lsp_trw

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   by lsp_trw 3y ago

   We can get to working semiconductors in our garages relatively easily. They won't be anything like the integrated circuits we have today. It would be an interesting hard sci-fi novel to see the village black smith replaced by the villa
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   by lsp_trw 3y ago

   Lithium batteries will be dead within a decade. Solar panels within 3. Think about that the next time you cheer on a huge solar installation as a win for the planet.
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   by lsp_trw 3y ago

   >Why do we need physics degrees when we can just get more mechanical engineers?
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   by lsp_trw 3y ago

   Freenet has been doing this since the 00s.
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   by lsp_trw 3y ago

   Are there sites like astrobites for other fields?
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   by lsp_trw 3y ago

   You can get away with having a single global state variable so long as it's an association table and you keep track of what variables you've introduced. I believe that the reason why people thought it would be slow then was that n