derrickoswald

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What do you secretly judge people for? in c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml
[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 0 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Disheveled hair. If you have long(ish) hair and you're going out in public, at least drag a comb through it so you don't look like a bed-head.

Global sales of polluting SUVs hit record high in 2023, data shows in c/news@lemmy.world
[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 2 points 5 months ago

This is 100% a China and US problem - nowhere else in the world would these Wankpanzers be a status symbol. What's required is a re-education of the Nouveau Riche to make a better choice.

Chinese schools testing 10,000 locally made RISC-V-ish PCs in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] derrickoswald@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago

There's this back story about the "LoongArch instruction system, a RISC ISA that blends ideas from MIPS and RISC-V". The article says it is MIPS-compatible and even runs the same Linux code [Loongson's] old MIPS-based CPUs did. Why not just use RISC-V? MIPS is licensed from the USA. I guess they have a lot of legacy people at Loongson.

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Raspberry Pi is 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1 was in 1978 (www.roylongbottom.org.uk)
 

From an evaluation by Roy Longbottom, this interesting observation:

In 1978, the Cray 1 supercomputer cost $7 Million, weighed 10,500 pounds and had a 115 kilowatt power supply. It was, by far, the fastest computer in the world. The Raspberry Pi costs around $70 (CPU board, case, power supply, SD card), weighs a few ounces, uses a 5 watt power supply and is more than 4.5 times faster than the Cray 1.

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Sinopec says gasoline demand will peak this year (www.bloomberg.com)
 

BNEF journalist Colin McKerracher summarizes trends in China predicting a peak in fossil transport fuel: electric vehicle car sales, two and three wheeled electric kilometers traveled, electric trucks reaching the tipping point and ride hailing legislation.