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by gnode 7y ago
Firstly, avoid leaking memory (including objects like images and DOM nodes) in JavaScript. Leaking memory here means retaining a reference beyond the end of the object's use. The garbage collector only collects memory which is no longe
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by gnode 7y ago
Images could be kept compressed until they are painted. Most GPUs support texture compression, so don't need to keep a bitmap for compositing.
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by gnode 7y ago
Rather than guess at what to avoid, you should make use of the memory profilers which Firefox and Chromium developer tools provide. Apparently Firefox's memory profiler is an add-on: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US&
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by gnode 7y ago
> And since gas is so much easier to transport, gas vehicles have numerous technical advantages. Typically one needs to drive to a gas station to refuel a gas vehicle, whereas an electric vehicle can be recharged at any mains power outle
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by gnode 7y ago
The argument is that oil via combustion engine vehicles compete against renewables/gas/hydro/nuclear via battery-powered electric vehicles in a single transportation energy economy.
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by gnode 7y ago
> however cheap the competition can produce oil it will be priced This assumes a perfectly competitive market, which is far from reality. Oil production is dominated by a cartel. As a cartel can increase prices to maximise profitability,
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by gnode 7y ago
Indeed, although you wouldn't just use 30km/s of delta-v to cancel the Earth's orbit, or 12.3km/s to escape the solar system. The Ulysses probe for instance used a gravitational assist around Jupiter to not only counter
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by gnode 7y ago
I think it was just an insinuation of reverse discrimination in Mozilla's hiring process.
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by gnode 7y ago
This doesn't solve any part of the waste management problem; it only frustrates safety for a small benefit. High-level nuclear waste generates heat, but is not kept hot; it's stored in cool pools. Allowing it to reach a high tempe
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by gnode 7y ago
It just depends how much you're willing to spend. You could put it in the sun or on a solar system escaping trajectory if you wanted to. Gravitational slingshots can be used to do so with a lower delta-v than naively required. With reu
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by gnode 7y ago
> Any developer can clone an open source crypto implementation and spin up a new chat app. And they can use it to converse only with themselves. Getting everyone else to stop using their favourite panopticon is the hard part.
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by gnode 7y ago
Except the landscape here is: it is known to be true, or it is unknown and should be assumed to be true.
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by gnode 7y ago
It doesn't even matter whether they're willing, that they're capable is enough reason for prejudice. Software which people's civil liberties depend upon should be developed in the open, auditable by the public, as a mini
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by gnode 7y ago
We could artificially capture arbitrary amounts of carbon using nuclear and renewable power, but I think it's important to consider how such activities would be paid for. It seems more politically feasible to me, to incentivise ecologi
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by gnode 7y ago
Properly managed landfill is given a cover to prevent gas release, and gas harvested via wells. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Landfill_gas Anaerobic decay of carboniferous matter produces much less carbon loss as gas t
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by gnode 7y ago
I agree that they are terrible, but not all programming is large code-bases. I think Perl is good for its originally intended use as a high-level scripting language.
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by gnode 7y ago
Rather than immediately sequestering the carbon, it seems to me that it would make economic sense to use fibrous plant materials in products. By taxing competing non ecologically friendly alternatives like fossil oil-based plastics, and sen
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by gnode 7y ago
The slow initial growth of trees makes me wonder whether we'd be better planting fast growing crops like bamboo and hemp which can be processed into long term materials like fibreboard and bioplastic or added to concrete.
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by gnode 7y ago
If the aim is to sequester carbon, then planting trees seems to be only half the solution. We also need to prevent the captured carbon reentering the atmosphere by combustion or decay. It seems to me that it would be beneficial to landfill
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by gnode 7y ago
The conviction rate is high because prosecutors have discretion over which cases to take to court, and there is no jury. The outcome of a bench trial is often predictable, and prosecutors will only take to trial cases they believe will succ
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by gnode 7y ago
The Charm library appears to implement the Xoodoo cipher using SIMD instructions (SSE on x86; NEON on ARM). Implemented by the same author as the VPN. There appears to be a key exchange handshake to prevent replay attacks. PFS: doesn't
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by gnode 7y ago
A government can punish people for using cryptography, punish failure to disclose keys, or treat use of cryptography as circumstantial evidence.
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by gnode 7y ago
> Would intelligence and LE also be ok with that same rules applying to them? Intelligence agents willingly sacrifice much of their personal privacy as a condition of their security clearance, so by selection bias would be more willing t
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by gnode 7y ago
I see no technical reason for why Mars could not be home to humans, or even an economically self-sufficient society, in the future. That said, it is inhospitable, and once the first people have set foot there, I see little reason why it wou
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by gnode 7y ago
It seems to me that this theory is identical to physicalism. By defining consciousness indistinguishably from a "world", or any interactive system within a world which can be modelled as an algorithm and state (experiences), it se
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by gnode 7y ago
I think the main reason Microsoft has become more Linux friendly is that it is crucial to the success of Azure, which has become a major part of Microsoft's business.
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by gnode 7y ago
For a variety of reasons, many of them are in the unfortunate and short-sighted position of being married to Windows and Microsoft software. Rejecting the software outright, and adopting some alternative would likely present larger costs an
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by gnode 7y ago
I think for the foreseeable future, it will come down to proven adaptive technology to avert disaster. We should be preparing to source a lot more electricity, in a way which doesn't dig the hole deeper.
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by gnode 7y ago
This could help in some low density cases, but probably not in dense cities. It would require some changes to the inverters such that air con could still be powered in a blackout, due to anti-islanding concerns (feeding power into an isolat
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by gnode 7y ago
Although the micro-operations are dispatched to many parallel execution units, so it's really better described as VLIW.

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