Vlad Krasnov

@eastdakota And squid games season 2 is out. Coincidence? I don’t think so

So I arranged a trip that starts today for a group of friends. They have no idea where they’re going. Just a rough packing list, an airport to be at by noon, and instructions to bring their passports. Either going to be epic or I’ll have 11 fewer friends. #zoomzoom

@jyzg According to the official 2021 census there were just over a 1000 Americans and just over a 1000 British living in Russia, compared to 400k Russians living in the US, and 100k in the UK. Wonder why that is.

Will Russia's mental health situation improve or decline when they receive dozens of fleeing people?!

@KateFantom @BlnaryMlke This says ~440 eia.gov/tools/faqs/faq…

@KateFantom @BlnaryMlke impactful.ninja/the-carbon-foo… This says 490 🤷‍♂️

UK grid emissions have dropped significantly over the past 12 years. So just how clean is an EV. If we look at the lowest emission petrol car in the UK today, a Yaris hybrid, it emits 92g/CO2 per KM. Not bad compared to some, but lets look closer. I'm ignoring fuel extraction, fractional distillation and transportation emissions for this, lets put that down to unicorn farts, as it's often conveniently forgotten. In 2012 UK grid emission were 505g/CO2 per kWh, that would get an EV 4 miles for each kWh consumed, so would effectively emit 126.25g/CO2 per mile. The cleanest 2024 Yaris Hybrid emits 92g/CO2 per KM, so lets switch this to miles and we have 147g/CO2 per mile. This means that 12 years ago, with a comparatively dirty grid, an EV was cleaner. Fast forward to 2024 and we're now emitting 123g/CO2 per kWh. This means an EV is now emitting 30g/CO2 per mile or 19.21g/CO2 per KM. That's almost 5x cleaner than the best ICE car we have. Now, I hear you all say "what about manufacturing emissions". Fair point EV's are generally higher, but ICE cars aren't that low. You can read all about it here; carbonbrief.org/factcheck-how-…

@BlnaryMlke @KateFantom Yeah, it does not use coal anymore, but gas is still almost 500g per kwh

@thecomp1ler @KateFantom Here's last 12 months UK

@BlnaryMlke @KateFantom Although it seems the UK almost quit coal too.

@BlnaryMlke @KateFantom Isn’t this about the UK? Either way gas produces a lot of CO2

@octal They shoot black powder with no bullets, the blast wave can blow a balloon at short range but won’t blast the horse’s brains out.

I wonder how often someone tries this, fucks up, and shoots horse in the head.

@IanCutress Most of the employees are probably fab workers, those require many workers working three shifts. TSMC has about 80k employees.

Between Q3 2023 and today, Intel has hired 11k people. 132k in 22Q4, 120k in 23Q3, 131k in 24Q1. 121k in 24Q4?

Bloomberg is reporting that Intel is set to shed 10k of its workforce. Here are the historic employee counts of Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA, vs calendar disclosure time.

@matthew_d_green @colmmacc @veorq Can't we use Rijndael with 256bit blocks, at least partially utilizing existing HW is possible.

@colmmacc What’s the best road to building a 256-bit (or more) PRF using the existing AES round instructions implemented on modern CPUs? @veorq

Strong disagree! We really need a wideblock cipher, with a 256-bits or larger block size. Modern hyperscale systems, at least at the size of AWS, routinely have to work around the safety bounds of AES by carefully scheduling and sharding keys, but this shouldn't be necessary!

Tens of millions of websites (4% of the web) uses Polyfill(.)io. Extremely concerning malware has been discovered impacting any site using Polyfill. Cloudflare is stepping in with a secure clone and a service to automatically replace Polyfill on pages. blog.cloudflare.com/automatically-…

@StatisticsFTW @rustlang Hash has to be equal if the maps are equal, but that is problematic because iteration order is not deterministic so how would you implement a deterministic hash? You can always wrap a HashMap in a custom type and implement Hash manually.

Really a bummer that @rustlang HashMap doesn't implement Hash. It feels weird to use BTreeMap without truly understanding why. Is there an intuitive explanation for why this is the case? TLDR I'm keeping a HashMap of structs that themselves contain HashMap's.

Killed dozens of innocent Germans to rescue one soldier.

@fella6_9 @RALee85 That’s not what it says. It says “For Belgorod, burn in hell creatures”

@RALee85 The lack of self awareness and constant self victimization by Russian forces is astounding

Russian FAB-1500M54 and ODAB-1500 with UMPK glide bomb kits. t.me/bmpd_cast/19599

@BretDevereaux The problem with that, is what you call “infantry” are actually civilians called for reserve duty in a war they haven’t started, and Israelis have a very low tolerance for them dying.

The alternative to both the current approach and 'do nothing' has always been an infantry-centered operation with more discriminate fires on a clear-hold-build model with the PA and Arab-state partners handling rear-area governance. That has always been the alternative.

Meanwhile, over in Google Search. Andrew Johnson has been killin it, I never knew.

@bristolzero @octal The shower in BA is so good I could live there.

@octal they’re better than the BA ones. with a polaris ticket (and no status) they send me to the GS room which is quieter and has self serve booze. fewer food options than UC but it’s a nice space to sit in.

Kind of amazing how shit the star alliance lounges are at LHR. If I were on a $5-10k paid business class ticket (instead of a $1300 business class point redemption, with 30 minutes only) I’d be pissed. SQ SK is gone, AC closes early, and UA UC is mediocrity at best.

@ignatkn General curiosity 😂

@thecomp1ler I really don't know... You'd better ask them directly. What does it have to do with my dinner?

Today's dinner is cooked exclusively on lumpwood charcoal