m_mueller

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by m_mueller 3y ago
How many miles does the Tesla's battery last, assuming a friendly climate? Did you factor in the battery replacement cost?
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by m_mueller 3y ago
I'd actually counter this with Lotus Notes 6.5; On top of what VB offered it had a built-in locally replicated, fully encryptable and access manageable DBMS for every application you developed. Plus, it had a formula expression languag
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by m_mueller 3y ago
Nothing is simple when it comes to climate and human economy, unfortunately.
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by m_mueller 3y ago
One aspect that strikes me about the US system compared to other nations is its rigid nature. Maybe due to lessons learned (since almost all democratic Republics are younger than the US) and maybe from a cultural angle (less Evangelicism?),
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by m_mueller 3y ago
I’m guessing someone there has recently read Children of Time.
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by m_mueller 3y ago
I have to bring up Switzerland again - just as much resistance to authority, resulting in an even more insane level of local government rights. Imagine a smallish US state being an independent nation where every county can set its own tax l
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by m_mueller 3y ago
I give you a counter example: Switzerland. Salaries and land easily on par, in many areas exceeding the US. And yet, public infrastructure projects are about the same as in EU - usually a bit late, roughly within budget and generally high q
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by m_mueller 3y ago
How did the US end up with such a system? It seems to be rather an outlier in the negative sense when it comes to government efficiency. Winner-takes-all elections?
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by m_mueller 3y ago
does it? why can they then sell it for not much more and run a profit?
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by m_mueller 3y ago
If you program defensively you can save on certain common Schema updates in e.g. a document based data model (e.g. adding more fields). But strong schemas definitely make sense when you’re dealing with relational data from my experience. Ea
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by m_mueller 3y ago
also I gotta wonder about all those interior pieces flying off when it's tilted in the wind. are these really free standing vases? ...
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by m_mueller 3y ago
I never said to do nothing. I just don’t see value in worrying about things out of our control. I do my best to keep my family’s footprint low (and already live on a country with comparatively low footprint). But most of this whole thing is
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by m_mueller 3y ago
I think along the same lines. On the point of megafauna, isn’t it rather dependent on having enough large predators? E.g. in temperate forests, wolves have been shown to be very effective at repairing forest health by keeping deer at bay, l
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by m_mueller 3y ago
Well it is. The question is what percentage you assign to the probability of having survived so far. Depending on that it can give evidence towards many-worlds (coupled with the anthropic principle).
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by m_mueller 3y ago
Well, better to panic and run in 1000 directions, none of which going away from the planet that is so far our only habitat? It will work out one way or another. And either many-worlds is true, and some of them will carry on human life, or i
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by m_mueller 3y ago
History has shown various times[1] that our timeline is the one to bet on when it comes to narrowly avoiding the extinction of much of human life. My bet is thus that one or several of the many ideas how to avoid a total climate crisis will
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by m_mueller 3y ago
For exactly this reason we use it even to create Factsheets and other printable reports. Using selection pane the objects in the template can be named. We then replace the dummy content in an AWS lambda running python-pptx using these refer
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by m_mueller 3y ago
Much better than heat pumps: good thermal insulation, central air snd a heat exchanger. This solved the root of the problem, heat being transferred. For the little that‘s left over, depending on climate, you can add a small heat pump that’s
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by m_mueller 3y ago
Yes, agreed. again though, the question is what jobs will be left in a couple of years for people besides people like you who went and sought out the foundational knowledge to be able to actually check the work the LLMs are going to do. A
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by m_mueller 3y ago
The main question IMO is this: > when I first used these lookup books, I had a shaky understanding of logarithms. this implies that now you do have an understanding of logarithms. how did you acquire this understanding? The fear that m
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by m_mueller 3y ago
I guess that's one of the advantages of serverless - by definition there can be no unrelated error in the state beyond the request (because there is none), except for the infrastructure definition itself. But a misconfig there you&#x27
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by m_mueller 3y ago
we're using AWS X-ray for this purpose, i.e. a service is always passing on and logging the X-ray identifier generated at first entry into the system. pretty helpful for this purpose. And yes, there should be consistent log handling &#
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by m_mueller 3y ago
note: it was just an example. but in the end from a performance optimization standpoint it is a lot about what information you want to give to help the compiler along at doing its best job. with many compilers/languages that tends to b
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by m_mueller 3y ago
Why port? Just make it tidier and bind it with f2py so you can use the kernels together with numpy in your glue.
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by m_mueller 3y ago
I guess it depends on the field. What I experienced in climate & weather prediction was by and large Fortran 90 codebases.
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by m_mueller 3y ago
Thanks! Actually wasn't aware of this. Still, not exactly something you want to repeat in every function declaration.
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by m_mueller 3y ago
Yes I do, because in C you do have to repeat pointer declarations and their modifiers per variable - there is no clean way to separate the variable name declarations from their properties Edit: disagree also on sugar being irrelevant. It’s
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by m_mueller 3y ago
Quoting what I wrote a couple of months ago in another thread, regarding the advantages of (Modern) Fortran vs. C/C++: """ Just an example on how to declaring a couple of input float pointers in a fully optimized way, av
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by m_mueller 3y ago
Fortran 90+ has strong support for parallel programming, including MPI, OpenMP, CUDA and OpenAPI (for GPU).
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by m_mueller 3y ago
Btw. Lotus Notes did exactly this already in the 80s - apps based on local database replicas. CouchDB comes from an ex Lotus dev (Damian Katz) who, inspired by this, created a peer to peer database with similar functionality. Thus I think i

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