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by bsder 6mo ago
This is cool. However, the TI MSPM0 series are also shooting squarely in this range. Yes, they are about 2x the same price and are ARM instead of RISC-V. However, in return you get analog peripherals that have some hope of not sucking, act
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by bsder 6mo ago
> How many actually contributed back to keep it going? Or why not hire the guy ?! Seriously. Is nobody using this at a level where hiring the primary maintainer is a good idea?
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by bsder 6mo ago
> Well maybe we could just inject amyloid into a person’s brain. Erm, we kinda did? People who got cadaver-derived human growth hormone from Alzheimer's patients got Alzheimer's. https://www.nature.com/articles
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by bsder 6mo ago
> Optimized for minimum cost with zero margin for surge. On paper, efficient. In practice, one bad day away from collapse. I'm going to steal that one and add it to Stross': "Efficiency is the reciprocal of resilience.&quo
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by bsder 6mo ago
> People with mutations in those genes got a particular type of inherited alzheimers early, this says nothing about the cause of general Alzheimers. This is completely analogous to claiming that people with mutations in BRCA (which cause
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by bsder 6mo ago
<edit> My mistake. Responded to a bot but can't delete now. Sorry. <edit>
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by bsder 6mo ago
There is a LOT of causal data. Autopsies of brains of Alzheimer's patients were rife with amyloid. People with mutations that caused amyloid got Alzheimer's earlier than others. The hypothesis didn't come from nowhere. To
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by bsder 6mo ago
The Amyloid hypothesis persisted for so long because we didn't have any obvious counterarguments since it is so hard to do studies on the brain. Which also means that it's not a bad hypothesis . What happened is we got the tools
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by bsder 6mo ago
A PCR machine is a lot like a lathe or a milling machine. The price of the machine is absolutely dwarfed by the tooling and consumables.
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by bsder 6mo ago
> Reaching up from keyboard/trackpad to touch the screen quickly gets fatiguing. It is not ergonomic. "Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee." -- Yahtzee Crowshaw We figured out that l
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by bsder 6mo ago
It has nothing to do with price. I don't check luggage on domestic flights because of the enormous time lag for the airport to give me back my luggage. (There's also "United Breaks Guitars", but that's an independ
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by bsder 6mo ago
> Though I do think we should distinguish between compiled and interpreted GC languages, as often there is a significant gap in performance, that can be wanted or appreciated. Sure, that is tautologically true. However, I maintain that t
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by bsder 6mo ago
Proebsting's Law: Compiler Advances Double Computing Power Every 18 Years You need to implement very few optimizations to get the vast majority of compiler improvements. Many of the papers about this suggest that we would be better off
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by bsder 6mo ago
> But I also accept that that choice means there's an upper limit to how fast my compiler will. Don't buy it. A decent OCaml version of a C or Zig compiler would almost certainly not be 10x slower. And it would be significantl
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by bsder 6mo ago
Until he gets laid off and now is in a complete panic because he MUST make that mortgage payment. I have watched this scenario dissolve marriages over and over among my friends. You cannot assume your job is stable for 15 years nowada
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by bsder 6mo ago
People viscerally feel the disdain from the monopolies giving you the "What are you gonna do? Switch to a competitor? BWHAHAHAHA! Good luck, plebe." And it makes them angry. For all intents and purposes, every single supply
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by bsder 6mo ago
The "inflation basket" keeps getting rejiggled to hide things. Rent as percentage of income is up. Groceries as percentage of income is up. Medical insurance as percentage of income is up. etc. People aren't stupid. They
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by bsder 6mo ago
I know of 4 companies that are already starting to stomp down on the AI whales using the "$1000 per day". There was the cost of the entire AI usage of the company and then there was the cost of about a half-dozen people who dwarf
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by bsder 6mo ago
It's the Carly Fiorina playbook. Welcome back to the TeleBomb! Lucent sends their regards.
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by bsder 6mo ago
I suspect lower demand was more likely (although more supply never hurts). San Diego has a ton of contractors dependent upon the federal government. I imagine the shenanigans of the current administration caused a bunch of them to pack i
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by bsder 6mo ago
Got any good pointers to documentation for making the transition? I'd like to pull the trigger for OpenCode and OpenRouter as well.
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by bsder 6mo ago
Until magically all their demand vaporizes. I suspect a lot of people are like me. They got into this at the $20/month level individually to check things out. I'm not stressing things out, so I haven't moved up, but the m
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by bsder 6mo ago
Well, interactivity was solved by OnlyFans, no? And OnlyFans seems to butcher video quality pretty badly yet it doesn't seem to dissuade people very much.
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by bsder 6mo ago
Porn tech usage is driven by solving some problem from the previous generation. Videotape solved the "can't watch film porn at home" problem. Online payments and delivery solved the "need to risk going to the store to b
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by bsder 6mo ago
I also seem to remember that Betamax made it far more difficult to get equipment and tapes in order to produce pornography. That conceded a big chunk of early adopters to VHS.
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by bsder 6mo ago
> There is nothing stopping you from building an old-fashioned single-pass compiler, if compile time is your only concern. The code it generates just wouldn't be very good. Define "very good". The very simplest optimizatio
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by bsder 6mo ago
> Had V6 launched five years earlier V4 would probably be dead. Not a chance. IPv6 ate way more memory than IPv4 and memory was expensive back in 1995. Even IPv4 proliferation was chewing up memory and that was why the IETF introduce
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by bsder 6mo ago
> I'm only barely familiar with it so I ask this in good faith: is it really ingenious or is it just more permissive? Let's start from the glaring problem: The purpose of the US zoning system was institutionalized racism to ke
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by bsder 6mo ago
1) 20 minutes is barely enough time to get into flow. 2) There are different levels of debugging. Are your eyes going to glaze over searching volumes of logs for the needle in a haystack with awk/grep/find? Fire up the LLM immed
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by bsder 6mo ago
In my opinion, the problem with PEDS isn't adults taking them if they would just admit to taking them . The problem is with adolescents taking them. Adolescent boys see a really nice immediate payoff for taking PEDS (better musculatu

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