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by gnode 7y ago
Cinebench is a good test for highly optimised graphics performance (mostly floating point arithmetic). This maps fairly well to many common compute intensive applications. For more general benchmarking something like Geekbench is probably m
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by gnode 7y ago
The brain is very complex, but it's not well understood how well that complexity contributes to its computation. Observable phenomena may contribute to the computational capacity of the brain, or may just introduce noise which impairs
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by gnode 7y ago
Faithfully simulating the human brain requires much more processing power than presently available, so potentially yes. That said, we don't know how much of this complexity is actually vital to the functioning of intelligence and consc
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by gnode 7y ago
That you can exchange something for other currencies doesn't make it a currency. Currency is defined by its use as a medium of exchange. Non-redeemable purchasable tokens could meet the definition of a currency. Conversion can be facil
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by gnode 7y ago
> To the relief of some ethicists, we're a long way from AGI, [...] I often hear statements of this kind, but do they have basis? While there's not much to suggest that AGI will be developed soon, it doesn't seem sensible
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by gnode 7y ago
For direction of learning, I'd recommend finding challenging projects with them which they have a strong interest in, and can feel a sense of ownership over, then let their curiosity and creativity drive the teaching. The teaching shou
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by gnode 7y ago
Sure, but what I'm saying is: the largest value is in having won the hearts and minds of their customers (brand value). Amazon are often more expensive than competitors, but customers still prefer them because they know and trust the e
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by gnode 7y ago
Talking about "speed" is confusing. The problem is not a bandwidth bottleneck, but a latency bottleneck. Having cache doesn't always solve this problem. If an application requires random memory access over a range much larger
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by gnode 7y ago
Georgia is not in Russia.
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by gnode 7y ago
> Uber's tech is simple and easily replicable. The same can be said for web shops like Amazon. The tech is nothing special, but the brand and network are. The promise of Uber is in becoming a trusted brand, with capacity everywhere,
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by gnode 7y ago
> I presume you do not belong to that minority that believes traffic rules do not apply to bikes Personally, I don't see much reason for speed limits to apply to bikes, or at least, for a speed limit intended for cars to apply to bi
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by gnode 7y ago
That Apple have married themselves to Thunderbolt (co-developed by Apple and Intel) may have had something to do with it. Previously Thunderbolt was not well supported on AMD platforms, as I understand it. This appears to be changing though
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by gnode 7y ago
Severity is part of what is meant by unusual. Life imprisonment for a minor crime would be considered unusual punishment.
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by gnode 7y ago
> How is that not "cruel and unusual" Cruel refers to punishment which is torturous. Prison, in theory, should not be torture, despite often being so. Many aspects of incarceration in the US which are effectively torturous are
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by gnode 7y ago
> You’re not going to believe it: The screen brightness was turned all the way down (not merely dim, but off). Funnily enough, this is the first thing I suspected, given that it's happened to me (under Ubuntu in my case). Although e
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by gnode 7y ago
Although referred to as a joke, I really like the look of eDEX-UI, and I look forward to trying it out. I have a tablet running Ubuntu which I mostly use for writing and freehand drawing, and it'd be nice to use it for other things (pa
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by gnode 7y ago
I actually like it. Constraining the text width improves readability, columns make more efficient use of the available space, and horizontal scrolling avoids the need for vertical pagination when using columns.
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by gnode 7y ago
> Don’t you think it’s bad for a society to have a system that encourages people to get loans? It's more nuanced than that. It encourages people to get a line of credit and demonstrate that they can be responsible with it. There&#x2
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by gnode 7y ago
Avoiding negligence doesn't conventionally require you to endanger your own life. This seems a proxy for creating a "desertion" or "dereliction of duty" charge within policing. If the expectation of assuming a polic
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by gnode 7y ago
This sounds similar to the kind of armour employed by the International Space Station. The basic principle is to use a thin and hard layer to fragment the projectile, then a soft interstitial layer to absorb the energy of the resulting high
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by gnode 7y ago
> What is added to the social value of bitcoin or cryptocurrency in general? Authoritative leadership. Nakamoto filled this role historically, and since becoming absent Bitcoin has faced a scalability crisis, and resulting loss of confid
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by gnode 7y ago
This sounds similar to the concept of self-healing materials. Such materials aren't necessarily at full health (optimal structure) following manufacture, so could expect to see improvements through use. Some materials and devices also
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by gnode 7y ago
While I am a strong exponent of individual freedom, I think people should be to some extent protected from making decisions which are against their own interest, especially when their decisions are permanent and pathologically affected. In
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by gnode 7y ago
I would describe Rust as, for the most part, a very high-level language, with a strong penchant for zero-cost abstractions. I think many people fall into the trap of considering a language with a static type system as low level. Conversely,
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by gnode 7y ago
I don't think it can be sensibly argued that nuclear is more fuel efficient than wind and solar, which have no fuel as such). Although future nuclear technology (breeder reactors, seawater uranium extraction, fusion) makes fuel hugely
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by gnode 7y ago
> We should be doing a fuckton of R+D into energy storage solutions I agree that we should research energy storage, but there's no guarantee such research would be very fruitful. I don't think it's sensible to double down
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by gnode 7y ago
> bill-payers will give price support to the Hinkley Point C nuclear station at a cost of £92.50 per megawatt hour, compared with £55 for offshore wind. Something ignored here, is that electricity generation is not fungible. Wind power i
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by gnode 7y ago
I think to a large extent it is first mover advantage, but that's not something to be taken lightly. They invested in developing an internet distribution platform at a time when broadband penetration was relatively low. I couldn't
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by gnode 7y ago
> I would totally LOVE the day when I can do a 500k trip with the family using electric technology This seems to be fairly close. The Pipistrel Panthera looks quite promising, for instance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by gnode 7y ago
We should actually solve the problem collectively. The externalities should be priced into the cost of fossil fuels with taxation, and alternative technologies researched (which would likely be done by the private sector, facing a carbon ta

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