cogman10

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by cogman10 3mo ago
I can't get to the blog for some reason. Web archive is also failing to archive it. Anyone have a mirror?
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by cogman10 3mo ago
> The only thing is, it requires maintainance, which is why Portland cement has taken over the world. What kind of maintenance and why did roman cement survive without it? Or are we simply looking at ancient survivorship bias where the
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by cogman10 3mo ago
Yeah, I think anyone that's done significant database work has come to the understanding that large updates need to be done in batches, otherwise you nuke performance. Once you get to about 1M rows of data, batching is essential.
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by cogman10 3mo ago
Yeah, I have this problem. IIRC the last time I looked into it, it requires a specific version of the nVidia driver which isn't the latest version (very unfortunately). I just bit the bullet and went with the 5W of constant consumpti
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by cogman10 3mo ago
It's the GuC and HuC firmware. https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Intel#GuC.2FHuC_firmware
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by cogman10 3mo ago
The really unfortunate thing about linux is the defaults tend to be not battery friendly. For example, I recently got another 1 hour out of my old laptop's battery because I didn't realize for the intel video card driver I needed
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by cogman10 3mo ago
House plants do reduce the amount of CO2 in your home but not by as much as you'd hope. The most efficient system is algae, but you require a pretty massive amount of it to compensate for the amount of CO2 a single person emits.
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by cogman10 3mo ago
Depends on the approach you want to take. It's possible but IDK if you'd see any sort of health benefits from simply lowering the CO2, you'd probably also want to increase the O2 content. This is actually a crazy thing that
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by cogman10 3mo ago
I believe the FTC could probably do something about it if they cared. This seems to be something that the "Unfair or Deceptive Acts or Practices" charter of the FTC could address. The three prongs of when it applies are - Causes o
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by cogman10 3mo ago
Education can only do so much. And, really unfortunately, as people age their brains don't work as well as they once did in their youth. That's the primary reason why so many scammers target old people. It's less to do with
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by cogman10 3mo ago
> Responsibility will always have to lie with the user Being fully autonomous makes it hard to identify exactly who that user is and is easy to dilute responsibility. Perhaps someone was added to a kill list by mistake. Maybe some inte
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by cogman10 3mo ago
Mainly I don't want them because I don't want a machine instantly making life or death judgements. It might be fine if it mostly informs a human who ultimately pulls the trigger, but having that failsafe is important in keeping m
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by cogman10 3mo ago
Which is great and please don't take this as me being critical of the approach you are taking. I think it's perfectly reasonable during early development have your compressed stream in flux. I've been bitten in the past with
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by cogman10 3mo ago
- Excellent of the author to call these things out. - All 3 things are show stoppers for any real use. An unstable format which trusts input is a CVE and data loss magnet.
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by cogman10 3mo ago
> So I want us to be collectively better than that. But the responses that I am getting when I raise this point, does not give me much hope. Because people latch on the easiest thing. That I am "Fear mongering"! It's been
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by cogman10 3mo ago
Speaking of which, I think it's a great idea for everyone to get their vitamin levels checked. Your doctor is unlikely to order such a blood test unless you are in an extreme situation, but it's cheap (around $100) to get a prett
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by cogman10 3mo ago
You certainly could. There's a reason scammers rely heavily on things like gift cards, it's because hiring mules is expensive and creates a trail police can follow back to the scammers. It requires them to be in the same locale a
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by cogman10 3mo ago
> The problem described in the article is unsolvable Well, not completely unsolvable. But nobody would like the solution. What all these scams rely on is a way to transfer money in an irrevocable fashion. Restrict that in meaningful wa
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by cogman10 3mo ago
> I am worried about both. Why are you picking sides? Because we need a way to generate motion and one method is clearly less pollutant and less toxic than the other, EVs. Obviously bikes would be even better, but those don't have t
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by cogman10 3mo ago
We are talking about multiple datacenters being built today which use more power than all the 2006 data centers combined. The energy usage of these new datacenters is unlike anything we've previously seen. The closest we've seen
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by cogman10 3mo ago
10 years ago? Several states have 0% property taxes on the books for data centers, Utah being one of them. That's a big reason for the Box Elder data center. https://gpuleaseindex.com/incentives/utah
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by cogman10 3mo ago
There's a lot of bad things that happen at 3C. The first is that 3C represents a lot more energy in the atmosphere. That translates to more water evaporating from the oceans creating bigger more violent storms (think more frequent fla
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by cogman10 3mo ago
Yup. This is my main issue with these datacenters. They have a few major local negatives (higher electrical prices, potentially high pollution, noise) and almost no real benefit due to their location. I experience no difference when I run
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by cogman10 3mo ago
Yes? Why wouldn't it be? These things consume a pretty huge amount of power, more than a steel mill. If they are haphazardly put on a grid without the generation support then the power company has 2 options, brown out or selective bl
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by cogman10 3mo ago
By volume, there will necessarily be less batteries than there is oil extracted and burned in a week. I think if you are worried about pollutants, you should be worried about the fumes released every time you start up a fossil fuel engine.
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by cogman10 3mo ago
> But in practice, I greatly prefer devices with integrated batteries, because they're more likely to be able to give me useful feedback about the battery level (e.g. a reliable low-battery indicator), rather than just winding down,
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by cogman10 3mo ago
I love USB-C. My ONLY problem with it is it's just a bit too small. That creates mechanical problems within the plug which are annoying. Plug it in and pull it out 1 too many times and eventually you get a loose connector cable that
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by cogman10 3mo ago
Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that there was no pollution potential or problems. My point was primarily that the chemicals within the lithium ion batteries are themselves pretty common on the surface and not forever poisons like lead.
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by cogman10 3mo ago
Everything is politics. Science will never and can never be apolitical because it says things which one political party or another will either like or hate. But further, very wealthy and powerful people have a vested interest in making su
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by cogman10 3mo ago
It's impossible to say what sort of improvement (if anything) this will give. My assumption is the determining factor in performance is going to ultimately be memory bandwidth. > and if unified memory plus a basic GPU will render th

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