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by silvestrov 6mo ago
> not actually needed What you need is more that enough bandwidth . Think of the difference between a highway with few cars versus a highway filled to the brim with cars. In the latter case traffic slows to a crawl even for ambulance
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by silvestrov 6mo ago
Some css files abuse !important so you might have to add that too: {elem.style.color = '#000 !important'}
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by silvestrov 6mo ago
and: a smart person can write a movie script with a stupid character but stupid script writers fail badly when writing smart characters.
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by silvestrov 7mo ago
Hydro in Norway goes very well with windmills in Denmark. Very simplified: Wind blows mostly in Denmark during the day, so Norway stops hydro during the day and imports electricity from Denmark's windmills. During night the wind is mos
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by silvestrov 7mo ago
The article ignores hydropower. The numbers/prices look a lot better with solar + wind + hydro + battery. Norway runs almost entirely on hydropower. Sweden has a lot. Iceland runs on hydropower and geothermal.
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by silvestrov 7mo ago
I'm in Northern Europe and 100% of my many many taxi tours have used GPS for driving directions. Taxi drivers don't use road signs anymore for figuring out which direction to take.
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by silvestrov 7mo ago
I would say "systems design" rather than low-demand. People who can "reduce" a big system to build on a few simple concepts are few and far between. Most people just add more stuff instead.
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by silvestrov 7mo ago
Marketingwise I think it is difficult for IBM to sell x86 systems as it is too easy for customers to compare performance to a standard Wintel server. Sun had the same problem after 2001 dotcom when standard PC servers became reliable enough
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by silvestrov 7mo ago
> dual‑architecture hardware that helps enterprises run future AI and data intensive workloads with greater flexibility, reliability, and security I think we can ignore the "AI" word here as its presence is only because every
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by silvestrov 7mo ago
From html <head> "datePublished": "2024-09-26T13:11:00.000Z", The content is just very old. This article is from Feb 2026: https://www.zapmap.com/ev-stats/ev-market
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by silvestrov 7mo ago
> * The Danish public broadcaster DR reports ...* This is the source article (in Danish) for the bluesky posts: https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/groenland/danmark-forbered...
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by silvestrov 7mo ago
closer to 99.9%
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by silvestrov 7mo ago
This is only true as long as there is money for the military. When money is gone, the military is gone. Money goes easily when a country has a large debt and need other countries to continue to buy into that debt.
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by silvestrov 7mo ago
> peripheral states flipping (e.g., Baltics) This is already happening with trade (e.g. soy beans) and with military purchases. Canada is moving quickly with moving trade elsewhere.
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by silvestrov 7mo ago
> It's like McDonald's selling you a burger and telling you how to eat it. and you are not allowed to criticize it or write about the size of it or how much meat there is in it or how filling it is to eat the burger. and you
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by silvestrov 8mo ago
Note that step 3 is not needed anymore (replacing UUID by hand) as the script automatically was updated 2 months ago to do that automatically.
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by silvestrov 8mo ago
> as building software gets easier [...] new entrants to displace Bad Old Software This didn't happen for music. It is much easier to create/record music today than in the 70s and 80s, but the music created today is mostly b
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by silvestrov 8mo ago
> a very long history [...] back to the 17th century I think you proved the point (about no history) without wanting to. How large percentage of history lessions in Europe do you think is spent on the years after the 17th century?
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by silvestrov 8mo ago
Keep all the meta info in JSON and then the big binary files in a zip file. Much easier to parse.
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by silvestrov 8mo ago
Looks very much like a format that should just have been gzipped JSON. Don't use binary formats when it isn't absolutely needed.
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by silvestrov 8mo ago
English has just singular and plural: one car, two cars, three cars (and zero cars). Some languages have more variations. E.g. Czech, Slovene and Russian has 1, 2-4 and 5 as different cases. Personally I think the syntax is too brittle. It
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by silvestrov 8mo ago
He says it at 1:06:55 in the introduction: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQKMoT-6XSg&t=4017s
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by silvestrov 9mo ago
Softer material is easier for the a part of the plane to dig into the ground and then the plane will flip over. Best example I could find: https://youtu.be/KEz-r3dpQdo
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by silvestrov 9mo ago
I've never owner any other piece of technology with buttons this good. It is really a lost art.
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by silvestrov 9mo ago
You could make the argument that Patreon isn't much more than a banking app. It just focuses on the receiver of the money than the sender. I think Apple is slowly killing apps with this policy. Everybody will slowly move to "web o
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by silvestrov 9mo ago
It is a lot easier for a software engineer to overcomplicate things. All of a sudden it is no longer enough with a few shell scripts. No, we need a full kubernetes cluster to run a service used by 10 secretaries. No, we can't just u
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by silvestrov 9mo ago
This reminds me of when Steve Balmer became the CEO of Microsoft. He sold Windows in so many versions that even a developer like me had no idea of what the difference was between them. I could not figure out from the packaging which versio
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by silvestrov 9mo ago
I'd say that it was not so much that he was a founder, but that he was the kind of business person that was happy talking to Steve Wozniak, Bill Atkinson, Andy Hertzfeld, and similar nerds. He was able to make friends with them instea
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by silvestrov 9mo ago
There are no sales in it. Apple leadership makes decisions based on money. That is also why there is no iPhone mini even though there is a small number of people that really prefer a small phone.
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by silvestrov 9mo ago
This is such a nonsense comment. > Producers are far from consumers Distance from London to the biggest windfarms are 350 km [1] This is the same distance as from Miami to Orlando (in Florida). Do you really think it is a problem tran

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