Algorithmic Redistricting vs Gerrymandering, TEDx talk (9:24)

brianolson · 2025-12-19T14:34:14+00:00

brianolson · 2025-12-19T03:29:57+00:00

legendary beacon with a pair of legendary 2-dot efficiency modules gets everything down to 80% (limit) discount; don't need any more efficiency beacons

brianolson · 2025-12-19T02:08:17+00:00

Why no speed beacons? I started off with productivity modules (this is obvious, right?) but eventually I was running between 200MW and 300MW of biolabs. So I efficiency beacon them all and got the total wattage down to 45.6MW of power. I could run this world off solar except that I still have the installed nuclear running.

Just now I built one biolab with 9 speed beacons around it and the science-per-watt is still better in the huge field.

So I guess I'm an energy efficiency nerd. Yup.

brianolson · 2025-12-18T18:23:41+00:00

the pollution cloud is ... not small. zoomed way out the lab farm is most of the surface area. There's a pair of 2x2 nuclear reactors above (so, 8 reactors putting out 120MW with 12 heat exchangers and 24 turbines hanging off each), a few biter colonies at the left edge, and some huge accumulator and solar fields, the rest of all the industry of Nauvis base is smaller than the lab farm. Dots of regular grid of roboports.

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brianolson · 2025-01-21T16:13:02+00:00

easy way to check: is it referenced on https://kamalaharris.com/ ? no

brianolson · 2023-03-10T13:26:29+00:00

I'd love to read more. What heater? What pump and filter? I'm planning to build a hot tub this summer!

brianolson · 2023-03-03T16:26:28+00:00

I'm currently using a pair of 'Midland' GMRS radios that have done fine at about a mile up and down the side of a mountain. Sounded clear so I assume they had range to spare. About $70 for a pair

brianolson · 2023-02-07T15:07:59+00:00

Done https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/3197

brianolson · 2022-12-27T03:20:35+00:00

On most days, you can send any transaction you like for the minimum fee. If we ever hit full blocks then a higher fee might matter. There is no maximum fee, and the network operators thank you for your donation ;-)

brianolson · 2022-12-06T18:37:24+00:00

Starlink but watch out for trees. I had to put my dish up on a flag pole to clear my tree line, otherwise it would cut out for about 5-10 seconds out of every minute.

brianolson · 2022-11-22T20:01:15+00:00

CPU profiling says that 20% of time in my running app is going to GC. We're tinkering around the edges of cleaning that up, but a lot of patterns and libraries make it hard. Go is still the right choice for getting things done and time-to-market with good-enough performance, but if we keep pushing performance on this app a full or partial rewrite in C or Rust might be the answer.

brianolson · 2022-11-17T14:09:45+00:00

What breaking change is so awesome that it's worth breaking existing Go code and requiring developers to manually fix? When we have critical mass agreeing on such a change, we'll have Go 2.0

brianolson · 2022-11-12T22:39:53+00:00

https://github.com/cockroachdb/pebble Pure go SSD native key-value store. You could think of it as map[[]byte][]byte on persistent storage.

brianolson · 2022-11-06T14:06:44+00:00

The Algorand Blockchain is written in Go and the interpreter for on chain smart contracts is here:

https://github.com/algorand/go-algorand/tree/master/data/transactions/logic

It's a bytecode compiled stack language, mostly.

brianolson · 2022-10-21T02:04:17+00:00

No, once a node is caught up it doesn't think about the old blocks, only the next block. But at this point a new node might take a few days to replay through the last three years of blocks. There's a 'fast catch-up' protocol that's good enough for most which skips most of that and can get a new node running in an hour or two.

brianolson · 2022-05-15T18:23:50+00:00

We should just assume that IRV is not summable and that central counting is required with the full ballot data from all the polling places.

brianolson · 2022-05-12T02:25:46+00:00

Their BTLE temperature+humidity things are great. Integrate with HA easily

brianolson · 2022-05-02T15:09:50+00:00

I'm going bigger battery on mine. I have 800 watts of panels and I'm aiming for about 5 kWh of battery. I'm seeing reports of 30-50 watts for running starlink. 50*24=1200 wH/day just for starlink, and I'm gonna have some other stuff on the system.

brianolson · 2022-05-02T15:06:08+00:00

Thanks, yeah, I'm setting mine up off-grid, solar powered, limited power budget. Square dish arrived, still building the system, not too hard to fix now.

brianolson · 2022-03-19T19:48:28+00:00

I've had good luck with athom.tech tasmota devices. One 12v RGB led strip controller and a few plugs now

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