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by sspiff 3y ago
I too have settled on 400km, which I think is a reasonable range for most European countries. After 400km, it's quite reasonable to take a 40min break or something anyway :)
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by sspiff 3y ago
>Just everything in Europe is tiny. T i n y. And frankly, it's not that much cheaper over here either. I would argue the other way, as a European, I've been to multiple places Asia and the Middle East and everything is either t
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by sspiff 3y ago
Most other cryptos have migrated to proof of stake, which requires magnitudes less resources.
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by sspiff 3y ago
Except you're not idling your car, you're effectively redlining it 24/7.
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by sspiff 3y ago
Interesting, does Oslo have a lot of chargers? For my area, this is an option only for those who have the ability to charge at home to pre-heat the car / battery pack. I live in a dense city and street parking is the norm, so for us th
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by sspiff 3y ago
> That's roughly 280 km range, so should be useful for many years after that. In ideal conditions though. Have you driven it in winter in a colder climate? My wife has an older EV with 270km range in summer, but it falls to close to
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by sspiff 3y ago
My wife has had an EV company car since 2019. From her experience, I can say it pays to think ahead about what range you need and charge the car accordingly. Fast chargers are convenient when available, but most of the time she uses slow ch
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by sspiff 3y ago
I too would love an EV, but the problems are many: - My current car cost €13k, and is a station wagon that comfortably fits 5 and their luggage for any occasion. It's luxurious and quite fast for what it is. The cheapest EV that matche
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by sspiff 3y ago
> The industry could not break compatibility with over a 15 years' worth of CD players, especially since people had them in their cars, etc. Sure, not at first. But how long has it been since most people interacted with a CD player
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by sspiff 3y ago
They can, but in my case that still doesn't get them in my inbox since those messages go elsewhere.
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by sspiff 3y ago
I do this with my email. I have a bunch of different emails under my own domain, and I use info+uniqueidentifier@domain.org for registrations which do not warrant their own actual email handle. This way, I can easily filter incoming email,
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by sspiff 3y ago
Same. I tried a bunch of alternatives over the years. Dropbox, Syncthing,... Unison is easy and consumes 0 resources in the background. It won't drain your battery scanning your folders for changes because there's more files and f
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by sspiff 3y ago
>The dependency goes Developer -> Apple and Apple -> Consumer, there is no reverse arrow from Apple to the developers. Is that really true? If Apple is abandoned by large developers (let's say of Adobe, Microsoft calibre), doe
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by sspiff 3y ago
Why so negative? Last release was 2014. Project is still hosted on SourceForge. Website copyright notice ends in 2018. Last commit to the github repo was 2018. Project front page mentions the original Xbox, Minix, and Zaurus (and early 2000
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by sspiff 3y ago
I read this title and automatically assumed this was going to be about Dijkstra. While perhaps less directly impactful on the industry, in computer science teaching and academia, there are few names who loom as large as his. He has touched
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by sspiff 3y ago
I *loved* shoving servers in racks!
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by sspiff 3y ago
In some places working with Kubernetes, people unironically use the term "YAML engineer".
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by sspiff 3y ago
I think there are a couple of reasons for picking RISC-V over others. It is the youngest of the lot, meaning it is carrying around the least legacy compatibility stuff while still incorporating a lot of modern design lessons. Additionally,
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by sspiff 3y ago
It wasn't too far fetched. A lot of generations defined their social circles by tastes in music. In my youth at least it was very common. I think that it just doesn't scale beyond angsty teenagers.
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by sspiff 3y ago
I was looking for this before when writing my reply to show as an example but forgot the name of the project, thanks!
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by sspiff 3y ago
Looking at the activity on the Free Pascal compiler[0] compared to some other, non-dead languages like Crystal[1], I would say Pascal isn't dead. They had a major release to their most popular IDE just a few weeks ago[2]. A lot of thes
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by sspiff 3y ago
This will still exist for sure, but for a lot of the gaming demographic, buying high end GPUs is simply not realistic anymore.
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by sspiff 3y ago
I think this is mostly because iGPUs were quite bad (even if they would have been good enough for some low-end indie games). But that perception has shifted over the past few generations, especially on the AMD side, but increasingly also on
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by sspiff 3y ago
TIOBE index is sometimes very strange, but it takes into account available jobs as well. That said, their methodology has been challenged forever. Still interesting to see that languages like Fortran (12th) and Pascal (13th) are ranked high
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by sspiff 3y ago
There's still a small-ish community working on and building new things with FreePascal.
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by sspiff 3y ago
While these aren't "extreme PC gaming" by any stretch of the imagination, I love how powerful these modern integrated graphics are. These RDNA iGPUs and the Meteor Lake Arc graphics are going to be the baseline that a lot of
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by sspiff 3y ago
Why are you comparing to Vega? These new chips have RDNA iGPUs. While I agree that buying a used GPU will be probably net you better performance per dollar, the 1050Ti is significantly slower than the 780M and even 760M and uses significant
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by sspiff 3y ago
While this and other GL.iNet devices use OpenWRT (with their own custom UI/frontend), they don't contribute to the OpenWRT project in terms of code or funding, many of their devices are incompatible with mainline OpenWRT releases,
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by sspiff 3y ago
I mean, the inverse incentive to hobble performance is still there for all the serverless stuff that bills by time spent.
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by sspiff 3y ago
No, the entire project is about using existing languages (C/C++) on GPUs, the project you linked is their internal IR (intermediate representation) which is what they compile the C/C++ down to before it is turned into a Vulkan com

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