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by hedgehog 3y ago
Presenting a very slightly increasing average antarctic coverage trend over specifically 40 years as a refutation that antarctic polar ice is in retreat is misleading for a couple reasons. First, the last ten years appears to show strongly
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by hedgehog 3y ago
That's an accurate but misleading characterization of the data. Anyone can go eyeball the chart you linked and then read this for context to form a more complete opinion: https://www.climate.gov/news-features/under
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by hedgehog 3y ago
Don't undersell that you have the perspective that comes from doing this for over a decade (YC S11?).
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by hedgehog 3y ago
In my experience for it to take effect you need either a predictable window of plugged in time (it will delay charging until it needs to to hit 100% by when you normally unplug) or just to use your compute almost exclusively plugged in (at
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by hedgehog 3y ago
It may be how you load, I don't think that's a common issue. Microscopic bits of glass are basically sand though so I wouldn't worry unless there's a lot or it's getting airborne.
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by hedgehog 3y ago
I don't think this is very true. Let's take word processing for example, with say Word 5.1 on a Quadra 700 as a highish end (probably $10k in today's dollars) setup available in around 1992: In a narrow sense typing US Englis
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by hedgehog 3y ago
So sort of, but let's not look at the past too wistfully. I also remember when moderately long text had to be split across files (even multiple floppies if you were writing a book). I remember having to choose what languages my OS inst
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by hedgehog 3y ago
28,827 commits. GitHub mirror of the code: https://github.com/0ad/0ad
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by hedgehog 3y ago
I hadn't looked at Triton before, I took a quick look at it and how it's getting used in PyTorch 2. My read is it really lowers the barrier to doing new hardware ports, I think a team of around five people within a chip vendor&#x2
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by hedgehog 3y ago
First you have to figure out what problem to attack. Research, training production models, and production inference all have very different needs on the software side. Then you have to work out what the decision tree is for your customers (
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by hedgehog 3y ago
I know a fair amount about this problem, my last startup built a working prototype of a performance-portable deep learning framework that got good performance out of AMD cards. The compiler stack is way harder than most people appreciate be
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by hedgehog 3y ago
Pretty cool. For the next step the sprayers don't work like a normal spray gun, instead of pressure they use a spinning contraption to mist the paint and static electricity as a kind of terminal guidance to get over 90% of the paint on
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by hedgehog 3y ago
It looks like they're formalizing the behavior of pure 16-bit training which is different from the mixed precision pipelines I'm aware of.
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by hedgehog 3y ago
My experience was the opposite, I really like Swift but its usefulness is held back by the lack of a wider community. I'm not sure if that's due to a lack of investment on Apple's part, or maybe that it lives in an unhappy co
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by hedgehog 3y ago
They are relatively tiny but they run on the GPU to avoid lots of copies back and forth.
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by hedgehog 3y ago
It's over but Intel's marketing department likes to redefine it to mean whatever suits the message of the day. You can read the original paper's definition and do the math on transistor counts say typical desktop processors a
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by hedgehog 3y ago
I spent some time talking about this with a family member that works in forestry. My takeaway was that the core issues are 1) it's labor intensive and expensive to manage the burns, beyond what we have budget for now, 2) there's a
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by hedgehog 4y ago
In most industries there are scale and network effects that favor larger incumbents regardless of the wishes or long term interests of customers. That's why startups are nearly always started off the springboard of big social or techni
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by hedgehog 4y ago
My car has this problem. I'm not sure if it's CarPlay specific or not because I've never played audio any other way.
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by hedgehog 4y ago
I used a Sony PictureBook for a bit in 2001 running Linux (this exact one: https://www.linuxjournal.com/article/4548 ) and it was totally fine. Bigger apps like StarOffice were a bit sluggish at start but then be snappy
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by hedgehog 4y ago
It of course depends on where you live but in my area ticks are not a concern and just keeping weeds out of your lawn takes a lot of work, dandelions take over within a couple years if all you do is mow. Keeping things reasonably green and
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Assuming you had no other expenses the tax bill would be $168k on the $800k right? So what we're saying is a business with $1M each in revenue and salary expense would have an additional $168k in current year tax expense?
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Exactly, good brand and decent market position making the situation potentially salvageable with better strategy. Look at Apple around ten years earlier, classic MacOS and the beige boxes and a business bleeding cash. Palm has the Pre on th
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Bad developer experience might have contributed but I think the primary cause was the same as what killed Windows Mobile and Symbian: The iPhone reset the bar for user experience and at the same time Apple changed handset + app distribution
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Counterintuitively wind power could be faster than oil. Oil burning ships are optimized for efficiency because fuel is a major expense, wind energy is use it or lose it at zero marginal cost so there's no reason not to go as fast as po
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Knowing what I know now I would wear an N95 if I were doing any strenuous roadside cycling. Same for yard work that stirs up a lot of dust or generally during pollen season.
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by hedgehog 4y ago
They have very good people but those people have other priorities.
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Moore's Law has been dead for a while. The most common confusion I see is that people don't understand he was referring to economical scaling. These days we're getting more density and bigger chips but prices are going up a l
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Farther down the coast ocean acidification is also affecting the Dungeness crab: https://research.noaa.gov/article/ArtMID/587/ArticleID/2581/... Not great.
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by hedgehog 4y ago
Have you investigated a combination of additional vapor permeable exterior insulation and impermeable primer for the interior walls? You may be able to minimize the amount of moisture staying in the walls and still hit your thermal goals.

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