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by bsder 1y ago
Do not forgive them. We already have a description for them: "A bunch of mindless jerks who'll be the first against the wall when the revolution comes."
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by bsder 1y ago
We have all these superpowered AI vibe coders, and yet open source projects still have vast backlogs of open issues. Things that make you go "Hmmmmmm."
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by bsder 1y ago
> Maybe the tariff could encourage local manufacturing of solar? That's what tariffs do ... if you leave them in place for extended periods of time. The problem is that nobody is going to bet their business on what the tariffs will
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by bsder 1y ago
And why can Netflix ignore everybody who doesn't have a bona fide Google or Apple phone? Because the number of non-Google and non-Apple phones is a rounding error. And why is that? Because, except for the incumbents, it is almost impo
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by bsder 1y ago
You don't need to allow completely unrestricted access to the network. However, there needs to be a process with a defined cost to certify your hardware. The cost can be expensive and time consuming but it needs to be known and publ
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by bsder 1y ago
The primary problem is that we can't build a phone and run it on a cellular carrier network. This is where legislation is needed. Apple and Google are still a problem, but they are a secondary problem.
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by bsder 1y ago
1) Excess calorie consumption has only been true since about 1990. Up until that point, average heights were still increasing, so that meant that a significant chunk of the population were still undernourished. We are only about one gener
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by bsder 1y ago
> It’s a bit puzzling because there’s Chinese companies like Retroid and AYN pumping out Snapdragon 8 Gen 2/3 There is no path from "I made a cellular phone" to "I can place calls" that doesn't involve tens
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by bsder 1y ago
Your statement tells me precisely nothing. From my, admittedly uninformed, position, AI training requires big memory and enough processing units to keep the bandwidth to that memory fully utilized--things which Power should be very good a
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by bsder 1y ago
Is there some technical limitation as to why IBM Power systems aren't leading the charge with AI? Or are the people using them just keeping really quiet that they have a superpower and not letting anybody know? It seems like these sys
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by bsder 1y ago
> Itanium was a flop from bad business decisions IIRC. Itanium was a flop from a technical standpoint but not from a business one. Intel spent roughly a gigabuck and effectively scared every competitor out the pool except for IBM and AMD
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by bsder 1y ago
Or, perhaps, make it easier to run your stuff on a big machine over -> there. It doesn't have to be the cloud, but having a couple of ginormous machines in a rack where the fans can run at jet engine levels seems like a no-brainer.
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by bsder 1y ago
He's gouging via stick. No breathing apparatus. https://youtu.be/NZf-fTK7q7E?t=253
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by bsder 1y ago
Erm: https://youtu.be/NZf-fTK7q7E?t=592 Sure, he has eye and ear protection. But he's just inhaling the dust from that stuff. Even worse, he's using old school stick welding that's actually been banned in
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by bsder 1y ago
So, your hands have no oil or dirt on them after working a welding shift? Wow, I'd love to take a tour of your workplace. Even if you've got protection on, you still get exposed little by little. If someone is welding next to yo
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by bsder 1y ago
> Not for welding What? Where? All the welding jobs I have ever known were terrible for your body. Between the exposure to high UV, all the bits of toxic crap that you are breathing/ingesting, and the noise from heavy machinery
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by bsder 1y ago
Here's what look like some real numbers: https://ibew11.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/Residential-wa... Those rates are nothing to sneeze at, but the work is often hard work out in the beating sun
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by bsder 1y ago
Is there a way to use Fastmail such that you run a receive email server but use Fastmail to send? I don't mind running an email server for receive. I despise all the hoops you have to jump through for send deliverability.
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by bsder 1y ago
> That's a bit unfair to the modern compilers It's really not. Proebsting's Law applies. Given that, compilers/languages should be optimized for programmer productivity first and code speed second.
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by bsder 1y ago
The problem with traffic cameras in the US was that they became outsourced revenue enhancement rather than public safety. The cameras would get installed at busy intersections with lots of minor infractions to collect fines on rather than
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by bsder 1y ago
> A requirement to start re-testing normal people in addition to the elderly would be a large benefit to society. 1) Are you going to fund that? Because it means a significant increase in testing examiners. 2) The data say over and over
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by bsder 1y ago
> Courts (at least in the US) have already ruled that use of ingested data for training is transformative. If you have code that happens to be identical to some else's code or implements someone's proprietary algorithm, you&#x2
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by bsder 1y ago
> About half of us are shocked and revolted by pretty much everything he says and does. I'd put that at less than 1/3, actually. The problem is that there is a good third of the US that seems to be completely oblivious that bad
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by bsder 1y ago
Quoting one of the studies: "The Employment Effects of a Guaranteed Income: Experimental Evidence from Two U.S. States" by Vivalt, et al. https://evavivalt.com/wp-content/uploads/Vivalt-et-al.-ORUS-... &
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by bsder 1y ago
> But also, at some point we plan to port Zed to run in a web browser, and will likely build on WebGPU, where WGSL is the native shading language. Except that everything has effectively converged to HLSL (via Slang which is effectively H
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by bsder 1y ago
The police can hunt down car thieves which they don't get much money from. Or police can hunt down low-level marijuana offenders which they can extract money from over and over and over. Which one do you think is going to get voted
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by bsder 1y ago
> How is it impossible to track down a thief? It's not. If an expensive supercar is stolen, the police forces somehow find it really quickly . The problem is that police forces are there to protect the property of the aristocracy
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by bsder 1y ago
> A big reason why others did not have power is because those that did did not reduce their consumption by much. First, that was the big manufacturers. ERCOT couldn't force big companies off the grid, and they didn't go off gr
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by bsder 1y ago
> Yeah, not everyone is mitchellh -- I'd argue that his intuition was right (expecting to find more issues), there's a reason we don't all write C. I'd argue this is also down to the debug memory allocators in Zig whi
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by bsder 1y ago
Perhaps what this is pointing out is that a lot of writers of the genre of "fantasy" produce mostly formulaic, trope-laden piles of crap that AI is pretty good at mimicking? This is neither new nor news. "The Well-Tempered P

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