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Meegul commented on How far back in time can you understand English?   deadlanguagesociety.com/p... · Posted by u/spzb
himlion · 23 days ago
His subsequent podcast: "revolutions" is also really good.
Meegul · 23 days ago
The revolutions podcast is perhaps one of my favorite podcasts of all time. The American, French, and Russian revolution seasons are all incredibly enlightening to the world that we live in, while plainly also being just so entertaining.
Meegul commented on Flexible use of a multi-purpose tool by a cow   doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.202... · Posted by u/PlaceboGazebo
Meegul · 2 months ago

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  / "We report here our experimental        \
  | demonstration of flexible egocentric     |
  | tooling in a pet cow (Bos taurus),       |
  | Veronika, who uses a deck brush to self- |
  | scratch. Across randomized trials, she   |
  | preferred the bristled end but switched  |
  | to the stick end when targeting softer   |
  | lower-body areas. This adaptive          |
  | deployment of tool features reveals      |
  | multi-purpose tool use not previously    |
  \ reported in non-primate mammals."       /
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Meegul commented on A simulation where life unfolds in real time   soupof.life... · Posted by u/maybe-tomorrow
Meegul · 2 months ago
Very interesting to watch, though I don't really have a great idea of what's going on most of the time. Performance seems to be fairly poor despite my system being pretty beefy (Ryzen 9 7950x3d). I see the performance monitor and notice that the render loop seems to fairly regularly exceed the latency for 60fps, despite this being a 'simple' task by modern standards. I'd give more helpful feedback as to why, but the minified code makes it hard to say.

Do you plan on monetizing this somehow? If not, open sourcing some, if not all, would be pretty cool, even if it weren't necessarily licensed in a way that others could 'take' it, if that's your concern. Nonetheless, a very cool project.

Meegul commented on Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zerosizedweasle
reaperducer · 5 months ago
one of the only, if not actually the only,

Pet peeve: The phrase is "one of the few," not "one of the only." If something is "only," it can't be "one of" something.

Meegul · 5 months ago
Ha, good catch. I stared at that sentence for a few too many minutes as I wrote it because I knew it just didn't sound right.
Meegul commented on Tesla Recalls Almost 13,000 EVs over Risk of Battery Power Loss   bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/zerosizedweasle
pinkmuffinere · 5 months ago
I don't know much about battery packs -- what's the significance of this particular quote?
Meegul · 5 months ago
The battery pack contactor is one of the only, if not actually the only, moving pieces in a battery pack. A solenoid connects or disconnects the battery pack from the rest of the car's electronics. In this case, it seems to fail in the open state, meaning the battery was not able to power the car. Either there was simply a bad production batch of these particular solenoids or a change in supplier for this part.

Model Ys still have a separate, standard 12V battery that power many of the car's non-drivetrain related parts. So in this case, the battery pack contactor failing open would cause the car to lose the ability to drive, but the doors/windows/lights/screen would all still likely be working.

Meegul commented on Wind farms can offset their emissions within two years, new study shows   newsroom.taylorandfrancis... · Posted by u/geox
PaulKeeble · 2 years ago
At some point of transition the CO2 emissions drop to zero because all the energy at every stage comes from renewables. Solar can pay it's emissions cost back in 6 months but every solar panel company powers their factories with their own solar panels so in practice the practical emissions are reduced a lot and as mining adopts the new electric vehicles most things will tend towards almost nothing. The more renewables are adopted the shorter this emissions payback becomes. Manufacturing in the EU for example is about 55% renewables already.
Meegul · 2 years ago
This is only true on the energy and transportation sides of emissions. Some processes like the creation of cement and refining of steel create CO2 through chemical processes, regardless of the energy source.
Meegul commented on Why I use Firefox   xn--ime-zza.eu/3... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
incontrol · 2 years ago
Funny enough on my machine, Chrome is the slowest on https://browserbench.org/Speedometer2.1/

401 - Chrome

446 - Firefox

546 - Safari

Meegul · 2 years ago
357 - Chrome with extensions

511 - Chrome without any extensions

433 - Clean firefox install

500 - Clean edge install

On an AMD Ryzen 7950X3D / 5600MHz RAM

Interestingly, I got substantially different results depending on whether I used chrome with my typical extensions or not. Looking at the flamegraph, I don't seem to see the full picture of why there's such a substantial difference. Bitwarden/React Developer tools (the 2 primary extensions I use) don't seem to make enough of an impact to account for the roughly 40% performance increase seen without them. The browserbench javascript accounted for ~38.6% of the overall time taken for the benchmark, but the sum of my extensions was only 6.5%. I'm not incredibly familiar with browser performance profiling, so there's probably more to the story.

Meegul commented on OpenAI is too cheap to beat   generatingconversation.su... · Posted by u/cgwu
BrunoJo · 2 years ago
We just started a service different open source models and with an OpenAI compatible API [1]. The pricing isn't final and we haven't officially launched yet but you should be able to save at least 75% compared to GPT 3.5.

[1] https://lemonfox.ai/

Meegul · 2 years ago
Are you doing this profitably? If so, does that entail owning your own hardware or renting from cheaper services such as Lambda?

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