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by bobim 3y ago
We live on free energy, free as in "dig a hole and voilà": energy. No nuclear, no solar, no wind can replace the sheer amount of energy we extract out of oil and coal. I’m afraid privacy in cars is going to be the least of humanit
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by bobim 3y ago
Let’s face it, in an energy starved world the car of the future is an e-bike. Side effect it’s free of connected BS. So far…
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by bobim 3y ago
Because the company making the PLA wants to make profit out of it? It’s wild how we can imagine anything that would help us to continue derping around at full tilt, but totally lack imagination when it comes about simply slowing down.
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by bobim 3y ago
Memory is one limiting factor, needing over 512 Gb is not uncommon. But complex physics like chemical reactions, particle tracking, any user field functions, is probably what is tricky to implement on a GPU.
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by bobim 3y ago
I guess money is the rate determining step here. Secondary issue is that cores are also getting faster and then need more bandwidth. Solution is a low core count, maybe 2-3 per channel, more servers and serious interconnect, but cost…
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by bobim 3y ago
Interesting, but is it even possible to optimize access to very sparse and unstructured matrices from finite elements?
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by bobim 3y ago
Computational Fluid Dynamics and implicit Finite Elements Analysis are still severely memory bandwidh limited on our 128 cores zen3 dual sockets servers. More bandwidth is always welcome.
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by bobim 3y ago
Actors and musicians used to basically be hobos wandering from town to town, because their art was not essential. Copyright made them kings, yet their usefulness hasn’t evolved. But don’t get me wrong, I love music. It’s just that essential
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by bobim 3y ago
There is something uncanny in this painting, my take is that it’s not a woman that was painted.
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by bobim 3y ago
Correct, we somehow lost grip on things, still we aspire at a simpler ecosystem. But I wouldn’t give up on python that helps me powering so much of my digital life, with only SciTe and a command prompt.
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by bobim 3y ago
It used to be clocks per instruction, we are spoiled nowadays.
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by bobim 3y ago
Ah ah! We have governments, why bother with brains !?
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by bobim 3y ago
When it’s your life it makes a world of difference. Public space is shared space, the car lobby has tricked you into believing it’s primarily for cars, but it’s wrong. Free up your mind, drive slowly, be kind.
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by bobim 3y ago
Meh? It’s been on the French health market for at least two decades (Ablatherm). It’s effective for people that wouldn’t bear anesthesia but it comes with some limitations. It can’t be used when there are bones, lungs or non-uniform propaga
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by bobim 3y ago
Yes please! I went for Mixcraft because friend has it already, but still struggling to make it running alongside Spitfire with wine. Spitfire needs win 10 but then no sound with the "low latency" driver in Mixcraft. Anyway… an exc
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by bobim 3y ago
Exactly! Can’t wait that it also includes present suggestions based on the browsing history from the person having his/her birthday…
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by bobim 3y ago
Interesting point, I’m using Codium exactly for this wrong reason then. In the end trusting or untrusting without the intellectual capacity required to verify is no different from faith. That’s maybe why 100’s rabbits approach to computing
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by bobim 3y ago
Visited the grame three decades ago, the guys were forgetting they had an audience because they made an interesting sound during the showcase and started to polish it… passionate people. They were developing in Java if I remember correctly,
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by bobim 3y ago
We all have our moments, and we have the right that it’s forgotten when it happens. Data collectes is forever.
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by bobim 3y ago
Insurance companies are very interested by your workout routine and how you drive your car, so they can adjust their offering specially for you… We can’t get laws banning this soon enough.
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by bobim 3y ago
Given that I still haven’t found how to export conversations out of Teams I guess I’m vendor-locked-in and this move will not change the status-quo…
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by bobim 3y ago
Did you take your car this morning? A bike? A plane recently? All these were designed with industrial finite elements codes that are programmed in Fortran. Radioss, Ansys, Abaqus, LS-Dyna, Code_Aster… Fortran is all around you, in your phon