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by caycep 11mo ago
without spice the navigators I mean air traffic controller/spirit airlines pilots cannot function
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by caycep 11mo ago
He was realistic in that he thought he'd prob retire before hitting 70...
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by caycep 11mo ago
it's saying a lot about the industry in that even given the above, Apple still has way more art/vision/soul than any other tech company out there...
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by caycep 11mo ago
this is true of a lot of indy films...I remember a talk by this one director, Joe Swanberg, who mentioned a lot of his early movies are in limbo and unwatchable because no one can figure out who has the rights...
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by caycep 11mo ago
this sort of case presentation re manganese brain toxicity pops up from time to time too: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4515672/
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by caycep 11mo ago
It always struck me as a government funded Mad Men agency. Kind of like how InQTel is like a government funded Kleiner Perkins
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by caycep 11mo ago
Granted, I got sick of doing this myself so I ended up happily forking over the money for the local lab to do it on their Macon
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by caycep 11mo ago
Have you seen what the Olsen twins are charging for a sweater?!
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by caycep 11mo ago
the American Akihabara, land of the khaki otakus
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by caycep 11mo ago
can you buy a 5090 FE there though?
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by caycep 11mo ago
On the other hand there's the Fremen Mirage and why the Sardaukar are unrealistic https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-...
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by caycep 11mo ago
All I know about Nextcloud is that HN is full of people complaining about Nextcloud
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by caycep 1y ago
I would say, maybe look at medical studies from the opposite end, epidemiological studies look at factors that reduce mortality/morbidity. Granted, it's less flashy, basically vaccines, alcohol/tobacco reduction, increase in
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by caycep 1y ago
stratechery had an interview w the founder, an interesting Brit but also a Thiel acolyte/investee, for better or worse. Ben also has tended a little too ...uncritical of tech boosterism these days, but I suppose the interview is good
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by caycep 1y ago
like democracy, it's the worst programming language except vs everything else...
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by caycep 1y ago
I mean, I think this is par for the course by anything written by a grad student. Be thankful it's not written in matlab
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by caycep 1y ago
the nice thing about Medicare is that if he was +65 y/o Medicare patient, the hospital is not allowed to do this. If you are an American and under 65 and make too much money to be covered by medicaid, then you are vulnerable... Also
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by caycep 1y ago
at least from whatever's been published, a good chunk of NSA's tools exploit low level firmware bugs like this... also wondering how great my Asrock firmware is vs. say the bog standard Lenovo (i assume Apple is the one company th
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by caycep 1y ago
"healthy" and "ULA" might not go together in the same sentence
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by caycep 1y ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
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by caycep 1y ago
the whole space industry is a joke; if it were healthy, there would be an ecosystem of multiple launch providers vs one finicky government-funded-Elon-company
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by caycep 1y ago
this is true for anyone - create challenges, and you optimize efficiency elsewhere. Also, isn't this the usual path to better computer science? Reducing computation needs by making better/more efficient algorithms? The whole &
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by caycep 1y ago
I'm kind of hoping for more plug and play components like the old days of coach building if EV technology really is more mechanically simple than gas cars. Would love to put the latest/greatest drive train and battery tech into
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by caycep 1y ago
I also wonder if there's a good way to monitor the "social health" of a lot of these projects. Debian seems to be relatively stable, at least from the outside, but how to tell if something is relatively healthy, i.e. say the
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by caycep 1y ago
I wonder how much is due to just scale vs. a Bertrand Serlet vs Craig Federighi culture/management style I personally have no idea but I seem to recall the golden age of open source/unix embrace was under Serlet
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by caycep 1y ago
I think OP meant that economists do consider the prize highly despite the distinction between its particular situation vs. the "core Nobels"
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by caycep 1y ago
this is still TSMC n3p?
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by caycep 1y ago
the old "burn down the restaurant to avoid taxes, build new restaurant under another name" play common here in the San Gabriel valley area...
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by caycep 1y ago
I could have gotten my decades wrong. I just remember not being able to get refunds by default, and then it was a glorious past several years where JetBlue and southwest would automagically refund my tickets back to my credit card.
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by caycep 1y ago
it was worse in the 80's-90's...I guess the past few years of enjoying refunds was not meant to last...

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