However, I forgot to add, for OpenBSD, it may not make that much of a difference - they've never been particularly fast, especially on SMP machines, so perhaps the impact on OpenBSD is disproportionately lower and therefore acceptable? Someone should measure this.
For AMD's SMT implementation, it's around 30% in heavy workloads. Hell, a Cinebench test by a Czech web site reported a 40% speed boost in Cinebench R15 for an 1800X. On Reddit, a 45% difference was reported for a 1600X.
I think it would be interesting to calculate the average and median air trip length, based on the fact that the north is in fact more sparsely populated.
Depends on the battery capacity. If it's large enough, the generator on board will be engaged only very infrequently and its possible failure likely won't impact your ability to reach the repair service. Something like the BMW i3 could be ideal in denser places like Europe.
Why would they? Every other automotive company is already working on electric cars, and cars such as the Nissan Leaf (with its 172km/107 mile rage and $28,550 price) are already very close to being feasible for the mass market. Derailing Tesla's hype train would in no way stop the development of electric cars.
Because every little part works? If their mentality is "either buy a car from us or don't buy at all", it's not inconsistent with trying to delay Tesla's progress as much as possible regardless of circumstances. Also, Leaf is currently a bad choice due to excessive battery degradation (I guess you get what you pay for!), so for a rational consumer, it's probably not nearly as attractive. Hell, from a TCO point of view, a Model S can be cheaper than a Leaf after a sufficiently long distance driven (if you're, say, a professional driver), if the difference between gasoline price and electricity price is large enough since the Model S will pay for itself completely ($6/gal vs. $0.1/kWh in case of my country).
When being discharged, they would heat up. You might also use some of the engine waste heat in a loop for thermal management. There's also possible insulation to consider.
Claims about a person's life achievements not having much to do with them? What?
Claims are claims, and facts are facts. It is one thing that we have moderately accurate records of the actual events. We should be happy for that, for we have no idea what we've lost in the accumulated history of mankind. It is an entirely different thing to take flights of fancy off of those records, though.
but that article about Lovelave first talks about motherhood and lovers.
That's not surprising giving the colourful life she lived. Including the booze and gambling. Of course that makes for great headlines.
And yet, you still talk about "pissy little articles".
They are however utterly irrelevant to whether or not the claims of her contributios are true.
No, but the discussion of the claims hasn't a lot to do with Ada either, as opposed to the late 20th century/early 21th century social climate. The contributions themselves we understand quite well.
"gentleman scientist" (like um Babbage for example)
Babbage was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. He held the same post that Newton before him and Hawking after him. Yes, compared to him, she was a dilettante, in the truest sense of the word. And she was enabled to be that by...guess what, the other circumstances of her life. So again, why is it so incomprehensible that the circumstances are relevant?
He screwed them by quitting? Oh wait, he was fired. So they actually screwed themselves. Well cry me a river (has the Californian drought ended already?).
In the pissy little Salon article from 1999, sure.
Which is citing other authors and sources.
She did write one. You can go and read this for yourself.
Yes, I can go and read things like this:
"Ada Lovelace has sometimes been acclaimed as 'the world's first programmer' on the strength of her authorship of the notes to the Menabrea paper. This romantically appealing image is without foundation. All but one of the programs cited in her notes had been prepared by Babbage from three to seven years earlier. The exception was prepared by Babbage for her, although she did detect a 'bug' in it." -- Computing Before Computers
In articles about male scientific luminaries, they basically never lead with descriptions of fatherhood and family life. But when it's about a femal one, that's the first thing to come up. That makes the article seem very very biased from the otuset. It then goes on about affairs and whatnot. Who the fuck cares?
Ada was a socialite, not a "scientific luminary". So why are these mentions surprising to you? They're very relevant for her life in which math was more or less a privileged hobby.
including the program she actually wrote which computed Bernoulli numbers.
Which appears to be rather disputed. And even people claiming that she *did* write that one are not trying to deny that it *wasn't* in fact the first program ever for the Analytical Engine.
