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by sagarm 1y ago
IIUC AC current causes your muscles to twitch. This means that can cause you to be unable to let go of e.g. a live wire, fall off a ladder, or disrupt your heartbeat.
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by sagarm 1y ago
The most practical version of this is a DC solar-heat pump setup, but the number of people that would choose that over a more complex solution is limited IMO.
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by sagarm 1y ago
Corporations are bad because the diffusion of responsibility and legal liability shield turns them, to a first approximation, into amoral paperclip maximizers that will employ slave labor to save nickels and dimes. The invariably sociopathi
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by sagarm 1y ago
Lincoln pardoned basically the entire Confederacy. I'm not sure what the expert opinion is on that but it seems legit.
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by sagarm 1y ago
Oh yeah, DIY is the way to go. But even for a DIY project the other stuff you need -- inverters, batteries, optimizers, mounts, wiring, transfer switch -- will end up being the majority.
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by sagarm 1y ago
SignatureSolar has panels for $0.25/w. The tariffs are a nothing burger. If you're paying someone else to do it, the panels will likely be <10% of the cost.
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by sagarm 1y ago
Hardware assisted is a red herring here. As you noted the real problem is that random reads have poor data locality, which degrades your database performance in a way that is expensive to resolve.
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by sagarm 1y ago
Drivers hit structures all the time.
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by sagarm 1y ago
Can a "lower budget" FPGA really outperform a consumer-grade CPU for this? And what hobbyist is sending off decoding chips to be fabbed? If this exists, it sounds interesting if incredibly impractical.
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by sagarm 1y ago
Microsoft tried this with DNT and data-dependent businesses refused to respect it as a result.
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by sagarm 1y ago
Robotic process automation isn't new.
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by sagarm 1y ago
The Internet bubble was also based on something real, but that didn't stop it from being a bubble. For example, Cisco parked at over $500B in market cap during the boom. Its current market cap is around half that, at $250B.
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by sagarm 1y ago
Do you actually curate your contexts? I did in the early days, but I just create new ones now.
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by sagarm 1y ago
You're absolutely right about ChatGPT's consumer mindshare, and I think a lot of people undervalue that. Having Gemini in docs is useful, though. You can ask questions about the document without copying back and forth and context
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by sagarm 1y ago
It's a serious annoyance, and when all I really need is Chrome and proper GNU userspace and terminal to access it, why bother? That plus the nagging is hardly better than Windows at this point.
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by sagarm 1y ago
And what C++ version where these systems on? Have they even made it to C++11, let alone C++23?
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by sagarm 1y ago
I had my own set of keys and combinations I wanted to hit while mousing, mostly space and cut/copy/paste. I just made sure I had those on a layer activated by my left thumb on my left hand. My layout would not work for you since I
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by sagarm 1y ago
I'm very confused about an 80% that allegedly moves ANY keys other than navigation, numpad, or f-keys. Any 65% will meet your requirements. As for <60%: use that neuroplasticity. Stave off dementia. You can do it.
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by sagarm 1y ago
The study is looking only at healthcare spending and two-year outcomes, so it doesn't really address people's intuition that healthcare spending is lower in the long term with preventative care. That said preventative probably doe
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by sagarm 1y ago
Why do you want an ARM mini PC?
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by sagarm 1y ago
I think most people could agree that H1Bs allocated to Wipro, Infosys, and TATA are wasted. This reform doesn't seem like the right way to address that and retain positive aspects of the program, like the foreign student pipeline.
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by sagarm 1y ago
And a new freeway offramp costs $100M. Yet, nobody is bleating about killing and starving Caltrans.
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by sagarm 1y ago
Cruise is dead.
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by sagarm 1y ago
AMD is fabless. They spun off GlobalFoundries years ago.
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by sagarm 1y ago
The best jobs are with large corporations with offices all over the world. Workers from all over the world are competing with each other, regardless of the Kafkaesque state of American immigrant policy.
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by sagarm 1y ago
I don't get the small businesses fetishism. Large companies are efficient, resilient, more likely to follow the letter of the law, and more scalably prosecutable if they don't.
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by sagarm 1y ago
When other businesses can't hack it, we let them go bankrupt and do something more productive. Why do farmers get treated any differently?
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by sagarm 1y ago
I don't know who pc is, and he mentioned speed as a benefit without addressing the fraud / abuse implications. It's pretty reasonable to flag the gap.
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by sagarm 1y ago
Then bank runs or regulation seem inevitable.
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by sagarm 1y ago
I want to. I like that I can open multiple windows, tab them, share and save URLs, all with no stupid app-specific updater widget, a pretty good sandbox, and explicit permissions for breaking out of that sandbox in limited ways (e.g. notifi

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