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by cyberax 5mo ago
Indeed. Copper sulfate is persistent (it's copper!) and is often used not long before harvest. Meanwhile, glyphosate is used early before planting to kill off the weeds and so it's naturally degraded (to harmless CO2 and water) by
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Top-of-the-line NMC cells have energy density around 250Wh/kg at the pack level. The newer solid-state batteries can reportedly increase this to 400Wh/kg. So a reasonable 75kWh battery pack is going to weigh around 300kg and in fu
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Another fun happy iOS story: we were launching our app a year ago, with a self-imposed deadline. As usual, tons of bugs were being fixed in the last moment. And then our authentication stopped working on simulated iOS devices (while still w
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by cyberax 5mo ago
I heard from several engineers several years ago that egress was metered because their network did not have enough switching capacity to make it truly unmetered at AWS scale. Looks like this might have been a part of the solution.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Yes, there are several other options. This is the first one that is not metered.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
One interesting consequence of this is that it's now (for the first time!) possible to get unlimited AWS egress. It's not cheap, and it's limited to `us-east-1`, but it's at least _possible_ now via AWS Interconnect: ht
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Congresspeople (or local legislators) do not have the expertise to evaluate the rules. Or even bandwidth. For example, the NEC is around 800 pages and is extremely technical. That's why these minutiae are delegated to agencies. But Con
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Amazon acquired it. Initially, it was a messenger app (not) used in India.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Yeah, agreed. We need another word for that. Literally everybody in the industry is affected by this. Typically it goes like this: you make a good UI that users like and release your product. The product manager gets rightfully promoted and
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by cyberax 5mo ago
> My trick for that is that the set of threads that I create pre fork have to be suspendable and resumable Well, yes. You need to wait for all the threads to park themselves at safepoints. This can work if you control the whole runtime,
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Linear enshittified their UI in the name of "clarity". You know the drill: remove functionality, add small icons with invisible text and HUGE padding, hide controls, etc. For example, the search field only shows if you press &quot
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Not really. 16-bit programs on x86 used 32-bit pointers (effectively 20-bit due to the segment mechanism). 8-bit microprocessors used 16-bit addresses.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
They'll just send a technician to set it up.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Unless you want to create a thread in your zygote. Then it breaks down. Raw fork() is terrible. Instead we need a proper primitive to stop and make a snapshot of a process.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
> My (limited) understanding is that conventional reverse osmosis is not far from the theoretical optimum, energy-wise, the main difficulties being operational (the membranes need declogging). And of course RO is more expensive than rain
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Sure. They are usually just very boring: you made a pitch, got funded. The VCs used their connections to get you good advisors and/or introduce you to prospective clients.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
They can't even get the title right: "Accidentally deleted subscriptions for chat integrations (Sla..." Utter degradation.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
It also caused developers to produce template-heavy code that took minutes to compile. We used to joke that these developers were "bitten by Alexandrescu". But it was indeed a nice book that really made stataic polymorphism popula
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Apple prohibits JITs outside the EU, and this makes a modern browser a non-starter.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
> that means they got it by social contagion There are studies that show significant immunomodulatory effects of SSRIs.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Here's my take: school math past the basic arithmetic will be useless in life for the majority of people. Any non-trivial school-level-related math question can be easily solved within 10-20 seconds by a Google search. That's also
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Here's the thing. Learning is hard. There's no going around it. You'll need to grind through practice problems, write essays, memorize facts, etc. And you need to do that. It trains your brain. If you simply rely on calculato
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by cyberax 5mo ago
It's also usually automated.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
What? You need to _download_ drivers? They come pre-installed in modern distros.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
> They're electing their far right leaders and primed to start mass deportation No amounts of deportations meaningfully affect the demographics. They can at most slow down the new immigration. For all his bluster, Trump deported bar
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by cyberax 5mo ago
The Chinese Politbureau is toasting themselves so hard, they're going to be drunk for the next decade. It's a perfect storm for China, they're leading in EVs, battery production, renewables. While the US is busy undermining i
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Don't look up!
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Z-Wave is completely different from Zigbee. Different frequency bands, modulation, etc. And there are still just two suppliers of Z-Wave radios, as far as I know. I haven't bothered to re-check recently. Up until ~2022 there was just _
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Get a replacement that is not using it. Power electronics are no longer something exotic.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
> Has there been "no progress" on classical prime factorization? Not recently. The primality tests don't really help all that much. We already had polynomial tests that are really fast since the 70-s. Think about this idea

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