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by torginus 5mo ago
I had a friend who worked in telco as well, and he told me the reason why IP-based networking solutions will never completely replace earlier stuff like GSM is that the QoS algorithms used work extremely well in practice (which mesh network
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by torginus 5mo ago
I wonder what percentage of that wealth is tied up in speculative assets, such as stocks whose value is predicated on the company being worth that much at some point in the future, or 'land', as in things like real estate that use
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by torginus 5mo ago
Yeah, if even 5% of the work requires human input, that means that the maximum achievable productivity benefit is 20x. But in my experience, that style of work looks too much like 'dude in his bedroom doing whatever he wants' for
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by torginus 5mo ago
My personal thoughts on this is that EDA tooling is quite expensive to license, and I'm sure many people have jailbroken their Linux versions to avoid paying for the higher tiers, as Linux doesn't have as strong anti-tamper/a
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by torginus 5mo ago
Just a random rant: I used to do FPGA work for a living, and I remember Xilinx's ISE (Vivado before they renamed it and the company got bought by AMD) was Windows-only, but the first thing that popped up when starting it was a Cygwin w
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by torginus 5mo ago
I never liked the C#/Java comparison - Java was designed as a much higher level language, and allows reasoning about low level abstractions a lot less, while doing a ton more optimization in the JIT. For example, GC escape analysis, au
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by torginus 5mo ago
Personally I am confused by this whole rewrite - the 'crown jewel' of Bun is Webkit, which is written in C++, which is 'unsafe'. This seems like Tauri 2.0 - wrap something in Rust and claim the memory safety issues are g
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by torginus 5mo ago
While at a cursory glance it looks as impressive as always, subtle spatial errors, and geometry that changes as it goes out of sight and comes back again hints at the fact that Google has still yet to solve the problem of deep spatial under
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by torginus 5mo ago
Personally I'm not even sure if training works from the employers perspective. There are people who are willing to go the extra mile for whatever reason, and there are who are content just getting by, with some people not even that.
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by torginus 5mo ago
But GP wrote about being replaceable being good for your career - which doesn't make sense - and the opposite what you did, which does make sense. About your career path - kudos to you, but my experience has been that willing to do t
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by torginus 5mo ago
Modelled after the Chinese curse, there should be be the European curse that reads "May the only thing that protects your private life be GDPR"
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by torginus 5mo ago
My guess would be they are the same size as shingle strips, to make it easier to work with for regular installers rather than specialists. These things carry a lot of current though, so I would certainly not trust anyone without proper tool
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by torginus 5mo ago
I mean in general it could be a right-ish idea. I myself have noticed when buying solar panels after replacing shingles that basically the per sqm cost of solar panels is like 2x of shingles (of the not super expensive kind). It could be ea
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by torginus 5mo ago
I am worried that a govt would encourage their own citizens to use a foreign service that uploads every professional and personal interactions to an AI companies servers, presumably to be trained on.
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by torginus 5mo ago
It can be both. In the field of high-technology (like semiconductor) manufacturing, the techinques of making chips with feature sizes many generations ahead of current SOTA exist in various states of completion, so extrapolation can be made
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by torginus 5mo ago
The argument I've heard about how special Moore's law is that if you take a baby crawling at 10cm/s and 1000x it, you get almost Mach 3, which is almost as fast as the SR71 Blackbird flies. yet with a 18 month cadence, that&#
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by torginus 5mo ago
You want to go to the store to get ice cream. Ice cream is delicious and the value of eating ice cream is a small positive, let's say x. There's a one in ten million chance you'll get hit by a car on the way and die, and your
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by torginus 5mo ago
Personally I don't know if this is some weird compatibility stuff for Windows apps, or the reason why Windows apps on Linux, whether running via Wine or being ports, rely on these apis because no good alternatives exist.. And if these
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by torginus 5mo ago
Personally I used to be a Linux zealot back in the early 2000s, then I actually learned to program C++ and dove a bit into OS architecture... I realized why Linux on the desktop always sucked.. Not because of some dastardly conspiracy by Mi
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by torginus 5mo ago
Personally while I don't think what Bambu's doing is great, it's not like there aren't a dozen manufacturers that can generally match their printers at similar pricepoints, and don't have these issues
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by torginus 5mo ago
Dunno, I had a TS80P, and bought a compatible Xiaomi powerbank and had a lot of issues. What sort of worked for me, is they make adapters for Makita batteries that have Weller connectors, those have a lot of juice and are far less fussy.
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by torginus 5mo ago
I never wouldve thought my post about industrial robots would serve as a setup for an elaborate yo mama joke
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by torginus 5mo ago
If I were a billionaire, I would construct a 10 foot robot suit that looks exactly like me and survey the peasants in that.
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by torginus 5mo ago
I disagree - teleoperated robot arms with human like kinematics makes it possible for human operators to perform relatively delicate but heavy tasks that needed heavy machinery before. Imagine one of these things working on a powerline or s
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by torginus 5mo ago
This confirms my suspicion that being in the cockpit of a scifi mecha is one of the most seasickness inducing experiences imaginable.
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by torginus 5mo ago
I've had bad experiences with USB irons, they generally don't have stellar compatibilty with USB power banks, and when your 60W iron can only draw 20W from your 100W power bank or PSU (but sometimes it works). They even come with
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by torginus 5mo ago
I have bought the TC22 after going on r/Soldering and can only stand by the recommendation, its an amazing iron for hobbyists and its ability to put tons of power on a tiny area quickly means basically its 100% easier to work with than
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by torginus 5mo ago
I don't think a lot of formal education places teach AWS's resource pricing structure, which can be incredibly confusing, but can be boiled down to: if you want to be as cheap as possible, just use EC2 for everything and maybe S3
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by torginus 5mo ago
Well, complexity and iteration time for example. For docker, you need something that runs it (like your own cluster of EC2 or ECS), a private registry you push to, a separate user that provisions the actual server, while iteration (code ch
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by torginus 5mo ago
Yeah I remember reading that what killed the space industry in the 90s-2000s other than the collapse of the USSR and cessation of great power competition was the massive move to digital communications, particularly satellite TV - which mean

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