jdewerd

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by jdewerd 3y ago
Not nearly as quickly. Where we had millenials -- the echo of the baby boom -- they had the One Child Policy. That difference is now entering prime earning/spending years.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
> moving back towards an inefficient state controlled economy Didn't the Soviets go from agrarian to superpower and give the US a merry chase before collapsing? This might be a long arc. > slow down China's growth and make t
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by jdewerd 3y ago
What's sad is that processes are already virtual machines, they just need to have a better permissions system. What's really sad is that for the most part those better permissions systems have been built (namespaces/cgroups
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by jdewerd 3y ago
My prayers were answered when they removed the infernal virtual password keyboard.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
> "bloat" despite being capable of running on a 486 The worst bloat is structural and involves network round-trips, usleep(10000) calls, etc that can't be removed due to expectations that have thoroughly baked themselves i
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Speaking of nuts, have they cracked HDR yet? I remember hearing some optimism about a year ago and I really look forward to it.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Ooh, that's a killer feature and this is the first I'm hearing about it! Thanks!
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by jdewerd 3y ago
When nuclear takes off in China but not the USA, we'll figure it out. But not until then.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Studying history. The cost of nuclear was low until we stopped building 50 years ago. https://www.vox.com/2016/2/29/11132930/nuclear-power-costs-u... It's a pity -- if we had kept up the pace, we&#x
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Right, low income causes kids, so what we need are more poors! We don't enact regressive policies because we want money, we only do it because we love you! It couldn't possibly be that the causal arrow points in the other direct
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Mmm-hmm, and the same group will jump at the opportunity to wag their finger and blame those lower-income young adults for the consequent economic hardship.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Yeah, well, after 50 years of policy choices between "make housing affordable" and "make housing a good investment" and always choosing the latter, they now have an enormous vested interest to look after. Even if it does
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by jdewerd 3y ago
18 more than most!
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Huh, thanks for the heads up. The situation has evolved since I last saw numbers. That's wild.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
The problem is that in terms of revenue (2) and (3) are tiny compared to (1) because by tipping your hand that you value your time above a pittance, you reveal yourself to be much less cost sensitive, so they charge you a massive premium.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
> Titan Black Huh. Is that another price/perf knee? Name Cost VRAM TFlops64 Titan Black $ 99 6 1.882 Titan V $ 500 12 7.450 4090 $2000 24 1.290 Looks like it! Man, I&#x2
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by jdewerd 3y ago
There's always a more complicated model.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
I've probably heard 1000 Bayesians rant about the alleged Frequentist consensus and 0 Frequentists complain about Bayesian analysis. I'd need some pretty steep priors to interpret this as anything other than the academic equivalen
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Yeah, but this one won't be three priests standing on each others' shoulders in a trench coat.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
The fact that physical theory has such good coverage of everyday circumstances is really tough news if you want to do physics, but it's excellent news if you want to do engineering :)
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Right, in fact it's very much "a thing" for bored/retired engineers (or otherwise physics-adjacent) to guess a new physics principle and convince themselves that it must be correct without actually doing the boring and d
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by jdewerd 3y ago
What details do you think they needed to know, lol? Pence was going to take all of the official actions. The rioters just had to storm the capitol and delay the response long enough for team Trump to consolidate power, and maybe serve as
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by jdewerd 3y ago
These aren't numbers, but a quick intuition reminder: nuclear-powered ablation drives are really good and we are really good at building them. That's how you turn a fission bomb into a fusion bomb. If you just put LiD in a fis
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Yes, and for the most cynical of reasons: the fireball and dirt-digging go with r^3, but the people killed and infrastructure destroyed go with r^2, and the purpose of a nuclear weapon isn't to light a fireball and dig dirt. Agreed, a
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by jdewerd 3y ago
Yes, but he also figured out how to use ablation drive in his fusion bombs because otherwise a fission bomb doesn't squeeze nearly hard enough. If you had to design a really big ablation drive to push a really big asteroid, who would
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by jdewerd 3y ago
What's more, the technique is in one sense very well explored: ablation drive is how fusion bombs work . Putting Deuterium and Tritium (well, LiD which becomes D+T) in the middle of a fission bomb doesn't squeeze it hard/lon
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by jdewerd 3y ago
> God forbid a flash mob storms the Capital again and writes a slur on the wall without killing anybody They took a calculated and premeditated swipe at the seat of power. Even a liberal democracy built on loftier principles than Machiav
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by jdewerd 3y ago
> I'm not saying AMD made a bad decision No, just a cool trillion dollars of market cap are saying that, nbd :)
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by jdewerd 3y ago
About damn time.
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by jdewerd 3y ago
No, because contract law is built for centuries past and lets Adobe screw you for trying this. Not sure if they do , but they definitely could . Back when communication latency was days or weeks, allowing sticky auto-renew that ignored pa

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