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   by api 6y ago

   Fascinating! He even helped get a pneumatic railway built, which failed, and reminds me a bit of hyperloop. If I had to bet on a Musk project that would fail it would be that one. Something about it just feels wrong to my engineering intuit
2. 8282.▲
   by api 6y ago

   That was the most surprising part to me too, but not that surprising. Lots of automotive and newer industrial UIs use Qt Quick with QML which is not all that different from HTML5 and JS with something like React. It's used in the prese
3. 8283.▲
   by api 6y ago

   I highly doubt JS is used outside the UI layer.
4. 8284.▲
   by api 6y ago

   Howard Hughes feels like a better comparison to Elon Musk.
5. 8285.▲
   by api 6y ago

   His first point is valid. His second doesn't make sense to me. The wealthy are already very good at gaming the SAT/ACT system via tutoring. Teaching to a test always improves test scores. Any metric will be gamed if an incentive t
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   by api 6y ago

   I heard those things too. This is the first time I've considered it even slightly plausible. I'd give it a 20% chance that he calls on his most fanatical base to march armed on DC if he loses the election. Go check into the Qanon
7. 8287.▲
   by api 6y ago

   There's enough evidence for vitamin D being beneficial that it's certainly not likely to hurt anything and is probably a good idea.
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   by api 6y ago

   One difficulty in determining if vitamin D actually helps with COVID is determining if vitamin D levels are directly affecting outcomes or whether they are a proxy for something else. For example: are low levels a proxy for people who don&#
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   by api 6y ago

   I tried Facebook ads a year or two ago and got nothing but clicks from click farms in places like Pakistan. The volume of click farm fraud in online ads is staggering. It's totally worthless unless you are an expert at avoiding this an
10. 8290.▲
    by api 6y ago

    Little to nothing. The point is to troll and stir controversy in order to get attention. The man literally built his entire career on that, and unfortunately it works extremely well.
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    by api 6y ago

    I can count three VCs in my immediate circle of contacts that are expanding up and down the West Coast at least. The NIMBYs in SF are going to get their wish: shrinking the city and collapsing its major industry. As another poster stated: t
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    by api 6y ago

    Time to collaboratively scrape the platform for archiving.
13. 8293.▲
    by api 6y ago

    Google isn't standing still. They're getting worse over time. I've noticed a significant drop in their result quality even in the past 1-2 years. Meanwhile DDG seems to be slowly improving. They are now my default and I only
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    by api 6y ago

    One thing that gets me about the people who use "free speech" in this way is the sense of entitlement. 20-30 years ago mass media was only accessible to people with large amounts of money to purchase advertising or run their own m
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    by api 6y ago

    Self-reply: no, it apparently does not. Microcode rev is the same and the issue is still there. TL;DR: Jetbrains IDEs all crash on the 2020 Air, which has a 10th gen Ice Lake CPU in it. Sometimes it brings down the OS. Doesn't happen a
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    by api 6y ago

    Looking forward to seeing whether this contains a microcode or OS patch to fix what appears to be an Ice Lake CPU bug: https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/JBR-2310 Read the whole thing. It really appears as if there i
17. 8297.▲
    by api 6y ago

    AMP is an obvious attempt to embrace/extend/extinguish the open web, so yes it has a PR problem.
18. 8298.▲
    by api 6y ago

    I've gotta play devils advocate a bit. The people I know who voted for Trump were not voting for him so much as against a set of policies that have been very profitable to Wall St. but awful for everyone else. Chief among these is the
19. 8299.▲
    by api 6y ago

    IMHO removing them is helping Trump cover up what an unstable ass he is. Leave them up there. Better yet, put them on billboards.
20. 8300.▲
    by api 6y ago

    Cue 10 ICOs for AuthenticityCoin type things, most of which just exit scam and the rest of which don't actually work. The real security hole for forgery is at the point of injection. Tracking a forgery along with a block chain doesn&#x
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    by api 6y ago

    > So perhaps the problem isn't just the need for agents but for a proper business model where the reward isn't eyeball time as it is today. I've been on this for years. Free is a lie, and the idea that everything has to be
22. 8302.▲
    by api 6y ago

    Provenance and chain of custody is everything. It's always been important, but now its critical. Any audio or video without a solid chain of custody is now suspect. Anonymous leaks are worthless as anything can be faked by almost anyon
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    by api 6y ago

    This is a fun language hack, but be aware that this is probably not good for performance in 2020. Nearly anything larger than a coffee machine microcontroller these days probably has instruction level parallelism and also operates more effi
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    by api 6y ago

    There are many hypotheses but they are quite hard to test. The problem is that any such process is likely to have involved millions of years (at a minimum) of essentially random search among initial building blocks before something "ta
25. 8305.▲
    by api 6y ago

    ZeroTier emulates a L2 Ethernet switch over any network, so anything you can do with Ethernet basically. You make networks, add stuff to them, and any protocol you want just works: games, ssh, sftp, http, drive mounts (though they can be sl
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    by api 6y ago

    I like turning it around and asking: why do human beings seem unable to achieve these heights without a jerk pushing them? I have a loose hypothesis of my own. Most of us are wired for a vastly slower and quieter pace of life with very litt
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    by api 6y ago

    In Putin's Russia, window open you!
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    by api 6y ago

    Sticky blood, thrombosis, brain inflammation... not hard to read past the clinical language.
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    by api 6y ago

    If they do that, I am gone. Parent mentioned that they feared that though 10 years ago and it never really happened. Apple seems to be trying to walk a line with MacOS and keep all of its user bases happy, but it's a hard line to walk.
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    by api 6y ago

    If its "required" you need to think more. We use GCP and GKS for some things, but we could leave pretty easily. Hardest parts would be DIY Postgres HA and DIY K8S. CockroachDB is almost ready to get rid of the former headache. Hav