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by rocqua 3y ago
If that is the case, we are fucked anyway. There is no way 80% of the planet is willing to give up any comfort to stave off future ecological problems they cannot feel yet. We saw how much effort it took with global warming, and I doubt tha
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by rocqua 3y ago
I figured it was a 'smarter' system based on image recognition of satellite data. Or perhaps based on location data of people traveling. I guess this option is much simpler. And it is so frustrating, because it is almost easy to f
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by rocqua 3y ago
That feels like a regular import of wrong data. I always assumed that Google used location data to help routing. Especially location data from people not using any navigation. But these stories suggest the system is a lot dumber.
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by rocqua 3y ago
The article doesn't state the entire program has to be read into memory before it starts executing. Instead the article states that during execution, for the highest inputs, the entire program needs to pass through memory for execution
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by rocqua 3y ago
For the highest possible input, all of the program needs to be read into memory. Just not all of it at the same time. I guess technically most of the RET instructions are jumped over, and so they don't need to be in memory. But that is
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by rocqua 3y ago
Could it be the branch predictor of the CPU somehow catching on to this? Perhaps something like 'the branch for input x is somewhere around base+10X.
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by rocqua 3y ago
Wouldn't a randomly moving platform with 4 gatling guns on there give full-sphere coverage and defense against passive weapons by the random movement? You have fuel issues, but that can be solved by rotating shifts, or (vulnerable) in-
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by rocqua 3y ago
It makes a lot of sense to feed your ventilation output to a heatpump input for energy recovery with an air-source heatpump. But otherwise I think there is a lot of value in other forms of heating. Specifically in radiative heating. Floor h
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by rocqua 3y ago
W3C is almost pure software. That is an area where patents shouldn't exist, and luckily an area where patents are not ubiquitous. For things like WiFi, or 5G, there is a lot more room for 'real' patents. Because there is a lo
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by rocqua 3y ago
That is a part of the process I hadn't considered. I was looking at the incentive of participants to have their patents in the standard. But it makes total sense that everyone who will implement the standard (which tends to involve the
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by rocqua 3y ago
Sadly it works the other way around, and this has a tendency to infect standardization proceedings. If you can put some technology that uses your patents in a standard like WiFi or 5G, that is a license to print money. There are plenty of g
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by rocqua 3y ago
Split it up, and disown the ultimate beneficiaries? You don't need every single 3M factory to make those chemicals. So make a new company that only makes these chemicals.
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by rocqua 3y ago
You can't "sell the company". Any company you sell with an immediate and complete change of management is very likely completely dead in the water. Institutional knowledge is very important.
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by rocqua 3y ago
Thank god for the comms problem. Without it, hypersonic missles probably aren't far from being able to take out any aircraft carrier. That would be bad for Taiwan.
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by rocqua 3y ago
"Turbofans stop working, and you start needing to deal with plasma from air resistance" are the specific points here. Moreover, if you can handle these issues, you can probably use similar tech to go even faster.
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by rocqua 3y ago
If I recall scott Manley correctly, mach 5 is roughly the speed only reachable by ramjets. And also roughly the speed where aerodynamic heating starts generating plasma around the airframe. Hence getting to mach 5 requires solving two probl
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by rocqua 3y ago
Refactoring is really rather well defined. It's " just transformations that are invariant w.r.t. the outcome". The reason they are hard to automate is that 'invariant w.r.t. the outcome' is a lot more lenient than m
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by rocqua 3y ago
People used to actively demolish beaver dams right? What was considered the downside back then?
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by rocqua 3y ago
The understanding of a refractive index only cares about 'phase speed' in steady state. At least, that is what the video claims to be about. For that case, phase kicks are a sufficient explanation no? I can imagine things get real
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by rocqua 3y ago
This feels maybe possible with QT. Since the inputs are all defined in code.
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by rocqua 3y ago
I think legislation demanding most tools have an API would be a good thing. Not 'tho shalt expose a REST endpoint'. But instead something like 'every operation a user can do with this tool, they also need to be able to trigge
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by rocqua 3y ago
Thanks for this insight! It has pretty strong explanatory power. It also explains why rushed development can stall. It explains 'move fast and break things'. There's even an added factor of learning more about what is really
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by rocqua 3y ago
I mean, bridges collapse. That hasn't meant we gave up on engineering bridges. Point being, we have some risk tolerance, even for civil engineering. Now we don't accept an engineer saying, "this bridge will probably collapse
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by rocqua 3y ago
I think with formal analysis, whole bug classes can be eliminated. Add to that a rigorous programming style, and 'bug-free' code is within reach. There will remain bugss that make it through, but they will be rare, and will need
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by rocqua 3y ago
Cinema has a black period in the middle of every frame, that actually prevents these problems.
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by rocqua 3y ago
There is the alternative of Black frame insertion. It loses a lot of brightness, but helps a lot with stuttering at 24 fps. The problem that causes stuttering is (simplified) that your eye is moving smoothly to follow something on the scree
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by rocqua 3y ago
The local dimming suggestion isn't fully in line with the rest. It's about bringing some parts of the image closer to whats intended by the filmmaker, at the cost of other parts of the image (usually noticeable by adding gradients
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by rocqua 3y ago
You need radar to detect incoming things anyway, and radar can be re-used.
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by rocqua 3y ago
Computers are fragile, but they are copyable. Quite easily and exactly copieable. Consider how books written 1000 years ago still survive today. They were diligently copied. Now compare the effort (and accuracy) of such book copying to comp
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by rocqua 3y ago
"Crypto is finance without borders" is not a positive statement. Borders are important for security. Especially because states have varying degrees of ill-intent towards each other's citizens. But more important than borders

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