cyberax

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by cyberax 5mo ago
> As cheap as the mass produced ones with the economies of scale? Of course not. This has _never_ been the case. You get spare parts from manufacturers initially, usually at a higher price (buying new bikes and parting them has been a th
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by cyberax 5mo ago
There is nothing terribly complicated there. It's just an AC motor ("brushless DC") with a classic 3-phase inverter and a resolver. There are plenty of companies that make controllers for this kind of setup. Granted, they are
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Why would it be less repairable? Power electronics are still modular and are easily swappable. Mechanical parts are more integrated, but they so simple that they can last for decades. And once they give out, you can just replace the whole u
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by cyberax 5mo ago
This is an example of a political science phenomenon: delegation of authority. The state itself can't deal with a problem (sky-high nuisance and property crime rates) so people are taking the issue into their own hands. That's als
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Try the LanguageTool. It's now good enough to show smelling pisstakes inside my IDE, including things like missing articles. Without creating tons of visual noise.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Theoretically yes, but honestly I doubt it. Simple hydrocarbons are too stable, water molecules disassociate naturally (that's what pH means!). Water is also polar and can dissolve significant quantities of polar compounds. Ethane is n
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Yes, it does. You just make a round-trip through one of the exchanges.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Sugars are just chains of hydrocarbons with alcohol groups, they are probably going to be ubiquitous. ATP is useful because the phosphate groups make a stable bond that nevertheless can be hydrolyzed, releasing a lot of energy. But the aden
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by cyberax 5mo ago
> People need to learn about Bitcoin. Indeed. Bitcoin is now a major player in the money laundering business. NFTs are so much better than fake pocelain!
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by cyberax 5mo ago
They tried, but didn't follow through. macOS is corporate abandonware and they don't want to undermine their iOS market with real emulators.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
> The fact that on Earth the living beings eventually used ATP and RNA appears to have been determined in great part by chance, while the use of amino acids seems to have been much more deterministic. It looks like on Earth the RNA was t
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Have you looked at PRK? It can fix some of very gnarly corneas. There are also implantable contact lenses.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Life can even use something other than amino acids. They are really inconvenient when you think about it. Fixed nitrogen is extremely rare, and there are no nitrogen-containing minerals other than some exotic exceptions. Amino acids are use
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by cyberax 5mo ago
There's nothing unusual there. Typically natural forests grow out in stages, with different generations of trees replacing each other. Because they actually killed off everything, the "older" trees are not propagating there b
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Dolby's patents are garbage, and they know it. They managed to patent entropy coding somehow. This will not stand to challenges, and they managed to poke a well-resourced company.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Typically things like quantization and motion estimation.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
> The biggest thing it does add though is multi-stream support This was supported in H.264 MVC but only saw real use for 3D movies on physical BluRays. With almost no content available outside that.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
I don't think this is correct? You can certainly fetch more than one cycle's worth of data each cycle even on modern RAM. It's a question of throughput that can be extended cheaply enough.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Non-exempt employees are typically cheap enough to not care about the OT pay. The lower limit for the exempt employees is around $20 per hour. Any OT pay above that is typically negotiated by unions in the current market.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
It will incentivize the management to prohibit working overtime and/or hire more people.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
> How do you end crunch? Two words: overtime pay. This makes crunches disappear as if by magic.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
You mean, being able to run binaries from 25 years ago? Yes, please!
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by cyberax 5mo ago
> They are expensive largely because of housing so your statement is a bit of a tautology. Yes. And that's impossible to fix. > Historically NYC housing used to be a lot more affordable before they stopped building, reducing supp
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Yup. SAT is just a _bad_ test. It's way too easy to get top scores there, and the whole calculator section should be removed. SAT also makes it easy to just mechanically grind it because the problems are so simple that you can just mem
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by cyberax 5mo ago
> Equity proponents argue that brick-on-head should be given advantages over no-brick-on-head to make them obtain substantially similar educational outcomes. The problem is that the solution that they're proposing is to force _every
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Expensive cities will never have enough housing. The cure is to discourage investment in them and force it into less dense cities.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
That's because he's planning to fail upwards. None of his plans will result in positive outcomes but they'll look good on paper. So he'll move to a higher office and leave his messes for the next sucker.
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by cyberax 5mo ago
> (this is, of course, no longer the case but love to mention this discussion when ever privatization comes up) But this very thing happened not that far in the past: https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna39516346
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by cyberax 5mo ago
Yep, and the emergence of social networks became a real catalyst for that. But that still requires humans in that feedback loop, it takes time and attention. And people also have different opinions, even if they believe in roughly the same
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by cyberax 5mo ago
> Dell wanted >$90K a couple months ago to add 256GB to each node. RAM is expensive, but not THAT expensive. I just bought 128Gb for about $5k for our build cluster (it's not even for AI, sigh). Even if you need larger-sized DIMM

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