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by martinald 6mo ago
I don't quite understand. The opposition can't be that insurmountable for offshore wind off England coast (instead of Scotland) given 700 giant offshore turbines are being built as we speak off the English coast. Including the wor
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by martinald 6mo ago
The UK had/has the exact same windfall tax on energy: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/electricity-gener... https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/energy-profits-le...
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by martinald 6mo ago
I mean offshore wind, not onshore. Thankfully most of the new ones are being built in England - check https://openinframap.org/#7.05/53.375/3.069 , and these aren't curtailed. But it was incredibly dumb to bui
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by martinald 6mo ago
It's worth thinking how this would work if it didn't work like this though? Nearly all 'commodity' markets clear this way. If you switched to 'people get paid what they bid' it's almost certain the market
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by martinald 6mo ago
The issue though is that the UK spends something along the lines of £10-25bn (depending how you count subsidies) a year on renewable. Something like £10bn in direct subsidies via CfD and RO, then another ~£1.5-2bn on curtailment (paying win
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by martinald 6mo ago
Well a GPON frame is 0.125ms. So the best jitter is ~0.125ms, but even if the entire upstream segment was saturated you'd be looking at probably 1-2ms at absolute worse case. The OLT will not allow one user to hammer the upstream badly
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by martinald 6mo ago
Probably just the equipment is far far cheaper now (customer ONTs and telco OLTs) than point to point is my guess?
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by martinald 6mo ago
You're confusing XGS-PON with NG-PON2. NG-PON2 isn't really used anywhere AFIAK, the "real" upgrade path is 50G-PON (50G/50G shared). NG-PON2's tunable lasers are expensive so didn't get traction.
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by martinald 6mo ago
Yes but if you compare urban areas (where 80% of people live in both continents) in US and Europe it's not massively different (Europe maybe 2-4 more dense depending on the country/city). Obviously you're not going to lay fib
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by martinald 6mo ago
That's actually terrible. The UK (which has been a laggard in FTTH in Europe until very recently) is at 84% FTTH coverage already.
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by martinald 6mo ago
I'ts almost certainly shared. 99% of FTTH is (X)G(S)-PON which shares the fibre over a few properties. Usually something like 32 max. The Swiss use point to point fibre (there are a few small pockets of this elsewhere). But in reality
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by martinald 6mo ago
Yes you're right technically, but in reality you'd be swapping them the (vast?) majority in and out per inference request so would create an enormous bottleneck for the use case the author is using for.
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by martinald 6mo ago
Just FYI, MoE doesn't really save (V)RAM. You still need all weights loaded in memory, it just means you consult less per forward pass. So it improves tok/s but not vram usage.
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by martinald 6mo ago
if (process.argv.includes('-p')) and then setting a different http header?
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by martinald 6mo ago
Yes I wrote a detailed article about this Forbes claim. https://martinalderson.com/posts/no-it-doesnt-cost-anthropic... Key points - if you compare it to openrouter costs for ~similar sized models it is ~90% gross marg
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UK total wind generation record beaten today(renewables-map.robinhawkes.com)
57 points by martinald 7mo ago|33 comments
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by martinald 7mo ago
Would be interesting to know for other retailers though and how much of this is down to what Walmart sells? I'm confused by the comment that it failed because it forced single item purchases. Most of my "ecommerce" use is res
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by martinald 7mo ago
I wonder how much of this is down to the massive amount of new repos and commits (of good or bad quality!) from the coding agents. I believe that the App Store is struggling to keep up with (mostly manual tbf) app reviews now, with sharp in
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by martinald 7mo ago
It depends though. At least in London a lot of cycleways were made by removing bus lanes and replacing them with high quality segregated cycle lanes. This has led to a big increase in %age terms of cyclists in London, but a fairly significa
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by martinald 7mo ago
No I do get that, it's definitely been a slow and painful migration. But just having a very insecure X11 "forever" with no fractional font scaling wasn't a long term plan either imo.
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by martinald 7mo ago
FWIW I recently switched full time to Linux and have had absolutely 0 problems with GNOME, Wayland and Fedora, though I am using an AMD GPU. wl-copy works fine, askpass works, copy and paste works, screen sharing with Google Meet works, dra
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Using agents and Wine to move off Windows(martinalderson.com)
2 points by martinald 7mo ago|0 comments
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Why Claude's new 1M context length is a big deal(martinalderson.com)
3 points by martinald 7mo ago|0 comments
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by martinald 7mo ago
Very interesting. As I wrote in this article https://martinalderson.com/posts/is-the-ai-compute-crunch-he... a couple of weeks ago: "One thing I really suspect we'll see a lot more of is much more generous ra
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by martinald 7mo ago
Hi, OP here! Even if Qwen wants to run at a loss, why would Together, DeepInfra, SiliconFlow, etc _all_ also want to run at a similar loss?
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by martinald 7mo ago
It's interesting because I'm the same in so much that I use windows basically as a WSL2 host and not much else. I use a MacOS a lot. _However_, still find the Linux desktops that I've tried are too buggy. While the hardware s
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Is the AI Compute Crunch Here?(martinalderson.com)
2 points by martinald 7mo ago|0 comments
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by martinald 7mo ago
Yeah, the other problem is I've really struggled to have postgres use multiple threads/cores on one query. Often maxes out one CPU thread while dozens go unused. I constantly have to fight loads of defaults to get this to change
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by martinald 7mo ago
Anything jsonb in my experience is quickly CPU bound...
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Why on-device agentic AI can't keep up(martinalderson.com)
2 points by martinald 7mo ago|0 comments

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