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by briandw 4mo ago
I don't know about the CFD, but I really enjoyed reading this blog back in my iOS days. Friday Q&A was especially good. He would take some part of Obj-C or Cocoa and build a simple version from scratch.
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by briandw 4mo ago
Most of the arguments here feel like gate keeping and resistance to change. I didn't see any arguments that were directly about advancing the state of knowledge of math. “Current automated techniques can produce plausible but unreliabl
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Blue Origin's New Glenn explodes durning static fire(youtube.com)
2 points by briandw 5mo ago|1 comments
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by briandw 5mo ago
No human baseline to compare it to. Without that you are missing an important check on the task being poorly constructed. More importantly there is an implied reference thats missing. The implication is that people would have done better, o
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by briandw 5mo ago
Water hogging? Show me the data. This is a lie that the socialist continue to peddle. It’s a very sticky idea completely resistant to facts. Data-centers use 48m gallons a day in the USA. Total water consumption is 322 billion a day. So 0.0
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by briandw 5mo ago
https://candid.org/blogs/key-facts-figures-and-trends-among-...
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by briandw 5mo ago
Because they don't have a fleet of millions of people labeling the data for them and paying for the privilege of doing so. Waymo has about 3700 vehicles. Tesla has millions. Waymo only operates in known environments and collects a very
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by briandw 5mo ago
This is an adversarial process. Unions exist to fight employers. Unions spend about 23 billion a year in total. Only spending 1.5B to defend against 23B looks like a bargain.
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by briandw 5mo ago
This is a style over substance argument. At least I understand what the project is really about now. Honestly the choice here is either poorly written english or AI writing. For a technical doc like this, Ill take the AI
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by briandw 5mo ago
Very fun, I enjoyed seeing what it would react to.
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by briandw 5mo ago
We just bought the Neo for our daughter to use at school. My biggest concern was the trackpad. This is the first MacBook to not use a force touch trackpad since they were introduced. I must say that the new trackpad is really good. It'
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by briandw 5mo ago
I truly do not understand the fixation with hydrogen as a fuel. Compressing H2 to store it requires around half of the total energy that you can expect to get from its final application. Add in production losses and the difficulty in storag
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by briandw 5mo ago
This is clearly a government power grab, not a corporate one.
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by briandw 5mo ago
In this paper AutoCodeBench https://arxiv.org/pdf/2508.09101 LLMs seemed to do best on the strongly typed and functional language Elixir. This is surprising since there isn't very much training data. However the
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by briandw 5mo ago
This is zero sum thinking. The foreign companies benefit and the local Polish people benefit. Wealth is created in the process and everyone benefits. What if those companies never came and never employed Polish people? Would Poland be any b
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by briandw 5mo ago
Same here. I used to listen to techno and could just disappear into the work. Those days are gone now.
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by briandw 6mo ago
Ok how about golf courses? This AI is evil look at the water use, is obvious propaganda. It makes no sense to call out data center water use when something that’s purely an optional recreational use consumes 25 times the amount.
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by briandw 6mo ago
You are claiming that this is anti train and pro car conspiracy. Counter ponint : the SF Bay_Bridge cost 6.5 Billion, but was originally budgeted at 200 Million. The US can't build anything efficiently. It's due to the massive mis
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by briandw 6mo ago
Your employer can claim your code if you use their tools to produce it. Nothing new here. This has nothing to do with AI tooling.
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by briandw 6mo ago
You assume that there is a balance point. There is an unlimited demand for healthcare. Additionally the more money you give to a failing system, the worse it gets. It’s a positive feedback loop.
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by briandw 6mo ago
It’s also cheaper to euthanize people rather than treat them. It’s just logical.
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by briandw 6mo ago
No mention of battery life? I guess it depends on the software that you run. But it would be nice to have a benchmark for how long it would last in normal watch mode.
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by briandw 6mo ago
Switzerland is even more regional than the US. Yet they seem to have built an excellent rail system.
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by briandw 6mo ago
The article is fine, but I wanted to call this out. "Every database you have ever used reads and writes to the filesystem, exactly like your code does when it calls open()." Technically not true. Applications like SQLite use mmap
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by briandw 6mo ago
Good! Now let's do civil asset forfeiture.
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by briandw 6mo ago
This dude can seem to tell the difference between Newsgroups and Mailing Lists. Also described Newsgroups as being displayed in a particular font. What a weird mistake. It's almost like he doesn't care about the details. The artic
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by briandw 7mo ago
Maybe don’t bother to post then?
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by briandw 7mo ago
The sensibility of a policy and the power dynamics of it’s application are orthogonal.
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by briandw 7mo ago
Old guy here. The Apple ][+ didn't make the list! It was the first computer that I used and the product that launched the company.
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by briandw 7mo ago
I would have thought all the fungus had long ago traveled around the world? Don’t they move easily on the wind or on items shipped from place to place.

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