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by csense 4y ago
My main experience with heat pumps is a heat pump installed in the northern US in the mid 1990's. As a user, the main problem is it's fine in spring and fall, but: - (1) In winter (when the temperature is below freezing) it can&#x
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> The 'memory bus' is not architectural Whether we classify the issue as "architectural" (whatever that means) is beside the point. Alignment has real effects on performance, and being aware of those effects is pract
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A possible contender for the Ig Nobel prize.
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x86 is byte addressable, but internally, the x86 memory bus is word addressable. So an x86 CPU does the shift/mask process you're referring to internally. Which means it's actually slower to access (for example) a 32-bit va
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Thought experiment: Would it be anti-free-speech for the government to ban websites from posting specific and detailed information on how to obtain poisons that can be used to commit murder? If you say "no," you're just as a
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Oxygen Not Included is a video game with some pretty good liquid and gas simulations along these lines.
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Apple stuff is dumb and overpriced and I don't see why anybody bothers to buy it. I've never owned an Apple product in my life, and this is yet another reason to stay far away from the Apple ecosystem.
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If the reward for competence is promotion, in the steady-state equilibrium everybody's incompetent at their current job: If they were competent, they would have been promoted into a different job. It's called the Peter Principle
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To be fair, there are a lot of stories about hired elder help stealing stuff, beating the person up, or taking advantage of a mental decline to trick them into changing their will.
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30-50 years ago, with a single salary you could support a house with a yard, a non-working spouse, multiple kids, and a car. Our society knew how to make that happen once, and we've forgotten. We've had incredible advances in tec
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> digital wallets that hold car title NFTs So question: Will you be able to atomically exchange your California-registered car title for Ether? What happens if the on-chain car ownership is different than the traditional notion of car o
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> His soul has been almost completely neglected. Science is about how the world works, and spirituality is about how to have a good life. Scientific progress is obvious to everyone, but in terms of spirituality we seem to be losing groun
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RIP UK tech industry
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I think it's actually because in a modern environment, software is cheap to deploy, debug and update. That leads to under-investment in design and testing. For many software environments, I think the root cause of unreliability is
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Does the EU have jurisdiction over Meta? What happens if Meta.. just doesn't pay the fine? If Meta has datacenters / servers / offices in the EU that can be physically seized, or employees who can be arrested, presumably the
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Interesting to see a post about this from someone else who I'm assuming is in a northern climate (they say New England). One of my biggest questions about solar is, what happens when it snows? Do you have to get up on the roof and cle
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What about Mastercard?
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The problem with these sorts of arguments is that you quickly run into hypothetical situations with large moral costs, creating Pascal's Wager-type issues where you have a moral duty to go to absurd lengths to avoid them.
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The captain's in a really tough situation: - You're supposed to disclose stowaways are on board. If you don't, or if you help them get to land secretly, you'll be fired and possibly jailed for smuggling illegal immigran
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It seems reasonable to suggest that masks reduce disease and save lives. This may be a scientifically provable fact. If you want to save lives, you're welcome to wear a mask. Nothing stopping you. Should the government be able to for
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Consider Joe Average defendant whose bail is set at $25,000 bail. If Joe tells the judge "Your Honor, I'll sign a paper that says I'll be $25,000 in debt if I don't show up, but my family can only come up with $200 righ
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> his parents are additional surety for the $250M This is an odd phrase. So what happens if SBF disappears? Do the parents lose their $2M house? Lose their $2M house and become $248M in debt? Go to jail? What keeps the whole family fr
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Okay so it's basically a bail bond, sign over the $2M house to get the bondsman to post $250M bond. What bondsman has $250M? Even if they did, why would they ever agree to this? Isn't getting $2M from a defendant on a bail bond l
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> on bail for a $250 million bond — secured only on his parents’ home in Palo Alto Wait what? How does that work? I thought if the bond was $X, that literally means you either (a) give the court $X, cash only or (b) sit in jail until t
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If the game doesn't let you do 3 & 10, it's because you've already moved in two or three other columns this turn. (Or somebody's completed those columns.) - You can only progress in 3 different columns on your turn.
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Also see previous HN discussion (top comment is the solution): https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33865932
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Ask HN: Startup ideas with positive labor market effects?
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Why the heck is this not a big issue in every national election? It seems like for the Republicans, it _should_ be a prime example of overreaching big government invading ordinary peoples' privacy. And for Democrats, it _should_ be a
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Yeah, you gotta think about the NPC's perspective! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G97xdpy6Am4
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So wait. If North Korea stole a couple billion over ~5 years, and it's a significant fraction of their nuclear program budget, why is the crash suggested to be such a disaster? Haven't they already sold most of their Bitcoins fo

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