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by marshray 2y ago
And they come along about once in a century. Which doesn't make it wrong, but is it perhaps enough to call it an extraordinary claim?
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by marshray 2y ago
Real-time competitive online games need the strategy part to work well on the lower-end systems which tend to be extremely common among the player base. A player shouldn't be able to upgrade their way to a significant competitive advan
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by marshray 2y ago
It's almost certainly a different set of developers working on graphics/animation than gameplay/strategy.
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by marshray 2y ago
Apparently it was sized appropriately to shut down the airport. A larger probability of a small crater(s) requiring repair would seem better for this purpose than a smaller probability of a large crater.
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by marshray 2y ago
I just don't see 10% remaining a big deal while solar continues its exponential cost reduction. Solar does not consume fuel, so when local supply exceeds local demand the cost of incremental production drops to approximately zero. Nobo
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by marshray 2y ago
"Operator error", classic. You nuke fans always conveniently leave out the costs of cleaning up the mess that the civilian nuclear generation program has already created. Last I heard it was about half a $T.
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by marshray 2y ago
I remember that era. The vast majority of "tasks" that were done in BASIC were simple games. It was all-but a toy. It makes no sense to compare the execution speed of the output of a modern C++ or Rust compiler on one architecture
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by marshray 2y ago
Electric power transmission loss is less than 5%: https://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/flow-graphs/electricity... 14.26 Net generation 0.67 "Transmission and delivery losses and unaccounted for&q
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by marshray 2y ago
> The "first" microprocessor, the 4004 ran at 750kHz max. The 4004 wasn't useful to power a general-purpose computer as we think of one today, it was made for a 4 function calculator and it's hard to find many example
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by marshray 2y ago
Electric power crosses state lines, very little loss. It's looking like cooling water may be more of a limiting factor. Yet, even this can be greatly reduced when electric power is cheap enough. Solar power is already "cheaper tha
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by marshray 2y ago
It also makes the amount of strain proportionately smaller. We're talking about a 3mm bend radius here, so there's a few orders of magnitude to work with.
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by marshray 2y ago
> or you spend twenty hours soldering nearly microscopic bits of magnet wire to it. A real chip would only need two or three contacts to vastly outperform thing demonstrated here. These would probably not be soldered, they would ideally
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by marshray 2y ago
> 1) How would wiring to you processor work? Sure, there's a modulus gap to be interfaced, but flexible circuits have been worked on forever. The whole point is of this tech is that the transistors themselves are flexible. But since
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by marshray 2y ago
> The notion that any system somehow couldn't be "turned off" with or without the consent of the operator is downright laughable. Does anyone remember Sen. Lieberman's "Internet Kill Switch" bill?
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by marshray 2y ago
It's an interesting analogy. Nukes are a far more primitive technology (i.e., enrichment requires only more basic industrial capabilities) than AI hardware, yet they are probably the best example of tech limitations via international a
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by marshray 2y ago
One would have to run a similar BASIC interpreter on this processor to make that a reasonable comparison, and that would only highlight how ridiculously impractical this demo unit is. If you want an computer that you can wrap around a penci
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by marshray 2y ago
I don't want to be dismissive or overly critical of new technology. But this is a 1960's era microprocessor: resistor-transistor logic running at 60 kHz. Something like the Apollo guidance computer, but at a 17 times slower clock
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by marshray 2y ago
Since you asked for feedback, the first two things I noticed were: 1. The license. 2. On the home page, everyone had the X logo by their name. For me, personally, these things combined were enough to decide to not bookmark it.
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by marshray 2y ago
Organizations making decisions about technology investments involving large amounts of money do care about this designation when making decisions.
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by marshray 2y ago
My parents worked at UIUC in the early 1970's. Plato was an early interactive learning system, the supercomputer was called the Illiac-IV. The building was called the "Center for Advanced Computation". I don't know if th
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by marshray 2y ago
Try reading it again carefully?
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by marshray 2y ago
The student approached the VC Master and said: "Master, I am troubled and have journeyed far to seek your legendary wisdom. My business has [specific problem X]. What should I do?" The VC Master replied: "Ah, I see your confu
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by marshray 2y ago
I don't recall having considered this point before, though granted I will call half a brain a good day.
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by marshray 2y ago
> We don’t colloquially consider the Earth’s rotation or revolution. Wasn't this choice of reference frame the basis for that whole drama with Galileo, or am I misunderstanding?
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by marshray 2y ago
I've personally seen the physical teapot in the Computer History Museum. We routinely make detailed simulations of how such a physical teapot interacts with visible wavelengths of light, specifically for the purpose of comparing them w
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by marshray 2y ago
Typically we think of "speed" as observed from outside the moving [object], but I guess "typically" it doesn't matter. I think it's an interesting point and you're not wrong to say it ticks at least one of
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by marshray 2y ago
Would they allow a reactionless drive?
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by marshray 2y ago
On the bright side, maybe it is evidence against Dark Forest theory?
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by marshray 2y ago
> Perhaps, just possibly, your continued hostility towards acknowledging the existence of a very common problem experienced by many users comes from the fact that you might be involved with an organization that—at least in part—is respon
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by marshray 2y ago
> Damage speakers? Simply, not an issue unless they're one step removed from rubbish. Also, have you ever heard of output compression and clipping that would protect them? That approach is 101 electronics. Output clipping actually i

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