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by grumbelbart 1y ago
That is correct. The permutations will likely break up into multiple cycles, and the cycle lengths follow a poisson distribution. https://dms.umontreal.ca/~andrew/PDF/CycleLengths1.pdf
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by grumbelbart 1y ago
There are optical accelerators on the market that - I believe - do that already, such as https://qant.com/photonic-computing/
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by grumbelbart 2y ago
That's a misconception. Earth is still pretty much in an equilibrium and emits as much as it gets from the sun. Global warming is due to the heat staying a bit longer in the system, not due to emitting less.
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by grumbelbart 2y ago
Drilling is essentially an O(N^2) method. You need to replace your drill bit every X meters, and the time it takes to replace it about linear in the current depth.
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by grumbelbart 2y ago
That's just economy of scale, though. It's always more expensive to be the early adaptor. In Switzerland, 15% of all buildings are heated using geothermal heat pumps.
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by grumbelbart 2y ago
> Would the insulation also make it sound-proof? Not necessarily. Thermal insulation uses light materials, sound insulation requires heavy materials.
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by grumbelbart 2y ago
I was once working in a company producing software / operating systems for smart cards (such as the chips on your credit cards). We developed a simulator for the hardware that logged all changes to registers, memory and other states in
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by grumbelbart 2y ago
So maybe we have different definitions of "time travel". But I recall that - if a compiler finds that condition A would lead to UB, it can assume that A is never true - that fact can "backpropagate" to, for example, elim
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by grumbelbart 2y ago
The current trend is somewhat exponential, though, and solar is now finally cheap enough to compete even without subsidies. That will hopefully lead to an even stronger boost. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Growth_of_pho
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by grumbelbart 2y ago
https://electrek.co/2024/02/13/tesla-worker-died-horrible-cr...
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by grumbelbart 2y ago
But "works in limited cases" is absolutely not enough, given what it promises. It drove into static objects a couple of times, killing people. Recent videos still show behavior like speeding through stop signs: https://
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by grumbelbart 5y ago
Huh? Plenty of previous non-covid vaccines require more than two shots.
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by grumbelbart 10y ago
Fully agree to everything you said, one point: > Didn't Git v2.0 break backwards compatibility? No, it did not.