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by bsder 6mo ago
> CA has the 2nd highest electricity cost in the country. No where in the article do they mention cost savings, nor end-to-end carbon footprint savings. And diesel is approaching $8 per gallon. So ... First, trucking inside the port has
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by bsder 7mo ago
> alternative agent harnesses that are vastly better than Claude Code? Okay, that got my attention. What harnesses are those?
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by bsder 7mo ago
> Tell me you have zero clue what a monopoly is or what the law is, without telling me. Monopoly law is subject to reinterpretation over time and anybody who has studied the history of it knows this. The only people argue for "stri
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by bsder 7mo ago
Then you are blind. It has already happened. Look at commute length. When families had a maximum of one car, you simply couldn't live very far from work. As soon as you got two cars per family, commute times and traffic exploded .
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by bsder 7mo ago
The TI PRUs demonstrate that what you need for hard real time is 2 processors and the ability to completely transfer your register file in a single clock cycle instruction. This lets your first processor be deterministic hard real time wh
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by bsder 7mo ago
> I'm genuinely confused at what the value prop of Oracle is. Legal blame transfer. Oracle has every single compliance checkbox you need for any certification you can name. So, if your end customer (generally BigCorp or BigGovt) wan
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by bsder 7mo ago
> So much of what drives chart success is what is in fashion at the time. Trend setting will always be the domain of youngsters. I would suggest it's more the demands of poverty that make it a young person's game. So, so, so
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by bsder 7mo ago
> So even if you sign that clause you are not bound by it. Jimmy John's was making its low-level employees sign non-competes, for example. This was ridiculous on its face, and probably wouldn't hold up in court. However, the
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by bsder 7mo ago
The fact that KiCad still has a ton of highly upvoted missing features and the fact that FreeCAD still hasn't solved the topological renumbering problem are existence proofs to the contrary.
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by bsder 7mo ago
> certain ideas get ossified. That's fine in math. Math is true or it is not. People who overturn popular conjectures in math get fame, not approbation. Being able to prove things in something like Lean means that stuff like Moc
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by bsder 7mo ago
Don't blame this one on programming techies. This one is ALL the fault of shitty UI designers abusing modal dialog boxes. A modal dialog is supposed to be for something damn near irreversible--like about to blow away your applicatio
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by bsder 7mo ago
Revoke corporate charters. Prevent and break up consolidation. All corporate entities require a registration to operate in a state if they have a physical presence. In this instance, you can also pass a law along the lines of "After s
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by bsder 7mo ago
There is a HUGE difference between being bred to hunt vs bred to fight. It is disingenuous of you to conflate the two categories. Most dogs bred to hunt are bred to not excessively damage the animal being hunted. A hunted animal is of n
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by bsder 7mo ago
> Ressources can be diverted at a much quicker rate with a lot more agility. That's completely incorrect. Covid demonstrated that. We have optimized so strongly for profit (outsource everything, just in time inventory, etc.) that w
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by bsder 7mo ago
> Meta has to know that millenials and younger are giving up on their platforms, they have endless internal data showing it, right? If that were true, they would be going somewhere and that somewhere would be visible. The last "
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by bsder 7mo ago
> I think the internet has "GitHub Derangement Syndrome" right now. It's an outlet for people's frustration. I would argue that the open source people aren't the only ones paying attention right now. If you are h
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by bsder 7mo ago
> get people who own them to be responsible. Because getting people to be responsible has worked as a solution for anything ... <checks notes> Ah. Exactly ... Never . This is a breed that should be allowed to die out. They were
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by bsder 7mo ago
> Thus it makes sense to not participate at all, unless YOU are the one doing the cheating. Um, exactly? You don't have a legal system to hold the companies accountable for any payout. You don't have published odds with a regu
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by bsder 7mo ago
> Are pit bulls known for being docile? Not really. Even "old school" working catch dogs in this breed may require a break stick to get the dog to release game. In addition, the dogs are strong . And that's really the c
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by bsder 7mo ago
Katalin Karikó and her work on mRNA: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Katalin_Karik%C3%B3 Her advisor, Suhadolnik, was a gigantic asshole and paid no price whatsoever for it. University of Pennsylvania demoted her and de
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by bsder 7mo ago
> As someone who values a liberal society, I hope we’d be exceedingly careful in what we label “addictive” in the same bucket as oxy or nicotine. The problem is that this runs directly into the evidence that is mounting from GLP-1 agonis
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by bsder 7mo ago
> Getting access to architecture details of the TI PRU would necessitate an NDA, would it not? Nope. All the information is right in the publicly available architecture manuals. However, you don't need to copy the PRUs, per se. A
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by bsder 7mo ago
> i am recommending to my kids that they avoid post-secondary Certainly I'd avoid an expensive standard university to start unless they have an obvious path. I'd recommend the local community college for 2 years to get an Asso
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by bsder 7mo ago
Emulating the RPI PIOs instead of the TI PRUs is really a miss. The PRUs really get a bunch right. Very specifically, the ability to broadside dump the ENTIRE register file in a single cycle from one PRU to the other is gigantic. It&#x2
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by bsder 7mo ago
Ah, that makes more sense. Although, a bunch of LLM researchers basically saying with their actions "Don't judge me with an LLM" is particularly ironic. Doubly so when caught using the LLM for the task they, themselves, want
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by bsder 7mo ago
> You don't have to shutdown agriculture elsewhere, and it is a vital part of california's economy, that's just a lazy solution. Agribusiness is under 2% of the California economy and an even smaller employer. You could w
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by bsder 7mo ago
> I'm wondering why california isn't investing in more desalination for SoCal, especially for LA. Because California has plenty of water for residents. What California doesn't have is plenty of water for agribusiness. And
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by bsder 7mo ago
> It needs to be a good long term investment No, it needs to be roughly zero sum but only over very long timescales. Anything else is a disaster. If housing is a "good investment", it attracts rampant speculation and concent
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by bsder 7mo ago
In yet another great cosmic irony, one of the things that is notorious for making it difficult for a woman to get pregnant is the stress of trying to get pregnant . Placebo or not, anything which reduces the stress of the mother-to-be can
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by bsder 7mo ago
What was the upside to making the "No LLM" declaration? I don't personally use LLMs for this kind of stuff, but I'll certainly not sign a "No LLM" pledge unless you give me some kind of benefit.

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