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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
It's neat, but it would require segregated roadways to be safe, and we're not going to get that. I'd love to live in that world though. Smaller, lighter, lower-speed vehicles. Bicycles. Walkable neighborhoods. It'd be gr
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
The six pack is just the side effect of the fitness. If you could somehow get the six pack without the fitness it'd be pointless.
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Exactly. Who wants to sit in their apartment/house? Among rotting cartons? No! Go out into the world! Enjoy the city! Now you have a reason to visit that neighborhood you've never been to. Take a little walk to get there: Enjoy yo
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Upvoted, but my experience is that radically different cultures actually do continue to exist, especially across different industries. But maybe not at the apex of money and prestige.
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Everybody forgets that Twitter created Trump. They remember fondly when left-crazy ruled Twitter. They forget that the opposite and more-enduring right-reaction formed as part of the same dynamic. If Twitter had never existed, Donald Trump
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Likewise, In-Q-tel the reason Google Earth and hence Maps exist.
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
I can see the idiotic thinking: "The public wants a straight white man, and they want something more conservative... I know, let's run Gavin Newsom on a pro-business platform!" It's like the very categories they use to i
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
I heard Biden and partisans say it a lot, and I cringed every time. In his first State of the Union, I clearly remember him bragging about record high house prices. I cringed at that too. What did Harris herself say? Not much; she barely
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
I tried this, and I have never had such flavorful lettuce! I'd been a little worried: Hydroponics has a reputation for (maybe?) producing flavorless vegetables. And certainly, I did have trouble growing some things. But those things
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Man, there was a lot of obtuse argument to wade through to get to this post. This is an interesting fact. Apparently this is the source? https://arxiv.org/abs/cs/0111050
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
I get what you mean. I'm glad that they're doing this; it's great that the best laptop hardware is going to run Linux before long; it's a fun endeavor -- but when you zoom way out and take the philosophical view, y
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Already you can barely function as a citizen unless you either own a house or pay rent to a landlord. Want to live in your car? Want a bank account registered to a box at the Post Office? Can't do it! Whether you are a human being dese
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
I'd give you that, but in exchange, you'll have to agree that, if I'm renting, I shouldn't have to sell any financial assets less than, say, the median value of a house where I am.
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Step 1: Enjoy a vacation in Shanghai. Step 2: Epic road trip. (Step 2b: If you can be entertaining, put it on YouTube and maybe make a little money?) Step 3: Be the proud owner of a BYD vehicle, back home in Germany. Was there a "pay e
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Whenever you have more than one offer, there is room for negotiation.
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
The model underlying the word "singularity", AIUI, does involve a vertical asymptote. It is not supposed to be "merely" exponential. Of course, exponential growth is much more compatible with our experience of the real e
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
And, to elaborate, it's those pre-processed foods like Doritos whose prices don't scale with "cost of living". They're expensive imports, luxuries. There's an entire genre of YouTube video in which expats go to
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
The SoA features look really nice. I have wanted that forever. Matrices are built in(!), and look nicely implemented. So are complex numbers and quaternions! The array programming aspects in general look great. Zig might be the nicer langua
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
The EV4, by contrast, is sort of a hatchback, so that's a little better.
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
You're looking at income quantiles, not wealth quantiles. It's misleading. Rich people don't earn salary. A startup CEO probably gets a salary of like $250k, not much different from a senior SWE. However, the CEO has stock op
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
So, SpaceX is disrupting Boeing on the space front. Who is disrupting Boeing on the aviation front? Airbus and Embraer are great, but they're not based in the US. Where's the homegrown challenger? Or is this going to turn into ano
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
It depends what one means by "populism". If you include Bernie-style politics as "populist" along with the Trump variety, then polarization and an inability to find commonality are the things that frustrate populist go
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
"Mortified" means "extremely embarrassed". You seem to mean "terrified".
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
The solution is to gleefully disrupt these people. They can't keep doors on airplanes.
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Fair point. Even in America there is "Monster energy drink", and you might exclaim while watching sports, "man, that guy's a beast ". It's just hard to make words stick in general. The British made fun of &quo
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
I always found DACs/IO to be the limiting thing with microcontrollers. That and latency in general. When you were doing analog stuff with op-amps, yeah, you were setting yourself up for other problems like thermal drift, but there was
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-09-28/zuckerber...
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Meta is so weird. There are articles in the financial press about how "Zuckerberg's Metaverse bets are paying off", even though, to an extremely good approximation, zero people use any Metaverse products at all. Stocks are go
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
Thank you, I found this hint very interesting. Is there a source you wouldn't mind pointing me to for those "head, tail" methods? I am assuming it relates to the kinds of "variable precision floating point with bounds&qu
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by FooBarBizBazz 2y ago
I get what you mean and agree, and have seen almost traumatized rants against ffast-math from the very same people. After digging, I think this is the kind of thing I'm referring to: https://people.eecs.berkeley.edu/~

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