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petascale
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
Mach-E was the bestseller last month, second place this month after the Model Y. The 80% last month were for plugin vehichles including plugin hybrid (64% battery electric, BEV), the 70% now are BEV (about 88% plugin).

The numbers change a lot from month to month. Depends on delivery rate (e.g. Tesla does bulk delivery every three months), and there is typically a spike in deliveries when a model starts shipping, since there are months of backorders to work through. New models starting shipping was Mach-E last month and Model Y this month. So it's more useful to look at longer timeframes.
petascale
·il y a 5 ans·discuss
Sounds to me very much like "I want to learn truths and relationships about natural language that are independent of any specific culture and history", i.e. independent of any particular language and concepts like alphabets and spelling. Such things exist (like Chomsky's generative grammar), but they are of limited use in learning any particular language.

Music theory without culture and history would have to leave out things like scales, chords, chord progressions, tuning systems (like our 12-tone equal temperament), etc., since they vary between cultures and over time. I'm not entirely sure what's left, maybe the harmonic series?

Sheet music is similar to math notation or written language, and simpler to learn than either of those. It's not the only possible notation, but it's widely used and more compact than say guitar tabs or a MIDI piano roll. If you can't read/write any notation at all you will be limited by how much you can memorize, writing things down is a time-honored tradition for rememering details for yourself as well as for sharing it with others.

So I would suggest that music students learn sheet music plus any other notation that's relevant to their instrument, for the same reason I would suggest that English learners learn to read and write despite English spelling being a crapton of inconsistencies; it gives a lot more options for a modest amount of extra effort.

Can you go through life without being able to read and write, sure. I just don't see why you would want to.
petascale
·il y a 6 ans·discuss
240 kW according to Microsoft: https://natick.research.microsoft.com/

> [They] adapted a heat-exchange process commonly used for cooling submarines to the underwater datacenter. The system pipes seawater directly through the radiators on the back of each of the 12 server racks and back out into the ocean.

https://news.microsoft.com/features/under-the-sea-microsoft-...

So watercooling with seawater, a pump or two, perhaps a heat exchanger (the radiator) is involved. Server to air to pod outer surface would be way too inefficient to keep the servers operating.