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by conradev 4y ago
Thank you for linking to this! It is super cool that it serializes hash tables and b-trees because that is where serde’s zero copy parsing ends It seems perfect for my use case, which is putting stuff in a chunk of memory shared between pro
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by conradev 4y ago
Now I am curious – how does zipped JCOF turn out? I know that’s not the author’s intention, but I’m curious how it compresses
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by conradev 4y ago
I vaguely remembered that the doubly-labeled water method was pretty neat, but I looked it up and it is as neat as I remember: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doubly_labeled_water#Mechanism... It's like plugging you
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by conradev 4y ago
and because that statically linked runtime does a lot of things, it contains a lot of code and adds a megabyte or two to the final WASM product: https://dev.bitolog.com/minimizing-go-webassembly-binary-siz... Larger runtime
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by conradev 4y ago
NREL has great data on the US: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/80694.pdf See page 19 for all varieties of “about a third”
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by conradev 4y ago
I enjoyed this paper on the relationship between entropy and life – lots of overlap with that article: "Life and its evolution are time-oriented, irreversible phenomena that have produced a steady increase in complexity over billions o
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by conradev 4y ago
IP addresses are publicly available in cryptocurrency networks, tied to rough geolocation, and ephemeral. Coinbase could have been collecting historical IP address logs of the networks as one idea
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by conradev 4y ago
Thunderbird operates independently within Mozilla: > There was a time when Thunderbird’s future was uncertain, and it was unclear what was going to happen to the project after it was decided Mozilla Corporation would no longer support it
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by conradev 4y ago
The author plans on using this feature to help bridge the interrupt controller: “There’s an somewhat obscure feature on M1 (and M1 Pro/Max/Ultra, henceforth referred to as M1 v2) chips where part of the GICv3 can be virtualized to
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by conradev 4y ago
One other difference is that the M1 MacBook Pros only have one port on the right side and two on the left now, which has been annoying a few times
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by conradev 4y ago
It is awesome that Framework is so extensible – I would love to see either an integrated 5G modem, or a 5G expansion card. The latter is tricky because of antennas…
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by conradev 4y ago
SUVs and trucks getting bigger over the time is a direct result of regulation: https://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/2012/10/how-cafe-killed-co...
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by conradev 4y ago
You can choose whether to store the values or to compute them every time in SQLite But in terms of the overall performance budget, for a mobile app, I don't think the choice matters much. JSON in SQLite is fast and even in the case o
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by conradev 4y ago
You have about three minutes for an arterial bleed. Perhaps less for two arterial bleeds. The proper technique would indeed to be tourniquet the legs, which you can do with anything (like strips of cloth) as long as you can make it tight en
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by conradev 4y ago
> there are "four C's" currently driving the investor citizenship industry: COVID-19, climate change, cryptocurrency, and conflict One of these is not like the others – is someone able to legally avoid US taxes from sellin
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by conradev 4y ago
Have you thought about backing the persistent widget tree with native widgets as the final layer? Or, at least supporting it as a render target. That is, UI/NSViews on Apple platforms, DOM nodes on web, GTK objects on Linux, etc. Essen
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by conradev 4y ago
All of these things are ultimately abstractions built on top of POSIX (aside from actual unikernels which can be used in the virtualization scenario) It absolutely does free OS designers to remove the POSIX parts from in between, but no one
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by conradev 4y ago
Fuchsia is not a hobby operating system (it is deployed to production by Google) and it kinda leaves POSIX behind, which I find cool https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/docs/+/d4f9b980f18fc6722b06...
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by conradev 4y ago
My story is certainly different than most, but Many kids in my high school had to make tough decisions around college – weighing the universities they could get into against the costs of said universities The classmates who decided to do pr
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by conradev 4y ago
I was 12 when I started using Twitter (shh, don’t tell them https://venturebeat.com/2018/05/29/twitter-is-locking-out-th... ) I was 14 when I had to loan my parents some money, and was acutely aware that I wou
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by conradev 4y ago
I believe Plaid was the one who got JPMorgan to build an OAuth API in the first place: https://finovate.com/plaid-signs-open-banking-agreement-with... Why can’t the reason be “losing their only source of revenue to a compet
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by conradev 4y ago
The goal of public health is to increase overall health, yes, but that goal can easily conflict with individual freedoms. For example, smoking bans: > Supporters argue by presenting evidence that smoking is one of the major killers, and
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by conradev 5y ago
One limiting factor in generating OH is specific wavelengths of light, which is harder to artificially boost
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by conradev 5y ago
If it’s not hardware (panels, inverters, brackets, etc) it is considered a soft cost. NREL’s model puts soft costs at 44% for a 100MW fixed-tilt utility-scale plant in 2021: https://www.nrel.gov/docs/fy22osti/80694
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by conradev 5y ago
Is the python process a direct child of the UI process?
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by conradev 5y ago
What are the functional differences in display (not input) between an actual 3D display and a 3D object projected onto a 2D display? The only two I can think of are first, being able to use our eyes’ actual depth perception ability instead
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by conradev 5y ago
This is something that should be solved at the operating system level. macOS has an orange indicator light when the microphone is active, and Control Center shows which app is using it. Platforms are responsible for controlling access to th
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by conradev 5y ago
The entire point of ThorCon is to try to make nuclear more cost effective. If their numbers are to be believed, from their website: > The shipyard estimate supports our estimates that ThorCon power plants can be mass produced by shipyard
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by conradev 5y ago
It sure is solvable with HVDC links, but upgrading infrastructure isn’t free. That cost would need to be included when comparing it against nuclear
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by conradev 5y ago
Isn't it the case that you can use Eeros in bridge mode? Like, you could still use OPNsense and Eeros together, if you wanted. https://support.eero.com/hc/en-us/articles/207621056-How-do-...

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