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by pedrocr 6y ago
At this point, waiting for the mobile Ryzens to appear across the laptop ranges seems like a good idea. They've crammed 8 cores instead of 4 into the same TDP and made laptop chips that are in the same ballpark as the dekstop counterpa
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by pedrocr 6y ago
What was clunky? The installer supports it and then all you have to do is insert the password on boot.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Get an X1 Carbon with a 4K screen perhaps.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Thanks for the video. The sea of trash I was thinking of is still trash by this definition. Youtube is full of videos that are just some other clip copied with an automated intro and other such things. The algorithm does ok at filtering it
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by pedrocr 6y ago
There are plenty of things I have no interest in doing but have watched hours of great Youtube videos by very dedicated people in the field. The depth of some forms of user generated content is amazing and there's nothing wrong with be
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Comparing to Sweden is a bit extreme. Portugal's comparable GDP is 24k. It's still a factor of 3x but a lot of the costs in a welfare state scale with the wealth of the economy as they are just directly cost of labor. Having a rea
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by pedrocr 6y ago
With the breakdown of Dennard scaling getting more performance per unit of energy is getting harder and harder. We need another breakthrough to get back on a clearly improving curve. It's surprising how it's exactly the same here
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by pedrocr 6y ago
> Having a 3rd major player in the GPU space would be wild. Reportedly 4th as Intel is supposedly trying once again for that market.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
At least here in Portugal there are already plenty of Renault Zoe being used for Uber. The running costs are lower and range seems more than enough for city driving. With decent chargers the cars are only idle when the drivers are taking a
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Cisco "telepresence" solved this 15 years ago. Standardized rooms on both sides with high quality cameras and low latencies. Polycom had a similar but worse setup at the time. The Cisco experience was very close to being in a shar
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by pedrocr 6y ago
EV range as a blended efficiency using the same test cycle we use for ICEs is not a very useful metric. EVs are already insanely energy efficient so we don't really need to measure that. What people want to know is if they go on a road
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by pedrocr 6y ago
You're somehow assuming that doing things properly in the US requires a testing rate that's 1000x larger than everywhere else. I was just putting numbers to the absurd scale of testing everyone 3 times, which is far far beyond wha
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by pedrocr 6y ago
New Zeland hasn't tested more per population size than the US or the EU. If the argument is scale the EU is a counter-example. If the argument is management there are literally dozens of countries that have managed things better than t
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Coronavirus has a mortality curve by age that looks like the average curve for the population of all other causes. So you're basically saying we shouldn't protect young people of a risk that doubles their chances of dying this yea
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by pedrocr 6y ago
There's some evidence that exposure to higher concentrations of the virus can make things much worse. That matches with lots of reports of deaths of otherwise healthy health workers.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
At this point in Europe we have private accredited labs doing tests for under 100€ on-site whenever there's an outbreak. Testing the entire US population once would cost ~30B$. Do it three times and spend 100B$ which would be incredibl
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by pedrocr 6y ago
So do available resources. This go to argument that things that work in smaller countries don't work in the US is bizarre. It's used in all these discussions of how things that work in the EU couldn't possibly work in the US,
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by pedrocr 6y ago
RPA is just systems integration for companies that have a broken software development process. That companies are having to resort to writing "robots" to fake pushing buttons in UIs should make you less confident in the advancemen
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by pedrocr 6y ago
This is using the terminology a bit strangely. Usually a Turing machine is something that's in a complexity class above a stack automaton which is in a complexity class above a finite state machine. And then we think of computers as Tu
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Yes, dumping prevention regulations are quite common. In the area I work in they're applied at the SKU level even, not even at the aggregate of the transaction.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
> I'm not sure I see the continuing growth. You're probably thinking of startups only. Traditional retailers are growing their delivery services pretty much everywhere in the world.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
If those better and cheaper products are not covering their costs and just buying market share then yes. In well functioning consumer markets you get fined for selling below cost.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
I've seen both cab drivers and these delivery services struggle quite a bit with that, so I'm not as optimistic.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
I agree with that. But the market expectation is very different. In businesses like groceries there is a general expectation that deliveries will continue to grow even though there's no reasonable expectation that the unit economics wi
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Density helps if you're delivering a bunch of small things that you can easily batch together. The kinds of things being tried by these VC funded attempts are not where density helps the most as you either have a delivery that requires
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Local services like that have existed for decades. They usually have poor websites or even phone ordering, often don't have an app, and the payment methods can be behind the times. But they have always worked fine. The new wave of VC-f
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by pedrocr 6y ago
Delivery services work very well in places with very high income inequality. You need to pay a small amount to the courier and then sell an expensive service to someone that's price insensitive. Simply adjusting by PPP doesn't gua
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by pedrocr 6y ago
This sounds like an example of someone taking it seriously by actually putting in the effort to build the elaborate program but then failing miserably at making it effective. That's not at all an unusual experience for HR processes in
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by pedrocr 6y ago
EasyJet was the one hacked, the customers got their information stolen from the hack but were not themselves hacked.
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by pedrocr 6y ago
> Vatican City won’t be beat on popes per km², either (it has just over two) Just over 4 actually. There are 2 popes in 0.49 km^2 so 4.1.

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