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I really, really, need every think piece that talks about 'rebuilding LA' to look at an actual map of what was damaged by the fire before I hear their views on urbanism and what Los Angeles …

The host must be 404-ing high-traffic files?

Of interest and relevance: This past semester, Andy Pavlo's DB seminar at CMU explored a number of projects under the heading 'Database Building Blocks', starting with DataFusion and s…

That's basically the principle of binary cycle[1] generators. However for data center waste heat recovery, I'd think you'd want to use a more stable fluid for cooling, and then pump it…

If you let the chip actual boil enough water to run a turbine you're going to have a hard time keeping the magic smoke inside. Much better to run at reasonable temps and try to recover energy fr…

A win is a manufacturing process that results in a functioning product. Wafers, etc. aren't so scarce as to demand every mm2 be used on every one every time.

Additional wafer area would be a marginal increase in performance (+~20% core core best case) but increases the complexity of their design, and requires they figure out how to package/connect…

AIUI Wafer marginal cost is lower than you'd expect. I had $50k in my head, quick google indicates[1] maybe <$20k at AAPL volumes? Regardless seems like the economics for Cerebras would strong…

> 500W Amplifiers are quoted in peak output, not average (and play some games with other parameters e.g. resistance) to capture bigger-number-better sales. A 750w system will consume nowhere near …

> spotify TBF that's because clicking on a Sonos device in Spotify uses their own special-sauce Spotify Connect, not AirPlay/Cast. So you're basically using the Spotify app as a rem…

I'm fascinated by the dichotomous view on them. I love my setup, haven't had more than the usual connecting-headless-device-to-wifi problems, use them every day as an alarm clock, am listen…

What issue(s) did you have with it?

What? AFAIK the only speaker that’s fully useless is the Gen 1 Play:5. A few of the Connect / ZonePlayer home audio devices are also incompatible with S2. But everything else will still work, alb…

What’s so bad about the new app? I have half a dozen Sonos devices (Amp, One SLs, … ) I use in various groupings, and haven’t had any huge issues? I guess the new app is a bit less intuitive, and mayb…

Sonos Amp / Port act as airplay receiver to analog out (with amplifier in the case of Amp). They're meant to act as an input for existing ‘dumb’ speakers/amplifiers/home audio sys…

> isn't this problem largely solved by other products No? I don’t want to use my speakers as output for all the audio from any given device, only the stream I want. So, the audio system needs …

The ChatGPT part was definitely a bit of a lark for views. Check out the rest of his videos though. The mechanical engineering of the turret is awesome and terrifying

The world is trade offs. Some are worse than others

> just the most dangerous word in software engineering

Honestly? My wholly-unsubstantiated pet theory is that engaging with a large following on social media is as unhealthy for the followee as an intense parasocial relationship is for a follower. That or…

As a policy, it shouldn't make anyone mad. The fact that there is organized and successful resistance to prescribed burns is a failure of CA politics. I hope this event eliminates at least some…

Apparently a fire chief wrote in her boilerplate online bio that her top priority was equity and inclusion with the fire department, so clearly firefighting wasn't her top priority, so clearly th…

this, this is exactly what I want. flick a cigarette off ACH, get a rainstorm delivered to the top of your head at 600mph.

We need to manage the forest! We need prescribed burns, fire roads, lookouts, etc. But we also need sensible development at the interface, stricter brush-clearance laws, emissions restrictions to att…

I think I (and maybe others) understood 'drone' to mean something closer to quad-copters. Sounds like you're actually proposing something closer to water-filled cruise missiles? Which a…

The firefighting last night was a problem of neighborhood-scale water availability. There’s more than enough water in the LA area, but wasn’t enough in the Palisades storage tanks to sustain hours of …

So Newsom made NorCal ship all its water to SoCal, but it’s Newsom’s fault the hydrants ran dry in the Palisades last night? Or that the brush was dry? Come on, at least try to be self-consistent if …

That’s not what his link [1] shows. Santa Monica airport appears to have reported a relative humidity of 0.33%

> The city of Los Angeles and the Mayor have been requesting volunteers from the public That's not true. The call last night was for all off-duty firefighters to report their availability, no…

FWIW that's LASD, not LAPD