dooferlad

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by dooferlad 5y ago
Grid stress in the first world isn't a big problem since electric vehicles can charge when the grid is under less pressure. The demand curve over a day has a reasonably predictable shape and EV charging can often be done when wholesale
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by dooferlad 5y ago
What Netflix wants to be popular also tramples over what I am already watching. I find that the UI gets in the way of enjoying several programs that I am part way through by pushing something new. If they want to continue to make series and
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by dooferlad 5y ago
My solution was to attach a little board from https://www.particle.io/ to a doorbell ringer to detect when the doorbell rings, which pokes a port on a PC in my office that is always on anyway. The PC uses ffmpeg to play a s
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by dooferlad 6y ago
Oh, I think it is a quite reasonable comment. It isn't interesting work being done in the benchmark and the benchmark itself is short. If you want to get ultimate performance from Python then write a C function... If you want to inform
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by dooferlad 6y ago
(microelectronics graduate in 2001, turned software engineer, I have worked for ARM and Imagination Technologies on simulations of CPUs, GPUs, networking products and other bits of SoCs) Yield wouldn't be that bad - ARM CPUs are small
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by dooferlad 7y ago
The Infinite Game is also great. The focus is on building companies that last hundreds of years, so you need leadership, culture and investors that are all about long term stability over keeping sort term investors happy. There are some ran
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by dooferlad 7y ago
Indeed. The writer doesn't even challenge some of the more obvious problems with the comments they have collected e.g. self driving cars causing traffic jams as they look for parking - why would they look? Wouldn't they ask for a
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by dooferlad 9y ago
The rest of the SoC plays a huge part, just like the architecture of a PC does. My personal mantra when thinking of how to get the most out of a CPU is "feed the beast" since idle time is the killer. In the most simplistic terms y
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by dooferlad 9y ago
SyncThing mostly works. Dropbox just doesn't support soft links. I have tried so many of these tools and SyncThing comes close to preventing me from reaching for rsync. SyncThing between Windows and Linux was painful the last time I tr
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by dooferlad 10y ago
A NOP shouldn't ever take up actual pipeline space in a modern CPU - it can be discarded at decode. A clock is a signal that is used as a valid signal for the data moving across a bus. That could be as short as between pipeline stages.