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by chongli 9mo ago
Flat bottom woks need a lot more oil to stir fry properly, due to the lack of pooling. Flat bottom woks on electric cooktops (radiant or induction) also tend to have essentially nonexistent heating of the side slopes, preventing you from us
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by chongli 9mo ago
Heat pumps do not do well when it's -40 outside. You can say "fine, but how often does it get that cold?" but consumers are not going to be happy with a heat pump if their pipes freeze during an extended cold snap. I live in
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by chongli 9mo ago
That diversification is a bit of a smoke-screen though. The most popular index funds are cap-weighted. This causes the allocation of capital within the fund to become increasingly dominated by those few winner-take-all companies. When index
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by chongli 9mo ago
It’s the same business model as consulting firms. Rather than hiring a few people for 65k each, a VP will bring in a consulting firm for 10M and get a bloated, half-working solution that costs even more to get working. The VP doesn’t care t
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by chongli 9mo ago
If the business can get rid of their engineers, then why can't the user get rid of the business providing the software? A lot of businesses are the only users of their own software. They write and use software in-house in order to ac
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by chongli 9mo ago
Having knowledge isn't the same as knowing. I can hold a stack of physics papers in my hand but that doesn't make me a physics professor. LLMs possess and can retrieve knowledge but they don't understand it, and when people t
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by chongli 10mo ago
I love all of these stories of writing new software for Classic Macs. There is something really special about maintaining the usefulness of an old tool that most people have forgotten. Farmers who restore and run vintage tractors know this
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by chongli 10mo ago
Here “much of” is doing the heavy lifting. Are you willing to commit to a percentage or a range? I work at an insurance company and I can’t see AI replacing even 10% of the employees here. Too much of what we do is locked up in decades-old
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by chongli 10mo ago
You're still being stimulated by the act of the barber cutting your hair. Sitting in a chair doing nothing alone in a silent room is a different story.
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by chongli 10mo ago
Discord isn’t just used for tech support forums and discussions. There are loads of completely private communities on there. Discord opening up API access for LLM vendors to train on people’s private conversations is a gross violation of pr
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by chongli 10mo ago
My point is that you don't control what network the dishwasher is on, the manufacturer does. The dishwasher connects to its own cellular network so that you cannot block any of its ads or prevent it from spying on you.
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by chongli 10mo ago
I think you're muddling things up more than they need to be. A peer-to-peer game is one in which players connect directly to each other but neither is the host and there is no dedicated server. Game state is maintained separately on ea
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by chongli 10mo ago
If you can run your own server then that's still a central server. That still lets a community of people work with a central authority. It's just a different authority from the game's publisher.
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by chongli 10mo ago
Don't put words into my mouth! I never said I didn't care about peer to peer networking and peer to peer gaming. I said it sucks if your only option to avoid cheating is to play with friends. If you only care about gaming with fri
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by chongli 10mo ago
If your dishwasher has a 5G antenna + modem built-in and connects to the manufacturer’s own wireless account then your router doesn’t enter the picture. The dishwasher can happily serve you ads and conduct routine surveillance all day long
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by chongli 10mo ago
Central servers are useful for more than just NAT hole-punching. They’re also great as a centralized database of records and statistics as well as a host for anti-cheating services and community standards enforcement. Peer to Peer games wit
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by chongli 10mo ago
They could design the fuel tank to be symmetrical about the axis parallel to the car’s axels. This would let it be flipped during installation at the factory to have the refueling port facing either side. Then the only difference would be t
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by chongli 10mo ago
I don't have much faith in Firefox saving us, given its organizational turnover and cultural issues. I have much more faith in a new entrant, like Ladybird. I should be able to use Ladybird on iOS. Why not?
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by chongli 10mo ago
My favourite in the series was Exile 3: Ruined World. It had all the elements I was talking about. I would give the 2nd remake of that one (Avernum 3: Ruined World) a try!
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by chongli 10mo ago
Check out the games by Jeff Vogel [1] of Spiderweb Software [2]. His games may not be pretty to look at but they feature worlds that are full of life and rich with detail. Monsters attack and damage towns, destroy buildings, leave citizens
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by chongli 10mo ago
What about IO? Just because I have a statically allocated program with a fixed amount of memory doesn’t mean I can’t do IO. My fixed memory can just be a cache / scratchpad and the unlimited tape can work via IO (disk, network, etc).
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by chongli 10mo ago
I’m confused. How is a program that uses static allocation not Turing complete?
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by chongli 10mo ago
I'd like to call back to yesterday's discussion on IP law [1] sparked by recent comments from Rob Pike. There was a major thread on the issue of regulatory regimes and the dysfunction that can arise. How is this acquisition not a
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by chongli 10mo ago
People who find an edge and actually make a lot of money aren’t really gamblers though, they’re hackers. The bets they’re placing are guaranteed to pay out as long as their edge is maintained. They often retire after the edge is discovered
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by chongli 10mo ago
Since my friends gamble on sports and I enjoy sports a lot I’ve placed a few bets here and there. I don’t find it addictive at all. My sense of loss aversion must be just too high for it or something. Every time I lost a bet I wanted to uni
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by chongli 10mo ago
It isn't though. The argument is that regulations are necessary to rein in big companies like Apple. But if regulations created the monster in the first place, it's not a good argument in favour of regulations. A proper laissez-fa
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by chongli 10mo ago
which is what we're seeing with Apple Apple is the result of a broad class of regulations: IP laws. Would Apple even exist without IP laws? I doubt it.
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by chongli 10mo ago
Modifications can be licensed differently but that takes extra work. If I release a project with the MIT license at the top of each file and you download my project and make a 1-line change which you then redistribute, you need to explici
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by chongli 10mo ago
No, it’s source available but not open source. Open source requires at minimum the license to distribute modified copies. Popular open source licenses such as MIT [1] take this further: The above copyright notice and this permission notice
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by chongli 10mo ago
It was on me, that's why I stopped using Arch. I wanted a computer, a tool for getting work done, not a hobby to tinker with.

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