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by gandreani 8y ago
Nice job! I also really appreciate the lack of memes and very concise format of this blog post
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by gandreani 8y ago
> The US expends more energy on air conditioning, for example, than the whole of Africa does on everything. Then again, it expends even more energy on hot water, which doesn’t get the same rap. I'd like to know where the author got
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by gandreani 8y ago
Does it? It seems very experimental now. They even had to do work _just_ to get DOTA2 running > The initial results were… slightly discouraging. For a while we weren’t able to get the game to start, due to our Metal backend was missing s
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by gandreani 8y ago
Exactly! That's probably %40-25 of the cost in our utility bills. The maintenance of these is never considered
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by gandreani 8y ago
They exist actually. For example, when California wind drives prices down to <0, it gets given away to nearby states (I think mostly Nevada)
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by gandreani 8y ago
Yeah I don't think China or India are catching up any time soon. They're extremely arid regions. China even has a program in place to plant trees along the Gobi dessert to stop it's expansion. https://en.wikipedia.
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by gandreani 8y ago
I was curious about this and wanted to share some quick calculations on how viable this is: A tree can absorb as much as 48 lbs of CO2 per year [1]. This is pretty vague cause this can vary by tree age and size, but let's use this arbi
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by gandreani 8y ago
That would be a good solution for the power delivery problem but not the charging problem
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by gandreani 8y ago
Yes but the limit that I talked about takes into consideration parallel charging. The limit is for each individual cell, so even if each individual cell is charged in parallel it would still take an hour at least to charge You could charge
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by gandreani 8y ago
One application for super capacitors that I always think about is electric planes. These small planes represent a drop in the total fuel consumption of air travel. The majority of it is consumed by commercial passenger airlines and shipping
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by gandreani 8y ago
Not about to participate in any side of this flame war. I just wanted to point out how nice the presentation is on this site. And the whole site is less than 1MB!
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by gandreani 8y ago
Are you talking about these? https://www.tensorflow.org/api_docs/python/tf/contrib/model_...
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by gandreani 8y ago
Wow I'm a total novice but as far as I know most of the optimization methods for models (Pruning, Weight Sharing, Quantization, Low Rank Approximation, Binary / Ternary Net, Winograd Transformation) aren't really implemented
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by gandreani 8y ago
Oh man where do I begin? So I can't confidently say I've tried it all but when I booted up Ubuntu within the last year it was hard to find... - simple email client with good html template support and conversation threading (
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by gandreani 8y ago
I welcome it It's just impractical to have high quality software for every niche be built by the FOSS community. Even non-niche products (like, let's say email) leave a lot to be desired If I could pay companies for these products
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by gandreani 8y ago
Even if we lived in a world with gold masters there would still be one reason for patches: Balancing. My thinking is to expect patches when making a multiplayer game. There's just no practical way around it
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Pedal powered generator from parts ordered off Amazon(genesgreenmachine.com)
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by gandreani 8y ago
This is probably the most realistic theory I've heard that explains planned obsolescence. I'd then argue that there's still some malevolence in there and that would be the maximum lifetime they calculated. Clearly the older s
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by gandreani 8y ago
Lot's of awesome nuggets in there > My first line of attack is to empower consumers to fix their own electronics and expand product lifespan. If products last twice as long, then we net half as much e-waste. And that’s why I’m going
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by gandreani 8y ago
I don't know why the OP posted such a terrible link. I found an alternate one: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2969365/security/lenovos-ser... It says the Thinkpad lines were never affected by this
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by gandreani 8y ago
Holy moly! Thirteen bins!! Still not clear how people are prevented from throwing garbage into the recycle bins. Is the recyclable stuff not placed in bags and therefore easy to be vetted by the staff?
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by gandreani 8y ago
Oh man. Those discounts sounds like such a headache. It's hard enough considering the asks for one department already... Environment is definitely the key. We don't use either of those languages but we do run our site on a dozen o
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by gandreani 8y ago
Thank you for sharing your experience! New languages is one of the "fun" parts of programming. Except at work. There are legitimate problems of legibility, maintainability, and training when introducing new stuff into the stack. T
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by gandreani 8y ago
Yes! Magic indeed. I wish you good luck in keeping that habit!
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by gandreani 8y ago
Yes! I've been doing it for 3 years and I found another benefit which is improvement to my "skill" in cooking. I have a lot more intuition on cooking times, required temps for recipes, and general choice of ingredients. Doesn
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by gandreani 8y ago
Jealous! I used to commute about 8km by bike on my first job. It was out of necessity but after 3 months I saw some serious benefits. I went out for a run and I couldn't believe the stamina I had built up without noticing Now my commut
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by gandreani 8y ago
> as a onetime subscriber i'd say ben has nothing to sell or prove anymore with regards to his theory. he just truly honestly sees the world through Aggregation a lot of the time I agree! I probably shouldn't have used the word
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by gandreani 8y ago
Sorry, my comment was aimed at other frequent stratechery readers. Here's a page listing all the relevant articles on it https://stratechery.com/concepts/
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by gandreani 8y ago
I like today's article. I've been subscribed for a couple of months now (volun-told at work) and a lot of the latest articles had the author trying to sell the "Aggregation Theory" a bit too much. I found myself skipping
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by gandreani 8y ago
Madness! Or actually really similar to an idea that Joe Armstrong presented in Strange Loop one time (just the idea no demo or anything) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lKXe3HUG2l4

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