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by foxhill 3y ago
i don’t think that’s a sensible reading or conclusion from OP’s comment. indeed, your conclusion appears to desire the very thing OP was calling in to question without justification - the existence of that authority figure. why do you think
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by foxhill 3y ago
well.. my understanding is that the difficulty with those projects is converting fast moving neutrons into electricity without degrading the material.. :) but a room-temperature superconductor would certainly lower the operating costs of al
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by foxhill 3y ago
kiln materials are listed, too not that i think it matters that much. the paper doesn’t indicate that synthesis is a particularly sensitive step.
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by foxhill 3y ago
i expect so. there are some chemistry youtubers who read HN. i’d imagine they’re gonna have a fun few days!
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by foxhill 3y ago
indeed, and i wonder if you could elide the vacuum entirely with a noble gas (presuming the vacuum is required to avoid reactions with atmospheric gases)
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by foxhill 3y ago
big if true. far from a chemistry expert here, but synthesis looks basically trivial (if you consider 10e-5 torr vacuum to be trivial), and the materials are readily available. hell, from the instructions alone i could probably make it at
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by foxhill 3y ago
templates don’t exist after the front end. there is no ABI that allows them to exist in any object file. there is no object file format they could be embedded in, sans a string representation of the source they came from. extremely hard i
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by foxhill 4y ago
> But these companies are not charities, they exist to make money. for sure. and, as we all know, society only exists so that companies can make money. where would we be without bezos, musk, gates, et al.
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by foxhill 4y ago
> It doesn’t match the inflation chart. and i don’t think you’d expect it to. the increased supply needs to hit the market first. depending on how that money is distributed, that could take a long time. also remember that QE has been cen
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by foxhill 4y ago
indeed - implicit conversions are the underlying cause of bugs in most of the issues i get tasked with fixing. i think it would be sensible to add unsigned, and disallow implicit conversion (definitely at least narrowing conversions). but j
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by foxhill 4y ago
yes, i am very familiar with that pain. fglrx was hell compared to nvidia. nvidia being the only viable solution for 3d on linux is a bit of an exaggeration imo (source: i did it for 5 years), but that was a long time ago: we have amdgpu, w
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by foxhill 4y ago
it doesn’t do CUDA, but it does do opencl, and vulkan compute
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by foxhill 4y ago
amdgpu is new. you may be thinking about fglrx: a true hell.
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by foxhill 4y ago
DLSS was windows only for some time. linux’s amdgpu is far better than the nvidia-driver.
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by foxhill 4y ago
more likely: they are victims. which makes sense. but there’s a reason why victims of crime aren’t allowed to be jurors of their own case.
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by foxhill 4y ago
no one is taking your inches away, nor your language. many people, where i am from, use both sets of units interchangeably. it’s a total non-issue.
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by foxhill 4y ago
- a windows-first programmer who sees interoperability and composition as an encumbrance that satisfies “nerds who like to do weird shit that i don’t understand in bash” reading from stdin isn’t challenging, nor writing to stdout. if someon
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by foxhill 4y ago
this is a wall of text citing a single paper which itself is entirely unverifiable. regardless, if this described how drug dealers engineer the distribution of their product to optimise addiction, we would not be celebrating it as an engine
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by foxhill 4y ago
> I feel C++ needs to do the following to be able to survive [...] absolutely. unfortunately, saftey oriented proposals tend to focus on a weaker warning-esque approach ([[nodiscard]], contracts, etc.), which, in my opinion, will ultimat
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by foxhill 4y ago
> However C++ smart pointers impose a run time performance penalty on your code. i'm not sure if this is the case. unique_ptr doesn't really do much other than use the type system to ensure that only one instance of the pointed
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by foxhill 4y ago
my niece has her GCSEs coming up this summer, this information is going to put her at ease, let me tell you. :)
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by foxhill 4y ago
of course, if you need it then you need it. i think the original commenters point only talks about how bad TSTZ is as a storage format , and that TAI is not only better than timestamp with time zone, but also UTC in almost every measure -
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by foxhill 4y ago
indeed, but i don’t think they are able to retroactively update the time stamp of an already sent email :)
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by foxhill 4y ago
> [...] sometimes it is about the entity producing the data so should we not store that data, then? > The "Date" header in emails include the timezone (or UTC offset) of the sender [...] i don't think that's stric
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by foxhill 4y ago
> Ironically Pro Tools is still not M1 native. that does not surprise me at all, unfortunately. > One cool thing in MacOS that Windows can't do is aggregate of audio devices/interfaces. it does come at the cost of latency &a
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by foxhill 4y ago
likely because the logistics of handling and utilising an energy source that can materialise the entirety of its stored energy instantly has some safety concerns. requiring air is not a limitation, it’s a feature.
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by foxhill 4y ago
evidence suggests the optimal amount law breaking is non-zero. that’s going to be very difficult against a regime that can track the movements of all money.
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by foxhill 4y ago
it doesn’t refute it, and it wasn’t my intention to do so. i was trying to point out that such an “extreme” position might not be sensible for such a fractionally small amount of CO2 emissions.
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by foxhill 4y ago
nonsense. cars, buses, and SUVs (odd distinction, but ok. also why buses?!) account for ~10-15% of global emissions (depending on how you cut it). see https://ourworldindata.org/emissions-by-sector .
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by foxhill 4y ago
compstat - what i presume you are referring to - demonstrably exacerbates the performance metrics it was intended to improve. it impacts everyone, even today. because it - either by accident or by design - disproportionally targets latino&#

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