"News For Nerds". If you don't know any female nerds
I had no idea that news for female nerds had to contain women to be interesting to them, but whatever. Anyway, pointing out gross inaccuracies is far from claiming that women didn't have a place in computing history to any reasonable person.
Speaking of Ada Lovelace, the second implementation of Babbage's Difference Engine design #2
...has nothing to do with Ada, does it? The Difference Engine was a fixed-function unit of Babbage's design. But speaking of Ada, I feel compelled to note that
she was considered by some to be the world's first computer programmer -- having published the first algorithm intended for use on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine
Not only that, if those people had any kind of sense, they would have standardized on a single reasonably modern design ten of fifteen years ago and built at least a few dozens of them by now. Nuclear power is "go big or go home" kind of stuff. No wonder it can't survive in the US when things have been done in a piecemeal fashion in the past.
Higher adoption rates will run smack against grid improvements.
I'm not sure I'd agree with that. Higher adoption rates would make the electric vehicle fleet a dispatchable sink of electricity that would allow for higher penetration of renewable sources and increased generation capacity. These things can plausibly play very well together.
Since charging takes hours, we would need probably 10x as many as there are gas stations
Based on the average daily mileage of a typical vehicle, if you have hours to recharge it, a simple wall plug might be sufficient. A wall plug is much cheaper than a gasoline pump and the associated hardware and logistics.
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However, I forgot to add, for OpenBSD, it may not make that much of a difference - they've never been particularly fast, especially on SMP machines, so perhaps the impact on OpenBSD is disproportionately lower and therefore acceptable? Someone should measure this.
For AMD's SMT implementation, it's around 30% in heavy workloads. Hell, a Cinebench test by a Czech web site reported a 40% speed boost in Cinebench R15 for an 1800X. On Reddit, a 45% difference was reported for a 1600X.
Aluminium-air is at ~5 MJ/kg or so.
For small planes, isn't this basically the case?
Jet fuel is around 42.8 MJ/kg, and LiPo batteries are around 1.8 MJ/kg.
So in mechanical terms, it's about 17 MJ/kg anf 1.6 MJ/kg post-engine, respectively?
(Assuming a breakthrough in cell weight)
I think you might find that the cells are fine. The packaging sucks, though.
I think it would be interesting to calculate the average and median air trip length, based on the fact that the north is in fact more sparsely populated.
$35k is a lot of money for a car that is only a commuter car.
Perhaps not if you're saving $0.15 every mile like with gas and electricity prices in many parts of Europe.
Depends on the battery capacity. If it's large enough, the generator on board will be engaged only very infrequently and its possible failure likely won't impact your ability to reach the repair service. Something like the BMW i3 could be ideal in denser places like Europe.
Why would they? Every other automotive company is already working on electric cars, and cars such as the Nissan Leaf (with its 172km/107 mile rage and $28,550 price) are already very close to being feasible for the mass market. Derailing Tesla's hype train would in no way stop the development of electric cars.
Because every little part works? If their mentality is "either buy a car from us or don't buy at all", it's not inconsistent with trying to delay Tesla's progress as much as possible regardless of circumstances. Also, Leaf is currently a bad choice due to excessive battery degradation (I guess you get what you pay for!), so for a rational consumer, it's probably not nearly as attractive. Hell, from a TCO point of view, a Model S can be cheaper than a Leaf after a sufficiently long distance driven (if you're, say, a professional driver), if the difference between gasoline price and electricity price is large enough since the Model S will pay for itself completely ($6/gal vs. $0.1/kWh in case of my country).
When being discharged, they would heat up. You might also use some of the engine waste heat in a loop for thermal management. There's also possible insulation to consider.
Apparently, at ~1700 km, Norway is the longest European country, and this is the map of airports.
Claims about a person's life achievements not having much to do with them? What?
