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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
Probably a fairer comparison would be something that runs natively using vulkan or metal on both Apple's M1 and X86/Nvidia that isn't heavily optimized for just one of those. There aren't that many modern games that you
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
It probably is on the optimistic side. Yet, there are a few key differences with your chevy: - 10 kwh of battery. That's a lot less weight than your car has to carry around. That extra eight kwh would be quite a bit of mass and it does
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
I'm guessing heating demand elsewhere is a bit less than as it would be in Finland. Also, Finland has a lot of infrastructure for heating in the form of city and district heating. So, it's pretty easy to connect to that and start
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
Fuchsia is Google's not invented here syndrome expressed in operating system form. There's a pattern of behavior where nothing invented/controlled outside of Google is ever good enough for Google. So, they fixed C/C++ by
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
Getting familiar with how the color wheel works and use the HSL color system. A good color scheme is basicically just regular offsets in hue angles, saturation, or saturation. You can do things as vary hue by a few degrees, vary the saturat
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
Building a viable product is of course something you need to do as a company to succeed. Building a minimum viable product on the other hand might just trap you into building a product quickly that isn't viable because you end up throw
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
The point is that this is not a linear transform. To make the captured raw data look like a normal photo, a number of steps need to happen and several of those steps are about tricking human brains into believing the photo matches what your
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
They design to much higher specs than what they give warranty on. They've been talking about half million mile batteries and even a million mile batteries. In practical terms that means the battery might outlive the car for most averag
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
It would be another 20 years before we hear back from it. If at all.
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
You can get replacement packs for most common EVs from either the manufacturer or third parties. They are on the expensive side. But they last quite long and tend to come with pretty decent warranty of e.g. eight years or 150 k miles, which
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
I spent some money on a vhs recorder in the early nineties when I was a teenager. I mainly used it to record movies and then watch them later. I only owned a few tapes that I just reused endlessly. I kind of skipped dvds as a thing. I never
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
It's a mistake a lot of companies make. They are so proud of their ability to lookup a country from an ip address that they forget that there are hundreds of millions of migrants living on this planet who probably speak something else.
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
I don't think that's necessarily an issue. Tesla allows other vendors at their charging infrastructure. You might lose your warranty though.
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
A few counter points: - Loads of aftermarket conversions of existing cars to EVs are done by third parties using a wide range of components from OEMs, custom built stuff, or scrapped EVs. E.g. Tesla batteries have a high value for this. Not
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
Learning the language is usually the easy part. It's learning the libraries, tools, and idioms that takes a bit more time. It's not that hard but a lot of people resist changes. Also, it takes time to get up to speed which means y
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
I'm reading this on a 27" 5K imac from 2014. It's a nice screen. But it's eight years old now. So, what's new?
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
Two issues with hydro: 1) Most of the obvious places have dams already and building new dams is a combination of expensive and disruptive. 2) Droughts and water shortages make the existing hydro plants less productive. E.g. the hoover dam h
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
Coal + gas is no longer 80% of supply in the US. Your numbers are out of date: https://www.eia.gov/outlooks/steo/report/electricity.php A lot of coal disappeared in recent years and there are quite a few more
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
I think these projects are less about making money directly. Mostly these projects are only profitable/feasible with the help of lots of government funding. I assume they have secured some of that. The reason that the British governmen
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
It's hopeless until it is not. I've been wrong at every turn in the lead-up to the invasion and after. I did not believe Putin would invade. Then I did not believe he would invade the whole country. And then I believed he would su
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
It's the internet now. It was the influence of television when I grew up. When my parents grew up it was rock music. It's a constant in history that older generations complain about younger generations. Alan Kay of course was a yo
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
Actually it's worse, there are lots of media publishing opinions, factoids, and things interesting to their audience. But depending on which media you read you are going to end up with a very different understanding of what is going on
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
The modern tools to have would be phones equipped with mesh networking and some solar powered chargers. There are a few nice things on the market for this that will charge your phone with just sunlight. Some phones also used to have radios
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
That would also take out Russia's own satellites. And satellites belonging to their potential allies. So, probably not the best move. And guess which company is best positioned to re-launch a crazy amount of satellites in a very short
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
How does this compare to other static code analyzers like spotbugs for Java and Kotlin? Does it have some unique capabilities?
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
Performance degrades of course, but modern EVs are quite popular in e.g. Norway where they drive them well inside arctic conditions. It's not like they stop working under conditions where ICE vehicles definitely face challenges with bo
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
A model that is common in open source but yet not in the corporate world is that of gatekeepers. It's essentially a form of strong code ownership combined with stewardship where a majority of contributions are not necessarily created b
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
Cross platform used to mean, windows, mac, and linux. These days it is web, ios, android, windows, mac, and linux. In that order. And that's before you consider TVs, cars, and other equipment where apps are also relevant. These days we
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
I like Kotlin as well. One of the nice things about that language is just the enormous amount of attention to detail when it comes to usability of the language. Kotlin's lambda syntax is actually similarly verbose. But they allow you t
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by jillesvangurp 5y ago
I stand corrected. But lets just say they were extremely early adopters and single-handedly propelled Rust into the mainstream by essentially bankrolling Rust development for several years until they finally spun it off into a separate foun

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