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by cbsmith 4y ago
A lot of intelligent lighting solutions still give you physical switches, although that can create some annoying behaviours when recovering from power loss unless the devices also had some solid state memory of their last on/off state.
902.
by cbsmith 4y ago
Yeah, but the mystique still lingers on.
903.
by cbsmith 4y ago
There was a longstanding issue where AVX-512 would trigger frequency throttling on a number of Intel CPUs, resulting in a net performance penalty for mixed workloads.
904.
by cbsmith 4y ago
Heck yeah. Sorting is a pretty common operation in tons of algorithms, which is why you find some form of a sort function in pretty much every language's standard runtime. Sure, this won't help much for sorting strings, but numeri
905.
by cbsmith 4y ago
I don't think it's a great illustration of the risks of LLMs. Ad content invariably gets vetted by humans. The fact that it shows up in the ad demonstrates human failures more than failures of LLMs.
906.
by cbsmith 4y ago
Amazon retail is a tent pole... Not unlike a blockbuster movie that might not even be profitable, but creates profits for all kinds of businesses around it.
907.
by cbsmith 4y ago
Except a lot of relational databases have something like "connect by" that do the job pretty well... and of course if you design your graph wrong, a graph database is going to perform poorly as well.
908.
by cbsmith 4y ago
I mean, there's a case to be made that security is at least as much a problem you manage as a problem you "solve" with products/tools. You'd want a lot of people with strong management skills.
909.
by cbsmith 4y ago
Couldn't you say the same thing about faster processors? Compute power is generally useful, but it's utility is all about where you have the most computation for the least amount of money, and until you hit that point, it's n
910.
by cbsmith 4y ago
I would imagine that any logistical problem looking to use so-called "ant routing" might benefit substantially from QC. Similarly for Monte-Carlo type problems.
911.
by cbsmith 4y ago
I think the ChromeOS world has done a pretty good job of getting there. Yes, it's not quite as impressive as the Powerbooks, but they're able to get surprisingly close with a much smaller budget.
912.
by cbsmith 4y ago
Multivac has got its work cut out for it.
913.
by cbsmith 4y ago
> Would you mind listing a couple? I'd prefer to buy a Windows machine for my next laptop, but I've been SO burned by hibernation bugs, CPU throttling, battery issues, etc. Those have a huge tie in with the software, so I would
914.
by cbsmith 4y ago
I'm not sure I'd attribute that much to the CPU design though. On a typical laptop, CPU power consumption is <20% of the picture.
915.
by cbsmith 4y ago
> No where did the energy.gov article nor parent article mention interior heating. That would be my point. Most of the impact on the range of EV cars in cold weather is the impact of interior heating.
916.
by cbsmith 4y ago
> But to your point, a bmw 430 is also around 500 pounds heavier than a Honda Accord. At the heaviest weights, yes, but the heaviest Accord weight and the lightest 430i weight are only 148 lbs apart... and the Model Y can weigh in almost
917.
by cbsmith 4y ago
I believe those were factors once upon a time, but modern cars tend to heavier and more aerodynamic than they once were, so drag is less of a factor... and the air gets warmed up prior to combustion, which minimizes the impact of its initia
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by cbsmith 4y ago
That article seems a bit misleading. I have to think the impact of cold weather on an ICE vehicle is highly variable on other factors. It certainly wasn't quite so bad when I was growing up in Canada, and most of the variance was attri
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by cbsmith 4y ago
"couple of pounds heavier"??!?! That's understating it. Seriously, a Model 3 is ~500 lbs heavier than Honda Accord, and a Model Y is significantly heavier than a Model 3.
920.
by cbsmith 4y ago
> No, I was talking about the temptation of mining existing biomass. I clearly missed a step then. So when you say: "I think the biggest argument against biofuels is that if they achieved large scale use, it would encourage people t
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by cbsmith 4y ago
> I don't know of any algae, anywhere, that are more concentrated sources of carbon than existing trees. Even if we had to grow both sides, algae are still problematic, since separating them from water is apparently quite a difficul
922.
by cbsmith 4y ago
> Mining the oceans? How does that work? A forest should be a much denser source of carbon, particularly reduced carbon, than the ocean. Algae tend to grow in large clumps, and you can very efficiently filter for them from water. I don&#
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Yeah, and ethanol from corn is arguably one of the worst options for biofuels. You're better off with biodiesel sources... even soybeans are better, and they're not great.
924.
by cbsmith 4y ago
Existing forests aren't good biofuel sources. You'd be better off mining the oceans, tbh. Neochloris oleoabundans or even industrial rapeseed are just so much more dense sources of fuel...
925.
by cbsmith 4y ago
> Biofuels probably wouldn’t look like as much of an outlier as they do here, but I would still wager that they’re among the least efficient options. I wouldn't wager because it's not a simple yes or no type question. There&#x2
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by cbsmith 4y ago
I'd say, it means "they have no faults". It follows that anything that has gone wrong in the past would not be their fault, though I could imagine that they could still establish faults in the future.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
"While the GNOME Project is without their faults" I'm pretty sure that should be "While the GNOME Project isn't without their faults".
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by cbsmith 4y ago
Sorry, I missed your reply there. I guess I'd say the idea that the pharma lobby is controlling how censorship works on social media would be the conspiracy theory.
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by cbsmith 4y ago
> For example cremation masses in concentration camps during WW2 was so horrible that noone sane believe it. So then come denial not only of this information but also those who spread it. But the conspiracy theories, in this case, were
930.
by cbsmith 4y ago
> Isn't that what you tried to write in previous post? Really not. > Generally I think pejorative categorization implies a lack of arguments or interest in specific topic. > > It is easier to say that something is conspirac

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