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by pedrocr 6y ago
Tesla sales are quite lumpy in Europe as they tend to deliver at the end of the quarters so October is probably a bad comparison. But hopefully the ID.3 keeps selling well. We need more EVs and more small ones that can cater to more people.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
That used to be the case, but with the latest Euro regulations diesel and gasoline are at the same requirements for emissions.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
If you feed it an N byte array it will have to allocate an N+16 array and memcpy. If you're reading from the network/disk/etc then there is no need to copy if you can allocate the larger array directly.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Extra copying is the downside if you don't control what you're reading from. Thankfully memcpy is fast but if your input is very big it's still painful. In rust I just used an API that allows reading from both an input stream
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by pedrocr 6y ago
The same is done for decoding camera raw formats. Variable encoding of the number of bits in the stream means you never know when the decode will end. Reading all the file into a buffer longer than needed is fast, whereas the bit pump is pe
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by pedrocr 6y ago
That's not what I was saying. To clarify, everything that's GTK and Qt is already Wayland native and scales just fine. It's also not true at all that everything is full of bugs and unusable. In fact I can only think of a si
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by pedrocr 6y ago
If they have the headphones you're using correctly modeled they could in theory pre-process the audio to get close to the output of whatever it is you're testing. The PC/phone DAC may introduce quite a bit of inconsistency th
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Those dimensions are also far from fixed. We've optimised our lives with these tradeoffs in mind. If the office we work at is very good maybe we've selected a smaller appartment in a trendier area with more things to do at night.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Anything that's GTK and Qt based will definitely be Wayland native and thus not have the XWayland issue with fractional scaling. So Libreoffice works fine and so does gnome-terminal. I use those daily. If you have problems with those t
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Apple does fractional scaling in all their laptops. And the reason it doesn't always look great is that everyone has decided to do integer scaling and then scale down for fractional scaling instead of just rendering at the destination
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by pedrocr 6y ago
This is false. I can and do set whatever scale factor I want for each screen in sway and all apps are scaled correctly. This includes my browser, my text editor, my terminal, word processor and spreadsheet. There's literally no app I u
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Going one by one: - I've been using Firefox as Wayland native for a long time now. It works fine, certainly better than in X. I use the version as shipped by Ubuntu with no changes. Initially there were some bugs but haven't had a
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by pedrocr 6y ago
The biggest for me is actual tear-free rendering. All the different hacks in Xorg have never worked completely. The other one that people value a lot is HiDPI scaling done "well". Mixed fractional scaling in Xorg doesn't real
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by pedrocr 6y ago
All the things you mentioned are already fixed and most have had reasonable workarounds for a while. Some are still working their way through the distros so it's still a work in progress in places but it also has unique upsides from th
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Those are two different things. The red and blue shifts from in-person and mail votes were very reasonably predicted before the election. But the reason the probability of a Trump win rose so much was that Florida turned out red by quite a
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by pedrocr 6y ago
So from "much worse" it's now "not materially worse". In reality the numbers say Germany is actually much better, and it's 84 million people that you are now excluding from the analysis. Picking other individua
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Germany is at 177 deaths per day with 84 million people, for 2.1 deaths per million per day. The US is at 1170 deaths per day with 332 million people, for 3.5 deaths per million per day. That's a factor of 1.7x worse by the US. In numb
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by pedrocr 6y ago
I've already given you the numbers for Germany which was your other example. It is actually 2x better than the US. Your claim was "most of highly-developed Europe". Germany isn't even the best case and the total EU metri
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by pedrocr 6y ago
I'm not measuring different things. I've used initially the definition that seemed most appropriate to me as you didn't provide any and then the definition you chose. You're now using as an example an unnamed country. Wi
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by pedrocr 6y ago
I did look it up myself. I used the 7 day moving average to get more stable results and Germany is 2x better than the US in new cases/deaths per million right now even while having 3 to 5x less cases/death in total since the start
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by pedrocr 6y ago
How do you figure that? Taking the example of Germany, their numbers of new cases and new deaths from the same source are ~2x less than the US per population. By what metric is Germany doing much worse than the USA right now?
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by pedrocr 6y ago
I didn't cherry pick, I was in fact exhaustive. I was looking for cases that supported "most of highly-developed Europe is doing much worse than the USA" and specifically mentioned Germany. I looked at the specific cases ment
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by pedrocr 6y ago
That doesn't contradict anything I've said or support what I was replying to.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
The US has had 34k cases and 760 deaths per million people. Germany has had 10k cases and 152 deaths per million people. So Germany has done 3 to 5 times better than the US so far. The only Western European country that has clearly worse nu
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Efficient cycles to store heat/cold will be very valuable in the next few years. There are a lot of industrial/logistics processes where by far the biggest energy usage is in heating/cooling. In a recent refrigerated warehous
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by pedrocr 6y ago
These days the browser is by far the biggest RAM and CPU hog that runs on my system. All the other native stuff is an order of magnitude faster. It's the main reason I'll be replacing my laptop with a Zen2 or ideally Zen3 one as s
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by pedrocr 6y ago
But why would any of those people want this part? The only way I see it is if you want an Intel GPU for the compatibility in an otherwise AMD system. If not the Intel CPU you'd build already includes a more than capable GPU this genera
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by pedrocr 6y ago
I've used motion and it's fine as the DVR part with MJPEG cameras. Something else is needed for modern h264/h265/av1 stuff. I've started coding on it a few times but have never gotten it functional. But my point is
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by pedrocr 6y ago
IP cameras need their Linksys moment. The hardware has advanced immensely but the software is terrible.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Do you actually have the data to run that calculation? Mortality rates with good health care would roughly double the yearly mortality. It wouldn't be like 2005 or any other year, it would be unprecedented. But if you actually do that

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