pstrateman

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by pstrateman 3y ago
Apple made fsync a noop. You have to make a different call to get sync on macos. So tons is stuff is faster because it's not actually writing to disk.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
The voice recognition wasn't being done locally was it? So presumably they just have stopped using as many resources for the recognition.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
If by to focused on itself you mean imploding, then yes.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Eli Lilly was the first commercial producer of insulin at any significant scale. Genentech developed biosynthetic human insulin using engineered ecoli. Eli Lilly produced the first of the modern synthetic insulin analogs. Literally every ma
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Pfizer's world wide net income was $2.12bn USD in 2023. I guarantee you 100% of that came from the united states.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Only the last one makes the distinction between modern synthetics and basic insulin. Frankly the US pays for the cost of the research while the rest of the world just pays for the cost of production. If you want to fix the cost of insulin p
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by pstrateman 3y ago
The lancet 'article' doesn't actually say anything. It's just a political hack job.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Insulin isn't a single product. If you're not distinguishing between insulin extracted from a horse circa 1922 and a modern synthetic analog, well that's just not being honest. There's good arguments that the modern synt
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by pstrateman 3y ago
However only probabilistic detection is possible that way and really 100us variance over the internet would require many many detection attempts to discern.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Donated blood is not used directly like that. It is indeed tested and mixed. That's why they ask so many questions about your risk of disease when donating.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
The water being pumped is basically a battery. So it's much more effective than solar is on the normal grid.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
I cant find the source of that, but here's some information on the new construction lagging immigration. https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/canadas-growing-hous... .
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Demand in Canada in entirely from immigration, there's an obvious solution.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Nearly 7% of the entire Canadian work force is building new houses. That's double the next closest industrial country. Canada doesn't have a supply issue, it has a demand issue.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Modern CPU coolers are basically heat pipes connected to a radiator. They have very little thermal mass and if too much energy is in them the liquid all evaporates. When the liquid evaporates their performance falls off a cliff.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
This is pretty cool but honestly just setting the pump speed to a constant that's not annoying and setting the fans to a constant that's not annoying is likely to get the same result.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
The file format they choose is difficult for a fuzzer to produce valid examples by random chance. The file format isn't what's being fuzzed, so trying to accept as many things as possible as valid is useful. It's a trick to m
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Natural gas primary power plants are at or below $50/MWh 24x365. Solar and wind with batteries are in the range of $200-500/MWh. Nice try moving the goal posts though.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
The graph showing emissions decreasing in Africa is from the consumption of energy decreasing, not from more solar/wind or something. Simply put they're getting poorer and using fewer resources as a result. https://ourw
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Really? China doesn't have as much access to the sun. That's an absurd cope.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Canada would likely be more than 13% except there was an abundance of easy hydro electric projects. As the population of Canada grows past the point that the hydro projects provide nearly all electricity, I expect them to start burning more
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Reforestation is a scam, the total biomass of all plants on earth is about 450 billion tons.[1] Global CO2 emissions are on the order of 55 billion tons a year. The only way reforestation is going to matter is if we cut down all the trees g
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Renewables are absolutely not the cheapest form of new energy. Show me a solar + batteries facility that operates 24x365 at sub 0.05 USD/kWh and I'll concede they're cheaper, but you can't because no such facility exists
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Literally exactly what I'm predicting will happen is what's happening today. North American and European CO2 emissions are decreasing, but world wide emissions are constant. The rest of the world doesn't care, we're onl
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by pstrateman 3y ago
Renewables are still an order of magnitude more expensive than fossil fuels. Especially in countries without any infrastructure.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
If we cant make renewables cheap in western countries, how is it possible they'll be cheap in poor countries?
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by pstrateman 3y ago
That doesn't explain how you expect to keep people in extreme poverty from burning fossil fuels to get out of that poverty.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
I really don't see how western countries reducing CO2 production is going to have a net effect globally. Are we really naïve enough to think that African and Asian countries won't just replace our consumption of fossil fuels? Pret
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by pstrateman 3y ago
So bitcoin uses about 0.3% of energy production. That means the 2% claim is an order of magnitude lie.
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by pstrateman 3y ago
It looks to be inflation adjusted, so null means never since your safe withdrawal rate will always be less than expenses.

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