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by fpoling 1y ago
Consider a chemical synthesis that needs carbon. Right now it uses oil. But is has to be extracted and transported. With carbon capture from the air that no longer required. And maintaining the extra facility at the chemical factory can be
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by fpoling 1y ago
This about using carbon for chemical industry.
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by fpoling 1y ago
If electricity is sufficiently cheap it can be cheaper to capture carbon from the atmosphere for chemical industry than to use oil or coal there.
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by fpoling 1y ago
If you close the account with Amazon, then yes, the data can be deleted. But typically based on contract this will require notifying Amazon and will be extremely visible and can be reverted. If the company does not pay, then the company bre
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by fpoling 1y ago
The hold in compliance mode with AWS is accepted way to persist data that a company obliged to hold legally by US requirements. And if your company has a sale contract with AWS the buckets cannot just vanish or AWS cannot close the account
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by fpoling 1y ago
Note that with such lock mistakes can be costly. If you put into S3 several terabytes by mistake and set the compliance lock duration for 2 years, you will have to pay for that storage for 2 years.
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by fpoling 1y ago
There is a contractual obligation on Amazon side. If they kill the account in violation of the contract, the court will force them to pay heavy damages. Now, one can argue that courts would take time and money and a company may not afford s
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by fpoling 1y ago
It cannot be done if S3 objects use the object lock in compliance mode. Such objects cannot be altered in any way and the bucket cannot be deleted until the lock expires .
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by fpoling 1y ago
S3 provides an object lock in compliance mode when nobody at the organization including its admins can delete objects during the specified period.
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by fpoling 1y ago
This bug is orthogonal to one source of truth. It is a pure logic bug that could have existed in a standard system library for config files if such existed on Unix. And consider that consequences of such bug would be much worse if it was in
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by fpoling 1y ago
> Animals tend towards whatever size lets them maximise survival. Evolution is a filter that removes unfit, it does not select the best fit. So a lot of mutations that slightly decreases fitness for the environment stay as they do not ma
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by fpoling 1y ago
In US in 19th century stocks of banks that went bankrupt were used as a sort of paper money to solve the problem of money availability. So the finite amount of base money would just mean that derivative products would be used as practical m
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by fpoling 1y ago
This has been puzzling me for over 3 decades. My first experience with C++ was Borland C++ for DOS. It had precompiled headers and it worked extremely well. Then around 1995 I got access to HP-UX and native compiler there and GCC. Nobody he
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by fpoling 1y ago
Containers will not help if the kernel will not run 32-bit binaries.
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by fpoling 1y ago
Use VM to run old distros or old Windows.
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by fpoling 1y ago
When ChatGPT appeared I have been working at a small startup for couple of months that was planning to hire another programmer. CTO became extremely enthusiastic about ChatGPT and said that the programming would be a dying job and tried to
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by fpoling 1y ago
Project Orion-type space craft can archive 1000 km/s and can travel within 3 years 542 AU. And this is absolutely feasible technically, just not politically.
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by fpoling 1y ago
This has been going on in Russia on massive scale. For bribes officials sells anything including highly sensitive databases. Those were used to uncover various Kremlin-run assassins targeting oppositions. Then Ukrainian special services use
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by fpoling 1y ago
Yet the models do not (yet) reason. Try to ask them to solve a programming puzzle or exercise from an old paper book that was not scanned. They will produce total garbage. Models work across programming languages because it turned out progr
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by fpoling 1y ago
If one thinks about it, even basic truth may not be so evident. For example, consider Cogito, ergo sum. As Latin has no continues verb time, that phrase may mean I exist because I think. Or I am existing because I am thinking . The latter i
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by fpoling 1y ago
Essentially the axiom of choice allows for 3-d sets that do not preserve their volume upon rotation/movement. Such sets, of cause, cannot be constructed or even described as their description will contain infinite number of steps.
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by fpoling 1y ago
This a feature targeting developers or perhaps apps running on end-user machine where page cache sharing between applications or container does not typically get much of RAM saving. Linux kernel overhead itself while non-trivial is still ve
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by fpoling 1y ago
I doubt Helion will work. By their own paper using simplified model their device allows theoretically for Q no more than 2 (2 times energy produced versus energy spent). They claim with their like 90% efficient capture they still get net en
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by fpoling 1y ago
In embedded world restrictions on the output is the last thing of worries while fulfilling various certification requirements can be a big and costly headache. And from the vendor point of view releasing a compiler under libre license allow
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by fpoling 1y ago
People often have no clue either explaining why LLMs are so successful.
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by fpoling 1y ago
I was also surprised initially, but then Russia got a lot of videos themselves and they also got stats about mobile traffic with tenths of SIM cards being activated at the same time and sending a lot of data. So Russia new everything. On th
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by fpoling 1y ago
If one worries about bitrot, the backup tools are not good place to detect that. Using a filesystem with native checksums is the way to go. If one worries about silent file modifications that alters content but keep timestamp and length, th
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by fpoling 1y ago
As with rsync borg does not read files if their timestamp/length do not change since the last backup. And for million files on modern SSD it takes just few seconds to read their metadata.
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by fpoling 1y ago
It is a very interesting idea that cosmologist were wrong to ignore electromagnetic forces when most of the matter in early universe were plasma. On the other hand the notion of evolution implies the existence of global time ordering. Yet b
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by fpoling 1y ago
This always sleep for timeout rather than terminating when the command terminates.

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