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by j-pb 3y ago
Nobody should do benchmarking like this anymore. Memory layout of your code has such a big impact on performance on modern computers that measuring performance without removing that variable leads to wild goose chases, where you think you i
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by j-pb 3y ago
Hydrogen gas turbines are also a viable option for that and they have proven to run on real power grids, we will need hydrogen infrastructure not for cars but for steel manufacturing and turbines.
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by j-pb 3y ago
> Wrong. The nuclear phase-out original came from SPD/Greens: The phase out in it's current form was decided by a CDU led government. "Chancellor Merkel was so shocked by Fukushima that she turned Germany’s energy focus fr
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by j-pb 3y ago
> the shut down of nuclear power thanks to the Greens The decision to shut down our nuclear reactors came from a conservative government, where the greens were in the opposition. The prices have not been rising due to the shutdown of our
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by j-pb 3y ago
Your are misinformed/wrong. Germany only had 5% nuclear, those have been replaced by renewables not by coal[1]. Those reactors were at the end of their lifespans anyways. Would nuclear have been great if we never stopped investing in t
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by j-pb 3y ago
The patent is applied (and granted) with multiple patent offices. The European (EU) patent office is abbreviated as EP. See: https://patents.google.com/patent/EP3542316B1/en
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by j-pb 3y ago
ffs, that patent never should have made it in the european patent office. It's obviously math. This whole "computer implemented invention" workaround is a complete sham. To think that the EU wastes billions annually on this b
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by j-pb 3y ago
That argument essentially boils down to "they wanted to try it", but I don't think that it explains why they would want to try it. Verilog is arguably worse from a verification standpoint, which is afaik the main reason why V
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by j-pb 3y ago
I would come to the same conclusion if they had used something like Chisel or another of the new HDLs that are based on higher level languages and metaprogramming, but Verilog is arguably the older language when compared with VHDL.
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by j-pb 3y ago
It's weird that they are using SystemVerilog given that EU projects tend to heavily favour VHDL in my experience.
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by j-pb 4y ago
The information what datastructures are in memory is based on compile time static analysis data, you wouldn't know what you're loading without some additional data annotations. It would also require unreasonably fixing memory layo
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by j-pb 4y ago
> Ramblings on aliens, reincanation and esoteric musings on physics. Heh, what a fun read. > The best for this purpose could be to use an object-oriented approach, and to create a global object type description language (maybe based o
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by j-pb 4y ago
Except that zig is really really really not production ready. It has major bugs pretty much everywhere and fundamental stuff breaks/changes every other month. comptime is cool, and I see a future for zig or its ideas, but not in less t
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by j-pb 4y ago
I lost all hope for WebGPU after they decided to roll their own ad-hoc shader language that kinda looks like, but is totally not rust. At least with WebGL you had C. Without SPIR-V support this spec is just another tire on the fire that is
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by j-pb 4y ago
Your comparison doesn't make much sense to me. If a chinese company were to produce their own printer model and dominating the market with it, then we wouldn't have this discussion. Prusa produces their own design, in a factory in
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by j-pb 4y ago
Lets's not pretend that the majority of cost savings cones from producing in europe vs. producing in china. You safe in lavour costs, safety standards, environmental protection, e.t.c. This is one of the few cases where import tax shou
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by j-pb 4y ago
Really nice to see steady incremental improvements to an already solid platform! It's small stuff like no longer having to manually Z-Adjust, and having the print-head connected via easy to undo/replace connectors, that seem like
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by j-pb 4y ago
> Putting “here’s the fields I’m borrowing in the body” into the signature, in order to conform with the Golden Rule, looks very odd. I think this would be an amazing feature, but it would require something like typescripts partial types
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by j-pb 4y ago
Feature creep is an orthogonal issue that I 100% agree with. We need to stay vigilant and push back against bloat wherever possible. Exceptions are a mistake imho, memory64 is an absolute must have otoh.
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by j-pb 4y ago
We break/deprecate the web all the time. Web backwards compatibility is a myth, it's just that wo don't get any calls from the 90s complaining that their dogs website broke.
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by j-pb 4y ago
WASM makes browsers simpler, not more complex. It's much easier to get the implementation of a 20 page spec correct, than the combinatorial monster that is 200 highlevel language specs and APIs. The more we can push into a small formal
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by j-pb 4y ago
This is quite funny from a german perspective. My first thought when I saw the headline was "oh cool a start-up that disrupts dishwashing, I wonder what fancy overpowered tech they throw at the problem". And then it turns out to b
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by j-pb 4y ago
If it is malevolent, then it has ethics, if it has ethics it has sentience, if it has sentience it has some rights, just like any other sentient being has (e.g. even animals have laws protecting them from unnessecary harm). It's either
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by j-pb 4y ago
It'd be funny to see C, C++, Java, PHP and friends outlawed. Learning Rust, Ada or FP now seems like a good way to have job security in the EU in a couple years. But who am I kidding, it'll be mandatory Java, Waterfall, and a metr
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by j-pb 4y ago
I wouldn't exactly call protege user friendly. But this reminds me of a joke we told in our working group: "SNOMED can't tell you whats wrong with you when you're sick, but it can infer that your "Toe bone is connec
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by j-pb 4y ago
Downgrading the user experience of native deno users for the sake of nodejs compatibility is a huge bummer. Deno bundle was really really nice, and often times good enough for browser deploys.
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by j-pb 4y ago
Fullstack & Wasm. There comes a point in your career where you're dissatisfied with the capabilities of the warm and friendly upper layers of your stack, and you descend into the cold dark waters where things are hard but fast. I u
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by j-pb 4y ago
The issue with the enum of structs approach is that it doesn't really work for low-level stuff with lots of byte-packing. Compare the following #[repr(u8)] enum Dense { A { foo: u8, bar: u16, } } struct ASt
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by j-pb 4y ago
The thing that's really missing for me in rust is a better way to modularize enums with associated data and their behaviour. There are many cases where you have a closed set of known variants for a type, but they have very different be
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by j-pb 4y ago
I think you missed the bit where 77% of farmland is used for feed export. Your beef might be produced locally, but the feed for that beef, was produced on deforrested land.

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