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floo commented on Tiny electric motor can produce more than 1,000 horsepower   supercarblondie.com/elect... · Posted by u/chris_overseas
fainpul · 3 months ago
> 59kW/kg

At this point why don't we get rid of the k prefix and write 59W/g?

Edit:

I was half joking, but various answers mention kW being standard for motors, kg being the SI unit for mass etc. All true, but as used here in a combined unit, which means "power density" it still would make sense IMO. It's not like the "59" tells you that it's a strong motor and hence you want kW to compare it to other motors. You can't, it's just a ratio (power to weigth). W/g just reads much nicer in my head. Or we could come up with a name, like for other units. Let's call it "fainpul" (short fp) for example :)

59 fp is a new record for electric motors!

floo · 3 months ago
Because kg is the fundamental unit of mass and kW is typically used for electric motors.

Same reason you wouldn't use m²/s³ even though that's also technically correct.

floo commented on Affinity Studio now free   affinity.studio/get-affin... · Posted by u/dagmx
coldcode · 3 months ago
Did they remove any features in Photo? Or is it basically just glommed together?
floo · 3 months ago
Looks complete to me.
floo commented on Affinity Studio now free   affinity.studio/get-affin... · Posted by u/dagmx
floo · 3 months ago
For context: I own licenses for both Affinity Designer, and the full Affinity 2 suite.

Just tried the new affinity application for a couple hours and it's pretty great. Personas are now studios and as far as I can tell features from all apps are now integrated into one.

Giving this away for free is insane value and I am very glad to have this as a photoshop alternative.

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floo commented on Why Prefetch Is Broken   jefftk.com/p/why-prefetch... · Posted by u/astdb
slver · 5 years ago
If the cache is per domain, does that mean CDN-served dependencies like JQuery and React are in fact... useless in terms of cache reuse.
floo · 5 years ago
Yes.
floo commented on Box86 vs native: OpenGL is almost native, CPU bound 50%, SSE3 is slower   stands.fosdem.org/stands/... · Posted by u/marcodiego
moonchild · 5 years ago
> On a CPU intensive app [...] the emulated software is roughly 50% of the native speed. While this number can still be improved [...] this probably won’t change much in the future (it will probably top at maybe 60%)

This is a shame if true. What's the difference between this and something like rosetta 2 that allows the latter to achieve greater performance?

floo · 5 years ago
Possibly M1 hardware optimisation for x86 emulation?
floo commented on Are the New M1 Macbooks Any Good for Deep Learning?   betterdatascience.com/m1-... · Posted by u/syntaxing
floo · 5 years ago
Appreciate seeing some actual benchmarks. But it is a bit silly to round the results to seconds when they are in the single digit range.
floo commented on Why blockchain is not yet working (2018)   as1ndu.xyz/2018/05/why-bl... · Posted by u/max_
RurouniK · 5 years ago
Bitcoin has been running non-stop for the past 12 years, used by tens of millions of people,has a market cap of 1 Trillion and all that while protecting the human rights around the world: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/ldyy7s/bitcoin_is_...

But even if you are clueless enough to think that Bitcoin and blockchain isn't working at least you should appreciate all the breakthroughs in cryptography like Zero Knowledge proofs, networking like libp2p, distributed storage like ipfs etc. that emerged from the evolution of cryptocurrency tech.

floo · 5 years ago
Bitcoin has all of the problems listed in the article and is, arguably, not yet providing the social value that blockchain could.

Not sure how a high market cap is a counter argument to that.

floo commented on Improving DNS Privacy with Oblivious DoH   blog.cloudflare.com/obliv... · Posted by u/websirnik
izacus · 5 years ago
So Google got sued by ISPs which lobbied an investigation by DOJ for trying to encrypt DNS: https://www.engadget.com/2019-09-29-congress-doj-scrutinze-g...

Will ISPs be too scared to sue Apple and Cloudflare for this? Or are they giving them an out?

floo · 5 years ago
If I understand this correctly this was mostly about Google getting an unfair advantage over the ISPs.

Which wouldn't be the case if everyone loses access to the IP + DNS request info.

floo commented on Standing on our own two feet   letsencrypt.org/2020/11/0... · Posted by u/gpff
wdb · 5 years ago
What about iOS? No word about it in this article.
floo · 5 years ago
According to apple [1] ISRG Root X1 is available all the way down to iOS 10. So that would be every iPhone since the 5.

As far as marketshare goes iOS 13 and 12 make up 94% of devices [2]. So I am guessing its an insignificant amount of actual users.

[1] https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204132

[2] https://developer.apple.com/support/app-store/

u/floo

KarmaCake day59January 30, 2017View Original