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by fbdab103 3y ago
I am more inclined to agree with the FSF in that open source should not unduly limit how I use a tool. If I can no longer embed it in a product I sell, it is source available, but not open source. Regardless, if the library is worth anythin
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by fbdab103 3y ago
At the current implementation, GILless is a performance regression[0], of 5-7% [0] https://peps.python.org/pep-0703/#performance
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by fbdab103 3y ago
For disk space, you think they could just report sufficiently rounded numbers (eg increments of 256MB free).
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by fbdab103 3y ago
This was way too engaging. Has there ever been a more recent follow-up with updated numbers?
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Is it easy to automatically and exclusively pin an application to some cores? Firefox automatically gets assigned two cores, and no other work is allowed there? I know I theoretically have the ability to set affinity, but have never explore
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Take heart - you most likely would have died before the age of five. If you survived past that, you were likely to make it well past 35. Historically high childhood mortality is what pulls down average life expectancy.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I think the world is destined to move to a microkernel OS eventually. I am just mad that there is not national level funding of sel4, which is audited and available today.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Stupid me, I assumed coal was so cheap and globally abundant that shipping it internationally would not make sense.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I wonder how much traffic has been siphoned away from those copy-cats that mirror SO? Out of principle alone, I will immediately hit the back button and look for the genuine article, but I could believe many do not. The other aspect that gr
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by fbdab103 3y ago
As a point of reference, it is about 4000 km from LA to New York. Assuming a linear drop-off (probably not true, but close enough), you would only lose 10% crossing the country. Solar panels might be decreasing in cost 10% annually, so over
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by fbdab103 3y ago
We could not even get the world to fully transition to the superior Atom format.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I need to see a median number because 82 gallons indeed sounds outrageous for a consumer. Unless it is all-in calculation (agriculture + industry + consumers): America uses XXX units of water per year / # Americans.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
As a consumer, falling solar prices have not led to a noticeable decrease in my electrical bill.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
A household income of $220k puts you in the 95th percentile of income in Chicago[0]. Is the bar for comfortable that you get to rub elbows with Bezos? [0] https://statisticalatlas.com/place/Illinois/Chicago/
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by fbdab103 3y ago
There are 1e20 kgs of salt in the ocean. I am going to put that as a somewhat low concern.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Yeah, if that were to be the new staple protein option, it would rank only marginally better than Soylent Green.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Assuming even distribution of four hex values: 16^4 = 65k potential IP collisions. From my quick skim of the paper, the authors made some assumptions about posting tendencies (frequent posters likely to comment on multiple topics) and looke
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by fbdab103 3y ago
The topic_id would be shared for everyone who posted on it. For each topic_id, it is then a matter of hashing 4 billion IPs to match each post to the topic. A different salt applied to each user so that would require the 4 billion hashes fo
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Let's not forget how long it even took for there to be a reasonable Windows build of git. Git implicitly relied on significant amounts of Linux tooling which required bringing over an entire Mingw environment.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I suppose that depends if you still wanted it to vaguely resemble meat or were fine with a yeast smoothie. Pretty much every beer brewery could likely grow some kind of complete protein microorganism given barley feed stock.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
At minimum, you do not need end to end certification that everything is fit for human consumption. That feels like a potentially huge cost savings vs bioreactor meat.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I have always thought that shebangs are absolute paths to be weird. Everything else in my Linux day to day operates by traversing the PATH, why do shebangs get to be different?
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by fbdab103 3y ago
For those who had never heard of the Pinball Prohibition, here is an article about it[0]. Features a great photo of the authorities smashing machines like it was the 1930s and eliminating a speak easy. [0] https://www.history.com
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Famously, some of the image models were so overtrained they could still yield impressive results if the colors were removed.
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by fbdab103 3y ago
What is the best available open source option today for TTS?
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by fbdab103 3y ago
While probably not ideal for a phone or car, it could still have its uses. So long as it stabilizes at that 70%+ region, that is not potentially a deal-braker for grid installations. Which is an optimization of installation cost, maintenanc
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Having not followed the story too closely, it is also unclear to me under what timelines the talc was most likely to be contaminated with asbestos. Always? Up until X date? Just the baby powder form, but not the pills, etc? This blurb on Wi
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by fbdab103 3y ago
I never said it had to be shared. Just that I think it incredibly likely that if a Naval sensor did detect the event, it would have been identified in short order. Potentially not definitively as an implosion, but that the Navy could have r
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by fbdab103 3y ago
Don't forget alcohol! Widely different regulations, sometimes county to county. Some states only allow liquor stores to sell spirits, some only allow hard alcohol sales on Sunday mornings, some counties allow no alcohol sales before
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by fbdab103 3y ago
>Joe Internet-Commentator looks at that and says "oh it was totally instant, probably". Kind of, yeah. There is a good timeline on when the ship was in water, when an event would have occurred, plus a very narrow geographical s

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