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by dgacmu 3y ago
clz is faster in almost all contexts. There are some times when you're doing these operations in large vector types (like AVX), in parallel, when falling back to the SWAR techniques can actually be faster because of limited bandwidth o
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by dgacmu 3y ago
This does punish the researchers - no citations, no publication to list in their cv. It hits them where they almost certainly care a lot. Absent cooperation from their home institution, the journals don't have much other leverage.
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by dgacmu 3y ago
I do. Mostly from curiosity about which way Google will suggest I go; sometimes because the traffic or road-closure awareness is useful. Though it's often the case that I know about the road closures before it does -- but sometimes it
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by dgacmu 3y ago
They were opaque, but that's why we all kept ResEdit copied onto our hard drives. Mostly to edit the icons, mind you. :)
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by dgacmu 3y ago
The amount of material in solar panels is tiny compared to our other landfill-destined refuse streams, and it needs to be compared to the analogous waste streams from other forms of energy generation. Nuclear creates long term storage needs
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by dgacmu 3y ago
They can be recycled; currently at a cost of about $18/panel, which isn't great (landfilling is cheaper), but there's reason to think that cost can drop some as they improve the process. https://www.renewableenergy
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by dgacmu 3y ago
The article is bad, as so often happens with units... The project site: https://www.sunbearproject.com/ 971MW, producing up to 1700 to 2400 GWh/year. That puts it at 2471 hours/year of full-power production equiva
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by dgacmu 3y ago
The Go hash table approach is similar to this: it's randomizedish but not strongly random enough to depend on it being actually random... https://dev.to/wallyqs/gos-map-iteration-order-is-not-that-r... (Which I fi
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by dgacmu 3y ago
Oh my god, the Internet is such a small place. Good to hear you're doing well - we interacted a bit when I was running an ISP in the 90s as well. (Dave Andersen, then at ArosNet -- we ran a lot of PM2.5e and then PM3s). And appreciate
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by dgacmu 3y ago
The irony is that his solution has an unnecessary log(n) term, because it's finding each point independently instead of taking advantage of the fact that the input points are also a dense grid. ;) so it can probably run 2-10x faster th
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by dgacmu 3y ago
This is a bit pessimistic. Most STOC papers don't directly give an incredibly practical algorithm. But what they do give is insight, and that insight can often be used to improve the practical state of the art. And new bounds get you t
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by dgacmu 3y ago
Depends. Sometimes turkey prices drop before thanksgiving, as the producers plan their growth cycles around expected thanksgiving demand, and use freezers to meet demand. For example, see the 2022 august peak in poult placement in: https:&
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by dgacmu 3y ago
The other definition you got isn't bad, but I think it misses the point for this discussion: it is a rack or multi rack scale computer with built-in and centrally managed features for redundancy, failover, job allocation, scaling, etc.
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by dgacmu 3y ago
The new part of this article is the physical letters that were sent to some of the people mentioned in the tweet. That hadn't happened when the previously-discussed article was written. (Edited to add: However, an article discussed yes
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by dgacmu 3y ago
We're generally free from government suppression of speech, but not free from the social consequences of that speech, because we're also all free to choose with whom we associate and in what manner. In other words: Many things are
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by dgacmu 3y ago
Engine braking does the same thing. It just applies resistance by using the engine instead of by using the brakes. Whether the slowing force is transmitted by the axle or the brakes is irrelevant to tire wear.
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I found that kind of funny too. Beats me. :) This is my first one with a self-empty base and I'm surprised how much I like it. I don't think the pre-mapping self-empty units would have worked very well for me because they would us
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by dgacmu 3y ago
I haven't personally owned the other brands, but I bought a refurbished j7+ (not the mopping kind) for about $300 a few months ago and it has been a spectacular improvement on their earlier models - I've owned about five thus far
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by dgacmu 3y ago
First, you can: many electrics have a regenerative braking mode that you can engage that will provide some amount of "engine braking"-equivalent slowing down. And on some of them you can select how much slowing is applied. It&#x27
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by dgacmu 3y ago
Depending on the battery there are cheap AliExpress boards - or diy - to make tiny UPSes for a raspberry pi or other usb-powered device. I don't know for that specific battery; I have some that take 18650s, though. One 18650 can get yo
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by dgacmu 3y ago
This post has the wrong original source for the term, it didn't come from the media lab, it came from the AI lab, popularized when Jeremy Brown sent a delightful email to the GSB list: https://projects.csail.mit.edu/gsb
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by dgacmu 3y ago
Nah, you're probably wrong about HN users not knowing how to use Twitter. You're assuming the worst - perhaps assume that people have good reasons for avoiding it and ask what those might be? I have about 5k followers on Twitter a
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by dgacmu 3y ago
It's a mix of a bunch of things. CA is more heating day dominated than TX, and as a result of that, more households use natural gas for heating, whereas you're more likely to see supplemental electric heat in TX than, particularly
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by dgacmu 3y ago
Because those people mostly don't exist and you're not given the choice. RenTech exists but has to cap the size of their internal market-beatung fund, because their strategies only scale to a certain extent. They're a hedge f
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by dgacmu 3y ago
No. I'm pretty good at financial planning. But what that means is that I'm good at getting standard market returns with acceptable risk. I don't beat the market or try to - that's not what most financial planning is abou
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by dgacmu 3y ago
Agreed: Our earth-based intuition is probably pretty off when the atmosphere creates 1% as much friction as it does here.
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Better investment than an NFT, at least.
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They're all design 1. Here's a manufacturer link with an air flow diagram for one of the recommended ones: https://www.ergodyne.com/nferno-6970-extreme-balaclava-hot-r... That said, the volume of air that could be
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by dgacmu 3y ago
It feels more to me like they're giving a month (and a bit?) free service in the form of a T-shirt. At this point, their 2023 raise was "only" about three months of gross revenue. Shipped, the tshirts are probably, eh, $13 US

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