FredPret

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by FredPret 1y ago
Renewables have huge hidden costs as well. Solar panels and windmills are low density sources - we need a LOT of them to get the job done, and even then you still need base load somehow. That means a huge amount of extra powerlines and futu
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by FredPret 1y ago
Looking nice is part of the function
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by FredPret 1y ago
It’s really odd how often and where damped spring motion comes up
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by FredPret 1y ago
It’s interesting that we do essentially the same thing in all of non-physics science. Everything is nuclear physics in the end, but trying to solve problems in, say, economics or psychology by solving a vast number of subatomic equations is
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by FredPret 1y ago
> car infrastructure may solve some needs, but it is in direct conflict with other needs True for all infrastructure choices > the physical space required for that alone is an unbelievable double-digit percentage of the city area True
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by FredPret 1y ago
These things can have complications when you take into account all the edge cases. And paying humans/robots to do anything really adds up. But at their scale, maybe they found a plan that works!
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by FredPret 1y ago
Not saying you need the above, but you’ll feel like you do. It’s certainly the easier way
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by FredPret 1y ago
That’s a really clever and simple plan but doing anything like applying stickers, correctly, by hand or robot, can add cost ranging from $<surprising> to $<shocking>. Maybe they have a variation of your idea where they inkjet a
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by FredPret 1y ago
Then the kid moves to NYC, loves it, meets someone, has a kid, and realizes they need two SUV’s and a heated garage near good schools.
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by FredPret 1y ago
The bad part here is letting “poisoned” inventory in. Adding vendor tracking adds a layer of ERP difficulty that isn’t practical for bulk, cheap items. You either have to have serial numbers (unique per item, not just a product identifier b
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by FredPret 1y ago
That seems correct to me as well, but is it really? I think they're making an argument related to misinformation / lying about a crime, which apparently is against the terms of ABC's broadcast license. I'm evidently not
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by FredPret 1y ago
Isn't this idea super easy to falsify? If you make $1 more than some other person in the world, you're richer than them. Where is the connection between being $1 richer and requiring that much less integrity?
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by FredPret 1y ago
> with Woz doing far more of the work He definitely was the magic ingredient early on. But it's because of Jobs and his drive to make Apple huge that I'm typing this on a Mac. You need line level employees who churn away at Tes
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by FredPret 1y ago
I was always under the impression that high level UK engineers tend to become freelance consultants so as to get paid an appropriate amount - is this not true (anymore)?
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by FredPret 1y ago
Good point
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by FredPret 1y ago
That would be wrong, but I think the conservative backlash was such that he'd have been very much fired anyway, FCC or no. People were publishing lists of his advertisers on X to organize a boycott.
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by FredPret 1y ago
He has a right to say whatever he says, but surely his private employer have a right to fire him for it? He has a right to speak his mind, not to have a show.
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by FredPret 1y ago
The fact that there's a mature product doing what you want to do is a good thing. It means there's a market for what you want that's large enough to sustain development. You can easily distinguish yourself from Citizen by t
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by FredPret 1y ago
I’m a soon-to-be-ex-VSCode user, but seeing the long march of Copilot (Clippy 2.0, except it steals my code) at Github and now VSCode, I’m taking the plunge and learning Emacs.
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by FredPret 1y ago
Sounds like a powerful model if you can get it right
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by FredPret 1y ago
Here's a comparison of Toronto and a handful of random not-Southern European cities that came to mind. For interest's sake, all these are far north of Toronto, which is in line with Marseille! https://weatherspark.com&#
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by FredPret 1y ago
LLM engineer -> silicon psychologist who can sometimes sell the beast into making the year-end postings pass all tests?
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by FredPret 1y ago
Lived in various spots in downtown TO for nearly a decade. The climate alone easily justifies building pedestrian tunnels. You come across as one of those car-hating fanatics who'll zero in on literally anything about North American ci
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by FredPret 1y ago
> The idea that climate issues necessitate this kind of divorce from the outdoors would be a strange concept indeed to people in Barcelona and Helsinki alike. Try going for a walk outside in downtown Toronto on both the hottest and colde
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by FredPret 1y ago
Now that country goes from having limited access to having none at all - seems worse. If you don't like X (understandable) then it's much better to not visit it voluntarily than by a top-down block
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by FredPret 1y ago
But then X just gets banned in said country
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by FredPret 1y ago
What challenges did you pick up with Elixir?
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by FredPret 1y ago
I think everyone would have a problem with the type of domination exhibited by Apple & Google, if they understood it. There are many voters who are not well versed in tech. You can see this reflected in the kinds of politicians that win
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by FredPret 1y ago
Let's see how that goes after the Lunar Tea Party
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by FredPret 1y ago
It is concerning when all of our major social systems are built on the idea of an growing population and a growing economy (most pressing right now is funding pensions). Maybe we'll have a billion humans living in orbit in a century.

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