CydeWeys

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by CydeWeys 4y ago
There is a vaaaast difference in quality across the Ikea range. I too had a bulletproof Ikea desk that lasted me over a decade and was still in excellent structural condition when I got rid of it. It was a single large slab of wood (not par
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
We don't know the field of view of the lens (or crop) being used here, so you can't say anything about the apparent size of objects. With a smaller FoV lens, or even just a tighter crop, the Earth could look significantly larger.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I'd hire whichever one did better on the interview. Stadia had excellent engineers working on it and the product itself was technically amazing.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Pixel phones are pretty damn good. My last 3 phones have all been Pixels. And they have damn good cameras/image AI, often coming in #1 for image quality (yes, above the iPhone). I use my phone for taking photographs a LOT, to the po
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I don't understand what you're saying. How is it failing? What signal, what lesson?
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Not at all. It's literally just a more tax-efficient dividend. Everyone does it these days. Companies that are failing can't afford it; you can only do these when you have excess cash.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> And a stock buyback which does the “let’s pretend our stock is going up” trick. (IBM has been a master of this for years). Not sure what trick you're referring to. Buybacks are the new dividends; they accomplish the same thing b
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
What's the value add on your comment? Of course costs matter for IBM and Amazon! They're publicly traded companies, and they need to make a profit or else!
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At least the path to profitablity is super clear though: selling GPT-4 access. What's the path to profitablity on AlphaGo or whatever?
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I wasn't talking about Tesla though and I don't know why you assumed I'm pro-fake-Autopilot????
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Look at all the Martian rovers. That is a notoriously hard environment to operate in, so success has often been defined as "the rover functions for at least 30 days". And then some rovers ended up working for over a decade. Tha
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I disagree. SLS is hard-limited to a small total number of launches. Starship is going to get into the hundreds soon enough. By that point Starship will legitimately be safer and more reliable than SLS will ever be able to accomplish, so
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
They would much rather not have all that infrastructure close to the pad. This is a sub-optimal situation that they, more than anyone else, are acutely aware of. Sadly this is what they could get.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
She's way too important to risk on the first crewed mission to Mars (which is going to be very risky). This is what astronauts are for.
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I was amazed at how resilient Starship was despite how many engines had failed, right up until the point they needed to yaw for stage separation and lost control. They've gotta improve the reliability of those engines (which I'm
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Who cares? It's a lot of arguing over semantics that doesn't end up meaning anything in the grand scheme of things. SpaceX continues making progress on the development of Starship, and the tiny little mishaps that depend mostly
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
You can only massage information so far though. The costs do actually matter and you can't turn a profit if all of your launches are horrendously expensive (above what you're charging for them), and you just keep it a secret.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> My point would be that while SpaceX does save lots of money, it doesn't do so by producing cheap or less reliable rockets. It does though. During the development process . SpaceX will do five launches with lower reliability veh
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
You're talking about failure rates per rocket, but we're talking about the overall development program. Falcon 9 certainly has very low failure rates on its individual components now (below your suggested 0.0001 number). But the w
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
There already are reservoirs that are covered to prevent evaporation. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shade_balls
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Preventing evaporation on your aqueducts and canals definitely isn't a bad thing though. That water is precious and you want to lose as little of it as possible.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
You can't cheat thermodynamics! If it's being absorbed by the panels (rather than reflected) then it's absolutely becoming waste heat. Solar panels look dark blue/black because they're absorbing most of the light th
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
The US has the best healthcare in the world, period. It's just not cheap. Brazil isn't even remotely comparable.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
No True Scotsman arguments aren't particularly interesting.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
They're not doing fine as evidenced by the loss of value in their share price. AWS on its own isn't big enough, nor still growing enough, to justify a massive valuation anymore. And the web storefront is suffering too. Amazon s
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> What makes text chat that is meant to be ephemeral to be different than an in person chat? It's not inherently ephemeral though. You can add deletion rules on top of that to try to pretend that it is, but the courts see right thro
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Chrome OS devices have local storage. Premium ones (which are not even that expensive, in the $500+ price tier) have a 256GB SSD for local storage. This at least has not been my issue with Chrome OS.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
Have you actually used Chrome OS? It's not like this at all. I would imagine the same approach would be taken on a fully featured OS. Ironically Windows is the OS that is full of shit ads these days, not Google's OS.
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
> For all their failures, this is where Amazon and Microsoft excel Amazon isn't doing all that well recently, though (check $AMZN). And I'd argue that the product design on their biggest product, the e-commerce bit, is terrible
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by CydeWeys 4y ago
I took physics in 9th grade along with everyone else in my program, and it didn't include calculus.

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