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by 9rx 6mo ago
> the wealthiest in America mostly live in spacious suburbs. The wealthiest people I see don't live in any particular place. They have houses everywhere — inner city, the spacious suburbs you mention, rural, and everything in betw
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> you're still gonna be pissed at the downtime cost of having a tech drag their ass out to wherever you are You might be pissed that the machine malfunctioned at all, but you kind of have to accept that if you want to be in the bu
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Because it's not an effective use of their time. New farm equipment buyers are running big businesses. Shifting their focus away from the business to repair equipment would be as silly as the CEO of Google personally replacing a failed
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> John Deere is very anti right to repair John Deere's whole business model has been built around being the most repairable — ensuring that you can get the parts when you need them, not days or weeks later. I own farm equipment fr
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by 9rx 6mo ago
What makes you go to distrust? It is clearly about affordability. That is the issue in the farm machinery market. Someone who is currently running a 50 year old machine that is worn out and in need of replacement simply cannot afford a new
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by 9rx 6mo ago
The typical commercial farmer is going to be no more concerned about the software being locked down than the CEO of a marketing firm is concerned about Adobe products being locked down. It's not the core competency. They are using the
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by 9rx 6mo ago
You can fix things, but can you really justify the time to do when you need an operational machine? 1. No matter how great of a shade tree mechanic you are, you will never be able to fix it faster than someone who does it every day. They ha
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by 9rx 6mo ago
If John Deere is sending a tech, you've encountered something that could never be just a simple menu button. You've found a major flaw that they need to investigate in detail. John Deere would never send a tech for routine trouble
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> but there are limits. Even without limits, you're never going to be as efficient as someone who fixes the same failure every single day. I've certainly fallen into that trap before. Sure, I got it fixed myself in the end, b
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> The old image of a guy on a Deere 4020 pulling an eight row implement is just unsustainable in today's agricultural system. That entirely depends on your business goals. If you want to leverage debt to amass wealth you need scal
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> Farmers have always done as much of their own maintenance as possible. Well, sure. Maintenance is an off-season job. Its that or sit on the couch watching TV, so you may as well be in the shop getting equipment ready. Even if it take
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> if there's any tool incompatibility in the modern electronics? Technically there are standards, but you know how that goes in the real world... Funnily enough, a friend bought a new tractor and planter, both from John Deere, and
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by 9rx 6mo ago
It may be true that I do not understand whatever nondescript fundamental issue it is that you mention but don't elaborate on, but I most definitely understand the constraints of farming. Being a farmer, I live it each day. And as a far
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by 9rx 6mo ago
The farmer who doesn't want or need tech already buys from the likes of Versatile, Kubota, or maybe even Massey Ferguson if more towards the middle of the road. "Low tech" is already a serviced market. That's not to say
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by 9rx 6mo ago
What early demand are you seeing, exactly? The article does indicate that they plan to ramp up production in 2026, but no mention of actual sales. It is quite possible that they are increasing production thinking that they need to roll them
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Those buying new don't care about repairs. They were never going to do the warrantee work themselves anyway. Those buying on the used market have more reason to care about repairs, but used buyers are beholden to what new buyers purcha
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> Maybe the CTO wrote the original code and a junior developer working on the optimization thinks they know a better way but isn't sure about questioning the CTO's choice of algorithm. If changing the algorithm is going to ne
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by 9rx 6mo ago
If a choice comes down to simply guessing about the future then it isn't an important property of the system and therefore it makes no difference which algorithm was chosen or why. You are right about that being a premature optimizatio
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by 9rx 6mo ago
You would test all important properties. That matches all real world systems you are responsible for. There is no reason to accept a lower standard for yourself. Absolutely you have no control over what others have written, but you also hav
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Wouldn't the intent of that be captured in your benchmark tests? And especially now that code generation is essentially free, wouldn't you include all three with the benchmark tests showing why a particular choice was chosen? This
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by 9rx 6mo ago
AI (and humans) know why something was done if it was for technical reasons as it would be necessary to have those technical reasons described in the test suite/type system. It wouldn't be able to reverse engineer why something wa
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by 9rx 6mo ago
The trouble with your plan is that nobody outside of high school debate club is going to spend time with an argument.
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by 9rx 6mo ago
What reasonable interpretation of the sentence is there if "then" is applied literally? I can only find validity using "than", and therefore the use of "then" doesn't matter as the author's intent isn
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by 9rx 6mo ago
That is in large part because there was no uncanny valley, so to speak. Where it was different, it was different with a purpose and was intentional about it. Where there was no purpose, like in secondary menus, it still used native widgets
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by 9rx 6mo ago
To be fair, the vision isn't achievable yet. More training data is needed. These projects spring up to try and compel users into offering up training information in the niches that need more data. They don't really have to be good
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by 9rx 6mo ago
If you ignore waste then it is likely that we also produce enough nutrients. That isn't a useful way to look at it, however, as, just with all things in life, losses are inherit. A 100% efficient system will never exist. Calories, thou
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> How long do you think it'll take for the AI trend to mostly automate the parts of your job that still make you excited? The exciting part of the job is, and always has been, listening to idle chitchat where you pick up on the su
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Then your business logic contains unspecified behaviour. Maybe you have a business situation where power loss conditions being unspecified is perfectly acceptable, but if that is so it doesn't really matter what happens to your backing
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by 9rx 6mo ago
Your business logic tests will already, by osmosis, exercise the backing data store in every conceivable way to the fundamental extent that is possible with testing given finite time. If that's not the case, your business logic tests h
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by 9rx 6mo ago
> and your app doesn't have 300% test coverage with fuzzing like SQLite does Surely it does? Otherwise you cannot trust the interface point with SQLite and you're no further ahead. SQLite being flawless doesn't mean much

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