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by jeffbee 6mo ago
The "picks and shovels" people from the dotcom days all went broke. The stuff they had convinced themselves and their investors was crucial turned out to be not important.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
photo.net is more like a public ridicule session that Maoists would have dreamed up. It was impossible to just post a photo there without every rando on the site feeling like they needed to criticize your composition and exposure.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Yes, the efficiency is worse, but as is also the case for solar power you need to get used to not caring much about efficiency. It is nuclear energy where the primary side is provided free of charge. The Carnot efficiency is almost without
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Nope. To efficiently tap geothermal energy, you need to boil something but not necessarily water. Isopentane, for example, boils at 28º at standard pressure, so they pressurize the secondary loop to raise the boiling point close to whatev
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
To me, Flickr is the better Photo.net. Photo.net has been around since 1993 and apparently is still running, but it never was a site where you could just collect your own work and share them the way you wanted. It would be interesting to re
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Urs used to talk (internally) about not publishing "industry-enabling papers" which is why most Google infrastructure papers were describing something that had already been turned off, or was already in the process of being replac
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
It makes every bit as much sense as investing in Snap while still operating their own social network product. Seems to have worked out fine (for Google, not Snap).
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Right, doctors and CIOs get to use AI transcripts but you, a lowly patient, will write your name, address, and insurance policy number fifteen times with an exhausted Bic pen.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
That fraction is going to depend a lot on the definition and the reference. I believe the 97% is the US standard for how much of the natural caffeine in green beans must be removed. You will note how this can be manipulated by using a more
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
"couldn't deep dive into their own tech stacks"
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
I'm really glad that last slide is in the article because I've been wondering this about Intel's push to become the king of thru-silicon vias, but didn't want to be the one sounding ignorant. When you etch holes in glass
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Strongly held but apparently not popular opinion: candidates should not be expected, and should refuse, to discuss confidential internals of their former employers.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Yeah if someone says that k8s is costing them energy they are either using it very, very incorrectly, or they just don't know what they are talking about.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
It depends on what you're doing. Steam turbines are absolutely full of exotic alloys. But I tend to agree that large-scale geothermal would be an important component of our all-of-the-above energy policy, which would profit from our ex
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
There absolutely is a narrative out there, but it's mostly unfounded. Bloomberg ran a completely absurd article about how AI was causing voltage drops in Colorado. Totally insane stuff, some of their contributors are pushing an agenda.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Yeah if you go to CDC WISQARS you can do fatal injury reports filtered by intent (suicide) and aggregated by urban/non urban geography. These differences are not small, they vary by factors or orders of magnitude in every state. It&#x2
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Well, I don't think the evidence supports that. According to two recent LBNL reports consumer prices are lowest in states with huge demand increases (Texas), and highest in states with shrinking demand (California). The existence of la
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Thats fine. If we did not need it, then we didn't need to build it out using what was at the time more expensive technology. But in 2026 we should not be pretending that the rate at which the grid expanded in the 1980s was caused by al
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
The Common Law Theory of Everything
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Being an honorary or actual redneck in an exurban American setting will be the sweet spot for this. Your neighbor's rusting Bobcat is not useless after all. You have the space for ground mounting. I toyed with a rooftop solar DIY proje
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
America basically did not add any net generating capacity in the first two decades of this century, instead treading water with repowering and efficiency. This was a mistake and now that we could use the energy everyone is acting like it&#x
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Imagine believing in "regional IQ".
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
I don't know anything about Alabama but in California you generally can't create off-grid developments without permission from a local authority, because it's a recognized problem that "off-grid" systems are often u
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
In general, contractor overhead in America is obscene, compared to Europe. We have a lot of regularly capture working to keep it that way, too.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Only 1.5 Twitters. Sort of pathetic!
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
LPDDR is very different from DDR so I don't really feel like diving into it in this tiny box. It has its own oscillators so the CPU doesn't have to clock it while asleep; it adaptively refreshes less often according to temperatu
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Did I not? I'm trying my best here. The question is sort of off-target, though. What I am trying to say is: 1) DDR uses more power than LPDDR; 2) LPDDR cannot work on a DIMM socket, because of its lower voltage signals, and other reaso
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
It's not the form factor itself that is the problem. LPDDR is more efficient for various reasons and cannot be on a DIMM. It physically will not work with a socket. That is the problem that LP-CAMM solves: LPDDR but still removable.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Great point about the storage. That is another place where the repairability meme is really not helping. Moving the storage controller up into the host SoC is a good idea and the PC world should adopt it. Apple's storage controller is
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
I think it's just a vertical integration thing. They know what's in the machine and they can make sure that their suspend path puts every peripheral to sleep. Linux has no idea what's in your machine and there may be some dev

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