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by blagie 3y ago
Research? I'm not. Physics? I can tell you it's far from permanent. You have charge stored surrounded by insulator. You quantum tunnel it in. Over time, it leaks out. Anecdotally, I've had plenty fail. All else being equal, h
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by blagie 3y ago
There's also a question of timescales. * Cookie-cutter designs mean better safety and reliability in the short-term. We learn a lot about those designs, have volume to optimize them, etc. However, innovation stagnates. * Diverse design
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by blagie 3y ago
I agree, and I disagree. Personally, I'd like a variety of cars on the road. Right now, the industry has converged on about a half-dozen types of cars: SUV, sedan, pickup truck with an oversized cab, sub-compact, (rapidly disappearing)
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by blagie 3y ago
I do have something along those lines right now, if a little bit more ad-hoc. I'm pretty aware of my needs. It's not the point. I enjoy my life the way it is. I like having things I made, and I like my (less-than-well-paid-but-mea
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by blagie 3y ago
Thank you. That's very likely very perfect as a starting point. My experience with most of these sorts of things is that they're horrible as and-products, but that's not how I use them. The basic flow: - Buy it - Put in a big
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by blagie 3y ago
If you look at the rate of change of humanity, it's been exponentially increasing. If you look at the direction, it's not predictable. A very different set of things will come to pass. A child born today will live O(100 years), an
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by blagie 3y ago
It isn't. It isn't. It isn't. It is. We have no idea where that point is. It's worth comparing to where we were a century ago. That's where my kid will be when he's grown up compared to now.
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by blagie 3y ago
> You can very much be slapped by the judge and/or the ABA for doing that. You can. The bar is very, very high. It's adequate to have a fig leaf of plausibility. > In Federal court, this is governed by Federal Rule of Civil
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by blagie 3y ago
> Photoshop is one of the best pieces of software, period. FWIW, painting is one of the easiest pieces of software to get right. As much as I couldn't replicate the volume of stuff Adobe has done in 30+ years, I could build the bone
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by blagie 3y ago
I don't think that's a correct analysis. Adobe is very good at building software. It's not the problem. It's not that Adobe can't compete with Figma. It's that they don't want to. Adobe has a great enginee
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by blagie 3y ago
Speaking as an engineer, this is an essential feature. From AMD's language, and common sense, the thoughts on this impacting warranty are misguided. I suspect this is a normal feature designed for debugging. If I am AMD, and I e.g. rec
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by blagie 3y ago
I'm not sure the world is always divided into clean points; I just figured the data would be interesting. I've spent a lot of time in a lot of places (including several from that list), and I'm not sure what conclusions I&#x2
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by blagie 3y ago
> ABA needs to deal out swift punishment as one of the protectors of that system. This is part of the legal system. It shouldn't be, but it is. If you can toss a hundred issues the other party has to refute, you drive up legal costs
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by blagie 3y ago
Quite often, higher-profit higher-margin businesses are more robust. If you have a 1% margin, and costs increase by 2%, you're bleeding money. If you have a 50% profit margin, you're not sensitive to small (or even medium) fluctua
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by blagie 3y ago
First place on a web search in... Shanghai: https://www.smartshanghai.com/housing/apartments-rent/156977... $1200. Delhi: https://bnnbreaking.com/world/india/navigating-the-maze-of-b...
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by blagie 3y ago
For a multiplication, I can work out any problem, and I have a sense of what it will do under any circumstance. > Are you saying that you need to have developed high level descriptions of the behavior of a system in order to feel you und
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by blagie 3y ago
No, I posted a much more specific theory above with a disclaimer. Here, none was necessary, since I wasn't going out on a limb. I also do know enough people who work at Amazon to know that many of their SWEs despise their employer. Rep
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by blagie 3y ago
I agree a discussion is unwarranted. Your comment is a personal attack with no substance. (For reference, AWS was founded in 2002, and took some time before it made any sort of dent in much of anything.)
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by blagie 3y ago
I actually don't think so. A few points: (1) We are in an era of massive investments, much more so than when Amazon started. The billion dollar plus fundraising round is increasingly common over time. (2) An entrant does not need to op
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by blagie 3y ago
Thank you! I haven't used it much, but that was my first impression. It's good to see it confirmed.
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by blagie 3y ago
Amazon was losing money for nearly the first decade of its existence. It was a bit of a laughing stock among the traditional business community: "Lose money on every sale, but make it up in volume!" The loses were considered astro
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by blagie 3y ago
Not ≈5 years. Three years and 9 months. Amazon's retail division was broken by Covid and will probably never fix itself. I have no inside knowledge, but I suspect what happened is a bunch of crooks were hired during the massive hiring
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by blagie 3y ago
Amazon's market cap soared when profits were negative. Amazon was building up reputation, logistics, and customer relations. As far as I can tell, they've been torching all of that long-term value for about the past three years. T
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by blagie 3y ago
You pay less. I did the math on other sellers versus Amazon, factoring in cost of dealing with fraud@Amazon. Paying a little bit more sticker is much cheaper than getting cheated once in a while.
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by blagie 3y ago
I don't think this saves Amazon money. They have a huge problem with internal, for lack of a better word, corruptions. * Packing people who don't care if high-value items are broken * Delivery people who fake deliveries and steal
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by blagie 3y ago
Thank you! As relevant to Godot, most of my work is with kids (as relevant here on both ends -- teaching kids to code, and making educational activities). I haven't used either Godot or Unity much, and was trying to decide. For a varie
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by blagie 3y ago
Personally, I see the opposite trend: decreased differences in salary and cost-of-living. As developing countries develop, they'll look more and more like the US. Put another way: Since WWII, we've been moving from US engineers (u
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by blagie 3y ago
Serious / non-leading / non-rhetorical question: What are the gaps?
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by blagie 3y ago
I have no insider information, and I know little about this transaction. However, I have done COSS business models before. This sort of thing is ridiculously easy to monetize. You can look at Red Hat, MongoDB, and many other platforms to se

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