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by twarge 4y ago
I'm not here to argue about Chomsky's basic claims (which I do not find useful), but I am here specifically to argue against the idea that children easily learn language with somehow way less data than ChatGPT. Those who claim oth
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by twarge 4y ago
Chomsky's article really seems to show the results of decades of living in an echo chamber. >On the contrary, the human mind is a surprisingly efficient and even elegant system that operates with small amounts of information; True,
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by twarge 4y ago
I live on the east coast, paid for excellent insulation and thick windows with good seals, installed solar, and don't pay a dime more for energy. That includes heating, cooling, hot water, and our two EVs. This is possible almost entir
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by twarge 4y ago
Same here. Highly recommend Horizon for its library management and overall excellent code quality. It is far superior to kicad for everything I do.
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by twarge 4y ago
I too had to bail out of Fusion and landed in FreeCAD quite happily. There’s a tendency to be unable to delete things that work in large collaboratively developed software. But it feels like that’s what’s needed with regards to the legacy w
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by twarge 4y ago
So where do these folks look for work these days? Is there a jobs site that is dominant these days?
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by twarge 4y ago
And the car batteries can supply peak demand instead of having a blackout.
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by twarge 4y ago
Perhaps Dr. dr Vicente is talking about ITER, but surely not a real fusion reactor. Here's something talking about an actual fusion reactor: "While the radioactivity level per kilogram of waste would be much smaller than for fissi
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by twarge 4y ago
I have a PhD plasma physics, I think I am qualified to make these statements without this sort of dismissal!
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by twarge 4y ago
Remarkable. It's still nuclear energy, and the sobering part for me is that fusion neutrons are an order of magnitude more energetic than fission neutrons. Add the fact that fusion plants are an order of magnitude larger, and you get o
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by twarge 4y ago
It's the micron-precise alignment of the four beams that is astonishing. I can't see which part(s) is actively aligned to line up the beams. Tom
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by twarge 4y ago
On macOS, how is sublime text better than Nova and perhaps Textmate?
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by twarge 4y ago
You can use it with most any lock set. You’re paying for the bolt, not the lock.
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by twarge 4y ago
Can most offices get a sufficiently fast link to properly utilize servers on premises?
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Horizon EDA 2.4 Released (using KiCad 6 router and curved nets)(blog.horizon-eda.org)
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by twarge 4y ago
What should it use?
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by twarge 4y ago
Yes. We use it for professional stuff. I think it's better than KiCad in so many big and small ways, starting with library management.
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by twarge 4y ago
I evaluated both this and Horizon EDA last year and found Horizon to be far more powerful and polished. https://horizon-eda.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
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by twarge 4y ago
Central New Jersey: Same day shipping, cheaper than ground: Order before 11, get it after lunch.
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by twarge 4y ago
This seems to be a shadow of Calca. https://calca.io
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by twarge 4y ago
As a PyX user for 17 years it's more that the software is complete and does everything most people need perfectly.
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by twarge 4y ago
Oh seaborn does look like an improvement. Honestly there is no need to update it because it is already perfect. It is like TeX in that way. However there is some missing stuff like contour plots.
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by twarge 4y ago
Personally I find the style and whitespace defaults in matplotlib to be surprisingly displeasing. It always looks like "I just threw this together—I'll fix it later." Sure, you can fix it, but it's a huge fight. PyX is a
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by twarge 4y ago
That doesn’t sound like much time spent fusing.
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by twarge 4y ago
This is a scaling claim, and I don't know, but it feels super weak. Of course a high beta plasma beats a low beta plasma. The problem with high beta is is instabilities, and you know, actually getting high beta.
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by twarge 4y ago
Most galling was that they glued Eagle into fusion and killed off Eagle, the largest EDA tool.
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by twarge 4y ago
Agree. There have been no breakthroughs. The projects getting funding are just different enough to be not immediately disprovable and continue to spectacularly overpromise without solving any of the real problems. Chamber embrittlement? Nuc
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by twarge 4y ago
“Ability to read in YAML, make changes and write it out again with comments preserved.” How are the comments preserved in the Python representation? Is it some kind of ordered dict?
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by twarge 4y ago
Sensors help, but this is just a fan, and it needs to be on all the time in my experience.
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by twarge 4y ago
Yes, these are energy recovery ventilator (ERV) units. They exchange air while keeping both heat and humidity in. They are absolutely critical to health in tight house construction.

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