audunw

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811.
by audunw 5y ago
You may want to check out Zig's async/await. Seems to be closer to what you're suggesting. It's one of the few implementations where functions don't have an "async"/"no-async" color, and whe
812.
by audunw 5y ago
> What am I missing? Just guessing, but a heat pump that can actually output at least 1900°C of heat? If we had those kinds of heat pumps I guess we'd use them in all kinds of industrial processes
813.
by audunw 5y ago
Zig and D comes at it from different ends. With D, it feels like the C replacement aspect of it is an afterthought, an add-on (I don't remember it being a big focus at all when I used it). Zig aims to be a C replacement from the start,
814.
by audunw 5y ago
The fears around AGI seems to be based on the thinking that AGI will be like humans, but smarter. We kill each other for resources, so AGI will kill us (perhaps inedvertantly) to secure resources for itself. This ignores that intelligence w
815.
by audunw 5y ago
Some are doing this with buses on fixed routes. There are even experiments with trucks and pantographs, electrified rails and even wireless charging on limited sections of highways (in Sweden and Germany I believe). So should be feasible wi
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by audunw 5y ago
Regular base instructions are always 32-bit, compressed are always 16-bit, and they're always aligned. I don't think there's a problem decoding them in parallel. You always know where the opcodes will be located in a 32-bit w
817.
by audunw 5y ago
A comment elsewhere here pointed out that RISC-V can do it with two fused compressed instructions for the most common operations. So seems like they did the right trade off to me.
818.
by audunw 5y ago
Why do you list code density as a potential disadvantage? With changes to the ISA that has already been approved, RISC-V will have the best code density of any significant ISA in real-world code. The article touched on this briefly so it
819.
by audunw 5y ago
Theres so many armchair specialists when it comes to criticizing RISC-V. I've seen people claim an ISA is better because it has branch delay slots.. which seems clever to someone who knows enough technical details about CPUs to underst
820.
by audunw 5y ago
Would this be due to lack of light in the morning when waking up? If so, that's a solved problem these days. There's hundreds of ways to have lights that turn on in the morning. Having some kind of wakeup-light (simply two bright
821.
by audunw 5y ago
> The underlying technology is valuable Is it though? Valuable how? Has it been proven? The core of the issue is that PoW is fundamentally a sort of algorithmic cancer that threatens to basically take over on the order of half of the wor
822.
by audunw 5y ago
With NFT, blockchain proponents have argued that ticket trading is a really good usecase, and could maybe lessen the grip of the likes of Ticketmaster I think the last episode of Last Week Tonight really shed light on why Blockchain can&#x2
823.
by audunw 5y ago
Checking.. huh, looks very different from most other generated avatars.. almost inverted from the look most of them have.
824.
by audunw 5y ago
What exactly do you mean by smartphone on wheels? Modern EVs have quite a lot of "smart" software functionality just like modern ICE cars. Both modern ICE and EVs have complex ECUs that may need proprietary equipment to service. M
825.
by audunw 5y ago
Sweden and Finland may not be in NATO yet, but still, if Russia moves on those countries, NATO is much more likely to get involved than with Ukraine. Even without NATO, Russia can't afford to engage Finland and Sweden in the coming yea
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by audunw 5y ago
> thanks to an ill thought out denuclearization drive It has nothing to do with this. Keeping nuclear power around would help a bit when it comes to electricity in particular, but natural gas is also used for heating and industry, where
827.
by audunw 5y ago
Makes me think they're actually being truthful when claiming they've killed 1000s of Russian soldiers. If Red Cross accepted but the numbers they reported are far lower, it wouldn't be good for Ukraine
828.
by audunw 5y ago
> China just wait the USA for semiconductors production capacity So what.. we're talking 20-30 years in the future? Taiwan will still likely be critical to semiconductor manufacturing as they're starting to take over more of t
829.
by audunw 5y ago
From what I read regarding the current block, USA couldn't force ASML under current US law, because ASML uses less than 25% US technology. But USA didn't have to force them. ASML's EUV tech started out as a US funded venture,
830.
by audunw 5y ago
You think ASML wants to run afoul with the US, even if they can't force ASML? The main reason ASML has EUV is because it was funded by the US government to develop it. Now the tech is mostly ASMLs own, but they still have close ties to
831.
by audunw 5y ago
I dont think SPARC is a very good ISA. Before RISC-V there was also OpenRISC, which early on had some of the same traction as RISC-V in the open source community. But both SPARC and OpenRISC has branch delay slots, which was, if I remember
832.
by audunw 5y ago
I mean, yes, if the only copy of your wallet private key is on an unconnected USB stick or something, and you never trade with it. Then there's theoretically no way to steal it. That's generally the story with blockchains. All the
833.
by audunw 5y ago
Your dog can reliably detect objects, judge distance and avoid them. That's all the person is saying. Simple animals can use only vision to do what we're using lidar and radar to do. But neither camera, lidar nor radar or any comb
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by audunw 5y ago
An EVs battery pack will generally last as long as the car. A common warranty is 80% capacity after 8 years, and degradation generally flattens out after losing the first 10%, so 16 year minimum lifetime is a reasonable expectation, and 20+
835.
by audunw 5y ago
I don't understand why so many make a big deal of the Las Vegas loop congestion. I don't have the impression that it's supposed to demonstrate anything other than that Boring Co could actually dig a tunnel. Presumably they co
836.
by audunw 5y ago
The F150 and cars like Ioniq 5 and EV6 do have built-in inverters (as I understand it's just designing the OBC inverter used to charge the battery from AC so it can run both ways). It's only capable of around 1.8kW. But that'
837.
by audunw 5y ago
I've worked on CMOS camera sensors for this market. I'm not sure what's in the newer Tesla right now, but I'm quite sure it's not consumer sensors in there. I believe Tesla was a customer of one of the products I wo
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by audunw 5y ago
Norway has been almost all-in on electric for a good while now. I can't remember experiencing a blackout in like 15 years or so. As with many things, Norway may be special in many ways, but I can't help but think if you start buil
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by audunw 5y ago
Consent for what exactly? A direct war with China is not going to happen (MAD). I could see USA pushing to set up more defences for Taiwan, if Taiwan would allow it. And that would be a good thing. Far better to spend money on setting up de
840.
by audunw 5y ago
OpenRISC, which I worked on in an embedded application, also has branch delay slots. I thought it looked like a clever idea. Then I wondered why RISC-V so quickly took over OpenRISC as the darling ISA of the open source community. What I re

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