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by elihu 4y ago
Also, they helped develop Infiniband before dropping out. Much later they got back into the Infiniband business by buying QLogic, and from there developed Omnipath which they eventually gave up on, spinning the product line off as a separa
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by elihu 4y ago
The article mentions translators, so there's evidently some sort of language barrier, and probably a cultural one as well. Even if she did fully understand that she's supposed to socially distance and observe a lot of very strict
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by elihu 4y ago
Sounds like there are some parallels. I'm not sure if it's the same in this case, but Mary Mallon was given a court order to give up her job as a cook, but that was the best paying job she could get, so lacking the financial reso
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by elihu 4y ago
That's about the same time period when Mount Mazama effectively ceased to exist in a rather dramatic fashion. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_Mazama
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by elihu 4y ago
I made a koi pond during covid lockdown. Something like 1500 gallons or so. A visiting friend referred to it once as a lake, which I suppose is probably the best compliment you can give to a pond builder.
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by elihu 4y ago
> "The idea of a body of water this vast yet now completely vanished brings home an uncomfortable truth: The physical parameters or our world—continents and oceans, mountains and lakes—appear fixed only because our own lives are so
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by elihu 4y ago
That depends on what problem you're solving and how much you're willing to spend. Some people seem to thing grid storage is a failure if it can't store power in the summer to use in the winter, but that's really not a r
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On the other hand, megawatt chargers might get cheaper rates because they're buying in bulk, and it's (generally) easier for power companies to provide service to one big customer than a hundred or a thousand little customers. (Th
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> Have no fear; though, the moment this is logistically favorable, they will switch. I think the thing that makes this logistically favorable is electrification of major highways. What I worry about is that this requires coordination be
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by elihu 4y ago
It would be nice if long-distance travel by train were much more practical than it currently is in the U.S. Personal vehicles are a huge source of CO2 emissions, but I don't think it's realistic to just ban them all. I would rath
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by elihu 4y ago
EPA says it's about 8% of the transportation total, which is actually less than I would have thought. By comparison, light vehicles are at 57%. https://www.epa.gov/greenvehicles/fast-facts-transportation-...
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by elihu 4y ago
Absolutely. Also, while overhead lines tend to be the cheapest method, there have been some interesting tests in Sweden with rails embedded in slots in the road surface. (Sort of like those toy slot cars that used to be popular about 30-40
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by elihu 4y ago
Honestly I think most aviation should just go away. There are legitimate reasons for people and high-value cargo and mail to use planes to get places in a hurry, but I'd rather people treat plane flights as a rare luxury rather than a
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by elihu 4y ago
I'm having trouble coming up with any reason my response to this should be anything other than "Hallelujah!"
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by elihu 4y ago
> "I think we have to accept that we poison everywhere we live, and strive to concentrate ourselves in a small enough area that the planet can tolerate us." That may be true in a broader sense, but I think when it comes to outd
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by elihu 4y ago
Here's a Doepfer ribbon controller that uses a USB cable: https://doepfer.de/a198.htm It's purely an analog device. Presumably they used USB because the cables are cheap, shielded, and have enough conductors for
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by elihu 4y ago
How do you cut it, I wonder? Tile cutting saw? Water jet? Can it be scored and broken in a straight line like glass?
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by elihu 4y ago
I've never tried (or wanted to try) thoriated tungsten. I've always just used lanthanated, and it seems to do the job. Last I checked, thoriated was cheaper, so maybe that's a draw for some people. I don't know if tho
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by elihu 4y ago
Random historical medical anecdote, via xkcd: https://what-if.xkcd.com/89/ > "In September of 1994, a French soldier drank wine from a rifle barrel. Fifteen minutes later, he started having seizures. He was rus
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by elihu 4y ago
I'd be willing to concede for the sake of argument that there aren't enough raw materials to replace all the world's combustion vehicles with EVs the way we currently do EVs. Almost certainly not if we keep using batteries h
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by elihu 4y ago
Frank Lloyd Wright was ahead of his time. The National Life Insurance building looks like a fin-fet.
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by elihu 4y ago
Someone else mentioned ammonia, steel, and similar industrial chemistry applications, but another use case is transportation. I think regular ground transportation is going to mostly be battery electric eventually, but it's not really
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by elihu 4y ago
Building a fab is very expensive. It's unlikely for some small new entrant to be successful, unless they happen to invent something better than EUV lithography or can somehow build all their machines from scratch. Basically at this po
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by elihu 4y ago
I don't think so, unless it was long enough ago to be outside my window of experience. Intel went through a major round of layoffs in 2016. (This was called ACT.) I don't know of any pay cuts, just salaries that weren't par
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by elihu 4y ago
Yeah, non-GAAP is basically, "we've decided to account for certain things differently because the standard accounting rules would be misleading in our business." Companies could abuse non-GAAP reporting, but there's not
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by elihu 4y ago
Good point: it was a loss according to GAAP, but the non-GAAP results weren't a loss. Whereas it looks like they're projecting a non-GAAP loss as well next quarter. (I don't know what the relevant differences are here on GAA
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by elihu 4y ago
That would be great. Joining CWA might be a good option, but maybe someone has other suggestions. https://code-cwa.org/
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by elihu 4y ago
Intel is projecting a loss next quarter, something that hasn't happened in a really long time. Pat doesn't want it to happen on his watch, but I think it would have been better to cut the dividend or take the loss than to do pay&
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by elihu 4y ago
Logic bugs tend to affect the feature that the offending code is meant to support -- if the feature isn't working correctly, it's probably a logic bug in the implementation, so you can look there. Memory safety bugs, on the other
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by elihu 4y ago
Most applications should probably just be written in a garbage collected language, but Rust and C and C++ are mainly there to support use cases where running a garbage collector isn't appropriate. (I.e. you're trying to get your

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