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by thijson 3mo ago
For top if you use the > character it will sort by memory usage. I use that sometimes to figure out why my host is becoming laggy. Also you'll see swapd is taking up CPU.
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by thijson 3mo ago
That would require an energy market with spot prices that incentivize the buildout.
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by thijson 3mo ago
Maybe mix it with cat nip. My Mom used to have to mix medicine in with the pig's feed. They were very good at eating around the medicine. To get around that she would prepare a concoction of beer and molasses and feed and the medici
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by thijson 4mo ago
One thing I've learned with concrete recently is that the drum mixer is less efficient than the mud mixer. For the drum mixer you prepare batches, the consistency between batches may not be very good. The batch of concrete is pretty
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by thijson 4mo ago
I think the Athenians named our current system an oligarchy. Selection by lot would take a lot of the corrupting influence of money out of the system too. There would need to be safeguards though, similar to how juries are protected durin
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by thijson 4mo ago
Giving birth to future tax payers should confer sizable tax deductions for the parents. I'm not sure that's enough to reverse the demographic slide though, it's been tried. For our ancestors, they married young, and didn&#x27
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by thijson 4mo ago
Price should send a signal to manufacturers to build more capacity. I wonder if they will though, it takes quite a bit of time, and it's not certain that the demand will continue to exist once built.
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by thijson 4mo ago
I wonder if this creates opportunity for spinning up competitors to these PE owned companies. If they are underinvesting in their products in order to extract value eventually their offerings will not be competitive.
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by thijson 4mo ago
I'm not sure it's quite as clean cut as you say. FPGA's have a 10x penalty in area due to the extra routing wires they need. Also, it seems like the node that Xilinx has been using lately (28 nm) isn't as cutting edge a
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by thijson 5mo ago
The issue with Venus and Mars is that there is no magnetosphere. Over geological time periods the hydrogen is slowly lost into space. All that CO2 in the atmosphere could become H20 given enough introduced hydrogen, and photosynthesis.
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by thijson 5mo ago
It is bigger news indeed. I think previously China and Saudi were settling their account deficit with gold, a big airplane load every now and then.
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by thijson 5mo ago
There's an alternative path that removes carbon from the cycle: electricity + H20 + N2 -> NH3 + O2 Ammonia can be liquified and stored similar to Propane, it does attack copper and brass. It can be burned in an internal combustion e
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by thijson 5mo ago
Brazil has had a pretty active program of converting cane sugar to ethanol for a while now. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethanol_fuel_in_Brazil Sugar cane doesn't require replanting every year either, like corn d
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by thijson 5mo ago
I understand that caning leaves lifetime scars, at least the type I heard about. It's not something you can put weight on for a while.
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by thijson 5mo ago
I think that's why people gravitate towards friendly dogs. Dogs have no deception in their intent, and they communicate it physically well before you reach them.
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by thijson 5mo ago
I learned it on QNX too, Burroughs ICON computer with a watcom compiler. Those computers too need to be preserved. If anyone has software for them, please upload to archive.org
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by thijson 6mo ago
It's possible to navigate around the solar system with very little energy input. It just takes a long time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interplanetary_Transport_Netwo...
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by thijson 6mo ago
I've read that the chip manufacturers are looking into high bandwidth flash for on package storage of ai models. That would solve some of the cost issue, flash is significantly cheaper than dram.
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by thijson 6mo ago
I recall the same thing with each new edition of Rainbow magazine. I would read it cover to cover several times. Eventually I would hand type in some of the BASIC programs. I remember reading about people connecting to various BBS's
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by thijson 6mo ago
I recently heard that a professor said to the class, you can use an ai to solve the assignments. However I'll see if you really understand the material on the final exam.
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by thijson 6mo ago
Maybe the solution is for an AI that acts as an instructor instead of just trying to solve everything itself. I do this with my kids, they ask me how to do something. I will give them hints, but not outright do it all for them. The articl
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by thijson 6mo ago
In the 80's the Americans thought that the Russians were backwards to be still using vacuum tubes in their military vehicles. Later they found out that they were being used because they are more tolerant to EMP from a nuclear blast.
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by thijson 7mo ago
I remember my Dad buying a 386 25MHz a few years earlier for a similar amount. In 1984 he bought a TRS-80 for almost a thousand dollars. 32kB RAM, around 1 MHz 8 bit CPU. I bought a Pentium 90 in the late 90's for several thousand dol
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by thijson 7mo ago
I think there was sometime that drowned that was, Angela Chao, sister of former U.S. Transportation Secretary Elaine Chao. She backed into the lake or pond with her Tesla and was trapped. I think that the Scout brand of trucks may also ret
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by thijson 7mo ago
I saw another model where the PE buys a hospital. They sell the land under the hospital, everyone gets a cut, then they spin out the hospital. Now the hospital has to pay rent on the land it sits on. It seems like almost every decision ma
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by thijson 7mo ago
The diesel particulate filter (DPF) forces the engine to burn more fuel periodically in order to burn off the particles in the filter. The net result is more CO2 than would be produced ordinarily. I watched some farming videos, and the far
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by thijson 7mo ago
I used to enjoy going to them too. I remember price comparing though, and thinking that stuff seemed too expensive. Fry's started to seem run down over time.
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by thijson 8mo ago
They are a little bit like a sales tax, except only for things not made in this country.
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by thijson 8mo ago
It seems to me that risk pooling kind of negates of the intent of insurance, ie. to spread out risk.
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by thijson 8mo ago
I know of one crowd sourced witch hunt on reddit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_of_Sunil_Tripathi A lot of the cancel culture is also crowd sourced on platforms like these.

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