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571.
by crote 6mo ago
Sure, if you ignore the fact that Kazakhstan supplies about half of the world's uranium. Canada accounts for only 10%, and Sweden currently produces zero due to its extremely poor ore quality. The most promising additional uranium sour
572.
by crote 6mo ago
"But what if thing thing that never happens were to happen?" We'd probably go deep into hydro, fire up every gas peaker plant, and through skyrocketing prices incentivize everyone to switch to emergency diesel generators wh
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by crote 6mo ago
There has already been a serious proposal for a HVDC cable from Morocco to the UK. If that's possible, why not go for Spain-Germany?
574.
by crote 6mo ago
Have you considered the possibility that most non-programmer people mostly experienced the negative effects? Blockchain turned out to be an absolutely awful payment method, so most people only know it as 1) a way to do crimes like ransomw
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by crote 6mo ago
Desktop PSUs aren't exactly space-constrained. For example, the Corsair SF1000 offers you 1000W in an SFX package (6.3cm x 12.5cm x 10cm). A regular ATX PSU has about 2.5x that volume available. Efficiency isn't a big selling poin
576.
by crote 6mo ago
Perhaps their usual buyers just care less about retention? Those drives aren't going to be used for cold storage, and it is basically a guarantee that there will be checksums and some form of redundancy. Who cares whether the data is
577.
by crote 6mo ago
Over the past few years the main improvement in SSD capacity has been due to them stacking an ever-increasing number of NAND layers in a single chip, with state-of-the-art SSDs already having over 300 layers. No need to worry about cooling
578.
by crote 6mo ago
Or perhaps you treat the customer support workers as humans instead of worker drones and give them the agency to terminate the call when they are getting abused, with the contracts of repeat offenders getting terminated?
579.
by crote 6mo ago
What if we...now hear me out....what if we paid people a living wage?
580.
by crote 6mo ago
This can be a completely independent unit. In fact, with all the safety-related certifications I bet that's even the easiest and cheapest way to do it!
581.
by crote 6mo ago
It needs some extra valves to switch the flow of coolant around, but yes.
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by crote 6mo ago
The solution is of course to get a communal system. As a bonus, drilling one giant loop is significantly cheaper than drilling hundreds of smaller ones.
583.
by crote 6mo ago
The fact that you need to roll out a drilling rig plus crew at all is going to be a large part of that cost. For it to become interesting for the average homeowner the price is probably going to have to drop by something like 75% - but th
584.
by crote 6mo ago
> Bun is not a "product" at Anthropic though, it's a tool for its developers to build products. Doesn't that just make it even worse? If Anthropic can't even afford to spend the engineering effort on making sure
585.
by crote 6mo ago
So why aren't we seeing an explosion in feature shipping rate, or tech startups? If there is so much extra code, where is it going? Is everyone just creating giant piles of throwaway slop?
586.
by crote 6mo ago
It's a bit hard to blindly trust their numbers when they are trying very hard to sell Copilot to everyone. Sure, AI will undoubtedly have increased their workload, but how much of the shown figures is real, and how much is the PR dep
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by crote 6mo ago
I'm not convinced it is that easy. Cars traditionally have very generic button clusters, like [0]. It is even very common to have dummy buttons in there. Combine that with today's cars where those buttons are hooked up to some M
588.
by crote 6mo ago
The longer Thunderbolt (which is actually just USB4) cables internally use fiber optics for data transmission, with converters to copper in each connector. Even the medium-distance (3 meter) ones have signal quality boosters in each connect
589.
by crote 6mo ago
> copper can barely support 10G and is terribly power hungry when it does that Mostly a side-effect of 10GBASE-T dating back to 2006 - and all the chips used by early 2020s prosumer devices therefore using pre-2010 technology. Definitely
590.
by crote 6mo ago
They are getting rather small[0] and not-crazy-power-hungry these days! And if we're being honest: is there really that much difference latency-wise between Ethernet -> NIC -> USB -> CPU and Ethernet -> NIC -> PCIe -&g
591.
by crote 6mo ago
The USB-C specification[0] recommends a minimum 12.85mm heart-to-heart distance between ports. Fine for cables, probably not fine for dongles. USB-A mandates[0] a maximum overmold size of the plug of 16mm, so the minimum heart-to-heart dist
592.
by crote 6mo ago
A large part of it is basic physics. A Micro-B connector like [0] is way easier to damage than a C connector like [1] because it is less solidly mounted to the PCB, and because it has a shorter distance from the fulcrum to the furthest moun
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by crote 6mo ago
The most infuriating part is that the USB-IF actually designed those labels already! The graphics already exist[0], and they are quite clear about what the cable is able to do. Manufacturers just... can't be bothered? [0]: https:&#x
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by crote 6mo ago
There are some subtle differences. The Jackson Labs and Microchip boards both have a diagonal "swoosh" and a "do not touch" icon on the metal clock casing, a u-blox branded GPS receiver, and partially-filled mounting hol
595.
by crote 6mo ago
The main issue is that it is ancient . The cost, power, and length issues meant that it wasn't exactly well-received by the datacenter market back in 2006(!) when it was first released: DAC was the far more attractive option for a l
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by crote 6mo ago
> There are many cases where the EV busses have been abandoned Source? > Busses typically do not do their route and stop, so getting a significant amount of charging for any busses requires extra busses that can be rotated on/off
597.
by crote 6mo ago
Yes, that is exactly the problem. I just want a webhook to deliver some messages - you know, like all the other chat platforms? I don't want to read a dozen pages about "Microsoft Flow".
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by crote 6mo ago
In one case you are asking Git to run untrusted and unvetted code from a repository of unknown provenance you just cloned - without any kind of branch restrictions or sandboxing. Oh, you clone and check out a branch of some random leftpad f
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by crote 6mo ago
Following the same logic: everyone who isn't a Native American doesn't count as American. And how are you going to count someone with one Swiss parent and one immigrant parent? Three Swiss grandparents and one immigrant grandparen
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by crote 6mo ago
Yes, but not all of those 24 pins are used, and some of them are duplicated. I also don't think you can make this "main wire" distinction: you shouldn't be counting the power wires if you only care about USB data in th

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