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811.
by sliken 4y ago
Digging a giant crater localizes the destruction and consumes most of the energy An air burst doesn't bother digging a giant crater and has a larger fraction of it's energy dumped into the atmosphere for fireballs, high winds, an
812.
by sliken 4y ago
Had a community of magpies in my back yard. They'd often collectively yell at me when I was in the back yard. One day my dog found something, obviously pleased with herself. I found an unhurt baby bird and nest that had been blown d
813.
by sliken 4y ago
Indeed, seems to be a very common pattern. Poor search, low signal to noise, try to reinforce doom scrolling for more eyeball minutes. I didn't realize how big an impact that had, till I tried Mastodon. No ads, no patterns to try to
814.
by sliken 4y ago
> and do what exactly ? Don't have CPU power to do much, don't have storage to serve anything. My new $140 router had 8 cores (4xA76 + 4xA55), 8GB ram, 32GB eMMC storage, and 2x2.5gb+gbe ports. Even has a SD slot for more st
815.
by sliken 4y ago
Agreed. Supernodes should be near zero admin, and be able to run where advantageous, not just where an expert is available. OwnCloud/Nextcloud running every more services and at least looking at fediverse integration. Various NASs a
816.
by sliken 4y ago
Years ago, most computing devices were desktops. They often had a routable IP address, unlimited power, and would happily sit passing packets all day. This made things like a DHT practical, so you could find your other peers. This made t
817.
by sliken 4y ago
Their = apple? Their = Asahi Lina's? Asahi Linux has been upstreaming, but of course it's ongoing. The GPU driver in particular depends on some rust inside the kernel bits which aren't in the mainline kernel, yet. The 6.1
818.
by sliken 4y ago
I've got a few of the airthings bluetooth units and a wifi gateway that handles bluetooth -> wifi. Works well, sensors seem to be accurate and correlate with things like radon (which dropped once mitigated), CO2 peaks (when more pe
819.
by sliken 4y ago
> Much better to do on the GPU Oh? Which GPU? iGPU? Discrete? Intel? Nvidia? AMD? From which generation? Using what libraries? Assuming you are running on an x86-64? Or maybe arm? Something else? How are you going to handle u
820.
by sliken 4y ago
I have some water cooled Xeon Gold (6100 series) chips. Generally they never throttle, unless running a code well known for heavy use of AVX 512. So despite running many codes that use all cores 100%, using AVX512 is the only way I've
821.
by sliken 4y ago
I've pondered p2p apps that are secure from traffic analysis, sniffing, and leaking metadata. Chat being the easiest. Chat is low bandwidth and tolerates latencies well, much more so than audio or video streaming. Tor has a much hard
822.
by sliken 4y ago
Which argues that clients should randomly change their MACs, and you could share your PRNG with friends so they could recognize you, even if it changes often.
823.
by sliken 4y ago
If covered by warranty, yes.
824.
by sliken 4y ago
I tried Amazon's Alexa, the top end model with a display. Often it would taunt you about new/interesting things on the screen, but I could never get them to work. I'd had to memorize things to get even the basics working.
825.
by sliken 4y ago
I get it, however unlike BMW's heated seats, increased performance can wear out parts of the car faster. Say a clutch that would normally last 7 years and costs $7,000 for parts/hours lasts half as long if users do regular full th
826.
by sliken 4y ago
The impact is relative short. So sure maybe we'd engineer 1.0 C and a volcano would add 1.0C. So glaciers would start growing instead of shrinking, rain patterns would return to norms from recent history. The south pole would stabil
827.
by sliken 4y ago
By replicating what volcanoes have doing since ... the earth was formed?
828.
by sliken 4y ago
Agreed, speed of light is small, which is what makes it such a good optimization. So basically each planet, solar system, and galaxy has to only consider older and older events outside and focus on local events for the simulation.
829.
by sliken 4y ago
The quantum uncertainty principal and the speed of light are quite convenient if you are trying to efficiency simulate a universe without infinite computational power.
830.
by sliken 4y ago
Heh, refused to die seems like a weird way to state it. Intel tried to force a split in desktop/server design with a significant price premium and shipped a very complicated CPU that moved significant complexity/work into the comp
831.
by sliken 4y ago
Gnome seems generally ok, but kind of old school win98 reliability wise. Well it crashed/BSOD, shrug , reboot and move on. Pretty much once a week I lose the cursor, focus is generally locked onto one gnome terminal, once I find it,
832.
by sliken 4y ago
Sure the trend is down. However Nvidia's is designing the cards to be cheaper and have less bandwidth, while charging a significant premium over the previous generation (1.7x or so). The cancelled lower end 4080 has less memory width
833.
by sliken 4y ago
Sure, assuming you are more cache friendly than you were on a RTX 3080 that cost 58% as much.
834.
by sliken 4y ago
People expect a noticeable bump in performance at every pricepoint, otherwise why buy a new GPU? Instead Nvidia is offering more flops at much higher prices, with much lower usability. So sure a 4080 has more flops, but less memory bandwid
835.
by sliken 4y ago
Yes, software rendering you install asahi Linux. Although I've seen comments that the overall interactive desktop is faster than the dev's previous laptop with GPU acceleration. However great progress is being made on GPU driver.
836.
by sliken 4y ago
My understanding is that an inherent strict memory ordering that's common to x86-64 (AMD and Intel) makes it harder to get good memory efficiency. So all x86-64's have a usable memory bandwidth that's a smaller fraction of t
837.
by sliken 4y ago
How many people care about seeing tweets from the last second vs last minute? Or the difference between 95% of the results of a search and 100%, especially if the 95% is missing the least popular 5%.
838.
by sliken 4y ago
Not sure I get the problem. Yes an expensive server in expensive data center has more CPU, Ram, disk I/O, and bandwidth than a normal desktop, laptop, or phone. But say you track 1000 peers, find 50 online, and send a 280 character tw
839.
by sliken 4y ago
Heh, that's far from my experience. I've got 80 tabs open, many terminals, thunderbird (with several large inboxes) and my system has 32GB ram, only 9.4G is used. Maybe you mean 1GB of virtual memory (mostly shared libraries) and
840.
by sliken 4y ago
CentOS used to a recompile of Redhat, guaranteed binary compatible, with a 10 year EoL. AFTER CentOS came out they changed it from 2029 to Jan 1st 2020. Now CentOS stream is not a recompile, but has less tested changes BEFORE RHEL, and

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