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by jl6 11mo ago
Let's hope someone can do the same for grid-scale seasonal storage. "Excess" solar electricity won't be free in (noon, summer) if you can easily bank it for (night, winter).
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by jl6 11mo ago
My takeaway from observing “tech in developing world” projects is that the key gap is usually maintenance . That is, continuous small investment to prevent things from breaking in the first place. To be fair, that’s not exactly a solved pr
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by jl6 1y ago
Higher ppi on mobile is still useful if it enables “manual zoom” (i.e. move your head closer). I do this with Google Sheets on mobile all the time, as I like to have a lot of the sheet displayed at once to see the overall structure, and the
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by jl6 1y ago
Wait, does this not use the colornames.org dataset?
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by jl6 1y ago
Neither production nor logistics is solved at all. We have bought ourselves time, largely by racking up environmental debt on our planetary credit card. Food is still massively dependent on fossil fuel consumption (machinery, transport, fer
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by jl6 1y ago
> if you don’t feel positively about diversity, equity, and inclusion, then you are sending a message that you instead support homogeneity, inequity, and exclusion No, because we are not talking about Boolean variables where you can disc
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by jl6 1y ago
The role of the engineer in large enterprises with deep legacy systems is indeed quite like a surgeon, but not for the reason suggested. Rather, it involves delicate operations on a complex and confusing object that you didn’t design or bui
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by jl6 1y ago
A timely reminder that although doctors aspire to follow science, and many doctors are scientists, and most doctors advocate evidence-based medicine, the practice of medicine is not a wholly scientific field, and particularly the big as
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by jl6 1y ago
I think those timing issues are part of what I imagine the difficult part to be.
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by jl6 1y ago
I remember discussion at the time about how the PS3 was a uniquely difficult architecture to emulate. Was that true? Have those difficulties now been overcome? I see RPCS3 exists but I’ve no idea if it has done the difficult parts.
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by jl6 1y ago
You have brought a lot of your own assumptions to that reading. OP asked if doubling or tripling core count counted as keeping up with Moore’s law. I pointed out that in the case of the M series (the topic of the thread), regardless of core
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by jl6 1y ago
Probably not as much as if we “painted” them black with solar panels and used the resulting electricity to displace fossil fuel burning.
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by jl6 1y ago
Not trying to knock your project, which is executed very nicely, but it does make me wonder where the boundary of human-ability quality discernment lies, beyond which is audiophile territory. Is “bean physics” the event horizon? Can you re
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by jl6 1y ago
Maybe VR goggles need to be paired with VR gloves?
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by jl6 1y ago
> And do it in places where you don’t have natural supply of either. Exactly. Nobody’s investing in small nuclear to be competitive with absolute-cheapest grid-scale wind/solar/storage, the point is that there are a thousand an
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by jl6 1y ago
The argument of the article (“<future tech thing> will never work because there currently aren’t any of them”) is so weak it makes me wonder if it’s some kind of paid-for FUD campaign by whoever SMR tech’s rivals are. Presumably the o
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by jl6 1y ago
Did you think I said otherwise?
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by jl6 1y ago
When the upside is extraordinary, it’s very reasonable to expect some downside, just based on experience of, like, everything ever. As well as the undeniable benefit to individuals, a cure for aging would unleash a whole new bunch of proble
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by jl6 1y ago
“Improvements are available… in the previous version”. I find the idea of people upgrading from Windows 10 to Windows 7 sad and hilarious in equal measure.
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by jl6 1y ago
GP mentions cores and the article is about benchmarks. The relationship between transistor count, core count, and performance, is exactly on topic.
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by jl6 1y ago
M1 has 16bn transistors, M4 has 28bn. Increasing the core count is useful for some applications (particularly GPU cores), but there are still many critical workloads that are gated by single-threaded performance.
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by jl6 1y ago
Sounds like a textbook purity spiral. There’s a failure-mode of liberal open mindedness, where your mind is so open your brain falls out.
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by jl6 1y ago
The right™ order is to check the comments before the article, but to read the article before commenting.
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by jl6 1y ago
“I am a prototype for a much larger system” presaged the catchphrase of our LLM era. “You will soon have your God, and you will make it with your own hands.”
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by jl6 1y ago
Cooling too. A datacenter that takes 200MW in has to dissipate 200MW of heat to somewhere.
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by jl6 1y ago
Peak California, right here sir.
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by jl6 1y ago
That's right! Oxford's a complete dump!
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by jl6 1y ago
Another explanation is that they were 100% anti-immigration but also 200% incompetent at implementing their own goals.
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by jl6 1y ago
Expertise & ignorance alike don’t carry across domains.
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by jl6 1y ago
A ton of Wikipedia citations go to URLs that can now only be found in the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Since they are so dependent on it, they should support it financially. Probably the best thing they could do would be to fund the cr

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