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by jeffbee 9mo ago
What's counter-intuitive about this outcome?
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
Yep.
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
Are you sure? Admittedly I only have 1 PDF in my homedir, but no combination of flags to zstd gets it to match the size of brotli's output on that particular file. Even zstd --long --ultra -22.
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
That mentions zstd in a weird incomplete sentence, but never compares it.
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
It wasn't. My comment covers the entire history of the ISA extension on Intel Xeon CPUs.
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
"Intel CPUs were downclocking their frequency when using AVX-512 instructions due to excessive energy usage (and thus heat generation) which led to performance worse than when not using AVX-512 acceleration." This is an overstatem
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
"We will simply access the index" has always struck me as wild hand-waving that would instantly crumble at first contact with technical reality. "At marginal cost" is doing a huge amount of work in this article.
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
It depends on what "this" you meant, but in general the ways of netbooting an OS are many and varied. You'd have to declare what kind of root device you ultimately want, such as root on iSCSI. Personally, I feel that "sm
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
The number of points actually being rendered doesn't seem to warrant the webgpu implementation. It's similar to the number of points that cubism.js could throw on the screen 15 years ago.
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
I feel this sub thread can keep going if we introduce the complication of the whole-house vacuum system.
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
It is funded by water districts, and they are the ones who get to use it.
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
Training is pretty much irrelevant in the scheme of global energy use. The global airline industry uses the energy needed to train a frontier model, every three minutes, and unlike AI training the energy for air travel is 100% straight-into
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
I don't see how this follows. Data center operators buy energy and this is almost their only operating expense. Their products are priced to reflect this. The fact that basic AI features are free reflects the fact that they use almost
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
Sites Reservoir isn't going to do a damned thing for municipal water systems in most of the state. You have to remember that there is not such a thing as a statewide municipal water policy. Every city or region has its own thing going
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
If you look into the actual design capacity of our municipal water systems, many of them were designed for far larger populations. The EBMUD, for example, intentionally secured 325 million gallons per day in upstream capacity because that w
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
The statewide rain totals for the 2025-2026 water year so far rank 6th out of the years of the 21st century, so aren't that remarkable in context. Do you live in a place that got slapped with a peculiarly high rainfall?
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
That only makes sense if you believe Americans constitute the entire global demand, ie if you are a raging moron.
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
That only works if you take it at face value that buying either of them is a rational transportation choice, which I reject. Even if I accept the people need a weird truck-shaped thing with a useless 4.5-foot bed, a far better choice on emi
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
An F150 is also a poor choice, so I don't think of it as a point of comparison. As an approximation, the mass of any object is related to its embodied carbon, so smaller vehicles embody less of it. Massive vehicles embody current emi
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
The average length of ownership is a pretty warped statistic, though. It is dependent on when in the car's life cycle someone buys it. At one end of the market are new car buyers who keep them longer than average, at the other end are
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
Something to note here is that the result of xargs -P is unlikely to be satisfactory, since all of the subprocesses are simply connected to the terminal and stomp over each other's outputs. A better choice would be something like rush
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
https://assets.rivian.com/2md5qhoeajym/4wuFZHyC16SDwjbJN7a6j... According to the company itself, their bloated truck-like luxury object has double the emissions of a normal hybrid car.
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
It is true though, in some cases. The embodied carbon of a Rivian for example is never paid back by operations. So you do have to exercise good judgement in which EV you choose. The category doesn't always win. In my case I already own
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
That sounds damned near useless for typical data analysis purposes and I would very much prefer a distributed system to a system that would take an hour to fill main memory over its tiny network port. Also, those cost $400/hr and are s
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
That is not a valid interpretation of the data. The ratio you cite, which is a pointless one, is mostly influenced by household size. SF has a relatively small household size compared to the state and nation. The vacancy rate you cite is al
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
How do you square this bizarre and obviously false hypothesis with all the times that San Francisco did not have high cost of living, had declining population, etc?
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
It is not clear that pjdfstest establishes full POSIX semantic compliance. After a short search of the repo I did not see anything that exercises multiple unrelated processes atomically writing with O_APPEND, for example. And the fact that
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
Using ASCII RS as whitespace between sentences, and only converting it to space(s) for rendering, is the boss move.
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
I'm fairly confident you could string it together as a scsi-to-firewire-to-thunderbolt chain, potentially with a TB2/miniDP-to-TB3+ adapter as well, but this seems even worse to me.
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by jeffbee 9mo ago
Use any other kind of PC with an expansion bus to dump the blocks to a modern block device, then attach that to the Mac.

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