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by unsigner 4y ago
For energy: - if it's a bad thing, e.g. nuclear power, it's "megawatts" or "gigawatts" - if it's a good thing, it's "powering N homes"
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by unsigner 4y ago
Unless you know what you're doing, choose simplicity, relatively new hardware, and low power consumption, over good price. The only thing that sounds exceptional about this system is the 4x12 GB GPU memory. Is that worth it over the in
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by unsigner 4y ago
Stephen Ressler's lectures on technology, engineering and architecture in the ancient world: https://stephenjressler.com/the-great-courses/ Very Spartan in presentation, yet very substantial.
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by unsigner 4y ago
Russia is trying to get an ammonia pipeline from Toliati to Odessa restarted despite the war - is this why articles like this started popping up? Like we got a lot of hand-wringing around impending world hunger right before the grain deal a
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by unsigner 4y ago
Came here to post this. The multiple cursors feature combined with the ability to open huge files with gracefully degrading performance turns a lot of what would be one-off programming tasks that would take dozens of minutes to an hour into
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by unsigner 4y ago
Because the need for higher-level, easy to use environment is served well by middleware, the so-called "game engines", Unity and Unreal. There's intermediate level APIs, like the old OpenGL 4 and DirectX 11, or slightly more
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by unsigner 4y ago
My Argentinian friends tend to view everything that happens in Argentina as part of either some nefarious plot by the US government, or the glorious struggle of the brave Argentinian people against the US government. They would certainly vi
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by unsigner 4y ago
"Tall" is something that comes out of the genetic roulette, and there's little you can do (see the recent article about men going through painful leg bone extension procedures). However, "being physically fit" is un
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by unsigner 4y ago
I'd rather eat a falafel pita wrap, or a Indian spicy potato burger, or a bean burrito. There's plenty of great vegetarian food, no need to torture plants to become something else.
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by unsigner 4y ago
It’s on every pro-Ukrainian telegram channel I read (and I’m reading way too many), mostly in the context of comparing Iranian boldness to feeble Russian protests against the war.
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by unsigner 4y ago
Zstd achieves considerably higher compression on some kinds of data with little to no preprocessing. LZ4 hits a compression ratio ceiling at some point - algorithmically, it's "half of Zstd" (only LZ match/literal encodi
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by unsigner 4y ago
I wouldn't go to the trouble of determining the privacy implications of standartized dictionaries built from user data.
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by unsigner 4y ago
I have noticed that bad things' energy output is measured in watts, and good things' energy output is measured in "homes powered". It's probably taught in journalism school nowadays, it's pervasive.
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by unsigner 5y ago
In a world where Putin's bombs fall nearby, and millions of Ukrainians are without electricity, the (propane-tank fueled) gas stove is another small step towards resiliance in the face of crisis.
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by unsigner 5y ago
Find a way to get semaglutide. It will have some effect by itself, and it will make all the rest of the good advice in this thread much easier - eating less, eating one time a day, eating better (less carbs, esp simple carbs), walking a lot
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by unsigner 5y ago
Yep, it’s the Three Seas Initiative. Bring it on! We’ll take on board some non-Slavic speakers from Hungary, the Baltics, Romania, and Albania.
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by unsigner 5y ago
You are right, of course. The Xboxes are better and better hardware-design-wise each generation, and the Surfaces are highly rated. I should have been more specific - I was thinking of the CPU and GPU design.
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by unsigner 5y ago
The only thing they're missing is hardware design capabilities.
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by unsigner 5y ago
Blood sugar is blood sugar. You can do a lot worse than fruit, but that doesn’t make it harmless.
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by unsigner 5y ago
What was provided was a bill how to spend the money within about a year, not “solve world hunger”.
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by unsigner 5y ago
Eastern Europe is firmly on this path under the twin depopulation factors of abysmal fertility and powerful brain drain towards the West. Come visit a middle-sized town anywhere in the Three Seas region and you’ll see industry, infrastructu
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by unsigner 5y ago
Plain text is inherently superior for collaboration (versioning, diffing, merging, blame etc.), maturity of tools (I'm thinking Sublime/vi here, not IDEs), and interoperatbility with other tools (e.g. how easy it is to generate&#x
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by unsigner 5y ago
Munich has outrageous rents and brutal housing scarcity, yet no visible homelessness.
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by unsigner 5y ago
We should really have another word for “chip that runs OpenCL but has no rasterizer”. I see the title was edited to call it a “GPGPU”, or a “general-purpose GPU” but it’s not a thing; GPGPU was an early moniker for when people tried to do n
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by unsigner 5y ago
True. If you're on your way down this rabbit hole, there's a bunch of old-machine-specific compression algorithms, developed by the emulator community, e.g. LZSA: https://github.com/emmanuel-marty/lzsa
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by unsigner 5y ago
LZ4 is amazing - it's basically the same idea as LZ77, only implemented carefully, with all the dozens parameters and tradeoffs made in a certain way. Couple this with modern amounts of brute force thrown in an optimal parser (LZ4HC)
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by unsigner 5y ago
SPUs read memory asynchronously by requesting a DMA; GPUs read memory asynchronously too, but this is not explicitly visible to the programmer, and serious infrastructure is devoted to hiding that latency. The problem with SPUs was never t
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by unsigner 5y ago
It really isn’t - the individual elements in a GPU can access RAM directly, while you needed to wheelbarrow data (and code!) to and from SPUs manually. This was the major pain point, not the extreme (for that time) parallelism or the weird-
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by unsigner 5y ago
But we are getting the drop in living standards before any significant effort is spent on the environmental crisis you are alluding to. And handling that crisis will require even higher productivity and technological growth. Instead we see
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by unsigner 5y ago
But this is the sensible thing to do, talent leaving or not. A universe where Blizzard shifts to mobile because of business reasons is indistinguishable from a universe where Blizzard shifts to mobile because "everyone left", so y

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