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by audunw 6mo ago
The upshot is it could accelerate the development of smaller local fertiliser factories running on solar power. There’s a few that have been built and demonstrated. If we start to build them in large numbers hopefully the costs will become
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by audunw 6mo ago
I don’t think Microsoft’s approach to perpetually support old apps is unequivocally a good thing. It seems to be getting them into a deeper and deeper mess over time. As a consumer I prefer Apples approach. If I were an industrial customer
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by audunw 6mo ago
Why do you assume that solar and production of food is mutually exclusive on that land? Agrovoltaics is a thing and can often have benefits to the growing of crops.
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by audunw 7mo ago
The only way to simulate what real hardware does is to synthesise the design, get a net list and do a gate level simulation. This is incredibly slow, both to compile and to simulate. You could, of course, simplify the timing model a lot. In
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by audunw 7mo ago
That’s overly pedantic. Then you’d say that Apple doesn’t make their laptops. Foxconn does. The kind of work ARM would do to “make” a chip themselves goes beyond just design. It’s synthesis, P&R, test, packaging (generally a different c
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by audunw 7mo ago
Popular apps? Probably not many. But in the field of integrated circuit design there’s lots of apps that are Linux-only. I’ve tried to run some of them in containers on Mac. But XQuartz is awful. If they ever transitioned to Wayland perhaps
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by audunw 7mo ago
Feels like it'd just create a market for a big rack-mountable multi-bay PCIe enclosure, with its own internal power supply, that you could connect with one ore more thunderbolt cable. I don't see any reason why a solution built ar
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by audunw 7mo ago
> Not necessarily. Many people grew up with PCs and laptops but now mostly use their phones, because outside of specific jobs or hobbies, everyday computing needs are heavily optimized for mobile-first. It's a deeply flawed comparis
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by audunw 8mo ago
Foxconn is a Taiwanese company btw. I think they’ve been setting up several factories outside of China recently
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by audunw 8mo ago
These anecdotes come from the very peak of Chinas demographic dividend. In a decade or two their demographic dividend will be in a steep decline. China also needs to change something drastic to avoid brain drain. The migration of competent
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by audunw 8mo ago
The one big thing missing from LLMs is the ability to express how confident it is in the truth of what it’s saying. Perhaps this could be a step in that direction. If we can associate the attribution with likelihood of being true. E.g., Arx
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by audunw 8mo ago
How is he taking it at face value? He’s saying it doesn’t matter. Which it really doesn’t. The reason solid state is exciting is the promised high energy density, and in some cases better safety. We shouldn’t care if it’s really “solid stat
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by audunw 8mo ago
It should be said that in the LinkedIn post announcing this the clams are much more moderate. Like “10% along what we consider to be AGI” and “lots of work left to do” if I remember correctly. How is that different from any other R&D co
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by audunw 8mo ago
Norway is also finding that millions can be saved in new tunnel construction https://www-tu-no.translate.goog/artikler/med-flere-elbiler-...
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by audunw 8mo ago
The convenience of filling is only there if you have the fuel stations. Considering how expensive it is I’d argue that it’s far better to spend that money on EV charging infrastructure, you get a lot more bang for gour buck. And EVs are arg
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by audunw 8mo ago
Yeah, thank god. As long as it’s easy to remove and replacement batteries can easily be purchased by individuals, I want my phone and battery glued, thank you very much. I like apples approach to removable battery glue. Though it needs an e
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by audunw 8mo ago
Models don’t get old as fast as they used to. A lot of the improvements seem to go into making the models more efficient, or the infrastructure around the models. If newer models mainly compete on efficiency it means you can run older model
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by audunw 8mo ago
It doesn’t make any sense to think you need the whole server to run one model. It’s much more likely that each server runs 10 instances of the model 1. It doesn’t make sense in terms of architecture. It’s one chip. You can’t split one model
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by audunw 8mo ago
The reason apps from Win 9x runs on Windows 11 is that MS puts a ton of effort into explicitly supporting old apps. For popular apps that includes supporting undocumented APIs and even app-specific bug compatibility. Putting it on app devel
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by audunw 8mo ago
There’s two things I think a low level language should have: 1. Standardise on a sync/async agnostic IO interface (or something similar) so you don’t get fragmentation in the ecosystem. 2. Stackless coroutines. Should give the most ef
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by audunw 8mo ago
I think another way of thinking about this interface is: it’s kind of like an abstraction over Linux system calls and ntdll. It’s naturally gonna have a kind of subset of all the useful calls, with some wrapping. I don’t see anything wrong
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by audunw 8mo ago
3. The falling costs won’t benefit space as much. The cost of sending mass to space will still be a big factor in the space solar panel costs. Much of the reason why solar is getting cheaper is not the panels themselves, but due to innovati
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by audunw 8mo ago
I am personally going to avoid anonymous social media as much as I can going forward. (Not counting topic-specific forums and such). They have all become toxic cesspools and now AI is making it all so much worse. I’ve stopped using Facebook
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by audunw 8mo ago
Do you have to bring up D in every Zig related post? I do like D. I've written a game in it and enjoyed it a lot. I would encourage others to check it out. But it's not a C replacement. BetterC feels like an afterthought. A nice
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by audunw 8mo ago
The difference is that it was mostly clueless people like Thunderf00t who said it was impossible, who nobody took seriously. I don’t remember that basically all relevant experts claimed it was near impossible with current technology. That’s
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by audunw 9mo ago
I really don’t think the impact on car culture is that big. There are a LOT of other reasons not to drive a car in the cities. Our company just built a new office building. No additional parking was built (we are renting some spaces in an
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by audunw 9mo ago
“Just before” … this would mean all cars would be required to be self driving and that they’re forced to adhere to the set speed limits. You think this is just around the corner? In a country like Sweden with a lot of snow? Let’s talk about
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by audunw 9mo ago
Feels like the article is overstating the risks of Li-ion. Modern Li-ion battery packs from reputable manufacturers are remarkably safe. An EV with Li-ion is still an order of magnitude safer than an ICE car. Yeah it can take a while for th
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by audunw 9mo ago
I’ll add a third perspective that’s probably often gone unsaid: I love it on Apple TV, and kinda like it on iPhone and Mac. It definitely needs to be improved though. There are definitely a whole bunch of usability issues, but they shouldn
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by audunw 9mo ago
Yes and no. It's not a good word, but it has generally been defined in a way that wouldn't include any of the steps you mentioned. One common description is that it includes lots of ingredients you wouldn't find in your kitch

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