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by ebikelaw 8y ago
In Oakland (where Bird and Lime dumped all their junk after SF told them off) I have seen lots of stripped scooters. Also it’s trivial to hotwire a Bird, and everyone in Oakland seemingly knows how to do it.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Yes, assuming that the government massively subsidizes your driving by socializing the carbon externality and providing you with a free mandatory parking space at your origin and destination then it’s “cheaper” to drive.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
A car would get a big fat “poor” on every point of that evaluation. And yet, we allow our city to be totally overrun with them! I certainly hope that SFMTA is feverishly working to apply these standards to car companies. No car should be al
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I guess you’re just overlooking cars? People leave their cars all over SF all day every day.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I don't think you really understand the architecture of the machine. EPYC looks on paper like it has a large L3 cache, but it consists of separate L3 caches per "core complex" of which there are two per die and four dies per
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
A 2-socket AMD setup has the same NUMA topology as an 8-socket Intel machine, and because of that the performance is terrible on many workloads.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
But I'm talking about a site that's already been flooded, where all the major civil engineering is already complete.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Do we need a quarter century to make that happen? California built Shasta Dam in 8 years with a population 7 times smaller than today's and with early Industrial Age technology. How long could it possibly take to install some pumps a
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I feel the same way about nearly everything in California. For example the first phase of the HSR project, which will serve pretty much no purpose whatsoever, is planned for 2029 which means realistically 2035, which might not even be in m
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Efficiency is pretty much irrelevant when the land in question is worthless. You just cover more land. With current utility-scale equipment you need only 300000 acres of PV to generate all power demanded in California today.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Why not 2025?
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Yeah I don’t see what AMD has to be glad about here. Their new CPUs are not remotely competitive with Intel on realistic workloads, mainly because their cache and TLB architecture is already poor. Intel had to introduce more TLB misses to f
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Did you mean no commercial stations? Because I can think of lots of listener-supported jazz stations that are mainstream, definitely not smooth. KCSM in my local area, for instance.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Insurance companies aren't morons. They already know this region is doomed. https://www.axios.com/sea-level-rise-costing-billions-in-hom...
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I guess you meant outside of google? Google's logs analysis is often done in "Lingo" which stands for Logs In Go. I assure you that logs analysis is very CPU bound. http://www.unofficialgoogledatascience.com&#x2F
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
That's something nobody should ever do, because the danger of being strangled is significant. https://helmets.org/playgrou.htm
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
I've lived here for 20 years and I think you probably just have Stockholm Syndrome. The built environment is still trash and hasn't changed noticeably the entire time. There have been a few tiny marginal improvements, such as a
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Google should go all-in and just run factual blurbs about Trump's various crimes on the Chrome new tab page. I don't know why anybody puts up with the abuse from this guy.
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Syzbot and the tale of thousand kernel bugs [pdf](events.linuxfoundation.org)
4 points by ebikelaw 8y ago|0 comments
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
There's still plenty of execution risk ahead for Waymo and a narrow opportunity for a very focused competitor to catch up to their technology. I don't think Uber is that competitor and I don't think that competitor exists, b
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Lots of people get accepted to fancy-ass schools but then can't afford to attend, and state schools will bend over backwards to get those people.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
The reason it is "unbelievably bad" is because it's not machine-readable. It's a PDF that comes out of FrameMaker for crying out loud. Some parts of it are not even human-readable, such as this garbled chart in ORM 3.7
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Intel's documentation is unbelievably bad. A damning statement on their documentation is that Google staffs a project to parse their horrible PDF and compare the supposed instruction latency and throughput figures to real measurements
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
There is no such thing as non-executable pickle. Pickle is not safe and must not be used for anything, ever.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
“Poisoning” (overdoses) and suicide are #1 and #2 causes of death for 25-44 year old Americans.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Understatement! 5% vacancy is a signal of “housing crisis” as currently experienced in many American cities. People carping about tiny vacancy rates has become some kind of NIMBY meme: we don’t need to build new homes because look at the mi
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
It's important research because the chemical industry and their boosters are always trying to get it unbanned. Koch-funded libertarian mouthpiece Reason still runs near-constant attacks on Rachel Carson and Silent Spring, 55 years lat
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
They can't just jettison the self-driving unit because that torpedos their long-time valuation strategy. Of course, their car doesn't work so they will eventually have to shut it down. That leaves them in the same place I'v
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Third-rail electric distribution is an established technology.
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by ebikelaw 8y ago
Everybody seems fixated on the stacking, but it's clearly not central to the system, merely an artifact of the demonstration-scale (and presumably demonstration-budget) implementation. They could just as easily be lifting a tremendous

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