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New comment by matmatmatmat in "Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down"

matmatmatmat — Wed, 02 Jul 2025 22:32:17 +0000

Yes, normally in a case where data were later shown to have been taken incorrectly, you would remove just the incorrect data but leave an unmodified copy of the old data available somewhere. Or, just leave a very prominent note about the change with a detailed explanation somewhere else. You would not take down everything because 1. That would deprive taxpayers of the correct data they had already paid for, and 2. That would mess up the data ingestion pipelines of the researchers who depended on the data.

New comment by matmatmatmat in "Europe's most wanted man plotted my murder and that of my colleague"

matmatmatmat — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 22:25:10 +0000

Some more examples: Saving Private Ryan, All Quiet on the Western Front, The Deer Hunter.

Personally, I would also include Schindler's List.

New comment by matmatmatmat in "The National EUV Accelerator comes to Albany"

matmatmatmat — Thu, 31 Oct 2024 23:12:58 +0000

I can't speak to most of what they do, but they seem to be at the forefront of quantum computing.

New comment by matmatmatmat in "Sketchy financials send Supermicro auditors running for the hills"

matmatmatmat — Wed, 30 Oct 2024 22:55:15 +0000

I've wondered this, too. I think the market must just not be big enough to support other players?

New comment by matmatmatmat in "Next gen 3D metal printing"

matmatmatmat — Wed, 26 Jun 2024 23:49:05 +0000

Roselle St (where Fabric8 Labs has their office) is the most innovative street in San Diego. I don't know what it is about that particular street, but a ton of great companies have come out of there.

New comment by matmatmatmat in "Giant batteries are transforming the way the U.S. uses electricity"

matmatmatmat — Tue, 07 May 2024 17:55:54 +0000

Yes, labor is the killer cost of these installations, IME. Labor can easily be 50% or more of the total cost.

New comment by matmatmatmat in "Backblaze Drive Stats for Q1 2024"

matmatmatmat — Thu, 02 May 2024 17:27:45 +0000

This uncertainty should be accounted for in the confidence intervals of their stats.

New comment by matmatmatmat in "Vega-Altair: Declarative Visualization in Python"

matmatmatmat — Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:04:13 +0000

Bokeh has support for WebGL. We had to switch away from Vega/Altair when a project hit around 50,000 data points in a plot, but under ~5,000 data points Vega/Altair was still good.

New comment by matmatmatmat in "High-speed 10Gbps full-mesh network based on USB4 for just $47.98"

matmatmatmat — Mon, 15 Jan 2024 21:14:48 +0000

It's actually even worse in SDG&E territory. A kWh costs around 32 cents, but "transmission" and "distribution" are again twice that. The end result is about $1.00 / kWh.

New comment by matmatmatmat in "Governments spying on Apple, Google users through push notifications"

matmatmatmat — Wed, 06 Dec 2023 20:08:16 +0000

"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -- Cardinal Richelieu [1]

[1] https://history.stackexchange.com/questions/23785/what-did-r...

New comment by matmatmatmat in "A Nouveau graphics driver update"

matmatmatmat — Fri, 01 Dec 2023 23:58:51 +0000

Well, I look forward to benefiting from this nice work when the next Debian Stable release comes around.

New comment by matmatmatmat in "OpenAI's board has fired Sam Altman"

matmatmatmat — Fri, 17 Nov 2023 22:31:37 +0000

Makes sense, but would this be so egregious that they had to fire him on the spot?

New comment by matmatmatmat in "What was behind Microsoft's layoffs of over 20k people in the last year?"

matmatmatmat — Mon, 25 Sep 2023 17:16:10 +0000

Unless you're just a dyed-in-the-wool Elon Musk fan, in which case it's 5D chess.

New comment by matmatmatmat in "The Ultra-Rich Are Flourishing and Sticking Around in California"

matmatmatmat — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:30:50 +0000

Can I ask where you're living?

New comment by matmatmatmat in "Cities turn to ‘extreme’ water recycling"

matmatmatmat — Tue, 20 Jun 2023 17:48:33 +0000

This is such a wasted opportunity, not just for the US, but across the Middle East. I guess Jordan is availing themselves to some degree, though, but it's also out of necessity, due to the refugees living there.

My understanding is that prior to the Iranian revolution, there were Israeli experts working in Iran on drip irrigation methods. Of course, they had to get out pretty quickly.

New comment by matmatmatmat in "GM to use Tesla charging network, joining Ford"

matmatmatmat — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 22:26:27 +0000

Ah, you would be right, it appears I have a J1772 at home. I did not know that the CCS is a superset of the J1772 connector.

New comment by matmatmatmat in "GM to use Tesla charging network, joining Ford"

matmatmatmat — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 22:04:08 +0000

I don't get the hate for the CCS connector? I use it multiple times a week, it works fine. Now and then I come across a charger that refuses to start, OK, the connector is worn. I suppose someone will come along and fix it.

I have one in my garage; it does not sag under its own weight.

New comment by matmatmatmat in "DPReview.com to close"

matmatmatmat — Tue, 21 Mar 2023 22:42:03 +0000

It so happens I recently took a Pixel 6 Pro and a Canon 80D on a trip abroad. I used a rebuild of the stock camera app that does away with the automatic over-sharpening that the stock camera app has, and with the 80D, I used the EF-S 15-85 mm lens that (I believe) used to be the kit lens for the 7D. I also used the EF 70-300 mm non-L lens.

There is, in my opinion, no question that the 80D takes sharper pictures in daylight. It's just hard to beat a sensor that's that much bigger. The lenses, also, just have way, way more light gathering power.

Now, in dark places, at night, I used the P6P more, and that worked better than the 80D. But I'm glad I had the 80D for the big landscape shots and for the tight shots of people's faces.

The A7 III is way lighter and smaller than the 80D, and takes way better pictures. I would suggest considering finding a space for it in your bag. At least take a few pictures with both the P6P and the A7 III and view them at 100% to see if you're happy with the results.

New comment by matmatmatmat in "Learnings from employing ChatGPT as a ML Engineer for a day"

matmatmatmat — Wed, 22 Feb 2023 21:09:39 +0000

Question on the ML side of this post: How are these "parameterizations" used? Is this really just feature engineering with a new name? Are they including this information when training the model?

In the article, they mention using the new labels to build a "more balanced" dataset -- is this a realistic possibility in practice when most teams still have a dearth of data?

New comment by matmatmatmat in "New wind, solar are cheaper than costs to operate all but one US coal plant"

matmatmatmat — Tue, 31 Jan 2023 16:22:10 +0000

With Germany, in particular, I think there was also a lot of pressure from Green parties.

In any case, I would agree it looks like a mistake in hindsight.