone focusing on what people were already doing daily with their phones and computers: taking phone calls, SMS, e-mail, browsing the web. But now there are hundreds of different other uses, m
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I think we should start talking about the possible climate impact of waste heat from nuclear thermal power plants too. I'm definitely pro-nuclear, wherever it makes sense, in the short term. As long as it's never at the expensive
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> If "surface area used per megajoule" is 100x lower for nuclear than for, say, solar, I would be comfortable calling this 'almost zero' The problem is these kinds of numbers are usually comparing apples to oranges. L
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I'm not 100% sure you're right, but I'm one who did not touch type QWERTY properly. It could be because of the reasons you stated, or because I learned to type on a keyboard myself, not even knowing I should be using touch ty
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I like Zigs justification for not having general purpose operator overloading (no hidden function calls and loops) But I wish they added: 1. Ability to declare completely pure functions that have no loops except those which can be evaluated
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An implicit aspect of Moores law has been that cost per transistor has been going down as the density is increasing. This doesn't seem to be the case anymore. The technology required to get higher transistor density is getting ridiculo
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I think it's too early for AI/ML acceleration to standardize on an API. It takes a long time to figure out what abstractions we should standardize on before we can make a universal API. Consider the whole history of OpenGL, Metal,
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Exactly, they added an flag to enable total store ordering to help x86 instructions map cleanly to ARM instruction. https://twitter.com/ErrataRob/status/1331735383193903104 Considering how fast Apple M series can
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The interesting part of RISC vs CISC now isn't the complexity of the instructions or whether they're variable or fixed length. Both ARM and RISC-V has aspects that could be considered CISC-like in that regard. The interesting diff

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