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by foxhill 4y ago
does this not describe - modulo some specifics - elon musk? where is full self driving? solar roof tiles? the manned mars landing? holmes deserves punishment on some level, certainly, although honestly i feel 10+ years might be a bit much.
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by foxhill 4y ago
it's to indicate that the text quote is as-written (which may not necessarily be a _mistake_), and from the perspective of the BBC, "realize" isn't alternative, it's just wrong :)
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by foxhill 4y ago
if we could make racemic glucose (i.e. a 50:50 split of D/L-glucose), the battle would be done. you'd expect to see this if we had a purely synthetic process for the creation of glucose in the lab. but, as far as i know, we only h
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by foxhill 4y ago
miners will choose to exclude transactions from their blocks if the transaction fee included isn’t high enough. the transaction fee isn’t some algorithmically determined value, it’s completely controlled by market forces (for better & w
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by foxhill 4y ago
because i expect miners to not operate at a loss. they can address this by either turning off their miners (which is most likely to occur when coinbase dominates the block payment amount), or by charging more to process transactions. so far
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by foxhill 4y ago
apologies, this is non-sense. this is what transaction fees are for. the gradual reduction in coinbase incentivizes miners to charge for transactions, and the desire for transaction completion incentivizes clients to pay for them. the paper
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by foxhill 4y ago
i’m a long time cubendo user. i’ve tried to switch to ardour a couple of times (although perhaps lacking in sustained effort), but i can’t ever quite seem to get the same productivity in my workflows - e.g. multi-track slip editing for a wh
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by foxhill 4y ago
indeed, and i agree - what i'm saying is that even today, the rasterization of triangles is still 2D :) (and necessarily will always be! well, as long as we use 2D displays..)
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by foxhill 4y ago
i'd argue that 3d-accelerated graphics from that era is still true 3d acceleration. of course, back then the pipelines were mostly fixed - nothing like programable shaders - but you're passing in 3d-coordinates, generating some ma
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by foxhill 4y ago
i agree with a lot of this; > I was not happy so see that my mouse felt laggy i also noticed this immediately and it was infuriating. my display runs at 240hz, so there must be at least 2, maybe even 3 frames of latency for it to be noti
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by foxhill 4y ago
i really want to support Wayland. X has done us well, but it's about time a protocol based around more modern situations supplants it. Wayland has a myriad of these sharp-edge cases which i also find each time i try it out. what worrie
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by foxhill 4y ago
the noise floor at 16 bit is already low. 24 bit, much more common (and imo needless for consumers), is 256x lower than that. there’s no part of the analogue capture process that can utilise such a low noise floor (as far as i’m aware): is
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by foxhill 4y ago
apologies, i’d read it in a more accusatory tone.
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by foxhill 4y ago
not really, human memory is surprisingly non-linear, and temporal ordering is pretty poor. even for important events. more importantly, making someone aware of their inaccuracy of something so close to them could quite possibly make them fe
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by foxhill 4y ago
it likely had a different console at the time, and changed to an xbox at a later date. also perhaps it’s not worth nitpicking minutiae over someone’s account of a tragedy.
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by foxhill 4y ago
chromium people are chrome people. google provide chromium either as a literal requirement for compliance with some other open source licence, or as a vestige from the “don’t be evil” days.
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by foxhill 4y ago
apologies, i don’t understand. you seemed to suggest cars are a significant contributor to CO2 emission.
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by foxhill 4y ago
and automotive emissions account for ~10% of all CO2 emissions. 20% if you want to include all transport (e.g. sea shipping, planes, etc.) there’s been a lot of media attention on how individuals need to make an effort to beat climate cha
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by foxhill 4y ago
it’s a more practical solution for right now though. we can’t expect the world to switch its entire infrastructure overnight, or even quickly. yes, the rich nations might get a head start, but they represent such a small fraction of emissio
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by foxhill 4y ago
even if it ran on gasoline created from carbon dioxide extracted from the atmosphere?
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by foxhill 4y ago
most other aspects. not all.
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by foxhill 4y ago
it looks like that battery is exactly what i'd said it'd be: a flat, less space efficient form factor. all you're seeing here is fewer layer penetration from the puncture, and more surface area to dissipate the heat over. n
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by foxhill 4y ago
> To make a battery safer, you reduce the ways it can give up that energy. well, not exactly: > [...] some batteries will give up their energy if they are penetrated with a sharp object. Some won't. and your options for surviving
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by foxhill 4y ago
i'd say about the same - less than 10 times a year. this isn't just about us as individuals; we still have buses, taxi's, rental cars, service cars, trucks, car-sharing, planes, etc. few of these can viably use batteries (and
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by foxhill 4y ago
> You seem to be under the common misconception that it's the energy density of batteries that make them unsafe. not at all. in fact, i said their (comparatively) low energy density is what makes them safe. that low energy density
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by foxhill 4y ago
i honestly think gasoline is a far batter energy storage platform for longer distance, personal journeys. * far higher energy density, ~45MJ/kg compared to LiPo's ~1MJ/kg. (in fact the latter is probably the only reason LiP
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by foxhill 4y ago
eh honestly i don't think extensions are really all that bad. it's a standard and extensible way for third parties to advance the API, and - presuming the extension is rationalized into the API appropriately - allows for clean evo
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by foxhill 4y ago
i was paraphrasing for someone who might not be familiar with graphics basics, let alone architectures of bindless/GPU-driven rendering pipelines :) OpenGL 3 deprecated glBegin/glEnd, but there is still state, and a lot of it. non
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by foxhill 4y ago
imo, it’s unlikely that it will get much easier directly. if you’re interested in getting into GPU programming, i’d still recommend it. i know it can be daunting at first - the API spec is huge , and there are lots of things to get your he
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by foxhill 4y ago
OpenGL done us good for a long time. Khronos (the standards maintainer) refused to advance the standard in any meaningful way since the API was based around a stateful glBegin/glEnd model. modern graphics hardware does not work well in

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