virgo_eye

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by virgo_eye 6y ago
It is true that the design of ICE vehicles is not arbitrary, but depends on weight/power/size/speed tradeoffs. However, there's no reason that these tradeoffs should be the same for EVs. Drivers in city traffic can'
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by virgo_eye 6y ago
Network load here refers to bandwidth on the internet, not power consumption on the electricity grid, I believe.
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by virgo_eye 6y ago
No, essentially 100% of energy used for computation will turn into 'waste' heat. If you calculate 1000 digits of pi, those digits will not embody any energy.
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by virgo_eye 6y ago
If the solution is to store config in a format with comments and strip them off before handing to JSON, what should that format be? Shouldn't it be formalized? Couldn't JWCC be that format?
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by virgo_eye 6y ago
You can't pay your utility bill with Apple stock, or buy groceries with crude oil ETFs. You have to convert them into money first. Does this mean that they are not a store of value?
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by virgo_eye 6y ago
Do you think that people doing research at large technical organizations structure their code in the same way as academics? No, although there's always a portion which is active and unstable, they create packages, define interfaces, ab
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by virgo_eye 6y ago
It's clear that your approach is a possible approach: 1. 'only use good libraries' 2. 'it's not your job as a developer to make sure your application can be installed' 3. 'if your users want to use pip...
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by virgo_eye 6y ago
I mean the whole argument here is that distro packaging is not needed, that there's a better way of doing it.
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by virgo_eye 6y ago
Why are you comparing distro package managers to the Play store or the Chrome extension store? You should be comparing them to npm, pypi, etc. That's clearly the context of this discussion. No one is saying that the Chrome extension st
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by virgo_eye 6y ago
The distro model did not work, which is why the other model took over. I used to try to religiously follow the recommendation only to install Python packages which had been repackaged by Debian. Fine, but it meant that you couldn't use