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by dgacmu 4y ago
In western and more arid states they're a huge waste of water. Really depends on the climate. In other areas they're just a lost opportunity for biodiversity. Mixing in some clover or other small perennial soft small flowers can h
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by dgacmu 4y ago
I'm probably not normal. We use it all the time. Probably helps that we have a playset and a trampoline and a garden back there - we were in the yard for several hours today (adults gardening, kids and their friend on trampoline). Of c
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by dgacmu 4y ago
I generally agree with this though with some tweaks. I think Jeff wanted to do something that he thought was both awesome (he's liked neural networks for a long time - his undergrad thesis was on them) and likely to have long-term majo
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by dgacmu 4y ago
Not in this case; his time was up.
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by dgacmu 4y ago
It's a lot harder to get the heat out. It's why we stack things like dram (HBM) or sram (AMD v-cache), and intensively used 3d in flash, but not yet heavy duty processing. The more we go 3d on compute we have to cut ghz even more
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by dgacmu 4y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16901188
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by dgacmu 4y ago
One of my colleagues, Randy Pausch, used to quip that "academia is the best. You can work any 70 hours per week you want!" There's truth in that, for better or worse.
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by dgacmu 4y ago
100% isn't over-charging. It's just not the GP's preferred spot on the battery energy (hours of charge) vs battery lifetime (days/years) curve for daily use. I do wish phones would provide more control here. I would also
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by dgacmu 4y ago
I have an ego weed whacker and a leaf blower and I adore them. (still using a push mower but might give in some day). Not having to deal with gas is awesome. They're cleaner, they're quieter (but not quiet), and lower-maintainence
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by dgacmu 4y ago
It's probably better to have the paper come out with your name on it so you can point to it in your cv and be able to talk about it publicly. Not that it takes away much of the pain of being laid off, mind you.
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by dgacmu 4y ago
That sentence is referring to the media commentary ignoring BYD: > Much of the media commentary surrounding Mr Toyoda’s move casts it as a response to Tesla. That is too Western-centric. Tesla may be the world’s biggest ev producer and,
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by dgacmu 4y ago
My kids don't routinely swear in front of me. 10yo tries it out occasionally but then feels silly and stops. So our household is probably not too different from most when it comes to language use at home. But they don't get in tro
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Google Ending Support for Dropcams(support.google.com)
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by dgacmu 4y ago
We're awfully strange and fascinating creatures, aren't we? Oddly, this is basically the same way I approach swearing with my kids: our position is that there is no such thing as a "bad" word but that they won't be
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by dgacmu 4y ago
No - heap fragmentation actually leaves memory unusable by the workload. It may or may not slow down allocation depending on the design of the allocator. (The analogy to file system fragmentation for memory is that when physical pages are a
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by dgacmu 4y ago
Bohnanza is a quite remarkable game. Ruthlessly mathematical in a way that you don't need to process to play and have fun. (I like it. But I don't like to play too often or it starts to feel like work. )
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by dgacmu 4y ago
I wonder if the inner ring trap for retirement is "well, maybe I should wait until I have another $AMOUNT invested just to (be sure, be able to do more, etc.)."
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by dgacmu 4y ago
My mom passed last may. She'd been having some health problems for the preceding few months and I'd gotten in the habit of calling her daily just to check in briefly. I'm grateful I did; my biggest feeling for months after sh
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by dgacmu 4y ago
That's not necessarily true. Shipping (via ocean) of finished expensive small products is cheap and quite low carbon on a per device basis as long as you don't mind the delay. One of the reasons china is the place to manufacture i
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by dgacmu 4y ago
All modern furnaces and boilers need electricity too. The only advantage that they have is that it's a bit more possible to run them for a while on battery backup, but for three days you need a generator.
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by dgacmu 4y ago
History with NYPD suggests they know they have a good chance of getting away with it, unfortunately.
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by dgacmu 4y ago
As a Hagoromo-using professor: its biggest advantage to me is that it erases much more cleanly, so that after a few passes over the board you can still read the new writing instead of it looking like writing over half-erased writing.
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by dgacmu 4y ago
This is a logical fallacy - "Colorado is not X, therefore Utah is not either". In your earlier comment, you noted religion's correlation with happiness, but allow me to quote from a review article about religion and suicide s
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by dgacmu 4y ago
Salt lake city is not a sparsely populated rural area, and its suicide rate is about the same as the state's overall rate (24 vs 20.8). Could be some altitude effects as a sibling comment observed, though SLC at only 4200 ft isn't
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by dgacmu 4y ago
These generalizations ignore the specific - Utah has long been an outlier on things like teen suicide rates (about #10), antidepressant use (#1) [1], and before that valium. It has a very specific set of cultural features that are not neces
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by dgacmu 4y ago
The post I was replying to specifically indicated "Sunday". I didn't say religion bad. I said that Sunday was chosen because of it's alignment with many Christian religions, and this is true: https://en.m.wiki
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by dgacmu 4y ago
Not everyone cares about working Sunday. Why is it Sunday? Why not Saturday? Right - one set of religious beliefs that aren't universal. Why should the state be mandating this? Isn't it better to use state power to prevent employe
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by dgacmu 4y ago
OpenAI is, seemingly, trying to have it both ways: on one hand, they use warnings about the dangers of AI to justify their existence and practices such as keeping models closed, etc. And on the other hand, they're rushing towards comme
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by dgacmu 4y ago
Almost all shares are held in street name, but as a shareholder you have the option of either having the shares registered directly in your name through the company or their transfer agent or to be issued physical stock certificates (usuall
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by dgacmu 4y ago
There's a difference in many US brokerages between having your stocks held in your name versus having them held in "street name" (i.e., in the brokerage's name). GP could probably purchase the shares and be issued stock

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