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by sien 2y ago
Nuclear low emissions is too realistic. It's just France. There is a thing called 'Atom Punk' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk_derivatives#Atompunk But it has a different emphasis.
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by sien 2y ago
At a guess. Fusion is being regulated like particle accelerators, not like fission reactors. The Fusion Industry Association has more information on this. https://www.fusionindustryassociation.org/policy/fusion-regu...
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by sien 2y ago
It doesn't run on macOS either these days.
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by sien 2y ago
They sort of tried with a machine running Windows. The SGI Visual Workstation was meant to be that. It was quite a bit more expensive that 2K though. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SGI_Visual_Workstation Where I worked
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by sien 2y ago
Civ 1 and Civ 4 got highest ratings on Metacritic . https://www.metacritic.com/pictures/every-sid-meiers-civiliz...
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by sien 2y ago
This is what the average of the reviews on Metacritic also says. Civ IV is at 94. Civ V is at 90. Civ VI is 88. Civ VII is now at 80. Civ Revolution is also at 80.
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by sien 2y ago
Since the pandemic passenger car miles, airline miles are back at pre-pandemic levels. Transit use is at 80% of pre-pandemic levels. https://ti.org/antiplanner/?p=22722 Farebox recovery ratios have consequently become
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by sien 2y ago
Adding animal feeds to whatever is a very good way to tone things down. Otters, dogs, cats, snow leopards, red pandas whatever floats your boat. Also, as you say the big platforms will still try and get you into an outrage loop.
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Huawei's Ascend 910C delivers 60% of Nvidia H100 inference performance(tomshardware.com)
118 points by sien 2y ago|61 comments
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by sien 2y ago
I'm pretty sure I've been in an interview with an 'interview assistant' and that it was another person. This was 2-3 years ago in a remote interview. The candidate would hear the question, BS us a bit and then sometimes
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by sien 2y ago
To be fair they had actually written a game some time ago that they got running on the system.
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by sien 2y ago
Amazon invested profits. For many years ago they could turn a switch and become profitable. The share price kept rising while they were investing profits in expanding. It's far from a fool proof way of doing things, many companies that
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by sien 2y ago
I'm not an Arsenal supporter. It was mainly sneaking in some levity. That call was poor.
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by sien 2y ago
Is there any hope of AI improving dubious refereeing ? As in, perhaps decisions about unexpected red cards ?
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by sien 2y ago
But my oh my, it was so much better than experts exchange.
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by sien 2y ago
The US government spends 10 trillion dollars year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Government_spending_in_the_Uni... That's larger than the GDP of all but two countries in the world. That is not starving. On top of
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by sien 2y ago
Mate, I'm nowhere near San Francisco. Just because San Francisco is disastrously run despite staggering riches and has horribly magnified problems does not mean it's the fault of people who started companies in San Jose.
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by sien 2y ago
The point is that the 'billionaires' were not exploiting their workforce. The workforce that made Google, MS and many other companies were also highly paid. The consumer surplus of all these things is the bigger thing. And getting
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by sien 2y ago
Making these things make money is hard and it's really valuable. Without that people won't get to use them. There is a list of defunct spaceflight companies : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Defunct_spa
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by sien 2y ago
It's not the invention it's the delivery. Consumer goods are delivered by businesses. Delivering new, high tech ones is hard.
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Scaling up: how increasing inputs has made artificial intelligence more capable(ourworldindata.org)
2 points by sien 2y ago|0 comments
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by sien 2y ago
If Slashdot's system was so much better why has it declined so much? Was it the hot grits ? I say this as someone who still has an account over there with a lowish UID.
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by sien 2y ago
Thank you for finding this. Could this please be made the link for the item ?
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by sien 2y ago
Yep. That's what I was curious about.
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by sien 2y ago
No. I was curious as to why they are stuck like that and what country and system they were in.
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by sien 2y ago
Why don't you change ? Is it not allowed ?
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by sien 2y ago
I've just read both and highly recommend them and was coming in to this thread to do so. Liftoff : https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/53402132-liftoff Re-entry : https://www.goodreads.com&
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Who would have won the Simon-Ehrlich bet over different decades?(ourworldindata.org)
76 points by sien 2y ago|74 comments
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by sien 2y ago
This is also true where I am in Australia. There are very few Rust jobs. However, from the first two comments on the article : "We use Rust at AWS (in my org) for every new project that would have previously been written in c++. [–]rig
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by sien 2y ago
A few of the books that stand out that I've read this year. Troubled - Rob Henderson. About how Henderson was in state care and wound up at prestigious universities and his thoughts on the world. https://www.goodreads.com&#x

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