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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
"Mobile CPU" has recently come to mean more than laptops. The Steam Deck validated the market for handheld gaming computers, and other OEMs have joined the fray. Even Microsoft intends to release an XBox-branded portable. I think
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
Some years ago, Google published a paper whose conclusion was that high-trust teams were the most productive - not the ones with the 10x developers. This obsession with the "great man" theory as applies to software is harmful to s
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
Fabrice Bellard is not a counterexample you think he is. He is brilliant, but he doesn't stick around the projects he starts off. Someone has to triage bugs, setup CI, tag releases, keep the website running and all the other boring stu
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
Its much easier to ban imports and periodically do sweeps to locate terminals on the ground and confiscate/arrest the criminals operating them illegally. A Cessna or helicopter with GPS and directional antennae tuned to the right frequ
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
"they fan shake their fist at the sky... and with the other hand strangle payments that are very much terrestrial"
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
> If he wants to succeed, he will need to reconsistute the board. Intel is a publicly listed company.
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
> What I think will happen is the US tries to mimic China by creating an even lower class of our workers that form a new industrial/manufacturing base to compete with. Still too optimistic on how long-term the American approach will
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
At the same time, he's ripping up the CHIPS act. It's the duality of Trump: he wants to bring manufacturing back, except when he doesn't.
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
One of the positive results of having the option to engage mechanical assistance is pushing myself beyond what I thought I am capable of, and surprising myself by not needing the assistance at any point. It improves the safety of pushing
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
> Does anyone still mix clashing styles/physics this way in modern animation The Spiderverse movies have characters with clashing styles and frame rates sharing the screen, but perhaps it fails your second test because they come f
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
> Boost for German economy: Armaments sector picks up former car industry employees Why do I hear strains of "Spring time for Germany" playing in my head?
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
Which is why EU defense company share prices have been on a tear. The only US defense contractor that had a good week/month is SpaceX.
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
> In fact, while most nuclear powers have dabbled in the idea of 'how could we conceal a nuclear test', it seems that only Israel is capable of doing it. Only because the US decided to officially look the other way. See "T
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
That's an oversimplification of an already complex history of Korea[1], which is why I said equating Vietnam to Ukraine is a disservice, which offers a clearer contrast. 1. The whole Korean peninsula was a colony of Japan, and was di
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
I know you (rayiner) know how colonialism works, and you know the belligerents in Korea and Vietnam and which side of the imperialism coin they fall. I do not believe equating Vietnam with Ukraine is something you can do in good faith. Edit
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
> Yup, that's our job as software engineers The more seasoned you are as a SWE, the higher the orders you consider, and not just on the technical aspect, but the human and business sides as well.
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
> It is good for Europe ... to learn the hard way that peace and tranquillity is the exception rather than the rule I don't know if you're being serious here, but this (Ameri-centric? C21-centric?) view is laughable. Europe is
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
The anti-imperialist angle is the same as pro-Ukraine, and opposing Russian imperialism. It's easy to confuse anti-imperialism with pacifism, but you have to remember the anti-imperialist supported anti-colonial warfare even back in th
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
Comparing 90s Russia to 2025 Russia is naive at best. Not even Clinton at his Bill-Clintonest would think of normalizing with Putin's Russia in 2025 had his presidency time-travelled to today. This is before we look at the cost of &quo
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
Visit Washington, DC.
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
God forbid someone just enjoys engaging more of their body in the act of driving. What's next, pillorying retro-computing enthusiasts and accusing them of arrested development because no one legitimately enjoys old & slow computers
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
How big do you think those bases are, exactly? They are reliant in the host country.
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
> ...in time will have its own version of China's and Russia's demographic challenges They have a plan for that: birth control will be made illegal or access highly curtailed, starting with the "abortive" ones as the
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
News headlines in 6 months "Trump announces trillion dollar free-trade deal with Russia" that will be "totally fair" and not "taking advantage of the US" like Canada, Mexico and the EU.
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
I said "X" instead of intelligence, strength, mass, reaction time, precise control, spatial awareness, or any other single characteristic because the best athletes have to be great on multiple dimensions - not just one. The same g
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
> "Any intelligence using itself to improve itself will out-compete one that directs itself towards any other goals whatsoever This is bunk, and only works when there's one variable that controls who wins, and there are no dimi
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
> Not when AI bots do all of those things AI bots aren't close to doing all those things, but I'm glad the billionaires bought into the hype and tipped their hand prematurely.
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
> How do the poor, the fatherless, and the oppressed benefit from living in ocean communities or as city states? You mean the millstone around the neck of society? The thinking goes: getting rid of entitlements supporting these groups wi
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
Do you think morals have changed over the past century? Even back then, Slater knew what he was doing was criminal (in Britain), and immoral (to the British). IP laws weren't invented after Sam Slater; American industrialists knew Bri
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by alienthrowaway 2y ago
It sounds like you want universities to instill a sense of respect for other people with a different socioeconomic background. The current administration would consider that to be "woke" or "DEI", and fine Duke the equiv

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