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by alfor 4y ago
I just ’fixed’ a iMac that had half of the internet not working on it. The reason: Apple stopped updating it, a certificate on it had expired making half of websites blocked by Chrome. The hardware is still working fine, but Apple want to r
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by alfor 4y ago
Academia is mostly a bureaucratic scam at this point. So many research lab have zero impact on the real world. I think most of the useful research happen in corporation now.
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by alfor 4y ago
It’s funny that he use the empire state building and then talk about federal government. The government didn’t build the empire state building, a private corporation did. Now there is so much regulation that it would be impossible to get th
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by alfor 4y ago
Depend on your values. Most job are bullshit job these day. A lot of companies are actively making society worse for their profits. Almost all product fabrication have left the US for China.
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by alfor 4y ago
Ok, I found the answer: it’s supposed to be the average of the difference of temperature over close to a million of region on the earth.
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by alfor 4y ago
The change of color also and the fact that it’s temperature anomalies, not average temperature. I wonder what is actually behind ’temperature anomalies’, what does it mean, how is it calculated?
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by alfor 4y ago
I just started with my kids on the recommendation in a book. In it they describe bridge as a game where people learn to put their attention toward other people instead of being toward self. He claimed that most of our psychological problems
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by alfor 4y ago
FSD beta is very good, they are countless video of it saving lives. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF96jQ0SY8w In those clips you see the fsd computer avoiding accidents form the sides and the back, cases where we humans c
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by alfor 4y ago
State machines in C work great when you don’t want a preemptive RTOS. I did a embedded project on 8051 like that, we had the legacy code 100% in asm and we moved to C. In the end I think we had about 10-20 lines of asm and everything else i
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by alfor 4y ago
C is much better for this now, you are not tied to the processor architecture and thus can switch to a better/cheaper cpu easily. The cell modem he is using already has a 32 arm cpu maybe even multi-core. 32bit it the new 8bit. C is th
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by alfor 4y ago
See ’faith’ as believing in that doing the ’right’ thing, when no one is looking, by your definition is the best way possible (no deceiving, lying and all other sins). You cannot have faith and despise the world, you are supposed to judges
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by alfor 4y ago
I see it as a fusion of the campfire stories that humans have told themselves over thousand of years. The fact that it was written in a book gave it incredible power and have allow our civilisation to exist and science to be developed but a
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by alfor 4y ago
The cardinal sin represent the awakening of the human mind, we no longer live in the moment, we can imagine the future and that make us powerful but also miserable (we can suffer from problems we imagine in the future) https://ww
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by alfor 4y ago
But what is ’I’ in this sentence? Personally I see it a ’truth’ like in scientific truth and personal integrity. Imagine Jesus as the incarnation of the best possible person. I you where to try to based your actions in a similar way, what w
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by alfor 4y ago
99% of effort is wasted. (Naval) This is especially true with code where the cost of replication is zero. Most company goes out of business, most programming project don’t get completed or get unused by the actual customer. In a large compa
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by alfor 4y ago
In canada and US we grow so much corn to feed cattle and pigs, it’s so cheap that farmers have set up pellets stove that burn corn for heating. So: kill the cows and the pigs, eat the meat and the feed.
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by alfor 4y ago
Make a 15min spreadsheet of $/month server cost and developer cost for differents usage scenario, include things that can speed up developpement. Instead of fighting. Don’t argue with him, provide numbers for the perspective he might n
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by alfor 4y ago
Also consider that volcanic rock contain every elements necessary for plant and animal life. Volcanic rock dust + wood chips is a popular organic way to increase soil fertility. The rock supply all the elements and the wood chip the organic
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by alfor 4y ago
Those companies don’t come often, but you don’t need many winners to be all set. I saw Google before the rise, Amazon, Apple, Bitcoin and Tesla. I only acted on Tesla after seeing all the other ones before but didn’t put my conviction into
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by alfor 4y ago
We know there are problem on both sides: Too big and powerful government = corruption and inefficiencies Too big and powerful corporation = corruption and inefficiencies I prefer going more toward the free market as corporation are in compe
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by alfor 4y ago
Yes the style is overly complex. It distract from the message. It feel like the opposite of a PG essay.
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by alfor 4y ago
I agree with you too, we should avoid things that have a repercussion long time into the future. I am especially wary of man made chemical molecules that have a long lifespan (BPC, fluorinated compound, etc) With technology we make two step
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by alfor 4y ago
Kids used to play together outside, unsupervised, undirected play, all the time. 2022, I discovers after two year livin there that some of my neighbors had kids. I saw them 5sec from the house to the car.
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by alfor 4y ago
I don’t think so. Climate change is not going to be that big deal. Look into Tony Seba work to see how fast we are moving away from fossil fuels. If it get too critic we are going to move to geoengineering and buy us more time. We have and
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by alfor 4y ago
I think we are not in a position to judge what is reasonable to do over hundred or thousand of years with our current technological progression. Plastics where not really a thing 100 years ago. At our current progression I think we should a
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by alfor 5y ago
No the main difference is the mindset of the place, the culture. Nokia, Blackberry didn’t overtake Apple, why? Culture. But before Tesla had more limited resources, now it’s almost a non issue.
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by alfor 5y ago
The iterations happen way faster too. Look at Munro teardown of Tesla, he has never see a tenth of that rate of change ever. Look at what SpaceX accomplished. Look where OpenAI is given the time it’s been operating. Look at Tesla rate of pr
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by alfor 5y ago
Speed of iteration is all that matter. That is why all the big like Google no longer push things forward, even with the best engineer and Phds and with so much money. That’s why I think that Optimus at Tesla will crush all the other robotic
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by alfor 5y ago
So tired of government meddling in people's affairs. So if you work for government you are eligible, in private business not! That money is going to come out of someone else pocket. In this case it’s going to be more inflation and more
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by alfor 5y ago
Regulations... Most land is off limits. Were I live the land is ’protected’ for agricultural use even though it is marginal at best and most farms doesn’t use the land. In my case it killed my agribusiness project because the amount of work

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