myrmidon

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by myrmidon 4mo ago
I can absolutely respect the emotional argument. The "irony" in supporting that party I believe is a stretch. I don't see how support for some neo-nationalists is inherently "anti-freedom"; would that not apply to
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
My point is that if you are boycotting the company despite living on the opposite side of the world from Örebro (thus being inherently unable to vote at the booth), then you are not really participating in politics , you are participating
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
More tolerant of race presumably, less tolerant towards other people being bigots. The big problem with discriminating against other people you disagree with is that you have to be right, or you are the bigot (doubly so!). Just consider
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
An honest question: Would you like to live in a world where company/employer exerts more control over the views that are publicly expressed? Do you actually want voting to happen via wallet? This whole view kinda confounds me. I do
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
If Koreans/Europeans decide not to sell their stuff, some of the money would go into circumventing the ban: 1) This is not good for Korean/Europen sellers, because it negatively affects sales volume, and is unlikely to be compensa
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
The RAM buyers have no interest in entertaining something like that because their revenue comes mainly from the US, too. Corporations avoid picking fights with large nations where lots of revenue comes from for very obvious reasons.
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
No more than 50 cents per CPU for this one. Can get under 10 cents each for cheap minimalistic CPUs in high numbers.
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
Higher resolution would let the user see that your scale is zeroed badly, that repeatability sucks and that the measured weight is not even constant under a constant load. Decreasing resolution hides all of those.
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
Yeah, but even for those applications you suffer from limited RAM a lot; with 16bit samples at 48kHz the thing has 10ms of audio buffer (stereo: 5ms) if you don't need RAM for anything else :S The ADC is really nice though, 1.5 MSPS is
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
Yes, if you want all the drawbacks of distributed computing with none of the advantages: You'd probably be stuck with something UART based as interconnect, Every core is gonna have way too little RAM to do anything useful, you are mi
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
The comparison to cryptography export restrictions is absolutely valid, but is that really favorable? I'd argue that 70's cryptography export bans in hindsight look completely misguided, futile, burdensome and pointless in the end
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
Thanks for the links! I somehow missed those topic completely and failed to find them before posting, too.
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
I personally think that in a decade or two the mainstream perspective on this will be similar to the outlook on cold-war era cryptography export controls: Long term futile, ineffective and burdensome, despite being "valuable" to a
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White House Will Ad Hoc Decide Who Can Individually Access GPT-5.6(thezvi.substack.com)
3 points by myrmidon 4mo ago|3 comments
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
Density does directly scale with both of those in the form of more chips per die (=> lower cost) and smaller capacitance (=> less dynamic power dissipation). If you want to reduce "effectiveness" of some process down to a si
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
Why would you expect people to go for fully renewable grids right now? You'd need no pre-existing dispatchable power for that to be appealing to start with, and this is the case approximately nowhere (excluding countries that get free
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
What doesnt add up? Almost all western industrialized nations are on a downward trajectory (or flat) regarding electricity use. So there is simply little economic incentive to "greenify" electricity quickly because demand is alrea
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
And the much heavier regulatory environment exists for a bloody reason. The US alone spent billions to clean up superfund sites on the taxpayers dime (because companies created a huge mess in pursuit of profit and unhampered by regulation i
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
I think its mainly just different "environmentalist" subgroups: You have the oldschool environmentalists that are more "holistically" concerned with sustainability, ecological footprint, species preservation, pollution,
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
> nuclear reactors are capable of changing power output at 3-5% of nameplate capacity per minute This is not a technical problem, but nuclear plants already struggle to compete on cost of energy when running 24/7. Every minute such
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
First: I completely agree that extrapolating current ressource use towards a "exhaustion date" is naive, and historically things never worked out that way. But copper price is still up by >500% since the early 2000s.
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
You missed the "21+ billion safety transistors safety assessed" gem. I don't even know what that was supposed to mean. Hopefully all the safety transistors in the safety graphics card of my safety-PC were safety-assessed, too
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
Different people have different perspectives. My point is that from a developers PoV, renaming is not an evident net-gain at all -- might be seen as pointless branding busywork that leeches ressources from "actual" problems. That
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
Not necessarily. The technical people managing the repos might just be opposed to name changing in general (seeing how a boatload of links, references, documentation would require updating, some of which you don't even control), and me
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
> A low TFR is indisputably the slow death of a society. No this is a non-sequitur. Low fertility only means that the affected society grows smaller. This is only equivalent to "slow death" when it persists for centuries unti
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
You misunderstood because the title is ambiguous. This talks about seven consecutive riffle shuffles ("cut the deck and interleave the piles"): Those are not a "perfect shuffle" (i.e. same probability for every permuta
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
They are most certainly using cheap labor to design, plan, operate and maintain those "dark" plants. Very highly automated production lines (cars) have similarly moved along the labor-price gradient in Europe (~east) during the la
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
Those numbers sound worse than they are. Storage production capacity is still rising much faster than energy consumption in all those nations, and the situation is probably quite similar with other pieces of infrastructure that last for dec
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
This is exactly it. This way, you can see how e.g. players of different skill level navigate the "same" run (same seed), without everything diverging completely on the very first (meaninglessly small) combat choice.
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by myrmidon 4mo ago
I don't think there is, really, but plenty of potential housing (and also the cost of construction) is pressured by "pseudo-housing" (Airbnb, vacation apartments, boutique hotels), often fueled by foreign capital.

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