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by midjji 5y ago
I agree from a anthropologic perspective, but its fun how bad translations often are the means for the evolution of a mythology, as well as the genesis of mythologies, and new mythos thrives on these. Often the worse the better, as it more
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by midjji 5y ago
No not animated, I mean that the .png format specifies how to specify an arbitrary number of datablocks, without specifying how they should be used aside from amounts to an recommendation of which one should be shown. It used by some video
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by midjji 5y ago
I'm guessing based on what I happened to know of heat pumps in practice in sweden, but I think it makes sense to assume this. The reason is that the temperature difference between sweden and Germany is probably less than 1%. Temperatur
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by midjji 5y ago
Consider how much less influence people would have without it. Microsoft has been forced to backtrack on customer exploitative shit multiple times due to the very real threat that it would lead to linux getting a huge boost. Without a funct
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by midjji 5y ago
I'd wager odds you would have survived without are above 95%, so its beneficial, but when averaged out, a very slight improvement, quite possibly too low to be captured with significance in 10k people over 10 years with confidence p=0.
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by midjji 5y ago
Its auto regression. Think of a row of pixels as a signal y[n]. Assume y[n] = a y[n-1] + b y[n-2]. estimate a,b. Then store y[0], y[1], a, b, and the residual, then encode the four values and the residual which will mostly be zeros. You can
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by midjji 5y ago
I am a bit dubious about the way this is measured, with rare exceptions the kind of medicine considered healthcare isn't good enough to actually improve these metrics but rater mostly improve quality of life in subtle ways, and the ana
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by midjji 5y ago
Yes, The most important thing of FOSS has always been about ensuring an alternative to closed source. This provides people with leverage in negotiation with the corporations and states in a way they simply would not have without it. Beyond
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by midjji 5y ago
Skilled leadership.
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by midjji 5y ago
I'm really not a fan of using the generally unsupported aspects of the file formats. Like sure, png supports alternate compression schemes which in combination with the fully generic datablocks system which I think technically accident
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by midjji 5y ago
A surprisingly good image format is to use a per line, or block, ar encoder, then compress the result with gzip on a low setting. It parallelizes very nicely, and beats png for encode, decode, and is trivial to implement.
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by midjji 5y ago
This really highlights how salaries really only ever motivate some people to work the absolute minimum.
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by midjji 5y ago
They might be, but if so, that power is exclusively used in australia^^ 1000km of ocean reduce transmission to about 0.1%^^
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by midjji 5y ago
The oceans kill it completely, remember two oceans of 100km reduce transfer by 0.75, and thats ignoring all the other problems with the grids on the way.
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by midjji 5y ago
Not sure its called shutting down if you keep it online for 40 years, then decide not to shut it down after all ^^
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by midjji 5y ago
and how well are those laws preventing these actions? Long term there are few things more damaging to a societies justice system than wide spread breaking of laws. Go on long enough, and people stop taking every law seriously, while at the
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by midjji 5y ago
Switching from defending the right to privacy to the right to not be exploited due to power/information asymmetry would solve a great many problems.
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by midjji 5y ago
Problem with a strict legal framework for implementation is that it takes 1 person just a few days to get a face recognition system working using generic frameworks for deep learning. The laws can be as strict as you like, but its like intr
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by midjji 5y ago
Seems rather obvious to me that will remain the case. Both encryption and face recognition software rely on math and programming simple enough that a single person can make a functional one in less than a year from scratch. However, if usin
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by midjji 5y ago
There is much more to it than that in this case.
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by midjji 5y ago
Much like insulation they help, and I would wager its cost effective in most places most of the time, in particular for individuals. But I am not sure how well it scales. Compare building and installing 5 million heatpumps with building 2GW
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by midjji 5y ago
The wiki article gives a decent overview: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olkiluoto_Nuclear_Power_Plant#... Though you will need to follow the references, look for STUK approving some methodology, then claiming its resu
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by midjji 5y ago
Insulation is exactly as beneficial to gas and power heated homes. It does jack shit or worse for cooking though. France is self sufficient, but imports when prices are low in order to keep levels high in reservoirs, which further decreases
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by midjji 5y ago
Heat pumps change this a bit, doubling the efficiency (assuming its similar to Sweden), but it varies. So in the ideal case, its roughly the same, in practice slightly less, and with costs it gets complicated and dominated by subsidies and
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by midjji 5y ago
You can tell because for profit(if staterun) companies are building them across the world. France is drawing significant profits from existing nuclear, and constructing new. Nuclear has been ridiculously profitable for most countries which
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by midjji 5y ago
No not quite, burning fuel for heat locally will always be at least twice as effective as ideal conversion to power, followed by ideal conversion to heat, in practice its closer to three times. Therefore power prices need to fall substantia
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by midjji 5y ago
Nuclear is fantastic economics, its just regulated to death. The real effect of suppressing nuclear has been a slower transition to a sustainable carbon economy, and increased power prices limiting innovation and productivity. Solar and win
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by midjji 5y ago
Its less the coal industry and just a random quirk of culture.
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by midjji 5y ago
I think you are missing the important part. Lowballing it, a typical 50 year old reactor produces about 10^7 megawatthours or 10^6$ in power per kilo of uranium. And that actually leaves most of the fissile unused. So... How much uranium ca
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by midjji 5y ago
Germany would have problems if not for French nuclear, and a great many, rather expensive, gas power plants. For exactly how much, just look at what has happened to the UK as they left the EU wide powersharing agreements. Its also worth not

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