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by ahupp 7y ago
Google Assistant is amazing and I use it constantly. Any task that's could be a single voice request, or a single question/answer, is better with voice than pulling out my phone IMO. Examples: Playing music, getting directions,
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by ahupp 7y ago
The kind of engine swaps I'm familiar with use a wildly different motor, often requiring some fabrication to get everything to fit. And usually these projects have a lot of other DIY changes and junkyard parts. These are not pragmati
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by ahupp 7y ago
I used buck at Facebook quite a bit, and it's my favorite build system. I assume most of the stuff I liked about buck translates to bazel: * Build rules were extremely simple to write * Sandboxing meant we could safely share a global
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by ahupp 7y ago
The comment specifically says: "I can adjust the heat to 55 when nobody is there which saves a lot of money and more importantly I can ensure the heat is not turned off (which could cause frozen pipes) which some guests do for some rea
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The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet(bibliotecapleyades.net)
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by ahupp 7y ago
Can you give an example?
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The Founding Murder and the Final Boss(alexdanco.com)
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by ahupp 7y ago
If the problem is getting "lucky" on a test set, then it seems like you could do several rounds of splitting test/training set, retraining from scratch each time, and then take the median performance. Not great if training t
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by ahupp 7y ago
I think you need to give citations on those net carbon claims, because that's hard to believe.
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by ahupp 7y ago
There's an efficient markets reason to believe this. Say you have some estimate of the value of all future earnings of some business, and then a group of people divests and pushes down the share price. The future earnings haven'
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by ahupp 7y ago
It's not just usability: The context awareness means it will prevent you from filling a password on a phishing site. I share your wariness of the browser extensions, but you're betting that a software bug is more likely than huma
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Positional Scarcity(danco.substack.com)
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by ahupp 7y ago
They make it very non-obvious, but you can buy a standalone license for 1p v7 after downloading here: https://1password.com/downloads/
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by ahupp 7y ago
"inspired by" borg. It's not the same codebase.
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by ahupp 7y ago
This is a cool idea, and I'm excited to see what kind of perf wins it produces. It seems like the other solution would be to expose all the details of the SSD to the OS: wear leveling, GC etc, and make that a driver concern. Probably
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by ahupp 7y ago
That's awesome. It reminds me of the Bynars in Star Trek, who evolved ultra-fast spoken language: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52_iSQnB6W0
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by ahupp 7y ago
In the article, each of the examples typically only his 4 of the 5 or so points. e.g, Netflix doesn't create an ecosystem.
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by ahupp 7y ago
I think the key of the essay is this definition: * Software creates ecosystems * Software has zero marginal costs * Software improves over time * Software offers infinite leverage * Software enables zero transaction costs So
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by ahupp 7y ago
Does google actually have a worse track record on shutdowns than the average startup? Random 10 person companies shut down all the time, but we seem to pay extra attention when it's a 10 person team inside Google.
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by ahupp 7y ago
That's hard to answer without knowing how much disease coverage you actually have. A test that reliably detected cancers early would be worth quite a bit to me.
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by ahupp 7y ago
Payments are also not something technical that helps deliver content to you, yet without them you'd have no content to consume. Same with DRM.
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by ahupp 7y ago
A complication to the whole story about the risks of vaping is that nicotine alone doesn't appear to be particularly addictive. The evidence suggests that it's specifically the combination of MAOI and nicotine found in tobacco th
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by ahupp 7y ago
Why do you assume this is driven by some desire for "pliant consumers", vs a desire to build a simpler and more secure browser?
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by ahupp 7y ago
I'd expect most of the costs scales linearly with the number of panels: land, installation, maintenance, interconnect, so this should translate pretty directly to cost savings.
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by ahupp 7y ago
It's very easy to buy an unlocked phone, you just need to pay an unsubsidized price and most people prefer not to do that.
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by ahupp 7y ago
Ugh. If "meets expectations" puts you in the bottom 5% this says to me that there's wild miscalibration in the review process; e.g not everyone is using the same standard for "meets" and some teams have inflation g
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by ahupp 7y ago
> human-out-of-the-loop kill decisions is a bad idea Maybe so, but this is an inevitable arms race. What happens when the other party has drones and we ned to respond faster than the human can make the decision? > now all of the adve
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Flash Crash: finance at the end of the world (short fiction)(escapepod.org)
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by ahupp 7y ago
There are a million hypothetical security issues you could worry about. How would you weigh the risks of Javascript against the loss of basically all online productivity apps?
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by ahupp 7y ago
It's not relying on the presence of a library. It's indicating that the app is still running in the background, and thus using more battery.

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