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961.
by ip26 4y ago
One fun thought: for identified industries, each production line maintains X days of inventory of any foreign dependencies. The implications are interesting to ponder.
962.
by ip26 4y ago
Although, if it's more of a buffer in the supply chain instead of a strategic reserve, the waste doesn't have to be that great. Which takes us right back to JIT vs JIC. Perhaps sensible regulation on just how lean manufacturing ma
963.
by ip26 4y ago
Is it just optimization? I would call it capability. An automobile is more complicated to operate than a skateboard.
964.
by ip26 4y ago
I get that. But then I remember at that age, I was only just cobbling together my very first computer from the scrap bin. An honest comparison is nearly impossible.
965.
by ip26 4y ago
I wish I had another home town to move back to. Is it possible you only see it this way because your home town is a desirable place to live? If you had a home town nobody wanted to move to- would you want to move back there either?
966.
by ip26 4y ago
In particular, it's worth remembering the ACLU was backing the protestors at Charlottesville when it happened. They felt like they had blood on their hands.
967.
by ip26 4y ago
Ok yeah I could see a problem if you had a gas fired oven. I cook electric, as long as I don’t burn the food the detectors don’t care.
968.
by ip26 4y ago
The simple answer is put ionization detectors near the kitchen/fireplace which have open flames, and photoelectric detectors near bedrooms which tend to smolder.
969.
by ip26 4y ago
You can think they are a good company while also being fearful they won't survive the macro.
970.
by ip26 4y ago
scifi as a whole has very prescient moments, although it benefits from making varied, scattered explorations rather than a single prediction of truth.
971.
by ip26 4y ago
Is that supposed to be surprising? I don’t tell people about unannounced projects I work on either.
972.
by ip26 4y ago
The elimination of shift cables may (eventually) result in a simpler lighter setup as well. Could also allow some innovation in gear design if the shifts are computer controlled. We’ll see.
973.
by ip26 4y ago
It's both - an example of how slack in one system (Gloria) enables higher efficiency in another (Tony) and surmisably higher overall output.
974.
by ip26 4y ago
A natural gas furnace is up to 98% efficient. A natural gas turbine is 40-60% efficient; a modern heat pump can have a COP of 3 or even 4, for 150-200% equivalent efficiency (ballpark).
975.
by ip26 4y ago
Cloud pay-as-you-go may help balance this out. With an in-house cluster, the capital cost is paid, sunk. With a cloud deployment, there is a tangible impact of wasteful code right there on the balance sheet every month.
976.
by ip26 4y ago
Burning natural gas to make electricity to run a heat pump isn’t elegant- but it is more efficient. We need a heat pump that is heat-powered…
977.
by ip26 4y ago
If you are arguing most string ops have just a few chars and therefore don’t use vectors… why do we need to spend silicon enhancing rep prefix in the first place?
978.
by ip26 4y ago
Supposedly that depends in part on whether you are a nuclear power.
979.
by ip26 4y ago
Is it generally possible to convert rep str sequences to AVX? Could the hardware or compiler already be doing this? AVX is just the SIMD unit. I would argue the transistors were spent on SIMD, and the hitch is simply the best way to send st
980.
by ip26 4y ago
Only in a certain sense. You can only turn the voltage so high before things melt, and you can only turn the clocks so high until you crash, and then that's basically it, you can't go any faster. The perfect core could be dialed f
981.
by ip26 4y ago
When it comes to memorizing songs, that seems pretty ingrained in humans as a species. See folk songs, oral tradition, and jingles. Set a boring verse to music and I can pull it out of my memory twenty years later if you give me the hook.
982.
by ip26 4y ago
I’m sure in a post-scarcity world we will leave it at that.
983.
by ip26 4y ago
Much like mid range phones, it's perfectly usable, and leagues better than anything I had access to as a kid. One way to think of it would be as a point on the cost vs benefit curve. There is a region of the c/b curve that is almo
984.
by ip26 5y ago
Parity only tells you the key is corrupt, it can't correct the block :/
985.
by ip26 5y ago
I’m pretty sure sugar cravings in my family are simply garden variety hunger. For us “sweet tooth” mostly correlates with missed meals. The brain runs on glucose, so when the body is low on food and blood sugar dips, sugar is the “quick fix
986.
by ip26 5y ago
Sounds more like they were trying to convince you of the need for a spam firewall :)
987.
by ip26 5y ago
You can improve things you can't measure, we do this all the time I would still consider an indirect measure or proxy measure of a thing to be "a measure of the thing".
988.
by ip26 5y ago
Maybe the turret has less shielding..? Or maybe it was really to enable DU rounds.
989.
by ip26 5y ago
At that point it's a stand in for talk radio. Some of my grandparents used to use that as white noise.
990.
by ip26 5y ago
Demand -> Volume -> Economies of scale -> Competition -> Even More Chargers Many of the superchargers people use today were built by 2012-2019 Tesla, which had far less revenue, people, and fleet volume.

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