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by audunw 4y ago
The 'inline switch else' seems easy, no? "inline switch" should be self-explanatory. It expands at compile time like inline for loops or inline functions. It is somewhat unique that the switch case gives you a reference
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EV batteries are very safe. Yes there are incidents, but there's fewer as automakers learn to make safer packs. We had a fire in a big parking garage here in Norway. Already many EVs here and not a single battery pack caught fire even
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by audunw 4y ago
> I always assume Tesla was a more luxury brand of EVs. Eh, Model S was high-end but wouldn't call it luxury. Lots of regular people with a decent income bought it. Interior wasn't up to "luxury" standards. My kinder
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Question: What is a retro encabulator? Answer: A retro encabulator is a hypothetical device that would be able to convert a stream of photons into a stream of electrons. The term was coined by the science fiction author Larry Niven in his 1
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by audunw 4y ago
Rimac makes components for all kinds of EVs, including small sustainable ones. Their supercars are basically a research platform. It's where they push everything to the limit, which helps them learn how to squeeze out every bit of effi
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> The range of the Nevera is 40% of a similarly performing car that is approaching 20 years old now. Is that supposed to be unimpressive? The fact that EVs is catching up to or beating (see Pikes Peak) ICE in almost every category excep
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> Where's the energy loss from the kettle that's not present in your proposed method? You're not heating the water directly, you're heating it through a piece of metal. The wasted energy is heating that piece of meta
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Getting so tired of this knee jerk complaint. Do you design standard cell libraries or analog ASIC IPs? If not, why would you care that "1nm" doesn't correspond to an actual dimension in the process? I work with ASIC design i
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> 1. Sand has a lower heat capacity than water. Water is much cheaper than sand. Yes, you can't heat water to 600C The price of the storage material is probably almost completely irrelevant in the total cost of this solution, when c
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That would be quite dumb. Whatever you put in that orbit will decay within a few years. Given the current situation, USA/SpaceX is in a far better position to quickly repopulate LEO with satellites when the debris has fallen down. In t
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by audunw 4y ago
I've seen this argument used against ANY change/addition to Tolkien's story, which is just completely unreasonable. So the question is, when are we talking about giving Orcs Uzis, and when is it a reasonable change/addit
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by audunw 4y ago
> What a click-bait vid, here's a PDF: http://www.z80.info/zip/z80-documented.pdf That PDF isn't what the video is about though. It's not really that much click-bait either. "Method to implement
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by audunw 4y ago
> How do you envision energy storage of the future? Not the guy you responded to, but: a combination of traditional batteries, molten metal batteries, liquid air or CO2 storage, pumped hydro, gravity storage, stored thermal energy, and m
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by audunw 4y ago
This reminds me of James Burke Connections. That show often showed how many different and surprising dependencies there are on the path to any given invention. My favorite example is how the internal combustion engine needed an invention fr
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by audunw 4y ago
Denmark has the smiley face plug. It works fine if you don't need a grounded connection, but still.. they have a lot of sockets that don't follow the EU standard. I think France has the one where the ground pin sticks out? That ca
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by audunw 4y ago
> Well: that's Ethereum; like, that's precisely what Ethereum is doing. Then why does OpenSea etc. exist? It seems to me that Ethereum just solves the trivial problem of providing an API to do the trade itself. You could easily
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by audunw 4y ago
> The risk of fire and contamination is practically the same. Source? There's very little risk of an e-bike catching fire unless you're charging the battery. Most of the risk will be at home. Battery fires gets a lot of attenti
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After the electrolyte has vaporised, the problem is the anode and cathode being permanently shorted, which will keep generating heat and igniting other things. I guess you can prevent the initial fire from breaking out, but if the fire has
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by audunw 4y ago
You should be aware that there a lot of critism out there that is completely wrong, like ones based on misreading/misinterpreting statements from his studies. You should make sure to read response to criticism if you can find it. I hav
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by audunw 4y ago
But it's essential to de-carbonization. Hydrogen isn't just about fuels, it's about making fertilizers (ammonia), steel, e-fuels, etc. Obviously, as an energy carrier, you'd use batteries whenever possible. But there are
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by audunw 4y ago
Good point Still.. we're talking about unintentional leaks here. With the alternatives, CO2-emissions is an unavoidable by-product (in theory it can be managed with CCS, but not for transportation) We should use batteries whenever we c
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Quake has a software renderer, that probably helps. But most importantly, ID software released the original source code for it quite early. Not that many game development companies do that. I would've loved to see more Blood ports, but
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I feel like most of these issues are solved in Norway now. There's plenty of people with just street side parking in Oslo. The municipality set up public charging poles on a lot of them. They were free to begin with but now you have to
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> Is that not charged via an alternator? No, it's generally directly from main battery pack when the car is turned on, or when the car is charging. I would guses some models can also charge it now and then when the car is off, sinc
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C bitfields are problematic and often aren't used in places where you'd think they'd be useful. Zig seems to be doing its best to get bitfields right. Just one thing that Zig improves: in C if you need the bit offsets of the
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> All these harmful this and unsafe that... I don't get it. What is the goal here? I'm not sure, but they mention biases. So I imagine one thing they want to avoid is that you ask for a drawing of a "criminal" and 90%
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But it wouldn't be part of the wheel... there's no reason for it to be, and it'd make the car impossible to use in countries with snow where you need to change the wheel every spring and winter.
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> It's too bad, because he's a really smart guy Is he really? I've yet to see a single video where he applies a significant amount of intellectual rigour. I've seen him make so many basic mistakes in his reasoning tha
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The result might be close to two nodes behind, but the design and production cost might be higher since they don't have access to EUV machines. I'd say they're further behind than "two nodes". But still, pretty damn
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My pet theory for gravity / general relativity (which is probably completely wrong, but fun to think about), is that space itself is created through particle interaction. Space will thus be denser and create a gravitational effect in p

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