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by pbmonster 3mo ago
This might make sense once SteamBox is a large percentage of Linux Desktop installs. Right now, it would be insanity. Just the situation with running SteamOS on hardware with NVIDIA cards would be a showstopper. And a whole lot of consumer
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by pbmonster 4mo ago
The idea is deleting the friction brakes entirely, saving costs, maintenance and weight. And 400kW isn't really all that much for a sports car. I remember 911 ads from the '80s that boasted "brakes with more than 1000 horse p
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by pbmonster 4mo ago
Very funny idea. That basically means a carbureted gas engine, or a direct injection diesel with a mechanical governor and mechanically timed injection pumps - can't run a direct injection gas engine without a digital engine control un
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by pbmonster 4mo ago
There's an efficiency sweet spot where hardware that people have anyway gets a higher percentage of load. MacBooks have a lot of memory and a lot of FLOPs. They mostly sit unused all day. Yes, the excess energy use will be higher than
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by pbmonster 4mo ago
> why not build panels anywhere? Because there's better alternatives same places. Norway has legendary well-suited topography for hydro power (>90% of electricity), and it's reliably windy (>8% of electricity). It's
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by pbmonster 4mo ago
Of course. My agentic coding containers can only access the internet through a proxy, and I use whitelists to limit from where they can send/receive data. It's annoying in the beginning as the whitelist grows, but in the end reall
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by pbmonster 4mo ago
> The defining element of a LAN party, however, is the social factor. Playing a game with others in the same physical space, sometimes huddled side-by-side on the same large table, is an intimate affair. Cries of joy and frustration fill
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by pbmonster 4mo ago
I mean, does it really matter? The Prius (and all subsequent Synergy Drive cars) were widely known - from the very beginning - to be extremely fuel efficient ICE cars. As time went on, they universally became known to be both fuel efficient
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by pbmonster 4mo ago
No, it's already 130M (out of the ~450M in the EU). Wero's predecessor (iDeal, Bizum, Paylib, Giropay) systems are already widely adapted in their countries of origin and will be fully compatible with it, and Wero itself has had a
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by pbmonster 4mo ago
I wonder what the hell the problem with naming things is in the AI space. They pretty much all suck at it. OpenAI came up with GPT 4o, o4, 4.5, 4.1 (which came out later than 4.5 and had a completely different purpose), Microsoft just cal
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by pbmonster 4mo ago
Building codes on that are going to vary locally. They are doable in most of Switzerland if you plan for it: no sky lights, no chimney (there's setbacks and fire codes for those), ect.
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by pbmonster 4mo ago
There's a third way: in-roof or roof integrated photovoltaics. Normal panels, but integrated into the roof. Those look amazing. Very popular in Switzerland where some villages have strict aesthetic rules for buildings. Next best thing
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by pbmonster 5mo ago
That's not the argument. Yes, curl is insanely hardened. But still, they currently have a new CVE every couple of weeks. Mythos didn't accelerate this much, no more than all the other AI-assisted security analysis they've bee
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by pbmonster 5mo ago
curl had ~15 CVEs in 2026 so far. You surely don't think those (and the one Mythos found) were the last security bugs still left in the code base? There certainly will be more, in fact Daniel predicts ~50 CVEs for the entire year. But
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by pbmonster 5mo ago
> This is the way. I use printed maps when on vacation. Come on, then you know their limits. Get to your destination city? Better hope your road atlas comes with a city map, and the road you're going to is large enough to have its n
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by pbmonster 5mo ago
I'd expect pretty good results from simulation until you start bending/deforming the limbs or until the foot pads start slipping. I also wonder if you can read the impact force from the legs with the ground from the motor controll
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by pbmonster 5mo ago
The jumps are pretty impressive, this thing has some power. I'd be very curious how fast you could get this dog with some reinforcement learning for a proper transverse gallop gait - and if it converges towards a gallop naturally, or i
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by pbmonster 5mo ago
I was waiting for Google to pull a local LLM onto Chrome/Android devices. It opens up some revenue streams that weren't easily possible before: for example the often memed "I was talking about cigars with my wife one single t
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by pbmonster 5mo ago
No, but mostly for economic reasons. You can farm a whole lot of fish in aquaculture - it's just more expensive than importing wild caught fish. The numbers look pretty insane, you can raise many tons of fish in relatively small volume
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by pbmonster 5mo ago
It's not a comprehensive dataset. The US installed 43 GW_peak in 2025, which should be around 80M new panels. Still, an order of magnitude less new capacity than China - but not two orders.
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by pbmonster 6mo ago
I assume the "briefly gets worse" is when a buch of hyperscalers do a complete write-off of their entire AI investments, bankrupting several of them (which, in turn, bankrupts several large banks and most current venture capital f
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by pbmonster 6mo ago
> But perhaps still useful for planning, as a starting place? Yeah, lots of value in just having an app go "the mix you're trying to do is likely to fail the slump test". So you still have time to adjust the water ratio, o
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by pbmonster 6mo ago
It is simply difficult to hide. You can just go and look at the infrastructure, after all. I bet almost all the information is from OpenStreetmaps, and people just walked around and added all the power lines, substations and powerplants the
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by pbmonster 6mo ago
Is RAG even necessary here? Minimal information like a couple of price list with job times and opening hours should easily fit into any context window, right? It's not like he's dumping entire service manuals into the vector datab
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by pbmonster 6mo ago
But why? What would change compared to 12 players on a huge map? Do you just want to conquer a large number of your neighbors and then still get to compete against other mega-empires? When playing civ on 12 player maps, I still mostly inter
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by pbmonster 6mo ago
> Take care - the Hybrid battery can be expensive to replace and they do eventually fail. That is true, but median mileage at replacement for the old NiMH batteries is 150k miles (240k km), and the lithium cells have a median mileage at
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
If you want to make new helium, it's far easier to go the other way. You just need quite a bit of Polonium, Thorium or Radon. Put it in a pool - and then wait a while. You just gotta collect what bubbles to the surface.
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
The snipping tool (with all features I'm using today) was added to PowerToys more than 20 years ago. It was integrated directly into Windows 10 pretty early in the update cycle. Not sure it qualifies for "the last decade".
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
It's not automatically obvious. There could (theoretically) be domestic gas fields that are solely supplying pipeline "islands" (connected to domestic gas powerplants and fertilizer factories) under long-running contracts. Th
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by pbmonster 7mo ago
Very simplified: farming and distillation is so extremely energy intensive, it's not clear whether producing one ton of bio ethanol fuel consumes more or less than one ton of diesel (or equivalent). So producing bio ethanol is not a su

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