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New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Silicon Valley wants to help me make a superbaby"

hrkfmud50k — Mon, 02 Jun 2025 03:05:06 +0000

totally agree. but it will give the rich another competitive advantage that will separate them from the poor.

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Sol-Ark manufacturer reportedly disables all Deye inverters in the US"

hrkfmud50k — Sat, 30 Nov 2024 03:53:43 +0000

because they have remote configuration and reporting on solar production, consumption, battery state of charge, grid export, import vs time.

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Starting Hospice"

hrkfmud50k — Mon, 05 Aug 2024 21:45:10 +0000

that's a tragic story and I'm sorry for your loss. did you consider taking the medication anyway in defiance of the oncologist?

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Real-time audio programming 101: time waits for nothing (2011)"

hrkfmud50k — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 23:42:48 +0000

if you think that's cool then you may also like a "hard" real time programs e.g. ABS brakes https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Real-time_computing#Criteria_f...

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Why Italy Fell Out of Love with Cilantro"

hrkfmud50k — Sun, 07 Jul 2024 14:13:05 +0000

Don't forget asian food!

I feel the opposite: Cilantro is superior in all cases except perhaps Italian food, and even Italian food I am skeptical that Cilantro could be better if not for a bias from tradition.

Parsley tastes so bitter and one-dimensional and you have to remove the leaves from the stem, whereas Cilantro is aromatic, fresh, and you can eat the stems making it trivial to prepare. I even go so far as to substitute cilantro for leafy greens in salad.

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "LLaMA now goes faster on CPUs"

hrkfmud50k — Mon, 01 Apr 2024 15:12:28 +0000

> It's clearly optimal since my CPU is listed as only being capable of going 780 gigaflops

780 GFLOP is the iGPU spec. Is this a valid comparison?

https://nanoreview.net/en/cpu/intel-core-i9-14900k

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Starlink's laser system is beaming 42 petabytes of data per day"

hrkfmud50k — Fri, 02 Feb 2024 00:40:56 +0000

maybe it could route around the clouds via some other satellites

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Hertz to sell 20k EVs in shift back to gas-powered cars"

hrkfmud50k — Thu, 11 Jan 2024 23:20:11 +0000

even if it were true, aren't they exacerbating the issue by "crystallizing" the loss on every single EV rather than just the ones that are salvaged? hardly seems like a reason to sell-all.

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "California Solar Duck Curve Gets Bigger"

hrkfmud50k — Mon, 25 Dec 2023 23:34:44 +0000

because NEM 3 makes new rooftop solar installations uneconomical without batteries. though even with batteries they're still pretty uneconomical

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Santa Cruz plans high-rise living as a fix for sky-high housing costs"

hrkfmud50k — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:41:44 +0000

How about Central Valley

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Santa Cruz plans high-rise living as a fix for sky-high housing costs"

hrkfmud50k — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:38:49 +0000

NYC and HK are perfect examples where adding supply did not solve the problem of high cost of living. That's the risk in Santa Cruz - that we lose the unique the character and it remains expensive.

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Santa Cruz plans high-rise living as a fix for sky-high housing costs"

hrkfmud50k — Wed, 13 Dec 2023 19:36:09 +0000

why is housing cost a problem that needs to be solved? there are plenty of inexpensive houses, they just don't happen to be in this beach town.

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Unidentified anomalous phenomena – Independent study team report [pdf]"

hrkfmud50k — Thu, 14 Sep 2023 14:42:07 +0000

i wouldn't call it dense. perhaps disorganized and verbose

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Recreate the cavity-preventing GMO bacteria BCS3-L1 from precursor"

hrkfmud50k — Thu, 13 Jul 2023 04:01:40 +0000

> After a single application, this strain persists in the mouth indefinitely, hedging out cavity-causing bacteria

> but the developing company declined to go to market, and instead pivoted to selling once-daily probiotic mouthwash.

sounds like they preferred to sell a recurring subscription vs a one-time sale

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Vietnam bans 'Barbie' movie over South China Sea map"

hrkfmud50k — Mon, 03 Jul 2023 15:40:40 +0000

why is this detail even in the movie? seems like an easy conflict to avoid by omission

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Accidentally exponential behavior in Spark"

hrkfmud50k — Mon, 21 Jun 2021 22:38:57 +0000

spark is far more testable and composable than sql! and you even get static typing checking. plus i can read data from anywhere - local fs, s3, rdbms, json, parquet, csv... rdbms could not compete

New comment by hrkfmud50k in "Systems design explains the world: volume 1"

hrkfmud50k — Sun, 27 Dec 2020 21:09:57 +0000

I cannot agree more. There is way too much B.S. in the field of software and it's a joke that we get away with calling ourselves "software engineers" or "computer scientists" for how little analytical decision making or scientific method applies.