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451.
by fock 6y ago
I'm in Europe, so I can get blu-rays from some alternative source, but not from Netflix.
452.
by fock 6y ago
I just stopped caring, bought a Blu-Ray drive, which works fine under Linux nowadays and can enjoy 30Mbps FHD-encodings where I can just hit pause and have a photo-like still (everything sharp, no blocky shadows). Oh and yes, I also can buy
453.
by fock 6y ago
so sad that wirecard went down, then you could have had a clean german fintech... oh wait.
454.
by fock 6y ago
This was never meant to be a real thing, but I fantasized. Some people then told me that our some dozen space telescopes are sooo much better. How do you know by the way that this will never happen?
455.
by fock 6y ago
Does it need root/sudo? Or only plugdev or some other "sit-in-front"-privileged group and there you go?
456.
by fock 6y ago
sadly wayland means only sway. I've done some remapping as well, but don't know how to make Gnome in wayland mode (which is nice on a cramped notebook and someone has to test wayland...) read anything from a user-specified directo
457.
by fock 6y ago
I think this is not supposed to work, it's just an UI mockup?
458.
by fock 6y ago
how many space-based telescopes are there? And how many will where be, once 9/10 launches fail?
459.
by fock 6y ago
anyone know, what happens if some of these satellites fail and are uncontrollable (which is bound to happen at some point)
460.
by fock 6y ago
yes, because running on the whole number #1 cluster is just recompiling your non-trivial software. no, it's not (just take a look at QuantumEspresso, which is widely used, not too bad, but does not scale tooo god with non-Fortran and Q
461.
by fock 6y ago
that's actually a fascinating idea. think about how humanity solves the environment problems and fusion works out, bringing global peace and prosperity for once. Now a smallish rock comes from space. We don't see it, because of &q
462.
by fock 6y ago
what's so insane there? Even my very old ICE powered conbustion car drives 180km/h nicely with 70kW. And now tell me, why Tesla the Model S needs a 700hp setup?
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by fock 6y ago
no they can't, but unless Fujitsu or you produce some benchmark, to show me that 150GB of HBM with 250 cores beats the aforementioned supermicro I doubt that this is a cost-effective solution for general HPC (we have a KNL system here
464.
by fock 6y ago
then look at those 2U, 4x2 socket supermicros and think again. 512 epyc cores and 4TB of memory + Infiniband sell for USD 100k. but you're probably right that noone buys 2 of these at that price. Probably only japanese companies proud
465.
by fock 6y ago
I think this also is subject to the fact that today the US navy has not entered any area in force on a wartime footing. You can't just go around with your Phalanx armed if there might be anything non-hostile around you today (be it jus
466.
by fock 6y ago
so let's build armored hulls above our ships. oh, wait...
467.
by fock 6y ago
lobbing explosive shells into that need's at least a mortar, which at least needs rudimentary setup, which means you are dead a short time after firing your shell.
468.
by fock 6y ago
there's also the Francs CFA, meaning that these countries non-shadow economy is - in effect - still managed by France...
469.
by fock 6y ago
if you do true double-blind reviews and don't do the thing, they do at the great CS conferences (e.g. chair is from FANG, 80% of papers are from FANG; chair passes everything from his FANG). Open science is great, doing the mixture of
470.
by fock 6y ago
look, how every house is beige and changes color. I sincerely enjoy the bw-version much more.
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by fock 6y ago
but journals and peer-review enforce this. That's a good thing (though I agree that letting journals do this is stupid – arxiv is out there, why can't they sign up unis to make people review the things there.)
472.
by fock 6y ago
motorized leisure boats over 8m going 20knots. I doubt that.
473.
by fock 6y ago
maybe that's also an important lesson for some people to learn. man is not almighty and part of a complex ecosystem.
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by fock 6y ago
> at speeds above 20knots maybe speed is a problem here. and if you are slow, it's a lot less. Also burning at least 50€ (I'm not sure about tax exemptions for nautical fuel, but in Europe 1.5€/l is very likely) for a shor
475.
by fock 6y ago
how do you intend to fix and cracks and similar things coming up over the sustainable lifetime of such a recreational article (probably spanning several decades)?
476.
by fock 6y ago
and now they have their 2 metric tonnes driving batteries consuming coal. Whew. Maybe we should think about systemic change.
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by fock 6y ago
so in what wonderland are you charging your boat with this 99%-less CO2-grid? And guess what, boating could arguably also be done with a 100% reduced emission footprint. It's called sailing. Btw: what did I miss that owning and operati
478.
by fock 6y ago
do you really "enjoy outdoors" with a speedboat"? A simple sailing boat has a fraction of the foodprint and you probably can see a lot more of the outdoors. Will you spot wildlife at the coast riding this: probably not.
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by fock 6y ago
so, what's the purpose of this thing. Because taking out "fossil fuels" of a senseless activity just to use up 20% less of our liveable environment, seems -ehm- idiotic?
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by fock 6y ago
also I was not aware that governmen corruption was a bottom-up problem

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