benj111

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by benj111 2y ago
My first observation is that the differences between a Dev Phone 1 and a phone 5 years later, is not the same as the differences between a phone of today and 5 years ago. The industry has matured, changes are much smaller. Second, I'm
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by benj111 2y ago
1. The article outright states that hes not pissed at Apple for 'only' supporting the phone for 6 years. I read that criticism as aimed at the software developers withdrawing support for older OS versions. I read the article more
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by benj111 2y ago
why don't you just treat it as being x years free?
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by benj111 2y ago
Well this is conceptually a tax on marginal electricity use. you'd also have to pair it with a commitment to making IC use more expensive than marginal electricity use.
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by benj111 2y ago
I'm sure thats what they say you're paying for. I suspect you're just paying a monopoly tax.
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by benj111 2y ago
I'd go slightly further. A rich author can retire, and not write any more books. From an encouraging creativity POV, copyright length should be set at about the amount of time it takes to create a followup. But, as open source software
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by benj111 2y ago
I'd say less than 5 years. I'm not sure its even the relevant question. What length of time does a film studio, or book publisher look at for payback? If everyones calculating their return on the first 12 months, setting copyright
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by benj111 2y ago
Interesting. I'm against long term copyright, because things become part of the 'cultural canon' Why should I pay George Lucas because I want to say "use the force luke"* 'Cultural Canon' shouldn't be
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by benj111 2y ago
I fail to understand the problem. Assuming some nominal or zero starting fee. The author can choose to sell his rights at the beginning, or can choose to keep the rights. If x years later, the renewal comes up and isn't worth it, then
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by benj111 2y ago
Back fees? So I use a 4 year old work, that I assume is public domain, and then the creator, pays his back fees and sues me? alternatively, a creator creates a work, gets 5 years of protection, and never pays the fees that he owes.
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by benj111 2y ago
Surely the point of copyright is to allow a person to have sole rights to commercialise a thing before it goes to the public domain. If so, if they havent done that in the first 10/15 years, why should they get an extra 10/15 year
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by benj111 2y ago
My current favourite pet policy (UK) is to introduce a zero rate tax band on energy, to help those least well off, and have a higher band beyond some average consumption. You encourage people to use less, and also tax things such as EVs tha
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by benj111 2y ago
>What you are saying means it is not homoiconic any longer. If you print out the parsed representation of lisp code, you get back the same lisp code. If you print out the parsed representation of this whitespace code, you get back the li
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by benj111 2y ago
(foo (bar (baz 1))) is equivalent to foo bar baz 1 Its still homoiconic they can still, and in the case of the linked project, probably are turned into the exact same data structure. I get your objection insofar as whats the poi
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by benj111 2y ago
>If we assume 670 GW of solar generation capacity was installed in June Was installed /as of/ June. (sorry I was double checking your workings and got confused) Assuming the figures aren't typos. 1) What is counted as gene
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by benj111 2y ago
I seem to recall reading somewhere that 'everything' is a thermometer, on the basis that many things behave differently at different temperatures. You can also use an LED as a light sensor. and I also came across a YT vid of a con
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by benj111 2y ago
What was the patent for? I remember seeing an old aluminium bike in the Manchester industrial museum This is from 1896 https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co84092... And theres this https://
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by benj111 2y ago
Rpis proposition has always been support rather than value per se. If you want cheaper, yes there are other options. If you want something where a mainline kernel will work, and has a community, Pis are a much better choice.
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by benj111 2y ago
Yes and the parent was talking about an american companys forums, which I think is logically flawed.
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by benj111 2y ago
>Classic Pi Foundation pricing gymnastics To be fair, theyve dropped the 1GB model, so do you want to compare old and new lowest specs? I don't know about relative sales figures, I infer that 8GB is expected to be the default going
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by benj111 2y ago
I think you're talking past each other. A central bank doesn't directly set interest rates for your mortgage. It can set rates at which it will lend to other banks, which in turn influences the rates banks will offer to mortgage b
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by benj111 2y ago
Theres not much about the forums that makes it Y combinator specific. Unless youre talking more broadly, in which case this is the internet. Do Tik Tok videos have to assume everyone is Chinese?
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by benj111 2y ago
No, well 1980s Manchester isn't modern day $prosperous city. Further, I suspect a run down '10 servant' Victorian Villa could house more people in bedsits, than the replacement apartments, so in effect youre complaining that
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by benj111 2y ago
It is and its in the dictionary Adjective boobless 1. (slang) Without boobs (breasts). https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/boobless Which also includes an audio pronunciation, which should be invaluable to all teenage boys.
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by benj111 2y ago
> It's sad to see people lament the demise of the "hacker spirit" on one hand, while denying their kids access to the devices necessary for that spirit to thrive on the other. When I was young devices weren't connecte
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by benj111 2y ago
So what would parents suggest? I'm 40, so got a phone at 17. I had rubbish internet in my teens, and anyway, didn't really 'discover' it. So I've never grew up in the connected world. My eldest is now 7. It seems to
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by benj111 2y ago
Not in the UK either. My assumption for the first 30+ years of my life, after watching US films was that it was something akin to walking while looking suspicious. I find the differing conceptions of 'freedom' interesting. The US
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by benj111 2y ago
Ah ok, that would (also) make sense. I read "greater than 100% of the original battery's capacity from the same materials" and put the emphasis on 'capacity'. English is hard.
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by benj111 2y ago
I don't have a problem with the age thing. I would say: A) Numbers in instruction set extensions tend to indicate the bit width, thus my confusion. B) If you do later want to introduce wider instructions, its going to be confusing. C)
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by benj111 2y ago
I would say a module is the entire battery system, or at minimum a standardised self contained unit with battery balancing/cooling built in. So I would say between 1 and 5 modules in a car, depending on context.

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