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by bruce511 3mo ago
Oh I agree. The US is not doing the same thing as China at all. China is spending its money developing manufacturing of goods the world wants. It has targeted markets and the govt is spending money in those markets. The markets they have ch
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I don't know what it's like in Scandinavia, but here, as an employer, I would see it as a positive. Something you can use as a differentiator when interviewing. Recent graduates often underestimate what really matters to employers
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I'm not sure I agree. In the aircraft industry especially the US has strongly pushed for exports. Overseas programs (TRS2, Avro Arrow) were terminated for political reasons (and replaced with F111 etc). More recently see F35 impact. Th
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Arms, weapons, fighter jets and so on. The US sounds a trillion $ a year subsidizing the military industrial complex. The US chose their market (arms). The Chinese chose consumer goods. Go figure.
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I think "why" is a good question. And frankly for 99.9% of people the answer is "no reason". One has to differentiate between "computers as a tool" and "creating computers". I drive a car. It's g
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There definitely were machines in (larger) businesses before the personal computers of the 80s, but the scales are different. There were around 650 000 PDP machines produced. By contrast Commodore 64 made over 12.5 million. VIC 20 another 1
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There was this era in the late 70's and early 80's where this story is ubiquitous. And while we are all in our 50s or later now, it's interesting that we were essentially the "first generation". When I went to work
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Marketing is the hard part. Ideas are trivial. Code is easy (and now with AI trivial.) Most humans do the easy part first. It's the most fun. Lots of people can play a guitar. Only a tiny fraction market enough to make any money. If yo
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In SQLite the max int is 64 bit. So a rather large number (about 9 billion billion, aka 19 digits). That's a lot of rows to add. I would suggest if you are storing that much data, SQLite may not be the correct engine. (And you probably
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I agree. In the long run some AI providers will be "greener" than others. Once AI becomes a commodity this is the sort of thing that will become a differentiating factor when consumers choose one over the other.
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Neither the power, nor cooling, requirements are necessarily environmentally harmful. As always ymmv. First water; there are plenty of places on the planet where water is bountiful. If you site a data center well (say on a big lake in a rai
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Using this quirk allows for "hiding" data in the database. Because data after the nul is more-or-less invisible to generic dbBrowser type programs. If you suspect it is happening you can read it (by casting the SELECT as a BLOB,
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by bruce511 3mo ago
>> you delete an entity and it's unique ID gets reused? Is that a good idea? That's default behavior, but it can be altered when creating a table. See; https://sqlite.org/autoinc.html
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Sure, a battery isn't available to everyone. But I is available for many. One would have to do the math, cost of battery versus 24kw free daily. But clearly for lots of people the math will work. A side effect of policies like this is
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by bruce511 3mo ago
Ahh, so the 30c rate is locked in for everyone? So they've basically price-shifted the elec so it follows production cost better? Even if you're not home I'm thinking there are a number of ways to make use of the free elec. H
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by bruce511 3mo ago
Can you elaborate on the higher elec prices for the benefit of those of us not in Aus? Is that because of the smart meter requirement?
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by bruce511 3mo ago
From the article; this applies to NSW, South Australia and part of Queensland. So yeah, not universal yet. But the precedent means it's moving in that direction. If WA homes end up producing lots of solar at midday then this opens the
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Who decides who should be included or excluded from the statistics? The govt? In this era of open hostility to institutions that won't toe the line? Who are looking for ways to punish what they don't like? Or perhaps the college?
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>> i think it's clear in retrospect that most of the interventions in the face of the pandemic were based on profit and scant science Lock-downs weren't in the service of profit. The vast majority of businesses, big and smal
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Indeed. Equally the person who has 4 Years experience in the workplace probably does better than a first year grad. In other words, when trying to measure value outcomes, what time period should one consider? And does the rule apply at the
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Lots of people will take any treatment offered. Indeed I would. That's a perfectly acceptable approach. Yes, medical treatments are improving and hanging on is a good approach cause something may be around the corner. I don't thin
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It's much more complicated than that. >> If an undergraduate program's graduates don't earn more than workers who never went to college, Lots of things affect earnings. Obviously education is one of them, but it's
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Why does the US feel this way, while (it seems to me) most other places don't? I've been traveling a bit lately, and (again, it seems to me) that the US is trapped by "exceptionalism". They are the self-proclaimed best a
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Came here to say the same. I use DNS-Challenge rather than HTTP-challenge, and that makes internal servers trivial. You need a DNS provider which supports API calls (I use DNSimple) but the core is all very straightforward. To prevent havin
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Naming is hard. The name needs to be long enough to make the variable meaningful, but not longer. I have encountered a programmer (in the corporate space) who bought into the "longer name" concept, to the point where he started co
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Well done for doing some market research before rushing off to code. This is far more sensible than coding first and wondering later. To answer your question, no. I read a lot and frankly I've never wanted to discuss anything with an a
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The reason I think it is hard in the US is because there is a very strong "work or die" ethic in the US. Everything is driven by money. Even basic things like healthcare are driven by money. Your life after retirement is determine
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BI does not stop people doing meaningful things. Society will (mostly) reward things which add value. We have a very efficient system for that, and it doesn't go away under BI. We are already spending massive amounts of money on diseas
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I too think Basic Income is a necessity. I don't think it can happen in the US (for cultural reasons) but I think elsewhere it can work. (And indeed in many places it kinda, sorta, already does). >> That would enable the authors,
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A good marketing partner will tell you what to build. 100% of success is building the right thing and being able to reach the market . Unfortunately, of course, there are lots of bad marketing folk out there. I've lost count of the

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