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by bdamm 11mo ago
That is really quite cool, and unlike any functional language I've seen.
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by bdamm 11mo ago
I got a bit wave of nostalgia for my CorelDRAW experience. Thanks!
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by bdamm 11mo ago
Alas, I live an a world where efficiency does actually matter, and elegance to me includes efficiency. I live in a world of embedded software, portability, and reliability. In this regard, almost every single functional language is an utter
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by bdamm 11mo ago
This is nowhere near the only use of the "birthday + name == all info" hack in the US medical industry. It's basically one big giant frat club with shakes and implicit trust all around. Except that it doesn't actually wo
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by bdamm 11mo ago
San Jose Airport's walkability and bikability is actually wonderful and I always take the opportunity to walk or bike there when flying into SJC.
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by bdamm 11mo ago
Most doctor's offices just use my name and birthday to assume authorization to transfer sensitive medical information. I kinda feel like privacy is massive "emperor has no clothes" aspect of society.
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by bdamm 1y ago
Ah, but the truth came out here; the can't sell a lock that is upgraded, because they already do sell one at a higher price. There are cheaper locks if you don't care to defend against shimming.
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by bdamm 1y ago
That's not a supportable argument. The US government has been extremely fickle about their support of SpaceX's Starlink. Witness the revocation of the funding for rural communities. If you're referring to NASA and other gover
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by bdamm 1y ago
Maxwell Technologies; 2019. [1] Dalhousie/Jeff Dahn dry-synthesis lab [2] [1] https://www.reuters.com/article/technology/tesla-to-buy-batt... [2] https://www.autoevolution.com/news/tesla-
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by bdamm 1y ago
Trucks. Inter-city Buses. Extremely lightweight EVs (think Mazda Miata EV). Also EV motor homes, but that's basically just a bus.
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by bdamm 1y ago
Tesla bought a solid-state battery company and also is running a research office dedicated to the subject, so I don't think you can say that Tesla has no solid-state battery program.
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by bdamm 1y ago
I'm not saying people should implicitly trust the government. I'm saying that lack of trust, and lack of the ability of people and government to meet in a way that develops trust, is the issue that underlies people holding up a &q
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by bdamm 1y ago
"Difficult to dispose of and has no use" is the very definition of a tailings pond, and you'll find them all over the place if you care to look. Environmental catastrophies are happening all over the globe on a massive scale.
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by bdamm 1y ago
It is even deeper than that. The problem is that voters do not have faith in the organizations created to oversee and regulate government waste. Perhaps there isn't enough visibility. Or maybe the typical shenanigans that commenters lo
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by bdamm 1y ago
This is actually super interesting to me. Given that the US is actually blessed with mineral concentrations, why is it so assumed that only China can produce rare earths? Is it the land opportunity cost? Is it the cost of labor? Is it the c
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by bdamm 1y ago
The BBC piece is an interesting attempt at garnishing attention. The reporter provides the google maps link to show how large and disgusting the process is. But it is actually a very small lake, if you compare it to things such as oil extra
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by bdamm 1y ago
I don't want to roam in Yosemite. I want to roam starting from my house.
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by bdamm 1y ago
Roaming on either of these will lead to you being arrested.
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by bdamm 1y ago
There were always applications that were snappy and applications that were dog slow; sometimes even the same application with different releases. And that's still true today. In fact, I would argue that the objective experience of resp
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by bdamm 1y ago
The white collar worker doesn't need to be replaced for the bots to be profitable. They just need to become dependent on the bots to increase their productivity to the point where they feel they cannot do their job without the chatbot&
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by bdamm 1y ago
Try roaming through Area 51. Or White Sands.
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by bdamm 1y ago
Honestly, good riddance. And let's chuck into the dustbin of history fiddling with IRQ dipswitches to disambiguate your mouse, video, disk, and audio controllers; the "turbo" button; "It is now safe to turn off your comp
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by bdamm 1y ago
Or until they become lunch?
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by bdamm 1y ago
Why liquid fuels or chemistry at all? Something simple like moving blocks of cement uphill with a motor/generator would be more efficient.
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by bdamm 1y ago
Google has been regurgitating content right into search results since the very beginning, and they've been providing "synopsis" type of results for over a decade.
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by bdamm 1y ago
We didn't seem to mind when Google was doing it back in 1999, or Lycos, Altavista, etc before them... why do we care about the LLM companies doing it now?
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by bdamm 1y ago
Object permanence is a huge thing, which is why Tesla made a big deal about it being deployed in the stack three or four years ago.
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by bdamm 1y ago
It is now sort of common for embedded chips to generate on-die encryption keys for external processes (flash) and there could even be a one-time encryption key for the ROM (pushed to the on-die ROM and then wiped from manufacturing). Encryp
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by bdamm 1y ago
I've seen it do this as well. Odd things like swapping the severity level on log statements that had nothing to do with the task. Very careful review of my commits is the only way forward, for a long time.
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by bdamm 1y ago
The flagged comment was in the present, and is now in the past, thankfully.

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