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Comment · 3 years ago
The argumentation is flawed.

1. Just imagine the required charging infrastructure if all vehicles were suddenly battery powered. Charging electric vehicles requires quite some power. Can the power grid installations sustain that (power lines, Transformer stations...) ? What resources (financial and physical (e.g. Cooper)) are required in order to adapt the infrastructure ? Just an example: A supercharger station which can charge a few cars at "full speed" simultaneously can draw > 1 Megawatt. Furthermore, superchargers are quite complex (and expensive) technology;

2. Batteries are not a suitable large scale energy storage. However, non-dispatchable, fluctuating energy sources such as solar and wind power require huge amounts of storage in order to sustain the power demand.

Comment · 3 years ago
I wonder why Apple does not include a hypervisor in iOS, and "risky" processes such as iMessage, Safari (maybe a Secure Safari version) could then be executed in a separate virtual machine. The hardware (CPU + RAM) in the iPhones these days should be able to sustain it. Or would there be serious drawbacks to this ?
Comment · 3 years ago
I'm not from the US and I am not a native English speaker.

The federalist papers are, in my opinion, a true work of art. I find the linguistic elegance and finesse of these texts highly admirable.

Unfortunately, to my dismay, the usage of such "complex" language is discouraged nowadays. Or to express it in the appropriate linguistic style: Our modern era seems to espouse a predilection for accessibility and brevity, often at the expense of the stylistic grandeur and intellectual richness that was once the hallmark of our written and spoken discourse.

Comment · 3 years ago
It's really nice to see that C++ implementations in the ML field are growing. Personally I do not like Python very much. C++ does not force you to do things in a specific (Pythonic) way.
Comment · 4 years ago
Just wondering how this guy finished his MIT Physics undergrad studies without reading a book ? LOL
Comment · 4 years ago
Its actually an article from 2011/2012. "Avoid meat" -> refers to "the china study" -> deeply flawed. I don't think there is scientifc consensus supporting this claim. There are actually studies which state quite the opposite.
Comment · 4 years ago
I tend to disagree. (Modern) C++ is an incredibly powerful programming language. Contrary to some other languages it gives the developer maximal freedom and does not impose a particular way of doing things on the developer.
Comment · 5 years ago
I really wonder if the CPU cores are able to access the memory with the specified high bandwith or if its just for the GPU cores.
Comment · 5 years ago
Yes, it is.
Comment · 5 years ago
Excellent news, hopefully other European countries will follow that example. Especially Germany should immediately rethink and stop phasing out their remaining operational nuclear power plants.
Comment · 5 years ago
(Some) Advantages of nuclear power in comparison to 'renewables': - EROI (energy return on energy invested) - ratio of land required / energy produced - much lower flow of materials (rare earth etc.) - constant and very high power output (no storage needed)
Comment · 5 years ago
Not building new nuclear power plants in the last 30 years was a major mistake, in terms of energy supply security as well as CO2 emissions.
Comment · 5 years ago
I couldn't disagree more. Liking and mastering a particular technology stack, tool or programming languague enables productivity and efficiency.
Comment · 6 years ago
"Nobody needs to..." - always such a pathetic argument
Comment · 6 years ago
Is the database (or the underlying data) available as a SQL database, CSV, or similar ?

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