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by rrss 5y ago
drought in California does not impact the Hoover Dam. The drought in question is a drought in the entire western US (and therefore the Colorado river basin).
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by rrss 5y ago
I think that WECC would probably have gone ballistic if this was actually California’s plan. Also, yes, being able to import from other places as a contingency is not a bad thing, it’s one of the major benefits of having the Western Interco
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by rrss 5y ago
> so California was planning on using the rest of the grid as a buffer Was this actually a plan, or just what ended up happening? My understanding is that CAISO has continued their resource adequacy program to ensure that there is guaran
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by rrss 5y ago
Vanderbei’s linked articles have some discussion of sources of error. The main one seems to be waves making the reflection appear longer.
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by rrss 5y ago
what kind of batteries are meaningfully heavier when charged? are you just talking about like E/c^2?
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by rrss 5y ago
that site seems use the word "salary" to refer to total compensation - the second highest (shown as a salary $315k) actually has a salary of $89k. I assume the values for the San Jose teachers are also total compensation, not sala
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by rrss 5y ago
pretty sure OP understands the chart they linked, but I don’t think 1-3% is considered “runaway”
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by rrss 5y ago
How should I interpret this? There’s a huge jump in may 2020, but apparently the metric was redefined in may 2020 to include more stuff? from the Q&A page linked at the bottom: > Recognizing savings deposits as a transaction account
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by rrss 5y ago
https://spectrum.ieee.org/a-better-way-to-measure-progress-i...
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by rrss 5y ago
It looks to me like this is a work in progress. The current page just describes setting up the resources and tools to start working on a design, and I don’t see this project in the MPW-1 or MPW-2 lists. https://www.efabless.com&#
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by rrss 5y ago
Isn’t MIT Technology Review published by a company owned by MIT? http://web.mit.edu/fnl/MITPublications/ lists Technology Review as a publication of MIT.
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by rrss 5y ago
yeah. If there is something I’m missing, hopefully someone can point out what it is, because I don’t really understand why this matters.
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by rrss 5y ago
Why does this metric matter, when 95% of the water Intel uses is already returned to the water supply? From the same verge article as the 4 million gallons a day figure: > Last year, the company pledged that by 2030 it will restore and r
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by rrss 5y ago
From the same verge article: > Last year, the company pledged that by 2030 it will restore and return more freshwater than it uses. It’s nearing that benchmark in Arizona, where Intel says it cleaned up and returned 95 percent of the fre
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by rrss 5y ago
> Are there open source implementations of these models there are some open source packages for lattice QCD. e.g. https://jeffersonlab.github.io/chroma/
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by rrss 5y ago
the multi-megawatts comes from the nuclear chain reaction. presumably any package used to transport fuel would prevent criticality.
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by rrss 5y ago
boulos is 100% right that you are choosing to compare to particularly expensive GPUs instead of cheaper GPU instances that are actually intended for inference at low cost. EDIT: please stop it with the ninja edits.
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by rrss 5y ago
That shows how to set up an X server in windows that WSL can access. How do you get GPU acceleration for ML tasks using X11?
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by rrss 5y ago
Summit, the current #2 supercomputer on the Top500 list, uses POWER9 CPUs.
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by rrss 5y ago
The article is about IBM Z, not POWER. Both IBM Z and POWER processors are vulnerable to a variety of spectre-style attacks.
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by rrss 5y ago
I think the originally submitted HN title was something like “flights grounded after New Yorker article” instead of the article’s title.
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by rrss 5y ago
Scaled Composites was contracting for Virgin Galactic though. Rutan and Scaled did SpaceShipOne for the X Prize, then Branson contracted them to do SpaceShipTwo for Virgin. Also, i don’t follow what you are saying about the acquisition - Sc
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by rrss 5y ago
I found that some of the documents from the 2006 version of the course are available here: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~410-s06/projects.html
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by rrss 5y ago
6) Linux falls over under memory pressure
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by rrss 5y ago
I think C11 and later have similar forward progress requirements as C++11 and later, C just has an additional exception for loops with constant conditions.
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by rrss 5y ago
I asked a question, which you did not answer. I did not say anything about whose fault it is. EDIT: FWIW, I think it is manifestly obvious that Biden and the current administration is responsible for the current situation. No need to convin
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by rrss 5y ago
What were the conditions to withdraw? My understanding is that the terms of the Doha agreement were 1) Taliban stops attacking US troops, 2) Taliban doesn’t shelter al Qaeda, and 3) US military leaves Afghanistan by May 2021. Were there oth
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by rrss 5y ago
regardless of whether the US had a continuous military presence in west Germany, it is implausible to me that east Germany / the USSR could have taken over west germany without starting WWIII. West Germany was a NATO member state by 19
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by rrss 5y ago
The U.S. did spend sort of a lot of money in attempts to develop infrastructure and industry in Afghanistan. But it mostly achieved nothing because of the widespread corruption (both of Americans and afghans) and lack of an overall plan tha
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by rrss 5y ago
> Not a single new reservoir has been built since 1979 This is not an accurate simplification of "did not construct one additional, large-scale water storage project." The have been a number of new reservoirs constructed since

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