cm2187

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901.
by cm2187 3y ago
But my point is that if you cease to apply a selective pressure, suddenly the organism that were suppressed by this selective pressure thrive. Whereas in the case of the back death the pressure didn't disappear, we just developed a res
902.
by cm2187 3y ago
I presume there is a chance the harm can be undone. As antibiotics are less used, the few resistant bacteria will compete with the many non resistant bacteria and hopefully go extinct.
903.
by cm2187 3y ago
But doesn't the human mind make a lot of things up too, just to compensate for the gaps? Like if I tell you: "I have a box, I place 3 balls in it and remove 1, how many balls are left". You have to assume that the box was emp
904.
by cm2187 3y ago
The lack of basic functionalities like generics, sort functions, lambdas, is a hinderance if you got a taste of .net.
905.
by cm2187 3y ago
A strength for whom? Not the end user.
906.
by cm2187 3y ago
But unfortunately microsoft didn’t invest into VBA in 20 years, other than keeping the light on. And it lacks so many modern features. There was an attempt at a .net version of VBA (would have worked the same way, with a mini visual studio
907.
by cm2187 3y ago
Question from a GPU novice. I presume a thread is the individual calculation perform on one element of the vector? Can the 128 cores, or 20 SM perform different operations at the same time or all 24,576 threads perform the same operation at
908.
by cm2187 3y ago
It was me, and on the topic of english, I think you may confuse "perpetrated" and "supported". I am not arguing that Einstein perpetrated a genocide and I think even some automatic translation wouldn't distord my se
909.
by cm2187 3y ago
Or a better ability to rationalise some impossible position. That being said I can't help thinking that there is a certain callousness, that the ideal is so great that it's worth breaking a few eggs, a lot of eggs if necessary. Th
910.
by cm2187 3y ago
That's true. And cheered by western intellectuals. Mao was probably the worst offender in that respect. Who were Maoist sympathisers in the US and western europe? Not factory workers and peasants.
911.
by cm2187 3y ago
Not university professors in western europe or the US.
912.
by cm2187 3y ago
There is some irony in Einstein blaming people killing each others because of the stupidity of the masses vs the wiseness of intellectuals. The largest genocides of that period have been orchestrated by communist countries, supported by a l
913.
by cm2187 3y ago
The last time I remember Apple saying "don't look at the specs" is about powerpc cpu frequency vs intel. And Apple ended up ditching powerpc for intel.
914.
by cm2187 3y ago
Also a lot of them date from the XIX century or earlier and can't be touched.
915.
by cm2187 3y ago
How to make this problem even worse: make all the banks in the street use the same datacenters, namely either AWS or Azure.
916.
by cm2187 3y ago
> baseless accusations of fake news Baseless really? I was shown the photo of a hospital bombed in Gaza. I was told there was 500 dead. I was told it was an IDF bomb. The NYT relayed Hamas propaganda without a second thought. How is it
917.
by cm2187 3y ago
It only needs to stop blowing for a week for your 8h battery to result in blackouts. And that happens almost every year.
918.
by cm2187 3y ago
That's possible, but if you look at nvidia, the whole range uses the same hardware accelerator, so at most it is a difference in term of chip generation, not so much GPU model. I am not saying GPU hw decoding isn't useful, it cert
919.
by cm2187 3y ago
No need for a sophisticated mathematical model. Look at wind production last year per grid watch [1], the two peaks in term of energy consumption (around Feb 2022 and Nov 2022 in the "Last Year (Day Averages)" chart correspond to
920.
by cm2187 3y ago
Wind goes pretty much to zero on certain days (like 3%). You don't solve that by overprovisioning. There is also quite a high correlation with the weather across Europe, and when it is windy in the UK, chances are it is also windy in m
921.
by cm2187 3y ago
Though in my tests I found that gpu acceleration of video decoding actually hurts performance. It seems software decoding is faster than hardware for some codecs. Of course not the case for encoding.
922.
by cm2187 3y ago
But what part gets multi threading? Because the video compression is already multithreaded. Video decompression I am not sure. And I think anything else is fairly small in comparison in term of performance cost. All improvements are welcome
923.
by cm2187 3y ago
It defies common sense that you can make up for wind energy being down to almost nothing for days with 8h worth of energy. Solar will never produce much in the uk, and will produce zero during the cold UK winter nights when consumption is m
924.
by cm2187 3y ago
Several hours? Wind is down to a small fraction for several days regularly [1]. Electricity outage should never happen, so you need to protect against a very high percentile of adverse events. 8h of storage won't do. [1] just look at
925.
by cm2187 3y ago
Not if there is nothing I can do about this ratio. It's a theoretical unaccessible energy that doesn't mean anything.
926.
by cm2187 3y ago
I really don’t see the point of that calculation. It’s like saying that the wind turbine only captures 5% (number made up) of the energy of the wind going through it.
927.
by cm2187 3y ago
Wants to run the full grid on intermittent energy and only one sentence on what happens if there is no wind (on top of typically no sun in the UK). Using nuclear to compensate doesn’t make any sense. If you need to replicate your wind produ
928.
by cm2187 3y ago
And to deal with storage media that don't support that metadata
929.
by cm2187 3y ago
By that logic the chinese system is even less forgiving and the homicide rate is even lower there. The justice system isn't the only factor that influence crime rate. Also if you never send your criminals to jail it's not surprisi
930.
by cm2187 3y ago
I am always puzzled, there seems to be lots of people who seem to have decided that retribution is not the purpose of the justice system. It is the primary purpose of the justice system. Everything else (disuasion, redemption, reintegration

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