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by WJW 8mo ago
Is your claim that music industry lawyers are that much scarier than movie industry lawyers? Because the big labs don't seem to have any problem releasing models that create (possibly infringing) video.
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by WJW 8mo ago
That may be, but OP tried to claim that > once Jai comes out, Zig will become obsolete If Jai is happy to have limited adoption (which is fine), other languages will by definition not be displaced by Jai. That is even if we accept OPs im
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by WJW 8mo ago
Kinda weird to blame Zig for not being at 1.0 yet while Jai is still in closed beta after 11 years. Meanwhile Zig is being in used in big-ish projects all over while Jai has... a single game engine? Jai looks cool but it's far far FAR
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by WJW 8mo ago
I don't even know how you got to "used twice" tbh. Both your own comment AND the post you quoted from only have a single "must". The only thing that text demands is understanding and carefully weighing the implicati
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by WJW 8mo ago
So what? Dilithium + antimatter + magic space warping was enough for the Star Trek universe. The sky is the limit for science fiction. Just in that first paragraph: - How do you stop at the other end? There won't be a large laser array
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by WJW 8mo ago
https://physicsworld.com/a/what-have-particle-accelerators-e...
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by WJW 8mo ago
Time dilation and space contraction only matter if you can reasonably achieve speeds of a significant portion of the speed of light. AFAIK nobody has even come up with a reasonable way to achieve this for lightweight probes, let alone for h
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by WJW 8mo ago
Dragons are physically impossible in many more ways than the firebreathing. For one, things that large would probably struggle to fly. We can make larger things fly, but have to cheat using jet (or rocket!) engines to generate incredible th
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by WJW 8mo ago
I'm pretty sure that you can't gradually upgrade a shed into a skyscraper unless you pour a skyscraper-ready foundation before even starting on the shed. But if you're doing that, why start with a shed and not with a skyscrap
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by WJW 8mo ago
That is indeed a cool trick. I know this argument has been done a million times by now, but I do think modern ISAs have gotten too complex and it would be good if someone made: 1. A simpler ISA that doesn't do all the backward compatib
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by WJW 8mo ago
Exactly as you'd expect: they make it possible to run the GPUs more hours in exchange for needing additional capital. Those batteries will have an upfront cost and will depreciate over time. You'll obviously also need more solar p
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by WJW 8mo ago
Yes I (sadly) know. I commiserate with your loss.
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by WJW 8mo ago
Yes I (sadly) know. I commiserate with your loss. Still wouldn't let my loved ones try untested treatments though, especially if it buys only weeks of extra lifetime. The potential costs are too high.
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by WJW 8mo ago
Am I weird in not being too surprised? It don't have experience with wire EDM but every toolpath generator or slicer I've ever used was just local software.
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by WJW 8mo ago
First: Almost anything can be profitable if you have free inputs. Second: Even solar and wind are not really "free" as the capital costs still depreciate over the lifetime of the plant. You might be getting the power for near-zero
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by WJW 8mo ago
It's not just those two choices though. It could be "6 months in relative comfort" and "10 days begging each minute to die but you can't because you're borderline unconscious". Or anything in between. Just
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by WJW 8mo ago
Simple counterexample: chess. The rules are simple enough we regularly teach them to young children. There's basically no randomness involved. And yet, the rules taken together form a game complex enough that no human alive can fully c
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by WJW 9mo ago
Charging companies for software is as old as computers itself. We don't have to imagine.
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by WJW 9mo ago
Nice
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by WJW 9mo ago
It took me way longer than is reasonable to realize that a cog in this context is a type of ship. It does not contain gears of any size, giant or small.
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by WJW 9mo ago
That's fine, but different people have different risk tolerances and preferences. There's many people who would never want to emigrate to the USA, and many Americans who emigrate abroad. There's no one country that fits all p
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by WJW 9mo ago
You really seem to want to believe Bending Spoons buys companies just to shut them down, for reasons that are not entirely clear unless you believe that they're owned by a secret conspiracy made out of note-taking, file transfer and vi
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by WJW 9mo ago
It was like that with WeTransfer too. Fine company that had been profitable for years, but with little hope of getting ever 10x bigger again. I used to work there and had already left by the time of the acquisition, but all the old colleagu
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by WJW 9mo ago
No, they just come in and offer a lot of money to the current owners. Bending spoons are ruthless businesspeople but AFAIK they do offer a reasonable price for the businesses they acquire. (I used to work for WeTransfer and some time after
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by WJW 9mo ago
Which "the images" are you talking about? The article has exactly one image and it is an image of an island without any rivers.
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by WJW 9mo ago
What's the problem exactly? In the Netherlands we sometimes take the time to make nice things just because it looks nice and/or because we like to commemorate our shared history.
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by WJW 9mo ago
Are you in a completely different world than me? Because even the CEO of Boeing is not an engineer. Larry Ellison The CEO of the biggest bank in my country holds a masters degree in business economics, but nothing related to finance, econo
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by WJW 9mo ago
TBH it sounds like it would be extremely against the whole "simplicity, even at high costs" philosophy the Golang people strive for. Deploying new handlers into a running web service seems much more like something the Erlang peopl
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by WJW 9mo ago
Only on HN is experience a disadvantage.
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by WJW 9mo ago
What a weird dichotomy. It's not between "sitting in your old employers' parking lot" and "lying in bed all day", it's between "sitting in your old employers' parking lot" and "learning

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