cameldrv

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by cameldrv 1y ago
Probably so. I don't know enough about the politics at that time though.
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by cameldrv 1y ago
You're right about the Civil Rights act, I had misremembered. However Kennedy met with MLK and proposed the Civil Rights act. Blaming "business executives" is unhelpful as an explanation because "business executives&quo
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by cameldrv 1y ago
There was a similar circular effect in the dot com boom around ads. VCs poured money into startups, which put the money into ads on Yahoo and other properties. Yahoo was getting huge revenue from the ads, which pumped up the stock price.
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by cameldrv 1y ago
It’s a different coalition now though. The FDR Democrats were labor focused. Then the 60s happened. The New Left student movements reoriented away from labor and towards racial/gender/sexual equality, and Kennedy signed the Civ
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by cameldrv 1y ago
If you're hiring and firing you'd better get the data into ADP ASAP or you're going to be paying people who no longer work for you or not paying people who do. This should be about as close to real-time (neither leading or l
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by cameldrv 1y ago
It’s not clear to me that on balance highway driving is easier. The physics of a Semi going 65 mph are more relatively constrained. You can’t just solve all of your problems by slamming on the brakes like you almost can in city traffic.
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by cameldrv 1y ago
If you're counting all desktop/server computers, Linux has way more market share than all of the Unices ever did. It's probably even true for desktop Linux. If you count mobile phones, Android is a Linux derivative, and iOS
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by cameldrv 1y ago
The DEC Alpha actually did provide very good performance, and you could even run Windows NT on it. As far as I can tell, the biggest problem was just that Alpha systems were very expensive, and so they had a limited customer base. There w
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by cameldrv 1y ago
Yeah the biggest idea was essentially to do the scheduling of instructions upfront in the compiler instead of dynamically at runtime. By doing this, you can save a ton of die area for control and put it into functional units doing math etc
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by cameldrv 1y ago
Gambling is evil. We’ve known that in this country for hundreds of years and that’s why it’s been illegal. Gambling on smartphones is the most evil type of gambling yet invented. The only reason it’s been legalized is that it’s very prof
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by cameldrv 1y ago
Also even if you don’t want to get rear ended. You can at least do moderate braking and hit the debris at a slower speed. Humans make these sorts of split second tradeoffs all the time on the highway.
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by cameldrv 1y ago
It’s a lot easier to make an AI that highly reliably identifies dangerous road debris if it can see the appearance and the 3D shape of it. There’s a fair bit of debris out there that just looks really weird because it’s the mangled and bro
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by cameldrv 1y ago
No way. I call in road debris on the freeway once every couple of months. People swerve around it and if it’s congested, people swerving around it create a significant hazard.
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by cameldrv 1y ago
In recent history, most all of the rabies cases in the U.S. have been from infections acquired in other countries. The fact that there are outbreaks at all is concerning and suggestive of an immunity tipping point being approached.
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by cameldrv 1y ago
In my experience, if you know a few people who are doing the same thing, that’s a sign of a trend. Jeff Bezos has this great quote: When the data and the anecdotes disagree, the anecdotes are usually right. I’ve also found that to be true
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by cameldrv 1y ago
One thing that frustrates me about air quality is that we have sensors for various types of gasses, but when it comes to particulates, the sensors are just telling you the size. The composition of the particle has to make a huge difference
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by cameldrv 1y ago
They also screwed up cmd-shift-g a few versions ago where if you type, say, /Users/me/Documents, it puts you in /Users/me. Now you have to put in /Users/me/Documents/ if you actually want that f
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by cameldrv 1y ago
I recently found out, after getting a big surprise bill, that you can sort of comparison shop now, at least with my insurer. They have a “Treatment cost estimator”, which I’ve found to be pretty accurate, and the price differences from one
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by cameldrv 1y ago
The problem is that due to the nature of democracy, people expect to be bailed out if there is a huge disaster. If you don’t want to pay another claim, you need to make demolishing the house and rezoning the land a condition of paying the
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by cameldrv 1y ago
This is because very few people have even an extremely rough understanding of the difficulties our nation (and world) are facing. This is an very difficult situation for a democracy. When people are confused about important matters, the m
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by cameldrv 1y ago
You don't really ever have "two sensors" in the sense that it's two measurements. You have multiple measurements from each sensor every second. Then you accumulate that information over time to get a reliable picture.
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by cameldrv 1y ago
When I first started using computers, they were a tool like a hammer. You buy the hammer, and it sits in your toolbox until you need to use it, then you use it and put it away. You are always in total control of the hammer and it does not
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by cameldrv 1y ago
IMO their original product simply shows less and less meaningful content every year. Originally you'd go to facebook because "I want to see what are my friends up to." Now it's "I want to waste my life by watching
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by cameldrv 1y ago
Yes, Elon is probably playing fast and loose with the rules, but his 150MW of turbines are right next to the TVA's 1100MW of turbines and a steel mill. Not surprising given that it's a heavy industrial area, it's about 4 mil
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by cameldrv 1y ago
I've been thinking of setting up a TrueNAS system to do Time Machine and home assistant... Can you elaborate on these issues?
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by cameldrv 1y ago
I think that the difficulty for Intel is that they don't seem to attract the best talent anymore like they did 20 years ago. A big part of the job of running a leading edge fab is solving a lot of very tricky technical problems, and a
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by cameldrv 1y ago
The costs for solar and batteries have come down a whole lot since ~10 years ago during the energiewende. IMO solar is the cost leader in areas where there is decent sun. The U.S. has a lot better sun than Germany.
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by cameldrv 1y ago
Their intentions sort of don't matter. The food company and the grocery store are businesses, and the idea that a business should exist for anything except profit has become less fashionable. In any case, there are enough business ow
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by cameldrv 1y ago
We will see. One thing with AI is that access to data/APIs is key. There’s been a long term trend where services are locking down their APIs so that you can only interact with them through their native UI, either phone or web, someti
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by cameldrv 1y ago
Guess what. China is making nuclear reactors and jet engines now. It’s the absolute classic Clayton Christensen situation with countries instead of companies. The incumbent retreats upmarket until they have ceded the entire thing.

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