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Saving the Biggest Machine You've never heard of

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3 points·by robrain·قبل 14 يومًا·1 comments

How a secret Microsoft tool fixed Windows Performance

youtube.com
6 points·by robrain·قبل 23 يومًا·0 comments

Norway reaches 97% EV sales as EVs now outnumber diesels on its roads

electrek.co
2 points·by robrain·قبل 6 أشهر·1 comments

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robrain
·أمس·discuss
Relaxed mode please. Also “HEARDS” - in what language is that an acceptable word?
robrain
·أول أمس·discuss
Meanwhile the rest of the world gets on with it. I’m in Denmark right now having travelled through Norway and Sweden. “Gas” stations have more EV chargers than pumps, inexpensive EVs (Renault 4 and 5, countless Chinese boxes) are getting charged next to Porsche Taycans. Many of these people are possibly apartment owners or renters.

And where is it costing people “thousands” to fit out chargers at home? I think it was 900 CAD for me in not-cheap Whistler BC seven years ago. It’s not a fast charger, but not once have I failed to have enough charge in the morning for my journeys.
robrain
·قبل 8 أيام·discuss
Most likely they’ll do both, with a straight face.
robrain
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
I said no such thing - the comment that you just replied to is the first thing I’ve said in this thread.
robrain
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
A machinist describes how he helped, in a small way, the efforts to keep the largest refracting telescope in the world working.
robrain
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
Didn't see this before. My dad was a happy farmer, but the stereotype holds in general. Weather, markets, governments, voters (bloody Brexit) all attract farmers' ire. And even when it's going well, they're still working harder than 63.5% of the populace.

Seems the stereotype might have skipped a generation :)
robrain
·قبل 14 يومًا·discuss
The mechanic who repairs the cars knows how the engine works.

The telco that manages loads and allocates networks knows how voice compression works.

The farmers and supermarkets know how the supply chain works.

None of your questions show why mathematics should include blobs of incomprehensible gloop, where no mathematician, no logician, no philosopher, no man on the street can make sense of said gloop, or use it in any way to further human knowledge.

When it's been decomposed down we can discuss this further, but now it's like saying red is red, just because.
robrain
·قبل 24 يومًا·discuss
That was on a neighbouring farm to one of ours. It’s just a bit of concrete in the middle of their fields now. You possibly got shouted at by my famously grumpy grandad.
robrain
·قبل 24 يومًا·discuss
My family used to farm a chunk of land in Lincolnshire, UK. Many of our farms were on or surrounded by active or decommissioned RAF bases.

I learnt to drive on the unused tarmac at one of those old bases, RAF Wickenby. As the parent poster mentioned, many of the bases are worth a visit and Wickenby in particular has a memorial to airmen lost in the world wars.
robrain
·قبل 26 يومًا·discuss
My dad died of cancer(s) fifteen years ago. He spent his final month in bed at home, chatting with us and friends, knowing that he’d soon be gone, bed bound but sharp as a tack.

The day before he died, he climbed nimbly out of bed and did a little jig to show how spry he was.

Charming in its own way, although his lack of garments on his lower body (it made life easier as functions became less controlled) added a certain edginess to the event.
robrain
·قبل 27 يومًا·discuss
Haven’t tried it yet, and I don’t know if it matches OP’s requirements, but the blurb says “You can even search for individual faces”

https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/products/davinciresolve/wha...
robrain
·قبل 27 يومًا·discuss
DaVinci 21 has indexing built-in (AI IntelliSearch). Not to diminish the work you did, but this is now available to many users (probably only Studio users since it has AI in the name)
robrain
·قبل 28 يومًا·discuss
Do you not see the difference between Trumpian dictator-level “involvement” and regular day-to-day steering of legislation in a party-friendly manner?

This is laughable “both parties are as bad” thinking. By reasonable standards your current government has gone through involvement, passed straight through tampering and is now into nation-destruction mode. It’s a new thing for the rest of the world to see.
robrain
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Indeed and I just saw it was edited in 2012 - originally posed in 2011, answers last updated in 2014.
robrain
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
(2012), maybe?
robrain
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Just one-shot vibe it for yourself.

Lame, I know, but you have to entertain yourself sometimes when the only thing anybody talks about here is ruddy spicy autocorrect and self-inflicted job destruction.
robrain
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
The IRA (Irish terrorists, for Americans confused at the acronym, or maybe confused at what the IRA did) did occasionally phone warnings and occasionally the information was accurate. Code words were used to authenticate the threat.
robrain
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Given the level of hate here (I use that word advisedly), this should do fine in the target market. Most of us aren’t in that market - I doubt Maranello are quaking that a bunch of nerds are sickened to their very core by this car’s existence.

Even if this car had been the most beautiful object ever crafted, it would have faced an “EV bad, should be 12 cylinders” reaction.

Even if it had been the fastest or efficient EV, since that would currently be achieved through extreme aerodynamics, it would have been burdened with “that’s a moose, kill sir jony”.

Since it’s not the fastest EV, it gets compared unfavourably to a discontinued car from a discredited kleptocrat, or more reasonably with a Rimac. One of those nobody with 600k to blow on a car would comparison shop against (and they probably have a few in their garages anyway), the other they’re probably on the waiting list for or looking for used, and the Luce will fill in the gap nicely whilst they wait.

Keep huffing and puffing. Me? I’ll wait until some driving reviews emerge and in the meantime applaud Ferrari for stepping outside their comfort zone. This is undeniably a huge risk for them.
robrain
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Could also mean that he was cheered by the response to his comments and his disposition improved. There are layers of ambiguity in this headline.
robrain
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Article's current (possibly original), less ambiguous title: "Waymo recalls 3,800 robotaxis after glitch allowed some vehicles to ‘drive into standing water’"

IOW 3,800 Waymo vehicles aren't currently sat spinning their wheels in water.