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by martinpw 2y ago
I got a chance to ride in several Chinese EVs recently and was incredibly impressed. They looked great, were comfortable to ride in and felt well made. And the drivers all seemed very happy with them. I would definitely consider buying one
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by martinpw 2y ago
BYD sold over 500k cars last month: https://cnevpost.com/2024/11/01/byd-sales-oct-2024/ That's up over 60% year on year. If they are not already the largest carmaker in China they will be very soon.
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by martinpw 2y ago
I guess ChatGPT is making things up because it is much less than that. Closer to 25million km, although complicated by the fact that the sun does not rotate as a rigid body but instead rotates faster at the equator than the poles.
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by martinpw 2y ago
> But he died due to Alzheimer's disease, which must have been terrifying. I wonder. Having had a parent go through this, one of the small mercies, at least for them, was that they themselves were not aware of what was happening. Th
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by martinpw 2y ago
I didn't eat semolina for literally decades after the UK school dinner experience. When I finally had some that was properly prepared it was delicious. Who knew. And the spam fritters - that is a nightmare I had totally suppressed unti
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by martinpw 2y ago
> The end of Dennard scaling was why the Pentium 4 architecture was a dead end and never hit 10Ghz like it was supposed to I've always been puzzled by this. Did Intel really not see this coming? I remember talking to Intel engineers
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by martinpw 2y ago
> From what I understand (I'm not a scientist), caffeine doesn't "give" you energy, but rather makes your body ignore the tiredness, by turning off some of the machinery that would make you feel tired. I have heard th
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by martinpw 2y ago
I find the turnaround time of the Flair a good thing. Firstly it makes a nice 5-10 minute ritual first thing in the morning, especially when combined with a hand grinder. And secondly it is just enough effort that it prevents me from drinki
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by martinpw 2y ago
This is one of my favorite articles in terms of writing style - nothing else like this in those days (to put it mildly): https://www.theregister.com/2008/07/28/sun_dziuba_tm/
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by martinpw 2y ago
Intel is run by Pat Gelsinger. He is an engineer.
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China's Energy Revolution: Wind and Solar Surpass Coal in Historic Milestone(oilprice.com)
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by martinpw 2y ago
The decaf process seems expensive so you might expect the end result to cost more, but it never does. Which means either the producers are making less profit on decaf, or they are using lower quality beans. If the latter is true, which seem
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by martinpw 2y ago
I think that's easy to say in the abstract, but the reality can be quite different. Of course every case is different, but for example: * Spouse has dementia, does not recognize you, abuses you for being an intruder in the house, const
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by martinpw 2y ago
> Spend your remaining days at home if possible. This sounds appealing in the abstract but one thing to consider is the impact on other family members. My parents had a neighbor who chose to remain at home. However that meant his wife al
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by martinpw 2y ago
> Another problem is simply that hiring (and keeping) top talent is really really hard. Absolutely. And when your mandate for this top talent is going to be "go and build something that basically copies what those other guys have al
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Hyundai Heavy Industries' Fuel Saving Propeller Attachment Becoming Popular(businesskorea.co.kr)
2 points by martinpw 2y ago|0 comments
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by martinpw 2y ago
Probably not that much relatively. Specifically the Perseus cluster reported on here has a mass of around 10^15 solar masses in total. Of that ~10% is in the form of stars, 20% is intergalactic gas and the remainder is dark matter. The repo
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by martinpw 2y ago
Bit premature to say that. It's now up 7% after hours. And of course tomorrow is what really matters.
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by martinpw 2y ago
The supercomputer flops are FP64. The A100 stats you are using are FP16.
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by martinpw 2y ago
> This is the industry roadmap from 2022: https://irds.ieee.org/images/files/pdf/2022/2022IRDS_Litho.p... Very interesting document - lots of numbers in there for real feature sizes that I had not see
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by martinpw 3y ago
That is a fairly epic author list. Presumably everyone involved in the larger overall project.
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by martinpw 3y ago
Looks like GCP has been using ARM processors from Ampere since mid 2022: https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/compute/tau-t2a-is-fi... So I guess this may be the end for Ampere on GCP?
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by martinpw 3y ago
Whenever this topic comes up there are always comments saying that SGI was taken by surprise by cheap hardware and if only they had seen it coming they could have prepared for it and managed it. I was there around 97 (?) and remember everyo
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by martinpw 3y ago
Quick search shows that there was was quest in Call of Duty that involved decrypting a floppy disk, and there is a walkthrough here from ... November 2020 https://www.ign.com/wikis/call-of-duty-black-ops-cold-war/H
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by martinpw 3y ago
> To use a simple example of what I meant - in the west, the secular section of society has below-replacement fertility. In other words, for whatever reason that group is slowly dying off. Except that the secular section is also replenis
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by martinpw 3y ago
I don't remember that name, but it was a long time ago...
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by martinpw 3y ago
I was a local preacher in the Methodist church a long time ago, in Birmingham England. (There are more churches than ministers in the Methodist church so the gap is filled by laypeople who lead services on Sundays.) I remember in particular
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by martinpw 3y ago
How does feature size and scaling of memory compare with logic? It looks like leading edge memory is made by three companies - Samsung, Hynix and Micron - no TSMC. Do they use EUV? Do they use ASML machines?
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by martinpw 3y ago
Looks like you lost the last character of the URL. Should be: https://git-man-page-generator.lokaltog.net Worth correcting to share that site.
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by martinpw 3y ago
Wasn't there a site that showed search results but skipped the top N results, so you ended up seeing a lot more interesting smaller sites? Can't remember details and a quick search (hah) didn't find it. Pretty sure it was lin

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