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thecompilr··on Study: ultra-black coating could reduce satellite light pollution
I know many cruise missiles use star navigation, I wonder if satellites have any effect on that, and if they do that might be the catalyst to reduce that pollution.
thecompilr··on FDA advisors unanimously vote to approve Moderna's mRNA after agency drama
That might be true for some of them, but unfortunately I know a few anti vaxxers who also happen to be atheists. They just believe all the various conspiracy theories about vaccines.
thecompilr··on 40% of Kids Can't Read and Teachers Are Quitting [video]
Don’t they still need to read what AI writes? Or did they skip to the TTS stage?
thecompilr··on Solar leads EU electricity generation as renewables hit 54%
Look at the Hoover dam
thecompilr··on How to Build a Medieval Castle
There is a really good winery in Napa Valley, called Castello di Amorosa. Really good wine, and it is also built as a medieval castle. I bet there are more places like that around the world.
thecompilr··on Rapidus Starts 2nm Gate All Around Prototype Production at IIM-1
Are they significant?
thecompilr··on The Ukrainians Just Pulled Off the Most Successful Operation of the War
That rail happens to be as the main military supply route hence it is a completely legitimate military target, civilian deaths are unfortunate. Russia simply blocks entire residential neighborhoods. Yeah let’s pretend it’s the same.
thecompilr··on Ukraine drones 'emerged from trucks' before strikes on bombers
The used regular drones and the streaming was done over regular cellular networks
thecompilr··on ASML Twinscan EXE:5000 Lego Set
It is crazy that it had to be explained and you feel the need to apologize for it.
thecompilr··on Waymo closes $5.6B investment round
I recently took a Waymo ride in Scottsdale, AZ and it was amazing, I will definitely be taking Waymo over Uber wherever available.
thecompilr··on Lead drinking-water pipes must be replaced nationwide, EPA says
PEX isn’t new, it has been in use for at least 50 years by now
thecompilr··on Why Are We Still Making Unshaded Playgrounds?
Shade is not expensive, at the simplest form it is three poles with a stretched canopy, all new playgrounds in Florid have at least that
thecompilr··on AMD's Strix Point: Zen 5 Hits Mobile
The M1 was made on 5nm which have long been available to AMD and other competitors in volume.
thecompilr··on People spend more when prices end in .99 (2018)
In the US gas prices at gas stations usually also show a tiny 9/10 of a cent in addition to the x.xx price, i.e. actual price is x.xx9 and I have never seen any other value for that 3rd decimal place
thecompilr··on Freedom to Roam
Freedom collides with a lot of other rights. For example you are not free to murder people.
thecompilr··on Nio ET7 with 150 kWh semi-solid state battery achieves a 1,044 km range
There was an Israeli company that used electric Renaults and provided the battery swapping service. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Better_Place_(company)
thecompilr··on Google/IAC/Expedia (2019)
That is different though, they weren’t pushing their own hotels. Google actually built a competing product and integrated it with all its services including search and maps.
thecompilr··on The product manager role is a mistake
This is what happened at the last startup I worked at, before we had a product, even MVP level, the CEO hired an engineering manager, who however was really a process person, except for the title the progression of things is about the same. Things quickly went south. A career ladder was introduced, this is in an org with 6 engineers. Everything even the smallest changed required an RFC and a spec. Open sourcing unrelated stuff got me into trouble. Instead of working on product we got into endless discussions on how to tweak the career ladder or some other part of the org, when there was no org to speak off.
thecompilr··on Why is Israel attacking south Gaza after telling people to go there
Then they are really inept at genocide, if over 20 days they managed to kill only four time as many as Hamas managed in a day. It will take centuries and trillions of dollars in this tempo. But sure let’s pretend there is genocide and killings civilians is the goal.
thecompilr··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
Why can’t you have more than one job in Europe? But it sure is possible in the US, multiple posts here bragged about scoring multiple remote jobs in parallel
thecompilr··on Google to reduce workforce by 12k
The big companies hired so many new engineers over the past fee years, I wonder how many of them just abused the remote work to score multiple jobs? Like where did all those jobless engineers come from on such short notice?
thecompilr··on Sorting with SIMD
The original (AFAICT) work on SIMD quick sort, also mentioned in the google post also implemented pointer sort by loading a pointed key using gather instructions and the method can be used for an array of structs. https://github.com/vkrasnov/avx_qsort/blob/master/qsort_AVX2...
thecompilr··on A secret Apple Silicon extension to accommodate an Intel 8080 artifact
Obviously compared to any other ALU operation, except the most basic binary ops. It is just a parity of 8 bits, so even in a straightforward implementation you only have three levels of XOR, it is not completely serial, you do get to parallelize some. I do agree that it is not free on an 8080, but it is still a lot cheaper than add or sub.
thecompilr··on A secret Apple Silicon extension to accommodate an Intel 8080 artifact
Parity is one of the cheapest thing you can compute in hardware
thecompilr··on Apple Car: Bad Idea After All
Yeah, Tesla not having CarPlay the main reason I decided not to get one. Having the car be the continuation of my phone is just so convenient.
thecompilr··on SpaceX, T-Mobile to connect satellites to cellphones in remote areas
I hope virtual providers on t-mobile network will also benefit. I use google fi, and it would be an enormous perk.
thecompilr··on Riding transit takes almost twice as long as driving (2017)
I travel from JC, and I can get to almost any point in Manhattan faster by PATH+subway/walking than by car+parking.
thecompilr··on Why rails buckle in Britain
Yes, newer ones don’t have the same problem, since they are not held back by the rules of a union. Sadly those are few and far between, and I haven’t heard of a new railroad line since the yet to be finished CHSR, though can’t blame that one on the unions.
thecompilr··on Why rails buckle in Britain
Of course, but try to add an automated line to the new york subway.
thecompilr··on Why rails buckle in Britain
Ah, but railroad workers in the US are also part of a union/unions, with arguably even more rules and regulations and very averse to technological advances, since it reduces the need for manual labor. So yeah USA would have more deaths because everything is manual and archaic, whereas in the UK you have things like the DLR, it could never happen in the US.
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