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by magila 4y ago
While obviously true, I think it's also useful to distinguish where items in category b fall on the spectrum from "this will be commercially viable with minor refinement" to "this is three orders of magnitude away from c
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by magila 4y ago
I wouldn't call it malice. It's simply a rational decision. BART makes more money with the fee than without, so absent political pressure to discontinue it why would they? Also, Clipper cards have been around many years. They aren
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by magila 4y ago
Iostream's performance problems have been well known for decades. This post is striking shallow and uninformed for something coming from a professor "focused on software performance".
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by magila 4y ago
It's also a full centimeter taller.
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by magila 4y ago
For sufficiently large values of "small".
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by magila 4y ago
Where is this $1.9 billion over the last decade figure coming from? ITER alone has surely burned through more than double that. Edit: Sounds like it might only be counting investment in private companies.
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by magila 4y ago
A logical qubit is by definition one which has a low enough error rate to preform quantum computations. That article is misleadingly using the term "logical qubits" to refer to a grouping of physical qubits which merely attempts
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by magila 4y ago
Depends on how generously you define "working". No one has yet implemented even a single logical qubit.
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by magila 4y ago
Hubble's design borrowed various elements, including the primary mirror, from existing KH-11 spy satellites as a cost saving measure. The satellites which were donated to NASA by the NRO where likely leftover from the abortive Future I
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by magila 4y ago
Healthcare is the most heavily regulated industry in the US. Many of those regulations were written specifically to minimize or eliminate the influence of market forces. You can't reasonably say the market has failed when it has been s
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by magila 4y ago
Yes, this is one of the more unfortunate unintended consequences of the ACA.
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by magila 4y ago
You're comparing an Atom based Celeron, which is the bottom of the barrel for Intel CPUs and not something which often shows up in Windows laptops, to a top-of-the-line Snapdragon SoC. The wholesale price of the 860 is probably 2-3x th
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by magila 4y ago
It seems the "core myth" has replaced the "MHz myth" among computer buyers. Those low-end quad core phones and tablets are most likely using "little" ARM cores like the Cortex-A53 or A55. These cores are very s
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by magila 4y ago
I can't find any indication that the weight of Tesla batteries has changed significantly since the introduction of the 100 kWh pack. In any case weight savings on Tesla batteries seems to have come primarily from improved packaging rat
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by magila 4y ago
EV battery capacity hasn't exactly been skyrocketing either. When the Tesla Model S was introduced in 2012 the largest battery option was 85 kWh. For the 2015 model year it got a 90 kWh option and 100 kWh for 2016. Today 100 kWh remain
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by magila 4y ago
So this got me curious and I started to look at something a bit more concrete: the history of 18650 cell capacity. Currently the highest capacity 18650 that's widely available is 3500 mAh. The first such cell I found is the LG MJ1 whic
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by magila 5y ago
No, this was definitely intentional. Intel is doing extra work to gate features on the manufacturer ID when there are feature bits which exist specifically to signal support for those features (and these bits were defined by Intel themselve
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by magila 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_banking
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by magila 5y ago
In theory one can be sued for filing false takedown notices. In practice it never happens because it requires proving that the defendant knowingly sent a false notice. This is an impossible burden of proof because the defendant can just p
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by magila 5y ago
You don't need expensive power delivery for a 60 W i3. A basic $150 B660 board will do just fine.
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by magila 5y ago
Sort of. For the Federal Government having a budget surplus is not the same thing as actually spending less than it takes in. Due to various off budget expenditures the fed's total debt continued to increase even when it declared a bud
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by magila 5y ago
XHTML never really had a chance because the dominant browser at the time, Internet Explorer, never supported it. Since people were going to have to deal with all of IE's quirks anyways there was little appetite for putting in the effor
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by magila 5y ago
Frankly it needs to be at least a little bit of a pain to get PI space. As the post briefly mentions, every prefix announced consumes memory in every router on the internet. If everyone had their own PI space it would literally break the in
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by magila 5y ago
Cloudflare currently uses a similar arrangement with JD Cloud to offer service in China. It'd be pretty funny if they had to use the same approach in Europe.
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by magila 5y ago
From a regulatory standpoint it's mostly about water usage. Water efficiency standards have gotten stringent enough that electromechanical washers are effectively illegal.
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by magila 5y ago
The whole "double the power of AMD" meme is an oversimplification at best. It's all based on a 12900K running a heavy multi-core load with an increased power limit. This is the ultimate "I don't care about power eff
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by magila 5y ago
That assumes a constant relationship between reported crime and actual crime. I don't think that's a safe assumption to make. For instance it may be that as property crime becomes more prevalent so does public awareness of the fut
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by magila 5y ago
Video streaming consumes dramatically more bandwidth than the HTML/CSS/JS/JPEG/etc files which Cloudflare's CDN is intended to serve. Bandwidth is cheap, especially for Cloudflare, but it's not free. Cloudflare
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by magila 5y ago
That is not true. Cloudflare's ToS prohibits serving video files via their CDN regardless of whether they're cached or not.
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by magila 5y ago
The value is that you don't get caught with your pants down when IPv4 addresses get expensive enough to shaping businesses' decisions. It's going to be a lot less stressful to come to grips with IPv6 now rather than waiting u

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