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811.
by choeger 5y ago
The thing that should be noted is that a lab escape does not mean that the lab is the origin of the virus. It is equally plausible that the lab experimented with the virus after it was caught in the wild.
812.
by choeger 5y ago
Unprivileged works now?
813.
by choeger 5y ago
Couldn't they use a machine like a coin counter?
814.
by choeger 5y ago
Maybe a stupid question, since I am not a web dev, but how exactly do you render the text with the GPU? Text rendering ain't simple. On top of that, how does that interact with the browser? Can the browser still select the font (size)
815.
by choeger 5y ago
Naturally. The thing here is that renewable energy can be very cheap. So we might see a stark increase in energy usage in the next decades fueled entirely by abundant renewable energy. The question then is whether this will accelerate the o
816.
by choeger 5y ago
I have never seen a more stupid straw-man argument. Where did I say "don't even try"? Energy generation is a huge industry. Emphasis on industry. And no wishful thinking from some climate-justice-hardliners will change that.
817.
by choeger 5y ago
Does it, though? The 200-300GW of capacity should translate to 200-600TWh/year of generated energy. That's a 5-10% growth of yearly generated renewable energy. If we can keep it at 5% yoy, it will take 112 years to replace that to
818.
by choeger 5y ago
For good reasons, unfortunately. The intensity of renewable energy land usage is staggering in some places.
819.
by choeger 5y ago
> This is exactly what happened in China which is home to 98 percent of the world's electric buses. More than 500,000 have been introduced to Chinese streets in a coordinated effort by the Chinese government, while very few are in o
820.
by choeger 5y ago
There is a chart in there that says that 33% of municipal buses are already electrified. I cannot believe it. Did China secretly electrify its whole fleet?
821.
by choeger 5y ago
Exactly. Everyone knows that you need at least Haskell to filter out these pesky fashion victims. /S
822.
by choeger 5y ago
What you are missing is the motivation of the seller. The company is not interested in making your house a safer place and helping you living your life. Instead they want your data. And they want your data to essentially extract more mone
823.
by choeger 5y ago
They claim 150Wh/kg - that's well below the best lithium ion cells, I think. If I am not mistaken, Lithium Ion cells reach more than 200Wh/kg nowadays and are definitely capable of reaching 300Wh/kg.
824.
by choeger 5y ago
While I agree that the quality of this method is impressive, there are two caveats: 1. We do not know the set of pictures that the authors did not show us. So maybe this technique works really well only for a small fraction of cases. 2. Gam
825.
by choeger 5y ago
Nope. Much more like this: You are legally obliged to install a smart meter, smart smoke detector and smart heating control in your home. If you rent, your landlord will install these things. If you own the authorities will inspect the pres
826.
by choeger 5y ago
This. That move is just one step further in removing control. They now have sealed devices that can have who knows what functions but are confined to the network. Next step is to have a concealed upstream. After that they will somehow get a
827.
by choeger 5y ago
Biology got us two (soon three) working mRNA-bases Covid-19 vaccines.
828.
by choeger 5y ago
Data protection agencies don't get to interpret the GDPR, courts do. The GDPR does not contain any clause that someone has to provide a service for free without any kind of tracking. That would basically eliminate Facebook and Google
829.
by choeger 5y ago
Please provide a source for such a statement. Even the e-privacy directive has changed a lot lately. Your interpretation would render many business models illegal (e.g., Facebook, google).
830.
by choeger 5y ago
Wait a second. Does that mean the nonlocality was introduced in QM just because distance simply didn't occur in the model? There was no prior theory that predicted you could ignore distance? Later experiments then confirmed that yes, d
831.
by choeger 5y ago
That's not a thing, really. The GDPR doesn't make any provisions about how you bargain for the data processing agreement.
832.
by choeger 5y ago
I guess this is, at least to some degree, caused by code reusability. We can easily (with the right PL) plug foreign code into our project and use it. We cannot as easily read a paper, or a low-level implementation for a different instruc
833.
by choeger 5y ago
Playing with their toy helicopters?
834.
by choeger 5y ago
But sawmills are running at full capacity, prices are increasing massively.
835.
by choeger 5y ago
But at least it keeps grad students busy in the programming language departments ;). Imagine that all we had was Haskell and maybe a strict variant of it. These guys would quickly run out of topics that could be explained in less then 5min
836.
by choeger 5y ago
In retrospect, yes, this is absolutely true. One is much more effective with slack. The question is how to set one up for that. Ironically, slack (the app) is really counterproductive here. It takes some effort not to react immediately to
837.
by choeger 5y ago
So, how about the kernel, eh? ;)
838.
by choeger 5y ago
There is a theory that addiction works by learning some behavioral patterns so good that you can execute them without any effort whatsoever. Like on autopilot. If that theory is true, you could see an effect by forcing you to use your weak
839.
by choeger 5y ago
> or how about statically relinking a dynamically-linked binary you don't have sources for? Even though I don't know why you would do that, I think you could do it by running a modified version of the dynamic linker. That th
840.
by choeger 5y ago
First of all, I am pretty certain that the majority of javascript developers runs a MacBook when they have the choice. Second, no I don't think that "I get something wrong". It's not my fault that people use MacOS and do

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