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by bhouston 1y ago
Is this realistic? Doesn't the development timelines for a new large rocket stretch into more than a decade? Unless someone else had one under development... Could this just be a pressure tactic on SpaceX?
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by bhouston 1y ago
When a rate of 8% of the US population reporting having a major depressive episode in their lives, there appears to be a correlation between depression and life unfortunately: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics&
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by bhouston 1y ago
FYI, this "New Stuff" is circa 2020: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/08/arts/far-side-gary-larson...
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by bhouston 1y ago
> So what? NPM wasn't originally owned by Microsoft, nor GitHub, but reality moves forward? NPM was a company and it was acquired and it was voluntary. I don't think you can compare it to this situation - this is more of a mes
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by bhouston 1y ago
FB should make it available again. It is a historical record of the conflict as seen by someone experiencing it. To deny it is unfair. I don’t think FB is going around deleting the pages of Israelis killed in this conflict - it seems to
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by bhouston 1y ago
> Let me guess: they censored some leftist content, am I right? It is this video of ICE arresting a prominent news reporter and slamming them into the ground - it isn't clear she is leftist or simply reporting the news: https:&#x2F
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by bhouston 1y ago
> This is, fundamentally, what made TikTok a success. The algorithm optimizes for engagement. This is outside of that optimization because it is outright just removing this content, not even considering it for display.
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TikTok removing posts for violating the "joy of TikTok"(twitter.com)
103 points by bhouston 1y ago|108 comments
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by bhouston 1y ago
I think he is showing the base cpu comparison for the MacMini/MacBooks. There are so many M-series multicore variants it is hard to mention them all.
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by bhouston 1y ago
That is what I understand this was part of the reason behind this, no? Basically DHH had some right wing posts and some people took offence and then Shopify (on whose board DHH serves and whose CEO is a friend of DHH and shares his right le
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by bhouston 1y ago
I have had really good experience with OWC docking stations - rock solid compared to Dell ones I've had in the past: https://www.owc.com/solutions/connectivity I won't recommend my monitor because it has auto
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by bhouston 1y ago
Will the base core count and mix between perf and efficient cores remain the same? That has lead to different scaling factors for the multicore performance than the single core metrics.
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by bhouston 1y ago
It is relevant because Ellison's concept of "best behavior" includes being pro-Israel. And he is in a position to implement this across the properties he now owns including TikTok, and CBS News and possibly more if he also a
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by bhouston 1y ago
It is on topic because Ellison's "best behavior" includes being pro-Israel and it is likely to be implemented on CBS News and TikTok. I think others agree with me based on voting patterns.
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by bhouston 1y ago
I've benchmarked these myself on things like my project's build time on M1, M2 and M3 and I did see similar gains. So I disagree from experience.
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by bhouston 1y ago
I use a MacBook Air 15" has my full stack main development machine. It is just light and portable on the go. At home I just plug it into a docking station with 10 GigE and output to a 48" OLED monitor - a beautiful setup.
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by bhouston 1y ago
Nice. The iPads generally measure around ~8% slower than the MacBooks, I guess for cooling reasons. So we should see approximately a 4400 single core Geekbench score for the MacBook series. This is nice. Single thread MacBook progression
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by bhouston 1y ago
> beyond downplaying the severity of current events. He is definitely calling it "polarizing" and minimizing it. I infer that he is supportive of it then.
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by bhouston 1y ago
> Especially when it comes to something as polarising as Gaza One should expect news sources to report that the main Israeli human rights groups believe it is a genocide, the main international human rights groups believe it is a genocid
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by bhouston 1y ago
> Would his statements be better if he were pro-Gaza or something else? How about he and CBS News and TikTok be neutral and truth seeking rather than being pro-Israel or pro-Palestinian? I would like news organizations to be truth seeki
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by bhouston 1y ago
Larry Ellison is ultra-pro Israel if you didn't know. He and others are pushing for Bari Weiss take a key role at CBS to better "defend Israel": https://nypost.com/2025/09/19/media/shari-re
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by bhouston 1y ago
This is an official AP twitter account. There are no news stores I can find yet. I shorted the title from: "JERUSALEM (AP) — In 'unprecedented operation,' Israeli army takes over mobile phones of Gaza residents to carry Net
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AP: Israel takes over phones of Gaza residents to carry Netanyahu speech live(twitter.com)
15 points by bhouston 1y ago|2 comments
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by bhouston 1y ago
Israel actually had a bunch of rules where Palestinians are not allowed to have 5G or 4G networks to ensure that they can be monitored. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/30/israeli-restri... ht
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by bhouston 1y ago
> I'm confused what this really means. Countries don't store their really secret things in Azure. So what do we think the source of this surveillance was? Why wouldn't countries store secret data in Azure, Google Cloud and
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by bhouston 1y ago
> It would be only just if the Palestinians would get their own state after this. This seems off topic. I will flag it.
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by bhouston 1y ago
> Yes it’s a good thing AND we don’t need to be celebrating companies when they finally do the bare minimum. I think we should give props here. This is an important step forward. Thank you Microsoft! I think we should protest when comp
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by bhouston 1y ago
Good on Microsoft! This is really amazing.
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by bhouston 1y ago
> the intention of targeting vulnerable UN delegates with scams not necessarily to disrupt any cell tower? It would have been so much easier to be closer to the UNGA and then it would be more effective if that was the intent.
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by bhouston 1y ago
Promoting sustainable fertility is good in my books. We need sustainable fertility like we need sustainable environmentalism, and similar things. I strongly believe that low fertility causes immigration backlash because some governments tr

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