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iopqon As solar capacity grows, duck curves are getting deeper in California

I mean, it costs much more to expand and maintain access for them, why shouldn't they pay more?

iopqon Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update

That was ATI execs emailing Nvidia

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-amd-ati-graphics,63...

iopqon Pixel owners report problems after installing January 2024 Google Play update

This isn't true, there are a ton of companies that make lots of money while not being pieces of shit

AMD is pretty good at having open source drivers, supporting Linux and Wayland, working with Framework to make an upgradable GPU in laptops.

iopqon Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear

Nah, he totally, like, sounds like a Valley girl

iopqon Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear

Funnily enough, just listening to high pitched noises reduces my tinnitus:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xUZOSg3a1rk

it turns out it's a "phantom limb" problem of hearing - when your high pitch hearing ability decreases, you start to have phantom sounds "fill in the blanks" at the frequency it got worse at

you can test it yourself by generating sine waves and seeing when your hearing becomes worse

https://www.szynalski.com/tone-generator/

mine drops off at 12.5KHz and goes almost completely silent above 16KHz

the tinnitus frequency is about 13Khz!

Trying to listen to quiet noises between 12Khz and 16Khz trained me to be more sensitive to those sounds and to generate less tinnitus

iopqon Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear

If your native language is Ukrainian, when you learn Russian you don't get more phonemes, unless you count slightly different mouth positions of vowels.

iopqon Gene therapy allows an 11-year-old boy to hear

Anecdotally, I know a Serbian who went to study to the US for a year in high school and has a perfect Californian accent.

iopqon Benchmarking 20 programming languages on N-queens and matrix multiplication

because it often sits uncompressed on the drive

iopqon 4B If Statements

Not really, since they do a mathematical function over blocks and don't need a single if statement. They map learned data + input -> output as a pure function

iopqon Ask HN: What's your "it's not stupid if it works" story?

The fan I bought was exactly the thickness that I had between the bracket and the top panel of a mITX build. But since it's the EXACT thickness, there's no way to put it there.

I ended up sanding the fan's plastic shroud for two hours to get it to fit. It's still in my desktop right now and I won't ever be able to get it out because it's just snug enough to go in.

iopqon Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors

You're talking about one product, which is the 4090, which is 0.88% of all GPUs used by Steam users [0]

The top GPU is the 3060, at 4.89% which both Intel and AMD match with their offerings [1]

The top AMD dGPU is still the RX 580 at 0.97%

[0] https://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey/Steam-Hardware-Softw...

[1] https://youtu.be/aXU9wee0tec?t=834

iopqon Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors

Because when you make it denser, you can cut the CPU into smaller parts, which decreases costs

when you make it less dense, it can clock up higher, but you will have fewer cores per mm^2

AMD went with both approaches, where their hybrid CPU will have densely packed low speed Zen 4C cores and some high speed Zen 4 cores to boost at the highest frequency

iopqon Intel, Samsung, and TSMC Demo 3D-Stacked Transistors

AMD stacked cache is a significant increase and gives a huge boost in certain gaming scenarios, to the point that it's a 100% increase in certain games that rely on huge caches

iopqon Housing wealth is meaningless, destructive and fundamentally changing society

You'd be contributing to the local economy by buying local groceries, going to local restaurants, bars, etc.

Remember that rent is never 100% of your expenses

iopqon Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read

Well, it doesn't even work for the next lesson because repeating something in your short term memory doesn't do anything. I've tried it. You can write it a hundred times and still forget it in two days (been there, done that). Or you could do a flash card and first try to remember the character without seeing it. Then when you review it tomorrow (in the same way, first get the defition/pronunciation and try to REMEMBER), you will remember it somewhat without seeing it first and will be able to get started on writing it, maybe even remember the rest of it.

iopqon Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read

You can't map sounds when you can't remember the difference between b, d, p, q

iopqon Spaced repetition for teaching two-year olds how to read

They learn the characters by writing a line of each character repeatedly. It's a super inefficient method.

1. Once you have written it once, repeating the motion doesn't help you memorize it because it's in your short term memory. Memory research has shown that it's more efficient to review information when some time has passed.

2. There's no system that builds on the graphical similarities of the characters, or based on the frequency of said characters. You will get thematic grouping of 冷 (extremely common word meaning cold) and 霜 (a more rare word meaning frost)

In Chinese classes in China for foreigners they similarly just tell you to write the new character. There's no explanation of radicals or whatever, just some stroke order considerations (which is the least important info) and sometimes the character composition when it's not obvious.

The way that people who research the topic learn characters is far better - use an app that tells you to write in the correct character in a time-based repetition manner split by most common characters. Even better would be to build up characters by common shapes (not necessarily radicals since a lot of common shapes are not radicals)

iopqon Housing wealth is meaningless, destructive and fundamentally changing society

You mean give away your money to the locals? Who do you think those costs go to?

iopqon Housing wealth is meaningless, destructive and fundamentally changing society

That's when you move to the Philippines and retire

iopqon Unciv

Not your coin, not your nation state

iopqon Unciv

I don't see how it's a more complicated game than poker, which has a huge tree of possibilities at every potential street of betting. Not just in future streets, but also in the past streets that influence your future decisions.

iopqon VectorDB: Vector Database Built by Kagi Search

So to make Python fast you just need to write a library in another language, brilliant

iopqon MonadGPT – What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the 17th century?

It should be similar to this 1700s English model, probably trained on modern data to start and then at the end fitted to the smaller data set

iopqon MonadGPT – What would have happened if ChatGPT was invented in the 17th century?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Inscriptionum_Latinarum

approximately 180,000 inscriptions

iopqon Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)

The initial roll out of USB mice was on 125Hz polling interval. The PS/2 mice were faster at first because they sent the signal immediately with no delay.

You can easily see the difference - with 125Hz it's impossible to draw a good circle with a mouse since it will always draw short straight lines

iopqon Why aren't motherboards mostly USB-C by now? (2021)

My desktop has all vertical ports, now what?

iopqon HTML First

and this is why that example doesn't work - you find out onclick doesn't work where you thought it would work

whereas you can addEventListener anywhere you want

iopqon HTML First

Smallest projects just throw up a bootstrap template and call it a day

something like this: https://www.hotelpalacebarcelona.com/

they don't care it's not "html first"

iopqon Omegle 2009-2023

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9348752/

there's evidence to suggest that there were two separate events from different strains at the start of the pandemic

this doesn't disprove the lab leak theory, but then they would have to be studying two separate very related strains and it would be strange if they just kept leaking different strains

You could, of course, take it as proof that the lab leak happened at around the same time as lineage B, while lineage A is from bats

iopqon OCaml: a Rust developer's first impressions

Early on I argued for bignums and decimals in Rust, imagining also things like automatic currying, and other FP features

But it went a completely different way, ripping out any runtime it had, making reference counting a lot more noisy, etc.

It would be interesting to build a "simpler Rust"