dragontamer

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by dragontamer 4y ago
I gave Venture Bros a look a while back, and it scratched my pop-culture references + nihilism itch way better than Rick and Morty ever did. I don't know why though. Nothing matters in Rick and Morty because they can always hop to anot
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by dragontamer 4y ago
My issue with motors is that all of their problems seem mechanical in nature to me. I don't think anyone will really have a problem wiring up an H-bridge or whatever to run a motor. I'm personally wondering how to use the physical
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by dragontamer 4y ago
> The US military hasn't been so irresponsible that it can't function without a continuous supply of 3nm GPUs. I'll grant you there will be great disruption, but it's neither fatal nor permanent. You've grossly u
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by dragontamer 4y ago
Was "Google 2 Carrier Taiwan Wargame" too hard to search on? https://www.cnn.com/2023/01/09/politics/taiwan-invasion-war-... China will likely launch missiles and attempt to destroy Japanese, m
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by dragontamer 4y ago
> I believe the Western establishment will need far more at stake than a couple (more) years of supply chain troubles before it will put its capital military assets in the way of the Chinese military. You're severely underestimating
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by dragontamer 4y ago
Latest wargame IIRC says USA loses 2 carriers in the defense of Taiwan. If the USA decides to defend Taiwan, it means that risking carriers becomes an acceptable risk. Remember that Taiwan controls over 60% of the world's chip producti
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by dragontamer 4y ago
> I've given examples of warships with tonnage but not power. I don't see any support for your claim. What claims exactly? That the Chinese Navy outnumbers us by significant margins now? https://crsreports.congress.g
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by dragontamer 4y ago
No one counts freighters as a warship dude. Chinese Navy has more Destroyers (by weight) than the US Navy has ships (by weight). Also, because the Chinese strategy is a mass of smaller ships, they also outnumber us on a ship by ship basis.
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by dragontamer 4y ago
Tonnage _IS_ firepower, and a chunk of those ships are Chinese Stealth Destroyers that avoid RADAR. Modern ship battles aren't fought with guns. The fight is with missiles, or airplanes that shoot missiles. Having more tons (aka: missi
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by dragontamer 4y ago
No one knows if those Hypersonics actually can kill a carrier though. That's what I mean by "bluster". China is publicly saying they can, but... what if they just miss the carriers in practice? What if USA can actually shoot
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by dragontamer 4y ago
China also outnumbers US Navy in terms of gross tonnage of warships. Is there a particular metric you'd rather use? In both number of ships, and tons, China leads over us. US only wins in capital ships now.
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by dragontamer 4y ago
China has mass produced so many warships, they now outnumber the US Navy. I don't expect that China will make a move yet though, they also are building capital ships, like Aircraft Carriers, and also producing ship killing Hypersonic M
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by dragontamer 4y ago
Hmm, a weird version of a Knight's Tour. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knight%27s_tour It seems like in this version / webpage, you're allowed to revisit squares however. It'd be nice if it highligh
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by dragontamer 4y ago
> and each cycle on an RPi at 900Mhz is 1.1ns Its not the CPU's clock that matters here. https://codeandlife.com/2012/07/03/benchmarking-raspberry-pi... With 14MHz best-case from the Rasp. Pi, its cle
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by dragontamer 4y ago
I personally recall the GPIO benchmarks you're talking about, and I seem to remember it being related to the CPU itself and nothing to do with Linux. Its not very hard to go into "Realtime" priority and force your processes t
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by dragontamer 4y ago
I'm looking through the Wiki, and calling Ultibo "bare metal" seems like a misnomer. I see threads, filesystems, networking (Ethernet) and even graphics drivers here. I dare say that Ultibo is more feature complete than an OS
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by dragontamer 4y ago
RP2 is quad-core, 900MHz and 1000000kB of RAM, a behemoth compared to the single-core 20 MHz and 2kB of RAM chips (ATMega328p aka Arduino Uno, which actually runs at 16MHz) I was comparing it to in the embedded world. My point stands: Raspb
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by dragontamer 4y ago
So Bare-metal is excellent for smaller boards, like ESP32, Teensy 4.1, or the tiny microcontrollers like AVR DD / ATMega, PIC, and STM32F4 or STM32G0. So are lightweight OSes like FreeRTOS. There's also Arduino (set of libraries),
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by dragontamer 4y ago
Politically speaking, one thing pisses me off the most. > Trump added 6.7T in 4 years That debt was "paid for with tax cuts". And a lot of Republicans still think that cutting taxes is the best way to reduce the debt. I can alm
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by dragontamer 4y ago
IIRC, those tools were in an incomplete state before the takeover... but at least they were somewhat working and Twitter's executives were prompt in responding to any issues. But the APIs have been degenerating rapidly after the takeov
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by dragontamer 4y ago
I'm talking about the $100+ Million advertisers, not small ones like you. Disney is most interested in making sure that Mickey Mouse / Winnie the Pooh / Zootopia is not accidentally shown next to furry porn. Southwest doesn&#
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by dragontamer 4y ago
> Not because sales staff were laid off. There's plenty of advertisers who have blogged about "My emails to Twitter stopped getting answered" around the time of the 75% layoffs. This is well documented. What do you want th
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by dragontamer 4y ago
But not the features that retain advertisers. Which were the silent issues that no one talked about before. And indeed, advertisers aren't talking about it now. They're just leaving the platform in droves. There's no one _to_
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by dragontamer 4y ago
> with seeming negligible external-facing impact on the core product. Twitter is said to have lost $2.5 Billion/year in advertiser money, largely because Twitter's sales teams have not been returning emails from worried Adverti
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by dragontamer 4y ago
Ehhh, I'm actually kind of bearish on grains as bio-fuel. I'd like to see the switchgrass biofuel take off. A surprising amount of emissions in the USA (and Brazil) are due to deforestation associated with turning forests into far
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by dragontamer 4y ago
There's a number of biofuels that emulate fossil fuels. Ex: Ethanol emulates Gasoline. Synthetic bio-propane seems to be available too. If we are to be discussing bio-propane vs batteries, the storage benefits are key.
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by dragontamer 4y ago
Another critical difference: we can store propane inside of steel and/or concrete containers. There are a few "steel and concrete" containers that can hold electricity (ex: Pumped Hydro), but the bulk of our technology is in
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by dragontamer 4y ago
> I don’t know what this has to do with what I posted. The problems you're trying to discuss are almost entirely irrelevant to Twitter's current woes. The actual problems are measured in the $Billions/year size. The proble
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by dragontamer 4y ago
Real life has the E3 series: 1, 2.2, 4.7, and then 10, 22, 47, 100, 220, 470, 1000, etc. Etc. EEs would recognize these values to be the Preferred Resistors values for projects (though more commonly the E6 series is used in projects, the E3
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by dragontamer 4y ago
At this rate, we're going to end up with FP1 (1-bit floating point) numbers... I guess that's nonsensical. 1-bit in all FP is the sign bit. So I guess the minimum size is 2-bit FP (1-bit sign + 1-bit exponent + 0-bit implicit 1 ma

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