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by conradev 2y ago
I only see 65 on this site – I usually browse https://minixpc.com/ for the latest mini PCs, or https://liliputing.com/ for reviews
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by conradev 2y ago
COMAC’s C919 is flying domestically and their next goal is EASA type certification I imagine it will be more geopolitics than anything else, but the EASA says 2026 is “too soon”.
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by conradev 2y ago
My measure of efficiency would at least incorporate capex It takes a non-zero amount of energy to build all of that energy-capturing equipment – question is, how much?
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by conradev 2y ago
I would recommend getting an official consumer build to test all of the latest consumer features like Copilot Parallels has a Microsoft partnership and has an official AMR64 image which I was able to grab (and run in anything). I’m sure the
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by conradev 2y ago
Same. The story with app bundles in Nix is a little rough, currently, though: - Located in the nix store, so not indexed by Spotlight - Not signed so I have to grant permissions all over again when an app gets rebuilt
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by conradev 2y ago
Atomic semi might be pursuing that: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34907885
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by conradev 2y ago
At least Rewind encrypts their database
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by conradev 2y ago
To me, context caching is only a subset of what is possible with full control over the model. I consider this a more complete list: https://github.com/microsoft/aici?tab=readme-ov-file#flexibi... Context caching only g
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by conradev 2y ago
It’s not happy feel good shit – China is installing as many renewables as they possibly can, while building more nuclear than anyone else, and it’s still not enough electricity for their growing economy. It illustrates the constraints bec
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by conradev 2y ago
They installed quite a lot of coal capacity while also installing the most renewables of any country (by far): https://www.iea.org/data-and-statistics/charts/net-solar-pv-...
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by conradev 2y ago
It’s an underwater heat pump!
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by conradev 2y ago
> We haven't seen a weight-based energy density figure from Natron itself, but a 2022 article from Chemical & Engineering News put its sodium-ion batteries at 70 Wh/kg, around the very bottom of the sodium-ion energy densit
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by conradev 2y ago
“Of the three published ECPR randomized, controlled trials, only one did not limit the intervention to people with shockable rhythms. That ambitious trial, in Prague, included patients whose hearts were in the same P.E.A. pattern as the St.
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by conradev 2y ago
That is assuming all batteries are lithium-ion, but the state is going for a larger mix of storage tech. As just one example, iron-air batteries: > The CEC is supporting this project through its Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) progra
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by conradev 3y ago
RoCE is an IETF standard for this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RDMA_over_Converged_Ethernet In my understanding one of the big advantages of the protocol (v2, that is) is that it is routed over IP and can work with e
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by conradev 3y ago
> This seems like an odd risk for the lenders. Asymmetrical with little upside Upside and risk are usually priced into the loan as the interest rate
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by conradev 3y ago
Exactly, I thought one of the goals of regenerative agriculture was to reduce or eliminate fertilizer usage to prevent runoff
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by conradev 3y ago
Isn’t sustainable regeneration of farmland primarily concerned with the… nitrogen cycle? Carbon is of course a factor in the case of stubble burning, but short of that biomass is being pulled from the atmosphere?
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by conradev 3y ago
Yep: https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.13048
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by conradev 3y ago
That is the direction that Swift went: https://github.com/apple/swift-evolution/blob/main/proposals...
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by conradev 3y ago
From the article: > We are exploring enhancements to make the device compatible as a wearable pacemaker. This involves integrating a wireless light-emitting diode, or LED, beneath the skin that is connected to the device via an optical f
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by conradev 3y ago
> Today, we have all the tools we'll need, and indeed most of the tools we'll ever have, to build applications that are simultaneously cypherpunk and user-friendly. > The Daimo wallet is explicitly describing itself as Venmo
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by conradev 3y ago
Arbitrary can still be deterministic
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by conradev 3y ago
Alamo Drafthouse has really good food: https://drafthouse.com/ I think the fact that so many people want a good theater experience and the fact that they’re largely crap is a (current) market opportunity. AMC has been rolli
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by conradev 3y ago
It’s not a lie – they can’t provide upload speeds anywhere near their download speeds. 20 Mbps vs 6 Mbps is still quite small compared to 1000 Mbps. DOCSIS 3.1, the latest and not fully deployed standard goes up to 10Gbps down and 1Gpbs up.
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by conradev 3y ago
I’m curious how their snapshotting and object storage implementation stacks up against SQLite’s offering: https://sqlite.org/cloudsqlite/doc/trunk/www/index.wiki SQLite’s object-per-page approach means y
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by conradev 3y ago
Mistral makes comparable models to Facebook. Mistral charges money, Facebook does not. This negatively affect’s Mistral’s pricing power because a customer can get 70% of the performance they need for 0% of the cost. The “0% of the cost” par
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by conradev 3y ago
It sounds more like a microgrid: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microgrid A community microgrid could absolutely be a thing!
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by conradev 3y ago
DisplayPort is packet-based and can be multiplexed with other USB-C traffic through a hub HDMI is not packet-based and so when it uses USB-C it takes over the entire cable (alt-mode)
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by conradev 3y ago
Have you read Island? It lays out Aldous’ idea of utopia, and it’s pretty compelling

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