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by tjansen 6y ago
"over-reliance on technical solutions" This drives me crazy. While closing down the oil industry should be a goal, all solutions that the public would accept (and aren't worse than climate change itself) will be technical s
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by tjansen 6y ago
I assume you have never used VBScript, which was the major alternative back then.
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"New efficiencies in electrical devices has partly driven a huge decline in real emissions" Maybe. How many people have convinced themselves to buy a new device because the new one is 'environmently friendly'?
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by tjansen 6y ago
It all comes down to the CO2 footprint of energy production. Instead of finding 10000 things where you can shave off a few percent, without ever getting even close to 0, concentrate on getting energy sources that do not produce CO2.
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by tjansen 6y ago
I also love to optimize code, but I know many developers who wouldn't even know where to start.
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by tjansen 6y ago
In theory you're right. In real life, it's unlikely that the developers who were (probably barely) able to implement the system in a high-level language are able to rewrite and it in assembly code. And even if they were, unless yo
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by tjansen 6y ago
Yes. I would assume that the only metrics that count for CPU engineers are performance, power consumption and cost. Features are not a relevant metric. What was the last CPU feature that was not added to improve performance? Virtualization
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by tjansen 6y ago
There is an easy explanation for this: developers optimize their code when the product owner tells them to spend time on this. The product owner will tell them to optimize when product owner notices that the software is getting too slow. W
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by tjansen 6y ago
I am also working on a compiler and need to decide on a backend soon. I currently plan to use C (clang) as IL in the first iteration, with the option to upgrade to LLVM IL later. I wonder whether there is any easier alternative. I definite
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by tjansen 6y ago
It seems like at least parts of gcc, including GFortran, and tools that depends on it, like R, do not support the new ARM ABI: https://developer.r-project.org/Blog/public/2020/11/02/will-...
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by tjansen 6y ago
It depends a lot on the tools you use and what your target system is. Docker and all (edit: some!) of the GNU tools won't work for a while on the Macbook. What I would suggest, if your target is Linux and your tooling allows, is to dev
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by tjansen 6y ago
In Germany many people are already penalized for working from home, because the tax exempts for commuting are quite generous.
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by tjansen 6y ago
I always wondered that myself, but 'rep movsb' sounds like a great solution. Back when I was still programming assembly, there were blitters ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitter ) to copy large chunks of mem
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by tjansen 6y ago
I don't have a link at hand, but I remember a study for Germany that the difference between production at night and at day wasn't the biggest issue, but the production in summer was so much greater than in winter. If you would jus
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by tjansen 6y ago
So you made me curious and I did the following test: - I configured the 7200 as main speaker and played a youtube video in which someone was contineously talking. - I measured the distance to the 7200, which is next to my keyboard, and it w
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by tjansen 6y ago
Yes, I would only recommend it when you are in a quiet room.
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by tjansen 6y ago
It just works. I haven't experimented a lot with the built-in microphone because I have been in enough meetings that have been ruined by people using the built-in microphone. But I never heard any complaints about echos, and when I rec
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by tjansen 6y ago
I had a lot of issues with bluetooth headphones as well, but at least Logitech's USB dongle headsets never caused any issues for me. I'm using a H800. The audio device is always available as long as the dongle is plugged in, even
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by tjansen 6y ago
For me, getting a USB speakerphone made a huge difference. It's so much more comfortable than wearing a headset all day, even a wireless one. After a lot of research (I would recommend this blind test as a start: https://www
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by tjansen 6y ago
The renewables would have helped, but only if we wouldn't shut down nuclear plants... Effectively we're replacing nuclear power plants with renewables, which was one of the Green party's original goals (they were born out of
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by tjansen 6y ago
I think this may be a good solution for those countries where trash more or less accidentally ends up in rivers. But what percentage of trash ends up accidentally in the sea, and how much trash is intentionally dumped because it's chea
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by tjansen 6y ago
You're right. If you have any app or device that's capable of recording audio, you need to be aware of the real possibility that the Chinese government would have the ability to hear any word you speak. Not sure how relevant it
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by tjansen 6y ago
Thanks for asking, I wanted to ask exactly the same question. On the one hand, German public news stations basically imply that Trump is an idiot who denies climate change and climate change is the main reason for the fires. On the other h
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by tjansen 6y ago
"But the US government has been very thin on details on how serious the security concern actually is" Even assuming that there are no vulnerabilities in Android and iOS, the Tiktok app has access to video, audio and GPS. If the in
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by tjansen 6y ago
I am working on a system to parse the English language using a hand-written compiler and then store the IR in a database, so all human knowledge can be searched and queried in all its facets (who said what when and where) using English lang
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by tjansen 6y ago
Would you be allowed to use it for a store that sells (gas or coal) grills?
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by tjansen 6y ago
It's all relative, but no website can do what the TikTok app does on your phone.
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by tjansen 6y ago
"On one occasion, I absent-mindedly ‘liked’ instead of screenshotting. That single ‘like’ was deemed evidence of wrongthink, and a persistent low level of harassment began. Months later, I compounded my accidental ‘like’ crime by follo
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by tjansen 6y ago
I just read the almost 20 year old Joel Test page for the first time in a long while and I was surprised by what it didn't contain. For example, it doesn't even mention unit tests. Which is no real surprise, because JUnit itself i
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by tjansen 6y ago
I have been in both kinds of companies. 20 years ago, having none of these basics was almost the norm. It can work, and sometimes I even miss those days, because it can be fun and very fast paced. However, it also comes at a price. There&#

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