bitmasher9

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by bitmasher9 2y ago
This is a classic mapping problem
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by bitmasher9 2y ago
I think “quarterly profits” is a perfectly acceptable answer to the question “why now.”
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by bitmasher9 2y ago
While I agree I was influenced by confirmation bias to recall an anecdote that supports the blog’s argument, I don’t think it’s very meaningful to call out. It’s most important to consider confirmation bias if you are being overly supporti
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by bitmasher9 2y ago
Sometimes people leave because their ambition is larger than the environment allows. I have a story of when I did just that. Early in my career I joined a company and I knew from day one that it was going to be an awful experience. I knew
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by bitmasher9 2y ago
What would an observer see? It’s plausible that they would see an attack from an uninhabited solar system but not be able to find the home location of the attacker.
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by bitmasher9 2y ago
Send an agent to an uninhabited star system and launch the rocks from there. Everyone that can see would see the energy expenditures, but they would get very little information other than the knowledge that a stealth based hostile civiliza
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by bitmasher9 2y ago
I think 2.5” magnetic storage is basically obsolete. If I care about the most storage per dollar I’ll get the full sized discs. If I care about portability then I by definition also care about things such as read/write time, reliabil
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by bitmasher9 2y ago
Last domain? Maybe not, but it could be among one of the last. I think heavy loads, cross country, and extremely rural are likely to be among the holdouts.
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by bitmasher9 3y ago
To me both sound plausible (that the process was added, and that it’s a fabricated story). Either way we will never know, and ultimately it’s Tesla’s responsibility to make sure the accelerator pedal doesn’t get suck in the on position due
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by bitmasher9 3y ago
I also think it’s interesting to build more concise language around how speed/gravity impacts time. It might be nice to assume a central reference point such as London and say “This probe experienced 1000 days, but 1010 days passed in
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by bitmasher9 3y ago
README files is the first thing I read in any source code repository. I’m noticing a trend of less useful readmes in projects. Often they are bare or provide outdated and incorrect information. This makes the introduction to the source c
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by bitmasher9 3y ago
There is more money in having Nintendo be happy to support iPhone platform with games than having them feel insulted over a low revenue app that is also on the platform.
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by bitmasher9 3y ago
Who is FT for, compared to other premium news outlets in the United States? In the recent years I’ve been shopping around a news subscription, trying to avoid clickbait and thought bubbles. I don’t think I understand their target audience,
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by bitmasher9 3y ago
I use KDE because it’s stable, has every feature I want, and uses existing metaphors I am familiar with. In my circle of Linux users, a lot of the people that choose KDE do so because they don’t find the desktop layer interesting to hack on
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by bitmasher9 3y ago
What percentage of the population would need to be impacted before a tech failure is relevant on a technical news site?
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by bitmasher9 3y ago
Honestly LLMs aren’t ready for customer service. If I’m talking to a company I need to have a high degree of accuracy. LLMs are less accurate than trained humans.
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by bitmasher9 3y ago
Most tech companies shut down or slow down for 1-2weeks around Christmas. Imagine coming back to an empty Slack.
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by bitmasher9 3y ago
1. I think the infrastructure costs is probably more than you think. It’s probably the single biggest line item. They have to encode every video stream to multiple formats, and then deliver it globally. 2. The core product is pretty matur
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by bitmasher9 3y ago
Sega’s market advantage was that the hardware R&D was mostly paid for by their very successful arcade business (they still have major success here) and they made reduced costs versions of arcade hardware and sold them as home consoles.
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by bitmasher9 3y ago
I use microSDs for offline backups. Every Friday I zip my home folder and copy it onto one of two rotating 1TB SSD. One SSD stays at the house, another at my office, so I always have a fairly recent offsite backup. Using 1TB as my backup s