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by olau 2y ago
PyPy has a list implementation that specializes under the hood. So if you stuff it with integers, it will contain the integers directly instead of pointers to them. That's at least how I understood it.
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by olau 2y ago
Not to pick on your point about Denmark, but the fact is that there has been no aggressors and thus none to defend it against. The US did try to have a sort of covert base on Greenland many years ago, and in the end it failed. Yes, someone
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by olau 2y ago
I'm personally attracted to this way of thinking. I did write a post about it many years ago, probably triggered by this article: https://ole-laursen.blogspot.com/2016/01/stimergy.html Part of the mindset is
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by olau 2y ago
But if you see yourself as trying to make the world a better place, you'll accept that because the large code base is actually doing a lot of good out there. The article discusses this at the end.
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by olau 2y ago
The problem is usually SSL support, the problem is that older SSL and TLS versions are being disabled. I actually have an example myself - an iPad 3. Apple didn't allow anyone else than themselves to provide a web browser engine, and a
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by olau 2y ago
Perhaps it is becoming more clear that the current reproduction rates are unsustainable if they persist. Anyway, I have a bunch of kids, and I think from a motivational perspective, yes, kids give you meaning for some years. But they can al
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by olau 2y ago
From the article: > It's really hard to have an accurate model for why change is so hard in large bureaucratic institutions, and specifically for public sector ones, where the differences in governance really do matter. From the dis
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by olau 2y ago
> I don't know this reference Right there is your problem. Read the Mythical Man-Month and Design of Design. They are not long books and it's material that's hard to find elsewhere. Old rat tacit knowledge.
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by olau 2y ago
I would love to see a model focusing on making virtual instruments. There are sample-based virtual instruments, but they do miss some subtleties, and there are physics-based ones where some subtleties are preserved, but generally worse soun
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by olau 2y ago
With a JIT, you can examine what's actually running and compile on the fly a static portion and then execute that. A downside is that you don't have as much time as time spent compiling is not spent actually doing the work. And I
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by olau 2y ago
It must be new - the page says they're in beta since two weeks ago and expect it to take a month or two to hit production. It's nice to see more competition in this space.
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by olau 2y ago
If you have not read it, you might find the last part of the blog post most interesting. It covers shortcomings of just intonation.
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by olau 2y ago
My hayfever is mild. Since some years ago, I chew some grass ends, mostly at the beginning of the season. I do seem to get much reduced symptoms compared to what I used to get. But of course I can't be sure it's causal. I have com
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by olau 2y ago
Some years ago I helped diagnose an O(n²) bug in readline. For years, I had problems pasting many lines of SQL in a psql session. It would slow down as it worked through the characters. One day the same happened in another shell, and it daw
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by olau 2y ago
The "strong developments" in the grid and storage you speak of is peanuts compared to trying to make nuclear cheap. Big, powerful companies with brilliant physicists and engineers have worked on it for decades. Lots of prototypes,
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by olau 2y ago
That's not actually what the paper says. It just says that when you have one design, when you find a design flaw, it affects all the instances. Due to the safety regulations, you then need to shut them all down until you've either
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by olau 2y ago
A warning about Aurora: It's opaque tech. I've been on a project that switched to it by recommendation by the hosting provider, and had to switch away because it turns out that it does not support queries requiring temporary stora
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by olau 2y ago
The sources I've seen point out plenty of places. They may be overoptimistic. But excavation is really expensive, and in a competitive market, you cannot just throw money at the problem. It's the same reason nuclear fission is dea
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by olau 2y ago
Where did you get that feeling from? Wind turbine manufacturers are engineering heavy organizations. The competition is fierce. Only those manufacturers with the best R&D have survived. From time to time you see radically new designs th
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by olau 2y ago
The underlying problem is that the way your brain works doesn't really map well into categories. Text searching sometimes works, but has the same problem. Source: Nearly two decades ago we worked on this problem and read a bunch of res
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by olau 2y ago
Here are some things Smil gets wrong: https://cleantechnica.com/2020/11/13/what-does-bill-gates-fa... IEA has historically been bad at forecasting renewables. The GDP numbers you mention are very far from the
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by olau 3y ago
Perhaps you're talking about vastly different systems, but FWIW I'm personally hoping that Pijul matures and sees some adoption. I can see how people who are into the simplicity of the git on-disk format don't mind the downsi
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by olau 3y ago
IMHO it's about society. If you're asking on a personal level, I think that if you keep to the high ground, you're more likely to find long-lasting happiness. David Graeber spends a good deal of the pages in Bullshit Jobs on
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by olau 3y ago
Not an expert, but it's my impression that it's common to have reactors shut down about one month per year for refueling and maintenance. Of course, this can be planned so it's not a big deal. The plants do have a worse corre
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by olau 3y ago
The problem with running nuclear in a dispatchable fashion (apart from technical problems) is not the marginal cost, but the upfront capital cost. Dispatchable capacity needs to have relatively low upfront cost, because it's seldomly u
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by olau 3y ago
I think you're right in so far that the US never really wanted to do what it would take to convert the whole of Afghanistan to a friendly state, like say Japan after WWII. Urbanization statistics for Afghanistan place them at something
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by olau 3y ago
Some of the people working on GTK are funded by Red Hat or otherwise. If you're really interested, you could try talking to people. Edit: In particular, Matthias Clasen, the guy blogging here, has been with Red Hat for many years.
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by olau 3y ago
If you read The Design of Design Fred Brooks talks about the perils of trying to have multiple people design something.
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by olau 3y ago
One thing I've learned over time is that leaving the magical aspects aside performing a ritual can have an advantageous emotional effect on the participants. A silly example: A distant relative explained how he'd seen a stone heal
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by olau 3y ago
I'm not sure this is a correct characterization. Lex Fridman interviewed Elon Musk recently where Musk says that the "open" was supposed to stand for "open source". To be fair, Fridman grilled Musk on his views toda

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