lambdadmitry

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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
I was pondering this for quite a while, and overall I'm struggling to see why would it be more than "nice to have". Minor performance gains that very few companies would actually need? That's pretty meh. Chats and SSE an
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
I'm not sure if you drove in the UK much, but generally roundabouts are explicitly not "death traps" regardless of the amount of power you have. I literally use them on a cycle from time to time. Everyone is slow, pays atte
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
Shouldn't the casual anarchist in you rejoice at people hitting back on predatory, monopolistic, customer-hostile business practices of Big Movie though?
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
I don't think seeding for hours is conductive to long term retention. For context, in private tracker land it's normal to seed an obscure arthouse movie for years, being an only seeder and getting it downloaded maybe five times. W
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
If you use private torrents, chances are you want the swarms you participate in to be private, unless you're happy to announce your IP to RIAA. I do agree though that the current model in which cross-seeding between private swarms is a
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
Do you actually use torrents day to day? I have a strong suspicion that nowadays most people in developed economies who might be interested in TUIs use private trackers, as they're much safer and usually much better curated. However, t
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The Modern Diet Is a Biosecurity Threat(palladiummag.com)
30 points by lambdadmitry 4y ago|2 comments
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by lambdadmitry 4y ago
It's quite ironic that you chose Germany as an example right when they got into hot water over their massive gas dependency on Russia. Compare and contrast with France with their sizeable nuclear fleet.
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
Did you seriously compare Armenian air defence and jamming capabilities to American?
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
It wasn't clear that you mean only autonomous and not loitering in general. If you mean autonomous loitering munitions, they are are basically short lived mines in the sky. We had those in the sea for more than a century, they didn&#x
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
What are loitering munitions capable of against a foe that can jam and shoot them, outside of sleek promotional videos? American army made IEDs much less effective through jamming, and they need basically one bit of info transmitted, what m
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
> The primary way to engage a small drone (sUAS) is with a missile That's just not true. Rheinmetal has their Skynex, everyone and their dog does lasers, and jamming is basically free. Phalanx (and its land equivalent) is also a thi
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
The exaggeration is great in this one. Drones are hardly "unstoppable" for an advanced military like the one US has. Cheap ones require radio links and can be jammed. More expensive ones communicating via satellites aren't ch
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
I don't think it meshes well with Spanish wildfire stats [1]. I can't see any serious trend there, definitely nothing like California. The main difference is that they manage their forests and do prescribed burning. [1]: https:&#
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
I can only wish there were more options like that in Python space. Celery is just a horrible tire fire and everything else seems to be either pretty minimalist, somewhat immature, or both.
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
That's fine and dandy when you're a wealthy Global West citizen. It's not enough when you're a developing world citizen that too wants a big house with a car or two, aircon, potable water, hot water on tap, paved roads,
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
It's not hard to see some unsettling parallels between the idea of the party and the people being one and the "ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer" slogan.
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Mozilla SOPS is looking for new maintainers(github.com)
7 points by lambdadmitry 5y ago|0 comments
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
> China's people shouldn't be forced to live in worse conditions because they live in more populous nation According to the logic of degrowth, they should be forced to live in conditions that allow for net zero total emissions
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
I believe at least some proponents of degrowth see it as a vehicle for exactly what you described. That is, if degrowth is really the only solution and the only way to do that is a global authoritarian regime, oh well what can we do, might
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
Per capita emissions don't matter for the atmosphere, aggregate emissions do. Yes this makes big population a liability, but it is what it is.
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
Hydroelectricity is very limited in its maximum instantaneous output, you can't feed half a grid with it, there is just nowhere to put all that water to without massive flooding, so it's a bit of a moot point. Rooftop solar doesn&
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
Hydroelectric can't ramp up to a large fraction of national demand, for multiple unsurmountable reasons (like, you can't dump the water fast enough for one). Location selection doesn't matter that much as they don't try
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
I don't see where that number comes from. Also, "good grid" means "perfect national transmission", which is a wildly optimistic assumption. The US is currently split into multiple grids, with ties being able to hand
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
To be fair, state pensions and stable financial systems might be just as much a solution for overpopulation as contraceptives. Kids are your bank and healthcare in advance age in developing countries. You don't need as many (or any at
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
It's a really, really bad idea to extrapolate price reductions in solar/wind into carbon free grids. Unfortunately there's a ridiculous wall of increasing overprovision required as you go deeper and deeper into renewables. Ha
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
Solar panels that you can fit on a train won't provide a fraction of the energy required for the train. Luckily, we have a solution since 19th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_electrification_system
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
I honestly can't wrap my head around the views of people promoting "degrowth" as a solution. How do they reconcile their ideas with the basic reality that is evident from a single chart like that one [0] and, again, very basi
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
Note that that "location" property should be a method instead of property to signal that it does something potentially complex and slow. Making it a property practically guarantees that someone will use it in a loop without much s
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by lambdadmitry 5y ago
I would like to point out that nowhere in the best current scientific consensus position we have (IPCC reports) words like "uninhabitable" (or anything to that effect) are mentioned. This is an invention of activists trying to swa

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