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by bgirard 3y ago
For me, I ended up with the MFC-L3770CDW because there was a big sale on it, not from any particular research.
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by bgirard 3y ago
I followed this advice and it's been great. I have a $350 laser Brother printer, my iPhone can find the printer without fiddling with drivers, it wakes up, print, goes back to sleep. Works fine even if I go months without printing. Aft
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by bgirard 3y ago
The carbon footprint of an LLM writing a ton of useless corporate email is much lower than the all in footprint of employees writing these useless emails themselves.
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by bgirard 3y ago
You can't prove something by example, you can only show that the pattern holds for the examples that you've checked.
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by bgirard 3y ago
> Tesla's system requires less supervision than other manufacturers. > I need to remain mindful of the system at all times > and it really will function autonomously To me this is a contraction. It's said to be both auton
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by bgirard 3y ago
> FSD The F here stands for 'full' here but... > I need to remain mindful of the system at all times It sounds like it should really be called supervised self driving (SSD) to me. I think the technology is interesting but I
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by bgirard 3y ago
Yea, I don't get the significance of $33T. It's a monotonically increasing number these days.
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by bgirard 3y ago
> the leadership at Unity does not agree with you. I'm interested in how the courts would rule on it. I can't imagine courts siding with an agreement change, without consideration for the other party, and applying to games deve
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by bgirard 3y ago
It took Amazon several years to migrate away from Oracle: https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/aws/migration-complete-amazons-...
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by bgirard 3y ago
IANAL but it doesn't pass the sniff test. You can't provide a module to a software, change terms retroactively and request to be paid $10b per install for old versions of the software and bankrupting all your customers. That'
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by bgirard 3y ago
The people making the death threats don't present the party of indie developers as a whole.
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by bgirard 3y ago
Yes totally. That calculator will yield different results for different number for different people. The conclusion for MY numbers is that I was too obsessed about it but from what I hear the general public is not putting enough effort into
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by bgirard 3y ago
Honestly just balancing the Life in WLB a lot more heavily. I think quitting work is too extreme for my situation and not beneficial if your friends are working. For me it means work less extra hours, not getting upset over set back at work
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by bgirard 3y ago
'Rich, Broke, or Dead' made me realize that I was more likely to die early into retirement then I was to run out of money. In my case that made me realize that I'm not using my 30s effectively. I really like this visualizatio
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by bgirard 3y ago
I really like most of the hardware buttons. But when I need to make adjustments to the map with CarPlay, the wheel control just takes too much attention with driving. "How many rotations, ohh to far too, okay zoom out, ohh okay reset t
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by bgirard 3y ago
> That's why I said that's not an option. >> but I'd argue it's still the right call and will rarely make the situation worse. That statement confused me. I don't understand your position then.
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by bgirard 3y ago
I think this is an artifact of HN's voting system. Most readers probably don't have enough karma to even downvote. For the ones that do, guideline discourage downvoting for comments that you disagree with. And I can see why the ma
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by bgirard 3y ago
It's not a great analogy. The possible downsides to breaking before a car are slim. The downside to immediately stopping burning fossil fuels are huge including disrupting the global economy, life critical heating/cooling in cold&
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by bgirard 3y ago
Their news services cancels immediately. I think their Arcade as well. Feels kind of like an abuse of their platform to use pro-consumer subscription terms for 3rd party services but not for your own services.
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by bgirard 3y ago
> He said you can rate transport by the number of passengers you can load per hour. That's not really a fair metric. Taking rail requires me to take a bus at each end and increases my journey length considerably. I would be boosting
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by bgirard 3y ago
I've had interviews with startups that will use a quick interview turn around time as a selling feature to close candidates. I've also interviewed at Two Sigma where I was flown in onsite and by the last interview they had already
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by bgirard 3y ago
FWIW When I switched from Android->iPhone, I didn't think much of it. Some stuff was better, some stuff was worse. I didn't 'feel' that much better. Then when I switched back from iPhone->Android (Pixel 4) the chan
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by bgirard 3y ago
Is that $2.0b for network equipment by increasing it's depreciation period by 20%? Meanwhile increasing the deprecation period of servers by 50% only nets $1.0b? I had the impression that servers were vastly more expensive than network
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by bgirard 3y ago
Watch for a Nancy Polosi trade predicting aliens.
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by bgirard 3y ago
> The AI tool doesn't give accurate results. Nearly everything doesn't give 100% accurate results. Even CPUs have had bugs their calculation. You have to use a suitable tool for a suitable job with the correct context while und
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by bgirard 3y ago
> A tool that gives incorrect and inconsistent results shouldn’t have any part of a decision making process. It can be used for some decision (i.e. not critical ones), but it should NOT be used to accused someone of academic misconduct u
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by bgirard 3y ago
Why does swapping out a battery pack cost more than the cost of the car? Seems like a simple maintenance step and I doubt battery packs are sold at below cost in new cars. Do you have a good citation for that? If so that's news to me.
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by bgirard 3y ago
> unless I'm missing something Rounding up I presume
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by bgirard 3y ago
> It might even be that he remains financially well-off (I'm assuming his current role paid well for the last few years). I would say so. From one of the article: > Tessier-Lavigne’s salary at Regeneron in 2014 was $1,764,032, ac
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by bgirard 3y ago
That's correct. I think we should celebrate consumers that refuse to fork out high prices. They put pricing pressures that benefits everyone.

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