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aclatuts··on Grain farming goes indoors
You are assuming a single-story building growing only one level of crops per floor. It should be feasible to have 2-3 crops for each floor, which cuts down the required space. For example, the Tesla gigafactory has 229 acres of floor space, and it is high enough for two floors with 2 levels of crops per floor, so 629 would have to be built. The factories could be built in desert areas. Also, the world would be very interesting if 17.4 million acres of land were returned to nature.
aclatuts··on I measured the pollution from my gas stove
Some higher end homes have a make up air system for venting a stove top in air tight houses, but it is so expensive.
aclatuts··on Binance freezes withdrawals of stablecoin USDC as investors pull $2B
Most Canadian banks need a few business days just for 5 thousand and above in cash. There is more zeros in bank accounts there is physical money in circulation.
aclatuts··on Caterpillar offers phone with built-in FLIR camera
That video looks like sketchy vaporware. Who would need to analyze liquids carefully placed in a vial with their phone? Sometimes machines need to be big. Theranos setup themselves up for failure by trying to miniaturize and combine equipment that could never be miniaturized or interfered with each other.
aclatuts··on Nvidia Earning Results Q3 2023
The interesting thing about ML workloads is that they require heavy upfront GPU power, but the compute requirements to run the model are much smaller after training.
aclatuts··on Engineers are exploring radical new designs for commercial planes
If the all the manufacturing techniques have to change, maybe 3d printing some parts or the whole plane would make sense and be viable.
aclatuts··on Dagger Python SDK: Develop Your CI/CD Pipelines as Code
This makes a lot of sense but would it prevent developers from using the default diagrams already built into most CICD websites. I assume migrating to this would make the CICD pipeline look like one step from gitlab, bitbucket, and githubs perspective.
aclatuts··on Tesla engineers were on-site to evaluate the Twitter staff’s code, workers said
Yeah, I don't see the problem. Tesla investors benefit from SpaceX material science expertise solely because Elon owns SpaceX and allocates the time and resources. I don't see Tesla investors complaining about that.

I would view it as a way for Tesla engineers getting paid to go to a software conference. It is definitely possible to learn something during the code review to take back to Tesla.

aclatuts··on Elon Musk owns Twitter: The story so far
My belief is marketing. Toyota spends 1.3 billion in marketing world wide. Tesla has no marketing team but Elon himself is the marketing engine on Twitter.

With Elon owning Twitter he can automate the marketing for whatever companies he runs now and in the future. Also he can invisibly or visibly promote his own tweets. On top of that the company makes 5 billion a year.

I think Elon probably has a very techy view that marketing is bad. And if he has to do it, he will do it in his own weird way with 100% control of how it will be done.

aclatuts··on Meta stock price drops more than 20%
It is no surprise, the problem is betting on when this would happen. The Metaverse is far outside their competency. And renaming their company to Meta makes acquiring another company with a Metaverse product impossible, without being a laughing stock, unlike with the Instagram purchase.
aclatuts··on Researchers find ‘significant rates’ of sinking ground in Houston suburbs
If it's not a supply-side issue, it should be fine to bulldoze 100k units while everything remains the same, and the prices shouldn't change at all.
aclatuts··on Someone is pretending to be me
My first thought. PGP in video calls, PGP with email, etc..

When I searched for PGP in the comments, this was the only one that mentioned it which is hard for me to believe.

aclatuts··on Santa Cruz is a Housing Nightmare
A 4Ghz CPU is faster than a 1Ghz CPU. If you wanted to scale the best you would want faster algorithms and faster hardware. Not just faster hardware.

Not being able to do something because of size for a human behaviour problem is almost always the smooth brain argument.

aclatuts··on Apple Car: Bad Idea After All
I was just going to say this. The credits definitely do not double their margins, it adds 2% to their 11% base margin for a total of 13%
aclatuts··on Fed raises rates by another 75 bps to fight inflation
I use to think this too, but now I believe debt and interest is right up there with energy in terms of economic growth.

