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by bsder 1y ago
The problem is that you don't generally destroy the used car in order to build a new one. So increasing the new cars on the road eventually also increases the number of used cars on the road.
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by bsder 1y ago
Everything you said is completely orthogonal to my statement: "It's quite a lot easier to sell a huge monetary upgrade on something oversubscribed rather than a huge monetary outlay that may be a complete white elephant." A
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by bsder 1y ago
> and retrofitting all 30+ deep underground stations to be larger would be an insanely expensive and disruptive exercise. But before this you had no idea that there was so much demand, right? It's quite a lot easier to sell a huge m
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by bsder 1y ago
Yeah. Don't forget that the connector company is spelled Assmann. Two N's. Do not forget one of those N's when the CEO, CTO and VP of procurement are looking over your shoulder.
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by bsder 1y ago
> However the solutions are absolutely useless for anyone else but the implementer. Disposable code is where AI shines . AI generating the boilerplate code for an obtuse build system? Yes, please. AI generating an animation? Ganbatte
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by bsder 1y ago
> GenX and millennials were marinated in anti-establishment, anti-institution rhetoric growing up. Would that were true and they were fighting against the system right now... They were marinated in "Both sides are bad(tm)! The Syst
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by bsder 1y ago
Except that the LSP is now trapped in amber and cannot be evolved because it requires the agreement of Microsoft to change.
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by bsder 1y ago
> I am sure they will dare not. I think Visa/MC very much would dare. Valve isn't ready for this battle ... yet. I imagine they are girding for it, though. It simply wasn't a feasible battle until probably this year. F
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by bsder 1y ago
"Drug-Resistant E. coli Bacteremia Transmitted by Fecal Microbiota Transplant" https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa1910437
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by bsder 1y ago
> But deer are pretty?! Deer are simply tall, disease-carrying vermin--basically rats with long legs. They eat everything. They multiply like bloody rabbits. They host a ton of diseases--especially when overpopulated (effectively every
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by bsder 1y ago
The problem with self-medication is that it doesn't get coverage when it doesn't work. And it rarely gets coverage when it makes things worse. Faecal transplants have been tried. And we know that it works sometimes. The problem
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by bsder 1y ago
> Why isn't there a decently done code editor with VSCode level features but none of the spyware garbage? Because no other company was willing to spend enough money to reach critical mass other than Microsoft. VSCode became the dom
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by bsder 1y ago
The price of VSCode is the lockin on the proprietary extensions. Specifically: the remote code extension, the C/C++ extension and the Python extension.
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by bsder 1y ago
> In the traditional model of concurrent programming using threads, there is no clean way to do cancellation. The only solution is the one being complained about--for a thread to voluntarily check if it needs to be cancelled. Java depr
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by bsder 1y ago
>And then, maybe, you've invented YouTube. SUPER unlikely. Everybody forgets that YouTube was a massive money loser that was floated by VC money. Had Google not bought YouTube, it was doomed.
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by bsder 1y ago
This is precisely it. Consuming a bunch of calories is super easy and quick. That tiny snack bag of chips that you can scarf down in three bites in less than a minute? Yep, 200 calories. Burning that 200 calories off? Basically a 30-60 m
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by bsder 1y ago
It's not like C++ users don't say the exact same thing about String, though. The problem is that String really isn't a language primitive. Different people and programs always have a different notion of what a String should d
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by bsder 1y ago
You can have a tag so pattern matching can discriminate. You can have new function parameters. You can append to the end of a data structure. All of these would nominally be considered a type signature failure.
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by bsder 1y ago
One of the problems with strict typing is that it makes it very difficult to hot upgrade a function to a different signature. Erlang OTP relies on being able to swap to new functions to do upgrades without downtime.
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by bsder 1y ago
The issue is the framing: "men have privilege". The problem is the vast majority of men have very, very little privilege . Most of them are oppressed by the men who do have privilege just like everybody else. Telling the vast
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by bsder 1y ago
Please be very careful using these things, they can request remarkable amounts of power and "safety" is in your hands. A good example: all of the Chinese datasheets show a single switch transistor. If you happen to have more vo
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by bsder 1y ago
If that's all, that's a really good bargain. A 20% premium for one of the pillars of a modern economy to both repatriate engineering knowledge as well as be significantly less threatenable by your primary geopolitical enemy woul
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by bsder 1y ago
> Ignoring the strawman at the end Oh, no. You don't get to ignore my actual experience with people and Covid vaccines. I watched 3 different anti-vaxxers in my family die begging for a vaccine while doctors struggled to save
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by bsder 1y ago
> It makes more sense for c++ due to templates, but the header only C library trend is indeed very strange. This is a symptom of the build tools ecosystem for C and C++ being an absolute dumpster fire (looking at you CMake).
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by bsder 1y ago
> But people who disagree with you are obviously irrational and can't be reasoned with. You are saying this with sarcasm, but it is a tautology. If I am factually correct, by definition , everyone who disagrees with me is irratio
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by bsder 1y ago
> The open secret to EV ownership is to buy after the lease. How do you dig into this responsibly? I really don't want to be buying a new car right now as the ICE ones all seem to be expensive trash but the EVs are changing so quick
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by bsder 1y ago
> The question is, does that prevent something worse from breaking? That doesn't matter if it means, for example, that my new mixer can't actually mix bread dough on a higher speed anymore (citing this as it's actually a f
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by bsder 1y ago
> Strip out the DRM Um, you just hit why HDMI sucks. You have a "default broken" state that is required by the standard . Look, every single interface could have been an evolution of Ethernet (and mostly ARE --HDMI and USB
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by bsder 1y ago
> What's urgently needed is payment neutrality, like net neutrality. I thought the EU was working on digital cash? What is the status of that?
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by bsder 1y ago
> It seems like people are missing the fact that it's opt-in from the police to the consumer. There is no such thing short of a physical switch. To believe otherwise is the absolute height of naïveté.

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