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Every fact you are saying may be true, but “fossil fuels are a bigger cause of blackouts than renewables” doesn’t follow from the facts your gave, you’re just assuming it is true. That is the last thing I will say on this.

Sorry but it is very misleading to say that fossil fuels sources are a bigger cause of blackouts than renewables. Without dispatchable generation, like nat gas plants but also hydroelectric, the grid would black out every single night.

Yes dispatchable generation may fail to materialize at times, but renewables “fail” to provide consistent power every single day, when the sun stops shining at night or wind stops blowing. Future battery deployments may be able to smooth these out over long enough timescales, but we are nowhere near that point right now.

Example 7 really got me, can anyone explain that? I’m not sure how “modulo” operation would be implemented in hardware, if it is a native instruction or not, but one would hope it would give a result consistent with the matching divide operation.

Edit: x87 has FPREM1 which can calculate a remainder (accurately one hopes), but I can’t find an equivalent in modern SSE or AVX. So I guess you are at the mercy of your language’s library and/or compiler? Is this a library/language bug rather than a Floating Point gotcha?

AWD or 4WD does nothing for you if you’re braking and trying to stop.

I mean isn’t it stupid to expect bike usage given the layout/organization of most of our cities?

Thanks, I had no idea what was meant by sub-pixel, starting from section 6 of your link will explain this and show the smoothed animation.

(By sub-pixel they mean more finely determining the endpoints of the lines on an arbitrary grid finer than the output pixels — NOT physical display sub-pixels.)

While it is accurate that most people vote on party basis, it is straightforwardly not the case that advertising budgets dictate campaign victories, especially in the larger, more visible races.

It is highly unlikely for a person to be worse off by taking a vaccine for a prevalent disease. Like 1 in a million odds.

Also sometimes you may want to apply skew/deskew to signals, finely tune the arrival time of two or more signals, etc.

> "what happened the last time he accused someone of being a 'pedo'"

You mean absolutely nothing? He won that trial

It wasn’t for lack of trying though, Holmes was charged with defrauding patients but acquitted on those counts. Only the investment fraud charges stuck.

Super ominous ending

Winner, you don’t deserve the downvotes.

Maybe those predictions simply weren't as credible as you thought?

Federal wire fraud (and conspiracy to commit the same) has a maximum sentence length of 20 years. I guess she could have gotten 80 years if all 4 convictions were ordered to be served consecutively. I don't know how common consecutive senteces are vs concurrent.

In federal prison you can only parole at a maximum the last 15% of sentence, so she well serve the majority of the time (if held up on appeal etc., etc.)

This may be true for scalar code but it seems like the compilers still aren’t quite there with vector code.

> If it never existed, then FTX was operating more like a bank - dollars only work because they have a paper trail and we can keep printing new ones. Try cashing out your savings, you might be able to. Now try everyone cashing out - there is no money for it.

Of course there is money in a bank run on an otherwise solvent bank. The Fed steps in and either lends the money in exchange for its pound of flesh, or takes over and makes depositors whole, up to the FDIC limits.

The fact that the Fed CAN do this, combined with bank regulations such as reserve requirements, is why it doesn’t need to do this very often.

Banks are explicit that they borrow short and lend long. It’s not that the money isn’t there, it’s just a mismatch in liquidity/duration. For FTX, the assets themselves were bad, never mind the liquidity.

Where is any blame being assigned to anyone?

Second stage is duplicated but the first stage is still a single point of failure. The backup for that is your buddy.

You get an additional clue that there are no “kickers” on the board. Quoting from the the help:

“No random kickers on the board - The rank of each board card will alway be a part of at least one player's hand in at least one phase. Note: "part of a hand" means the significant card(s) in: Pair, Two Pair, Three of a Kind or Four of a Kind (not kickers) TLDR: You may have to guess a card's suit with no clues, but not it's rank”

> It's like arguing people run red lights because they get distracted due to phone notifications and so maybe we shouldn't punish them with points that could lead to a license suspension.

Don’t give them any ideas!

Transient inflation means the $4 / gallon milk prices stick around and don’t go any higher. Going back down to $2 would be deflation.

For those wondering, the definition of HPTS: “High Performance Transactions System (HPTS) is a invitational conference held once every two years at the Asilomar Conference Center near Monterey California”

Cars

The difference is whether or not they colluded with their supposed competitors to set rents twice as high.

I don’t get why people keep saying this, it’s like they want companies to pay employees less. No one goes around saying “Investment Banking, now that’s a bubble, no way they can keep paying their employees that much!” (Goldman Sachs revenue / employee over $1.1 million) Presumably the person commenting on HN is in fact an employee and not like Mark Zuckerberg in disguise, though I guess it would make more sense if the people saying this were startup founders angry at having to compete for talent a FAANG wage levels.

It was hard and took a lot of digging but I was able to find a source for what you said:

https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/news/12000-facebook-empl...

Not literally a gpu shader but AV-1 now has film grain synthesis as part of the decoding process:

https://waveletbeam.com/index.php/av1-film-grain-synthesis

Katherine Kim’s videos (katkimshow on YouTube) are also really good and I would highly recommend them.

https://youtube.com/c/katkimshow https://engineeringspark.com/

It makes sense if you separate the indexing process from the result ranking/retrieval process. Building up the index it has encountered the word “dog” millions (billions?) of times, but the Google search API’s job is NOT to operate as a catalogue that will list every single web page on the internet with the word “dog”. Instead its job is to show you what it thinks are the most relevant dog results.

That said I think this could be communicated more clearly when you get to the end of the results. The fact that the results number _changes_ is an own goal that makes it seem like they have something to hide. Instead it should just say “Google Search shows a selection of the most relevant occurrences of your search term. If you didn’t find what you need, try XYZ.”

> It looked like it was going to moan about people trying to have fun and do some self care.

That is basically the opposite of what it said.