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>Factor in pipe losses on the return leg and you're back at the data centre with maybe 35°C inlet rather than 45°C Surely having the input fluid being colder is a benefit, not a pr…

I basically implemented exactly this on top of whisper since I couldn't find any implementation that allowed for live transcription. https://tomwh.uk/git/whisper-chunk.git/ I need …

Seems like we're just currently in the top-right of this comic https://xkcd.com/2044/

The real answer is it's completely domain-specific. If you're trying to search for something that you'll instantly know when you see it, then something that can instantly give you …

I wish I could go back to the days of doing almost anything at all without having to tell a server what a motorbike or traffic light is.

You're mixing up years and days there. It would be about $1 a day, not 400.

It is and has been for a while, but most of the more flashy and exciting developments in ML and AI don't have very much applicability to LHC event processing. To be able to state a…

I wouldn't write it off as a bubble, since that usually implies little to no underlying worth. Even if no future technical progress is made, it has still taken a permanent and grow…

Clicking the link to the comments on that post takes you to this comment section, so I think there's some by-hand deduping/merging going on

Both situations involve a huge amount of water flowing downstream. That needs to be replenished either through rainfall or through pumping.

See this >15-year-old video "How to get featured on YouTube" - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uzXeP4g_qA , which I remember as being originally uploaded to the official Youtube c…

Speaking of mathematical missteps relating to bases, I've always been baffled by why we refer to a base system by the number above the highest representable single digit. Every bas…

>But day after day, over decades, surely the minuscule amount of heat being generated by activity on the surface has SOME cumulative effect. No it doesn't, because the heat escapes…

This very confident sentiment comes up in every comment section about IPV4/6 - "Updating the standard" is making a new protocol - "forced suppliers to patch updates" - how? - "USB …

>His stance on compiler optimizations is another example: only add optimization passes if they improve the compiler's self-compilation time. What an elegant metric! Condensing a mu…

>Most users just want something that gets things done with as little friction as possible. It's funny to read this as someone that always dreads having to get a new phone, or insta…

IMO "Solves iPhone addiction" is more or less a rephrasing of "people will quickly get bored of this". It's just a smartphone, except you can't run third-party software, can't dire…

Because people find the concept of a person talking to themselves in public a bit weird, and talking into a completely unthinking machine is basically that. Maybe perceptions could…

The "laser ink display" looks a bit like the totally bunk display tech of the Cicret Bracelet "product" that VFX videomaker Captain Disillusion did a comprehensive takedown of a co…

NAT is the problem that IPv6 fixes. Think about the parent comment >if you are making more than 4B addresses routable then any existing IPv4 device will not be able to route some a…

>Let it be IPv4 with more bits Then it's not IPv4 and is not compatible with IPv4.

>Even despite this rats maze of proxies and NAT gateways we're still supporting virtually all the applications that consumers use That's a tautology: "Despite the limitations of IP…

I'm sure you know this but don't bring lilies into your home, as much as a lick can be fatal to cats.

See also https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/c... >THAT COMPANY WHOSE NAME USED TO CONTAIN HTML SCRIPT TAGS LTD >Previous company names >[NAME AVAILABLE ON R…

>So in theory you could have a ridiculous computer that runs 1000GW of power through it without heating up. That doesn't make sense. Power has to be consumed by something. All ener…