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by kenhwang 4y ago
In my personal experience, that model has rarely led to a good product, good technical implementation, or even good development velocity.
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by kenhwang 4y ago
The reservoirs we already have are rated in the thousands of MW. There is no storage problem, we already have large enough reservoirs where we can practically store years of energy indefinitely; especially now in drought conditions where re
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by kenhwang 4y ago
95%+ by total energy stored/provided. There's little to no water use in the storage or discharge of pumped hydro, water goes from one reservoir into another. The limiting factor is how much water can be pumped/discharged, not
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by kenhwang 4y ago
It's not "beyond niche", it accounts for 95%+ of worldwide stored energy and is the de-facto energy storage mechanism that all new battery storage technologies are compared against. It also has round trip efficiency comparabl
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by kenhwang 4y ago
APU*, for accelerated processing unit. Essentially a CPU with integrated graphics, but the graphics cores can also be used for traditional CPU computing if it's not being used for graphics. They can't put anything bigger because t
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by kenhwang 4y ago
I don't know if I'd call 1800W (residential circuit limit) builds "non-crazy". Even half that power is rare to see since that's pretty much two top of the line consumer graphics cards paired to a top of the line ent
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by kenhwang 4y ago
> PCIe extenders need to become a thing again PCIe extenders are a thing already. Current PC case fashion trends have already influenced the inclusion of extenders and a place to vertically mount the GPU to the case off the motherboard
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by kenhwang 4y ago
You can? Both the RTX 3050 and RX 6400 come in single fan form factors not much longer than a PCIE slot. Anything weaker than that is getting beaten by AGUs.
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by kenhwang 4y ago
Fairweather really doesn't have the best connotation, but yes it's a spectrum like the weather. They're friends that are easy to maintain to upkeep without much commitment or effort. But whether it's by your choice or th
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by kenhwang 4y ago
Foulweather friends, fairweather friends, and acquaintances; and it's often not reciprocated. Foulweather friends are what people usually refer to as "real" friends. These are the ones that can be depended upon to act like a
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by kenhwang 4y ago
Nikon[1] and Sony[2] also released software during the pandemic that turns any of their video recording DSLR/MILCs into webcams. I think a D50 might be a bit too old though since it doesn't have video recording. 1: https:/&#
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by kenhwang 4y ago
I just tell everyone, just write Rust like you'd write Scala. Don't try to optimize the crap out of anything until you need it, especially if no one else is going to use your code. Just make the allocations. Even if you write it t
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by kenhwang 4y ago
Yeah, Sony cameras are higher number models are higher positioned models. Canon is lower number is higher positioned models. But they follow a very boring number/variant/generation naming scheme. At least until they announced the
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by kenhwang 4y ago
Sony phones are named like their cameras. First number is the model (1/5/10); smaller is more premium. Roman numeral is the generation (i/ii/iii); bigger is newer. It's about as straightforward as they come when it
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by kenhwang 4y ago
Not sure Go is a very good example here, compiled languages have a huge maintainability advantage in monoliths (at the cost of compile time). Ruby/Rails' culture is a huge contributor to why Rails monoliths are so much more diffic
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by kenhwang 4y ago
My personal experience (myself and my social group) suggests there's serious brain drain. All my peers who started their careers with Rails that know it like the back of their hands have zero desire to ever work with it again professio
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by kenhwang 5y ago
Common belief in the computer cooling world is higher end VRMs need _less_ cooling because they're more efficient (which generates less heat) and have higher temperature tolerances.
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by kenhwang 5y ago
Pretty standard Google playbook these days. Instead of building something and then cancelling it later when it doesn't gain traction to get their PR win, they decide to cash in on the PR win upfront with a big partnership announcement,
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by kenhwang 5y ago
I'd like to think this is only an issue during peacetime. During wartime, I would assume the violation would either be ignored or the officer would be immediately court martialed and next in command would take over.
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by kenhwang 5y ago
Realistically, I'd like to see the government develop software and tooling to mitigate these concerns. They already do at a low level for cryptographic primitives (like SHA and RSA). Maybe they do the next couple abstraction layers up,
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by kenhwang 5y ago
In terms of sound quality, I want to say any of the planar magnetic headphones. It's hard to beat the agility and clarity of planar magnetic with dynamic drivers without spending a lot more money. But planar magnetic headphones tend to
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by kenhwang 5y ago
RIP. My KSC75 got me through most of college. Wonderful audio quality and comfort for $20.
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by kenhwang 5y ago
Though that scenario is generally well handled by the emergency braking systems found in the standard safety suite of regular automakers. https://www.iihs.org/news/detail/performance-of-pedestrian-c...
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by kenhwang 5y ago
Mazda is the only major auto manufacturer that seriously prioritizes driving ergonomics over tech gimmicks/cost savings. But gimmicks sell better.
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by kenhwang 5y ago
Do you have numbers for Tidal or Amazon Music? I'd guess they'd land somewhere between the two.
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by kenhwang 5y ago
The big one pinning podcast recommendations to the home screen above the fold with no option remove it. Same with unremovable "recommended" playlists that mix music with podcasts. Podcast settings are at the top of the list in set
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by kenhwang 5y ago
We noticed many numerical operations sometimes didn't return the same class as cruby (Fixnum/Bignum/BigDecimal), sometimes resulting in wildly different calculation results. Numerical to string formatting is a bit different t
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by kenhwang 5y ago
Very subtle differences in behavior. It's fine if you start writing your project targeting TruffleRuby, but its a nightmare porting a massive existing ruby codebase.
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by kenhwang 5y ago
Apple and Amazon are still churning out products and tech advancement at breakneck speeds, especially given their size. Google and Facebook are definitely stagnating and burning money on expanding (unsuccessfully) outside of the advertising
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by kenhwang 5y ago
Relative performance compared to peers at the same school will likely be weighed much more heavily.

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