Without debt, economic growth nearly zero sum. Waiting for the money to exist and then spending it is just slow and inefficient most of the time. Show me a country that is under-banked and has little access to loans and I will show you a poor country.

aclatuts··on Log4j: The pain just keeps going
I find Python is very prone to a lot of breaking changes even with minor version changes. And not just that, even minor versions have to match up specifically with another libraries minor version. It seems to be a community or ecosystem problem with Python, which is why I avoid Python as much as possible.

In every other ecosystem when minor version are updated there are very rarely issues, and there are little issues with compatibility with minor versions of libraries.

aclatuts··on How we built Hydrogen, a React framework for building custom storefronts
I have always wanted to use React with Shopify, but I feel binding the data manually from the Shopify API via GQL is very unergonomic. You have to understand Shopify API way deeper than usual to get started. There should have been basic but non-optimal ways to get data for 90% of the use cases already included. The GQL query they showcase is just complicated https://shopify.dev/custom-storefronts/hydrogen/getting-star... compared to the liquid way.
aclatuts··on Flexible monocopter drone can be completely rolled up
I wonder if it could be even better and lighter with carbon fiber instead of basla wood.
aclatuts··on Making the dislike count private across YouTube
There should have be an option for the content creator to enable or disable this. Just like how comments can be enabled or disabled per video or the whole channel. Since this change was for creators to reduce harassment on themselves.
aclatuts··on Tesla FSD Beta 10 veers into pedestrians with illegal right turn
It might be worth it for Tesla to build a voice system to tell the driver what manoeuvres the car will be doing soon.

Although implementing might be just as hard as self driving in the first place.

aclatuts··on How to design a sailing ship for the 21st century?
Tanker boats could probably use sails without loading and unloading getting in the way. I would imagine it's just hoses and pumps to get the liquid out.
aclatuts··on Ask HN: What do you think will come after Kubernetes?
I think edge computing with docker support will be the next big thing. Right now cloudflare lambda at edge only supports specific runtimes but someone will support docker images soon. Eventually there will be edge computing monoliths for websockets or something persistent.

They might even allow on prem edge compute. Why not have a device in each employees home or a few devices at the office.

aclatuts··on How to send $ETH in 19 lines of Python
When I was buying ethereum at 17 dollars and getting a mortgage. I was buying it hoping sometime in the future I could renew the mortgage with an ethereum contract.

It could detail in code the principal, functions to trigger interest rate increases/decreases, functions to cancel, early termination fees, payment addresses, max payments per year, end dates, and whatever else a mortgage contract would need.

As a developer I would have felt much more comfortable with that than legal papers, brochures and pamphlets.

aclatuts··on Jetoptera VTOL aircraft design features “bladeless fans on steroids”
They could add an independently closable duct at each outlet.
aclatuts··on Using a disk-based Redis clone to reduce AWS S3 bill
I think minio might have been better to use than SSDB? It is a proxy specific for object storage and can do local file caching.

https://docs.min.io/docs/minio-gateway-for-s3.html

aclatuts··on WebRTC 1.0 telephony app using “hifi” Opus codec with up to 500kbs bitrate
Adding a "I am not a robot" button to initiate the call would be really cool way to avoid bots in the future if this ever catches on.
aclatuts··on Vantage has acquired ec2instances.info
Even if they do, it's on Github so anyone can fork away.
aclatuts··on How will 'chipageddon' affect you?
On ebay I bought from a seller unloading five RX 580x previously used for mining to power an external GPU to game on a mac.

I think a lot of people are getting into gaming again and a lot are looking for cards that can play their game just well enough.

aclatuts··on The Tech Stack of a One-Man SaaS
I have started using google cloud run as a drop in replacement for Heroku.

It has almost all the same features and runs at almost any GCP location.

aclatuts··on Reusable development containers with Docker Compose and Dip
asdf literally is designed to replace some of the stuff on that list and then some. And it negates the need for docker in some examples.
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