Claims are claims, and facts are facts. It is one thing that we have moderately accurate records of the actual events. We should be happy for that, for we have no idea what we've lost in the accumulated history of mankind. It is an entirely different thing to take flights of fancy off of those records, though.
but that article about Lovelave first talks about motherhood and lovers.
That's not surprising giving the colourful life she lived. Including the booze and gambling. Of course that makes for great headlines.
Yeah yeah so does everyone else.
And yet, you still talk about "pissy little articles".
They are however utterly irrelevant to whether or not the claims of her contributios are true.
No, but the discussion of the claims hasn't a lot to do with Ada either, as opposed to the late 20th century/early 21th century social climate. The contributions themselves we understand quite well.
"gentleman scientist" (like um Babbage for example)
Babbage was the Lucasian Professor of Mathematics. He held the same post that Newton before him and Hawking after him. Yes, compared to him, she was a dilettante, in the truest sense of the word. And she was enabled to be that by...guess what, the other circumstances of her life. So again, why is it so incomprehensible that the circumstances are relevant?
Or maybe Damore screwed them this last year.
He screwed them by quitting? Oh wait, he was fired. So they actually screwed themselves. Well cry me a river (has the Californian drought ended already?).
In the pissy little Salon article from 1999, sure.
Which is citing other authors and sources.
She did write one. You can go and read this for yourself.
Yes, I can go and read things like this:
"Ada Lovelace has sometimes been acclaimed as 'the world's first programmer' on the strength of her authorship of the notes to the Menabrea paper. This romantically appealing image is without foundation. All but one of the programs cited in her notes had been prepared by Babbage from three to seven years earlier. The exception was prepared by Babbage for her, although she did detect a 'bug' in it." -- Computing Before Computers
In articles about male scientific luminaries, they basically never lead with descriptions of fatherhood and family life. But when it's about a femal one, that's the first thing to come up. That makes the article seem very very biased from the otuset. It then goes on about affairs and whatnot. Who the fuck cares?
Ada was a socialite, not a "scientific luminary". So why are these mentions surprising to you? They're very relevant for her life in which math was more or less a privileged hobby.
including the program she actually wrote which computed Bernoulli numbers.
Which appears to be rather disputed. And even people claiming that she *did* write that one are not trying to deny that it *wasn't* in fact the first program ever for the Analytical Engine.
So he learnt to program in maybe half a day?
That's nothing, Kim Jong-Un learned it in fifteen minutes. And his first program invented the game of Tetris. What a leader!
"News For Nerds". If you don't know any female nerds
I had no idea that news for female nerds had to contain women to be interesting to them, but whatever. Anyway, pointing out gross inaccuracies is far from claiming that women didn't have a place in computing history to any reasonable person.
Speaking of Ada Lovelace, the second implementation of Babbage's Difference Engine design #2
...has nothing to do with Ada, does it? The Difference Engine was a fixed-function unit of Babbage's design. But speaking of Ada, I feel compelled to note that
she was considered by some to be the world's first computer programmer -- having published the first algorithm intended for use on Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine
appears to be a rather nonsensical view of the events.
third world countries like Ukraine
Not only that, if those people had any kind of sense, they would have standardized on a single reasonably modern design ten of fifteen years ago and built at least a few dozens of them by now. Nuclear power is "go big or go home" kind of stuff. No wonder it can't survive in the US when things have been done in a piecemeal fashion in the past.
It's actually the Tron Effect.
Let me know when you'll have a cogent reply ready.
Higher adoption rates will run smack against grid improvements.
I'm not sure I'd agree with that. Higher adoption rates would make the electric vehicle fleet a dispatchable sink of electricity that would allow for higher penetration of renewable sources and increased generation capacity. These things can plausibly play very well together.
Since charging takes hours, we would need probably 10x as many as there are gas stations
Based on the average daily mileage of a typical vehicle, if you have hours to recharge it, a simple wall plug might be sufficient. A wall plug is much cheaper than a gasoline pump and the associated hardware and logistics.