marmarama

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by marmarama 4y ago
Yes, but it would be about 10m if London had the same underperforming transport infrastructure as the rest of the country.
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by marmarama 4y ago
For some reason, for population, we always count the Greater London conurbation as just 'London' when we don't do the same for other cities. This creates the perception that London is an order of magnitude larger, when in fac
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by marmarama 4y ago
I'd struggle to beat the supermarket frozen garlic blocks on price. My local supermarket sells the 400g bags of frozen minced garlic at £0.95. The same supermarket sells 4 fresh garlic bulbs weighing approx. 280g for £0.99.
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by marmarama 4y ago
Slow-roasted vegetables with unpeeled garlic cloves is one of my favourite lazy dishes. 5 minutes to prep: chop whatever veg is in the fridge, stick it in a roasting dish, smother in oil, healthy sprinkling of chunky salt crystals and black
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by marmarama 4y ago
If I need diced garlic then sure, though I'd probably just chop garlic cloves for that. For me the inconvenience of garlic comes from getting it to minced texture to maximise the flavour - peeling it's not that big an issue once y
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by marmarama 4y ago
In the UK we can buy Italian minced garlic (Gia brand) in a tube (like tubes of tomato puree) and it's pretty good, though a bit salty. Much better than the jars of oil-preserved garlic I've tried. However my mind was blown when I
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by marmarama 4y ago
It's a good thing only if you are Apple, Google or Microsoft, or a shareholder of them. You'll note that no-one from Mozilla has their name attached to that RFC draft.
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by marmarama 4y ago
No, it is fundamentally different, because firstly, it requires the client device to be locked down enough - and to monitor your activity enough - that it can provide attestation that the user is human, and secondly, it ties that attestatio
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by marmarama 5y ago
No, women are allowed to leave Ukraine because, for the most part, they are responsible for raising the next generation of Ukrainians. The number one long-term job of any society is ultimately to raise the next generation. If you don't
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by marmarama 5y ago
Of course it's coordinated censorship. Free speech is not unlimited. By invading Ukraine and - in particular - threatening the use of nuclear weapons, Russia did the equivalent of shouting "fire" in a crowded theatre. Under t
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by marmarama 5y ago
So... a fix was released in 2017 for Ubuntu Xenial and the reverse proxy servers still weren't running the fix in 2022? Appreciate the honesty from central government, but it's not a great look.
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by marmarama 5y ago
But the private sector generally doesn't stockpile, because the cost of maintaining a stockpile exceeds any immediate economic benefit of doing so. It is economically inefficient almost all of the time. Very occasionally it becomes use
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by marmarama 5y ago
If GPT-3 can produce procedurally generated web content this convincing, search engines are screwed, right? We won't be able to find anything useful on any current search engine because there's no straightforward algorithmic way t
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by marmarama 5y ago
I've always done group working to some extent, especially where I need to work through an issue I've been stumped by, or where I need to bash out a consensus on a design. Similarly, I have always had other members of the team shad
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by marmarama 5y ago
The benchmarks in the gVisor docs above are using ptrace, and they don't look too shabby.
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by marmarama 5y ago
Unikernels never really removed the layer between the app and the kernel, they just made the hypervisor the kernel and invented a layer to handle IO to/from the virtual devices presented by the hypervisor, inside the same memory space
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by marmarama 5y ago
The gVisor documentation has performance comparisons vs. cgroup-style 'traditional' containers at https://gvisor.dev/docs/architecture_guide/performance/ There is definitely some performance overhea
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by marmarama 5y ago
https://github.com/google/gvisor gives you essentially the same benefits as a unikernel without having to compromise on compatibility or recompile your apps, and integrates nicely with Kubernetes already. It also doesn
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by marmarama 5y ago
Any advantage of having 50% more work days is quickly negated if your workers are unhappy, and giving them only one day a week off seems like a pretty good way of making them unhappy in the long term.
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by marmarama 5y ago
By the time any country in the west actually gets round to finishing enough grid-connected reactors to make a difference, we will be storing enough renewable energy through batteries and green hydrogen from seawater that the reactors will b
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by marmarama 5y ago
In 2020, the lab leak theory was dangerous and unhelpful. The incumbent at the White House was easily swayed into acting rashly without thinking too hard, and the whole world was dependent on very limited supplies of PPE and biotech equipme
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by marmarama 5y ago
AptX Voice does, yes. But Apple doesn't like paying Qualcomm licensing money.
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by marmarama 5y ago
Maybe what you're really looking for is small town, semi-rural living rather than homesteading? I don't much like living in cities, but homesteading is a bit of an extreme reaction to it. What brings me tranquility is the ability
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by marmarama 5y ago
But the vaccinations are working to get everyone out of the mess. While Omicron is not prevented entirely by the vaccines, hospitalizations per confirmed case are an order of magnitude lower than previous waves, and deaths are similarly a
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by marmarama 5y ago
Google's search quality has taken a serious nosedive in the last couple of years - the last 6 months in particular. I think they implemented some new form of search term widening which is far too strong, so the results you want are o
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by marmarama 5y ago
All of the RISC-V software ecosystem exists, and you can buy high performance out-of-order RISC-V implementations now from SiFive, as well as low power implementations that are very competitive with low power ARM. The only problem right now
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by marmarama 5y ago
Hydrogen as a replacement fuel for vehicles is a dead duck. Batteries have won there. Hydrogen, or zero net carbon hydrocarbons synthesized from it, is a good fit where energy density exceeds what current lithium chemistry batteries can pro
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by marmarama 5y ago
8 days' worth of green hydrogen to feed gas turbines would fit in a few relatively small gas storage facilities.
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by marmarama 5y ago
I have no doubt that batteries will also form part of the grid energy storage solution. But they don't scale as well as hydrogen and have higher maintenance costs and replacement rates.
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by marmarama 5y ago
Given how cheap renewables are becoming, yes, countries will absolutely build overcapacity. But we won't need 3 times the amount - hydrogen will only be used to balance the grid. Most grid energy will come direct from renewables. Most

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