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by bwanab 3y ago
There's a good chance EVs aren't the best long run solution. But, right now, we don't need long run, we need immediate, short term solutions to the problem that we've got right now which is the need to keep people employ
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by bwanab 3y ago
That's true. Nobody supports civil forfeiture until the moment a politician realizes there's hay to be made from claiming that they support police efforts to prevent crime.
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by bwanab 3y ago
As a saxophone player myself, I highly recommend Matt Stohrer's work. It is full of useful information about the instrument and maintaining it. They are finicky instruments that need a lot of attention. I'd go to him all the time,
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by bwanab 3y ago
Totally agree. I have a list of to-read books that will last more than my lifetime and I keep adding to it - with stuff I know I want to read. What possible value would recommendations be for me? I have found that I learn a lot about the bo
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by bwanab 3y ago
So, why are those cars unsafe? As far as I can tell, it's only because other people drive monster cars which is the whole point of this thread. If most people were in smaller cars, then smaller cars wouldn't be unsafe.
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by bwanab 3y ago
I agree. I've started avoiding almost any headline with the phrase "this X ..." where you've got to click to see what X is. Almost invariably, the headline could have easily specified what X was but then you might know y
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by bwanab 3y ago
I love on-demand, but I'll never stop listening to Radio Paradise - at least while Bill is still around. They've got better taste in music than I can ever come up with.
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by bwanab 3y ago
I wonder why this was downvoted. That's exactly what my impression was, too.
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Ask HN: Successful Startup founders. Do they have families?
16 points by bwanab 3y ago|21 comments
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by bwanab 3y ago
That's clever, but probably too clever for the 99% of people who don't even know what a BIOS is. You've got to wonder why Dell wouldn't do that kind of front end work themselves.
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by bwanab 3y ago
My son bought a Dell XPS for exactly that reason. After 1.5 years, the battery life was at 50%. He called Dell support and they said it was normal. He's now in the market for a MacBook Air M2.
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by bwanab 3y ago
It's a good start. Now let's start on some of the excess TVA dams.
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by bwanab 3y ago
For every instance of bad robotaxi driving given, I feel like I see humans do the same kinds of things almost every time I go out in my car.
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by bwanab 3y ago
Mountains == isolation. I grew up in a mountainous region where the ridges separate the valleys. If your friend lived a mile away, it might take 20 miles of driving to get there because of the separation. I wonder if they've measured t
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by bwanab 3y ago
Same as it is in javascript, python and julia: 0.30000000000000004, but I fear I'm stepping into quicksand by answering.
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by bwanab 3y ago
Very much why I write my front ends in Elm. It might be a PIA, but it shields me from quirks like this.
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by bwanab 3y ago
One might rationally ask if all colleges should offer all things for all people. I know they don't strictly do this, but I think there is more overlap in functions than there should be. When looking at colleges for my kids, I was impre
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by bwanab 3y ago
I would add: 4. We need plausible deniability in case something goes really wrong with the choices we've made so let's hire consultants to validate our decisions.
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by bwanab 3y ago
I understand that there's a lot not to like in Musk, but I'm a confirmed compartmentalist and in the compartment of "Created an electric car industry where nothing previously existed, and given a 10 year head start, did it op
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by bwanab 3y ago
I started coding in the 70s when C first came out. Conflating arrays and pointers was, to me at the time, a huge win. I agree it was a mistake in the long run, but given the state of the art at the time, it gave so much power to the high le
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by bwanab 3y ago
How can you fix it when so much production software depends on that behaviour?
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by bwanab 3y ago
It is being overlooked that one of the big impediments to CORBA was the literal cost of license from the vendors. They all wanted to make big bucks. It kind of reminds me of the early days of LISP and smalltalk. Venders were more interested
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by bwanab 3y ago
One of the editions of True Grit has a fabulous afterword written by Donna Tartt.
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by bwanab 3y ago
Likewise, at least 20 years and I didn't even notice this one.
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by bwanab 3y ago
The real answer to that is one should always take control when in any kind of tricky situation. I use autopilot all the time, but I don't trust it to do the right thing when the right thing isn't obvious.
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by bwanab 3y ago
Windows NT was designed by Dave Cutler who also designed VMS. And, I agree, for many things it is a very nicely designed system and doesn't deserve a lot of hate. But, what I said about developing software stands: I'd much rather
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by bwanab 3y ago
What's an existing example of a non-'half-backed' OS? I personally liked VMS for concurrency, but for dealing with code and coding there was no contest that Unix was far better. I think the reality is they're all half-ba
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by bwanab 3y ago
Being an oldie, I have occasional colonoscopies in which I've always been anesthetized. My most recent one was a couple of years back. I'm not sure what happened, but during the procedure (after evidently going under), I was fully
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by bwanab 3y ago
Wouldn't the cost of fuel cells come down, as happened with PV, once they are mass produced? Or, is there some inherent high cost to them?
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by bwanab 3y ago
The trouble with that logic is that there's a huge correlation between happiness ( https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/happiest-... ) and GDP per capita.

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