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by audunw 3y ago
> However, fixed length instructions decrease code density, which asks more of the instruction cache. The problem is that x86 has a lot of legacy that wastes the potential gain of variable length encoding. If I remember correctly, the co
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by audunw 3y ago
No.. just no. Don't watch anything by Thunderf00t. It has been too many times now that he has clearly put out just the lowest effort thing he can make to "debunk" some topic. Doesn't matter. People will view his videos a
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by audunw 3y ago
Then you should also read this comment: https://www.reddit.com/r/fusion/comments/10g95m9/comment/j67... From what I can gather a lot of Improbable Matter's critisism is based on misunderstandin
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by audunw 3y ago
Nuclear isn't a good dispatchable energy source though. It needs to run 100% 24/7 to have a chance of being reasonably cheap. The fuel expense is neglible after all. Nuclear is struggling for the same reason coal is struggling. Th
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by audunw 3y ago
Betting on nuclear wouldn't in itself stop Germany for burning coal and gas.. because they use those for a lot more than just electricity. They're the industrial center of Europe. You can't run a steel factory with nuclear po
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by audunw 4y ago
> which will be LE on every PC and phone that would ever run this Why would you want to run this on a modern high end PC or phone? There's almost no point using a simple codec like this if you have the computing resources or dedicat
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by audunw 4y ago
BE is still common in very resource constrained applications like microcontrollers. You know, applications where having to do endianess swap actually has a significant impact? Applications where it might actually make sense to use this kind
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by audunw 4y ago
> IKEA has always fallen apart when you try to move it, none of these changes alter that. This keeps getting repeated.. but when I was studying, I bought used IKEA furniture, moved it around several times to different apartments, and the
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by audunw 4y ago
There's a lot of people saying solid wood furniture is more sustainable. I seriously doubt that though. If you like solid wood, and you make sure to take care of it, then I think it's a good choice. As long as not too many of us d
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by audunw 4y ago
> I have children between the ages of 9 and 26. You know what they are passionate about? Minecraft, Mr Beast, Travel vlogs, mommy vlogs, “reality” videos, etc. When I grew up, and computers and the internet was new, we were mostly using
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by audunw 4y ago
> The plastic parts are more than just generic shapes; many of them are custom and designed for the specific kit. With Lego, it's surprising how often the parts are NOT designed for a specific kit. You can look through the parts lis
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by audunw 4y ago
Yeah, while the fossil fuel lobby used to fight against nuclear, I'm pretty sure they're indirectly using nuclear to fight renewables right now. For them, either renewables will cut into their business right now .. or they can ar
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by audunw 4y ago
These are the kinds of anwsers that makes me think you haven't thought through this much. There are very clear plans for going 100% renewable. See Marc Z Jacobsens studies for instance. I wouldn't mind some nuclear power myself. B
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by audunw 4y ago
It's not just about runway length. Noise reduction would also make it easier to use smaller local airports. Electric aircraft are already more quiet, but there's probably room for even more reduction by using ducted fans or toroid
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by audunw 4y ago
For a direct conversion you could just look at the Alpha Electro https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pipistrel_Alpha_Trainer#Alpha_... 324 nmi range for the regular variant. Around 65 nmi for the electric version. This is wi
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by audunw 4y ago
Why would it only be interesting at that point? At 500wh/kg, if the cost is low enough, you're already going to eliminate fossil fuels from basically everything except long range flights and shipping. > Half the weight and doub
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by audunw 4y ago
> The healthcare system in the west is just plain stupid. What the hell is "the west" in this context? Do you have experience with every health care system in Europe? Why is "NZ" considered "the west"? >
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by audunw 4y ago
> I wish we could have it both ways somehow: a baseline level of widely available cheap care and an expensive tier for people who'd pay anything to get quick care. I think that's quite common? There are both public and private
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by audunw 4y ago
I don't think you understood the comment. The game supports two WAD files. One primary containing the primary assets and levels. This is the one they'd also be working on during development. No need to rebuild the executable when
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by audunw 4y ago
> Apple needs to be roasted endlessly for creating time-bomb trash though. Honestly I feel like they should just be much cheaper and have a trade-in program for it to make sure they're properly recycled. Other than the battery, what
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by audunw 4y ago
AI seems to progress in bursts, and I think we're in the middle of one, but it may be naive to think the progress will continue at the same pace for another 4 years. When Big Blue beat Kasparov in Chess in 1997, I wonder if anyone woul
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by audunw 4y ago
> What are your pronouns? > As an AI language model, I don't have personal pronouns because I am not a person or sentient being. You can refer to me as "it" or simply address me as "ChatGPT" or "AI."
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by audunw 4y ago
> but there is no cheap way to store that energy for a long period of time It's getting close to the point that wind+storage can compete with nuclear, and even gas, on price. With the way cost has been developing on renewables and e
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by audunw 4y ago
That's ridiculous.. There's a huge difference between supporting a product fully developed, designed and marketed from China, with Chinese companies taking all of the margins -- versus a product with various sub-components with ra
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by audunw 4y ago
Who is going to want to buy "new" ICE cars in Europe after 2035? Gasoline sale is already plummeting by up to 30% a year some places in Norway. The people who drive the most are the first to convert to EVs since the economics ma
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by audunw 4y ago
2035 is for a ban of sales of new vehicles isn't it? That seems completely viable to me. We're at well over 50% now and set to hit near 100% in 2025 here in Norway. We heard the same skepticism here over the years, so it's re
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by audunw 4y ago
> It should probably return an error or panic (if free's API allows it, I guess). Then how would you use it in the cases where you want free to be a no-op? I think that's half of the point of the allocator.. free shouldn'
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by audunw 4y ago
I don't think ChatGPT should be trusted at all until it can tell you roughly how certain it is about an answer, and that this self-reported confidence roughly correponds to how well it will do on a test in that subject. I don't mi
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by audunw 4y ago
Had a feeling this had to be a quote/copypasta, so for the others who hadn't read this before, I'll save you a Google search. I think this might be the origin? https://www.head-fi.org/threads/why-flac-is-
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by audunw 4y ago
Or the cost of renewables + energy storage + smarter flexible loads will just become lower than nuclear all-in-all. Seems to me that, now that both transportation and grid management is pouring bucketloads of money into energy storage techn

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