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by convolvatron 22d ago
we can probably generalize and say that anything that's a culture war issue has become disconnected with useful actionable reality.
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by convolvatron 23d ago
are you off by a K? from the article - 'As of early August, ERCOT was considering more than 474 gigawatts of requests to connect to the Texas electric grid, about 90% of which came from data center projects.'
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by convolvatron 25d ago
idk why Meta has to be the one to decide. I'm not suggesting that everyone carefully curate their own feed rules, but we could certainly choose to adopt packages from people and institutions that we trust, and be able to revisit those
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by convolvatron 25d ago
it seems like this whole discussion, both the proposed law and EFFs full throated support for social media giants is getting lost in the weeds. we used to have a small number of media outlets for structural reasons. and we were concerned en
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by convolvatron 27d ago
I used to implement these things professionally and to write an IP + TCP + HTTP is certainly less than a year with experience. would I ship that and expect people to use it without a lot of burnin? no..but to say that its a lifetime of work
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by convolvatron 27d ago
I did this for a couple years at University of Washington. We did IP, TCP, RIP, forwarding and a couple other things. they weren't compatible with the actual RFCs- they were kind of stripped down to the bare essence. I wrote the sample
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by convolvatron 27d ago
I used to do this work in the IETF. take draft specs and write a C implementation and compare notes with the spec authors and other implementations. sometimes I would find a bug later on and see the same bug in multiple vendors implementati
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by convolvatron 27d ago
there's an place in Seattle, WA that does this called shelf.me for what looks like zero-hardware self designs. my shop is next to a cabinet maker who does most of is work in that same birch hard-ply. he's got the full sheet router
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by convolvatron 27d ago
I have a few of those butcher block tops because I scaled down my shop, but I just can't throw them away. one was purchased 50+ years ago and my family used it as a breakfast table. they make excellent work benches and tables. they&#x2
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by convolvatron 28d ago
if you aren't familiar with the literature, then good on you for getting the right insight. provenance and support are staples of the datalog world. the other really handy thing here is that it very straightforward to differentiate dat
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by convolvatron 28d ago
you're absolutely correct that pim without a real discussion about how that works in a broader communications context is kind of useless. what I find strange is the adoption of a standard synchronous dram interface. that's a horri
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by convolvatron 29d ago
burning methane does produce NO and NO2 (the N2 being oxidized at temperature). that does come down with precipitation and collect in bodies of water. over time as evaporation removes the water and its replenished with acidic rain, the conc
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by convolvatron 29d ago
just type 'single cycle gas plant efficiency and emissions vs combined cycle' into google
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by convolvatron 29d ago
apparently you're very excited about this partisan victory. at some point we do need to actually think about how to effectively manage the country. there should be a back and forth about the appropriate degree of environmental regulati
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by convolvatron 29d ago
its very much using the letter to violate the spirit - since the pollution is emitted regardless of whether the plant is grid-connected. these datacenter plants don't run as clean or as efficient as proper power plants, but the primary
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
I think the idea that we should also be able to hide our large donations started here, but got reenforced by later decisions. ok, it's your money, you get to send it to whoever you like. but you shouldn't be able to hide. companie
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
at this point one can't really assume it was about picking a tariff fight with Canada any more than the Gaza peace plan was about bringing peace to Gaza. guy is just a shit-thrower. that's his one move, throw some shit and see wha
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
UEFI supports device discovery, TCP/HTTP, transfers to raw disks, filesystems, memory management and a bunch of other facilities. while it lacks a general process model and multitasking, I'm not sure its really correct to call UEF
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
does it stop? the more co2 the more heat is retained. so the relation between co2 and temperature is an integral over time. were we suddenly to stop burning things how far does it go up before infrared emissions equilibrate with the larger
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
pg logical replication is close to this. but ideally you want incremental query updates, which I believe Materialize provides. but yes, I agree this is quite often what one wants, and would remove a lot of grot from the client
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
this seems like a very similar situation to people charged with only a single count of 'resisting arrest'
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
the only real differences between a query language and a normal language are quantification and unification. quantification is something that seems pretty easy to paper over (i.e by just having functions that operate on Set types). SPJ is&#
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
that is a pretty difficult place to apply leverage. if you don't support SQL you're at a big competitive disadvantage. because its a weird design with lots of sharp edges that's going to take a lot of your time - customers ar
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
and stupid me here thinking compelled speech was a clear line in the sand
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
this is a nonsense statement. yes, unfortunately format logic is wholly inadequate to express what we need in the creation and application of laws. so yes, fuzzy issues about the intent of the law and the intent of the accused some into pla
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
are we seriously approaching a point where its quasi-illegal to not participate in the socials?
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
why does it come with attached storage unit for my calipers?
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
no matter how you look at it, this is a systemic failure. if as a society we're going to mass scan our history then we should be building an archive for the future. not using availability of information as a moat. not doing it over and
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
not really interested in this weird thing, but does anyone know what kind of bike is in the top picture? steel frame, machined brake calipers, really looks very attractive and light for a commuter.
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by convolvatron 1mo ago
well, we managed to construct a narrative where everyone could only marginally change its habits. heat pumps, electric cars, solar panels, carbon taxes. things would have remained unchanged at the high level. but that was still way too much

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