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by martinpw 7y ago
That is actually addressed in czr's video link above, specifically the one minute or so from here: https://youtu.be/Z_1PiixPX3o?t=881 The key points being: - Low intensity tornados are not included in the statistics -
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by martinpw 7y ago
The problem is that sites like Dell do not satisfy the fiddler either. Behold the terribleness: - Head over to dell.com and search for Products->Desktops->For Home (already forced into one choice I don't want to make, Home vs Wor
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by martinpw 7y ago
ThreadRipper is not going away: https://www.tomshardware.com/news/amd-threadripper-roadmap-r... Quote: You will definitely see more Threadrippers from us
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by martinpw 7y ago
There is an R20 8700k score listed here which is close to the one quoted in the Techspot article (3372 vs 3314): https://www.geeks3d.com/20190306/tested-cinebench-r20-cpu-be... So Techspot numbers are fine, just a typo
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by martinpw 7y ago
Every so often you get an app that shows you just how fast modern hardware is when unencumbered by the usual endless layers of bloat and inefficiency.
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by martinpw 7y ago
I don't think that's right. Circus Maximus is near the Colosseum and still exists as a park.
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by martinpw 7y ago
And test and measurement was spun out 20 years ago. I think the post you are replying to is attempted sarcasm.
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by martinpw 7y ago
Relevant given the article topic - Cray is ending OpenACC support: https://twitter.com/hpc_guru/status/1113565651350589441
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by martinpw 7y ago
But usage rate is growing fast - 8.5% per year according to this: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160201005634/en/Glo... an (obviously naive) extrapolation at that rate gives 35 years supply.
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by martinpw 7y ago
Agreed the article is not very clear. From the context of the surrounding paragraph though, I think it means one in a million helium atoms is lost via Jeans’ escape every year . Which would obviously be quite a significant factor on any ge
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by martinpw 7y ago
> There is no way that Helium reaches escape velocity without some sort of mechanical assistance. Thermal velocity is an average - there is a distribution of velocities around this average. It says that right in the article you linked to
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by martinpw 7y ago
Having spent several years doing a PhD that was primarily statistical analysis, I can assure you I understand ranges very well. I certainly did not assume it is a normal distribution. There are going to be multiple sources of uncertainty in
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by martinpw 7y ago
Again, why are you focusing on this one person when there is an entire report backed up by hundreds of scientists that has the actual numbers, which are not 1-7F? This makes no sense at all. So one guy misspoke, or was misquoted, or exagger
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by martinpw 7y ago
> And global CO2 emissions have spiked far higher and faster than anybody could have imagined due in large part to China's ultra-rapid industrialization. This is not true. If anything, CO2 emissions were actually slightly overestima
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by martinpw 7y ago
I don't understand why you are doubling down on your misunderstandings here. The actual increase that you yourself quoted falls entirely within the error bounds of the IPCC estimates. It doesn't matter that it is towards the botto
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by martinpw 7y ago
> The most conservative scientific estimate that the Earth’s temperature will rise 1 to 7 degrees in the next 30 years, said Brown." This quote seems suspicious. The only place I see it is in this AP article, as a quote from this on
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by martinpw 7y ago
> all of my friends/acquaintances who work for Google (and in full disclosure, they're generally not engineers) unequivocally agree that Google could fire 30% of their workforce with no disruption in service/revenue. Do al
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by martinpw 7y ago
Unfortunately it looks like the battery was looted from the Baghdad museum during the 2003 invasion of Iraq and remains missing (according to a small snippet at the bottom of this article).
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by martinpw 8y ago
> Those recordings are just as good as Audible recordings. No. They are not. I tried listening to Don Quixote Librivox. While a couple of readers are tolerable, several are terrible, and none are close to professional voice actor level.
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by martinpw 8y ago
But isn't that just the result of lack of hardware gains limiting new software application areas? If single threaded performance had been doubling every two years for the past 10 years like it did historically, then there would likely
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by martinpw 8y ago
Can recommend the History of Egypt podcast: https://egyptianhistorypodcast.com
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by martinpw 8y ago
What were the corresponding ranges before? The article does not say (just states >10% increase)
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by martinpw 8y ago
Yes, that's the article I was thinking of, good find! Agreed the extrapolation is debatable. What is most astounding to me is that they are able to measure not just an increase of 3mm a year in sea levels by satellite, but that the dat
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by martinpw 8y ago
Thanks for calling out the deeper aspect of the article rather than the superficial beer-related aspect. > You will do this one day, and you will not know you are doing it. That is a profound statement. I see older people behave in certa
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by martinpw 8y ago
Sorry, perhaps I wasn't clear. The first link I gave has two graphs. The top one indeed has the same data you linked to - the 25 year satellite record. The second link is the one I was actually referring to though - that is the almost
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by martinpw 8y ago
I liked this part from the "10000 years from now" section believers in most traditional religions declare piously that the climate changes of the last ten millennia are the results of human misbehavior, while rationalists insist
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by martinpw 8y ago
That is only a small part of the data, just 25 years worth of satellite data. There are ground measurements going back almost 150 years. Using all the data shows a clear acceleration: https://climate.nasa.gov/vital-signs&#x2
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by martinpw 8y ago
The Benjamin Button review of improvements in older Macs compared with newer ones: https://blog.pinboard.in/2016/10/benjamin_button_reviews_the...
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by martinpw 8y ago
Had this happen to me - I returned an item to Fry's since it was completely nonfunctional. I explained that at the return desk. The guy nodded and took it. I wandered around the store for a while, then went to look for a replacement fo
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by martinpw 8y ago
> Sea level is stable What are you talking about? Even the most ardent denialists do not deny sea level is rising. More recent data show the rate of increase is accelerating. Hard to take anything else you say seriously after that.

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