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by fpoling 9mo ago
But how would RocksDB work with S3? It needs support for append that generic S3 buckets do not provide and for checkpoints and backup it assumes the support for hardlinks that S3 does not have at all.
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by fpoling 9mo ago
We have a washing machine that also has a drier function. It dries much slower than a standalone drier as it consumes water during the drying circle to cool and condense the hot air from the clothes. But the big plus is that it works in mos
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by fpoling 9mo ago
Alligators will enjoy warmer Florida with more swamps.
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by fpoling 9mo ago
Also China has invested a lot into liquid fuel production from coal. With latest process improvements the relevant cost is like 80-90 USD per barrel. So in few years they will be mostly independent from oil and natural gas imports.
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by fpoling 9mo ago
China population is 4 times of US and a lot of CO2 there comes from US outsourcing energy-intensive production.
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by fpoling 9mo ago
EVs are still heavier than ICE vehicles and will for the next 10-20 years unless one is OK with a tiny battery. And heavy weight means more pollution from wheels that produce particles that ends up in lungs. Note brakes also pollutes with a
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by fpoling 9mo ago
Shaheds are heavy and big and I doubt that the new laser system can damage them. An interceptor drone is much cheaper and effective against them. This is more like defense against smaller FPV drones targeting bigger anti-missile systems.
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by fpoling 9mo ago
That laser station will not last in Ukraine an hour and will be destroyed either by missiles or drone swarm. What Ukraine have found a net launcher is effective and cheap solution against drones and may allow more use of tanks and heavy arm
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by fpoling 9mo ago
In theory yes, one can stay in Spain as a citizen of a EU country indefinitely. In practice for anything in Spain you need a tax number. Even to get an Internet connection at home one needs it.
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by fpoling 9mo ago
EU paid Russia since the full scale Russian aggression more money for gas, oil, coal etc. than to support Ukraine. By that logic almost all EU citizens has ties to Russia as they use electricity/gas partially supplied by Russia.
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by fpoling 9mo ago
Russia after starting aggressive war against Ukraine quickly deployed own version of payment system. And it has been working much better than Visa/Madtercards with much more straightforward integration with online services and very int
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by fpoling 9mo ago
In Barcelona it is impossible to get an appointment for the residence card. There is online booking system, but it never shows any available slots. But then there are few companies that for 50-100 euros can get an appointment. But then even
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by fpoling 10mo ago
This example also shows a weakness of custom tags compared with using the class attribute. An element can have only single name but may have several classes. And as classes are unordered set, one cannot in general emulate that with several
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by fpoling 10mo ago
China population is 4 times of US.
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by fpoling 10mo ago
AC makes things much easier as it allows to play God powers. Negating AC is not significantly different from constructing mathematics that avoids AC (no assumption about validity of AC). And that makes things way harder with longer proofs a
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by fpoling 10mo ago
With more time the scale of change is very personal. For some people going from 15 minutes to 1 hour gives a massive boost, while other do not improve match. And then some people can loose focus or get distracted during longer plays so for
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by fpoling 10mo ago
Well we know that vision works based on human experience. So few years ago it was a reasonable bet that cameras alone could solve this. The problem with Tesla is that they still continue to insist on that after it became apparent that visio
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by fpoling 10mo ago
Kalman filters and more advanced aggregators add non-trivial latency. So even if one does not care about cost, there can be a drawback from having an extra sensor.
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by fpoling 10mo ago
Even when it is extremely cold like -50 Celsius, one can still walk outside for hours with sufficiently warm clothes. But try the same when it is +50. And then spending weeks in air-conditioned apartments was strictly worse for me than in a
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by fpoling 10mo ago
If one has a reproducible JSON serializer, then one can add a signature to any JSON object via serializing the object, signing that and then adding the resulting signature to the original object. This avoids JSON-inside-JSOn and allows to
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by fpoling 10mo ago
Rust also suffers from libraries returning a newly allocated strings and vectors when the code should allow to pass a pre-existing string or vector to place the results. Granted the latter leads to more verbose code and chaining of several
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by fpoling 10mo ago
Yes, people do notice sleep. But it has to be on the scale of minutes or it will be ignored especially if it happens during a CI run.
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by fpoling 10mo ago
In Texas a lot of natural gas is wasted/burned away as it is not profitable to collect and transport it from all oil fields. These days quite a few places put small turbines to generate electricity to do cryptocurrency mining. This wil
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by fpoling 10mo ago
The newer plants not only more efficient going from 30-35% of peak efficiency to something like 45%, they can also operate efficiently over wider range of power output and are faster to turn on/off. This is very helpful to deal with va
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by fpoling 10mo ago
Somebody calculated that a home in UK needs 1 Megawatt-Hour battery to backup solar energy during the winter. I suspect in 10 years that may cost below 25K, a small fraction of the property cost.
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by fpoling 10mo ago
Many countries has official register of companies with at least post box address. Requiring to answer a physical letter sent to an address from the central register will be much more reliable.
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by fpoling 10mo ago
While there is no bulletproof way to preserve wealth real-estate is one of the most sound one compared to others. A nuclear accident can be insured and general social decline happens over many years or even decades that gives plenty of time
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by fpoling 10mo ago
Few years ago I needed to transfer a big sum from a Scandinavian country into Euro. The official bank exchange rate plus fees was worse than Wise’s. But I asked the bank and the bank gave me an exchange rate that was like 0.1% better than o
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by fpoling 10mo ago
Languages with reasonable semantics are rather similar and LLMs are good at detecting that and adapting from other languages.
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by fpoling 10mo ago
Pick up a book about programming from seventies or eighties that was unlikely to be scanned and feed into LLM. Take a task from it and ask LLM to write a program from it that even a student can solve within 10 minutes. If the problem was no

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