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by chongli 1y ago
The cable can still be a fire hazard if it’s a cheap cable that lies about its rated wattage, no?
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by chongli 1y ago
It's really funny to me as well. All this effort put into low level performance seems like picking up pennies in front of a steamroller. The operating system (and core business software such as Office) is overflowing with bloat that ab
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by chongli 1y ago
They did pass on a lot of value to consumers. They used their profits to grow, build Gmail, buy and grow YouTube, build Android. Just running Google as-is without ads would have produced less value in the long run. Plus the SEO tide (which
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by chongli 1y ago
And that actually happens in real life. Most of the projects care to begin with because they use their own stuff and don't want to ruin their own battery life or have a competitive disadvantage over the alternative. Sure, they try no
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by chongli 1y ago
You’re right that it’s “a hundred different pieces each doing it right” but you gloss over the disadvantage of decentralization: getting everybody on board with the project. With a centralized product (such as at Apple) the CEO can say “I w
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by chongli 1y ago
That's a hardware issue.
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by chongli 1y ago
Timer coalescing, idle wakeup minimization, race-to-idle optimization, etc. It's not a single oversight, it's a massive project that needs to be carried out throughout an operating system. Linux's usual advantage of decentral
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by chongli 1y ago
I would be really surprised if any physical calculator used binary floating point numbers instead of binary-coded decimal. The appearance of repeating bits even for relatively simple decimal numbers like 0.1 is likely to confuse and annoy a
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by chongli 1y ago
You don’t need a runtime for dependent types. After type checking the types get erased during compilation.
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by chongli 1y ago
What I don’t get is why they pushed the compositor onto WM developers in the first place. Compositing seems like way too low level of a task for a window manager to be concerned with.
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by chongli 1y ago
I’ve heard the same thing about Wayland and NVidia’s drivers. To me, it seems like Wayland was designed to push all the hard work onto everybody else. That way Wayland never gets blamed for anything!
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by chongli 1y ago
I’m talking about creators I subscribe to. I don’t want the most prolific creators to dominate over the ones who post rarely among my subscriptions. I subscribe to creators to bookmark them and keep an eye on them, not to let them open thei
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by chongli 1y ago
Red Queen Race scenario is already in effect for a lot of businesses, especially video games. GenAI making it easier to make games will ultimately make it harder to succeed in games, not easier. We’re already at a point where the market is
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by chongli 1y ago
You say that, but then you probably won’t like it when it happens. Some creators post way more than others. Low frequency posters tend to get swept away by the current. Some of my favourite YouTube channels post very infrequently (one video
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by chongli 1y ago
If only one party is able to reason about and withdraw from an arrangement, the other party is being used. This is our relationship with all other life on earth. We use plants, fungi, bacteria, and animals to survive. We've invaded e
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by chongli 1y ago
Ethnicity is way too coarse-grained to answer questions about culture and family wealth/connections. That’s lumping together a kid from an old-money family in New Haven with a kid from a trailer park in Virginia.
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by chongli 1y ago
Sweden has the highest proportion of single-parent households at 34% whereas Poland is near the bottom at 9% [1]. [1] https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/-/e...
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by chongli 1y ago
We're in the minority. The iPhone Minis did not sell well. I think women especially do not want a small phone because they carry it in a purse anyway (and slap a case on it with an extra handle to make it easier to hold).
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by chongli 1y ago
Sure, if the place paid everyone a lot and had much higher staff:child ratios then everything would be great. Except it would cost an absolute fortune for parents thus even less viable under a government program. Government programs almost
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by chongli 1y ago
I appreciate your optimism but I’m skeptical. I dated someone who worked in child care (with a degree in ECE). She was quite miserable caring for a dozen screaming babies all day. I think the burnout and turnover for such a job (which requi
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by chongli 1y ago
If you need consumer protection laws then clearly reputation isn’t worth much. The issue with reputation is that society has grown so large and impersonal that we’re constantly facing interactions with unknown people.
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by chongli 1y ago
This might actually support Apple's side of the argument, although I do not. I don't think we need some Carfax equivalent for MacBooks. In some ways, Apple's scheme is better than Carfax. In other ways, it's worse. It&
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by chongli 1y ago
That still seems like a big waste of time. Having a postal worker walk door to door throughout a large building takes way longer than having them fill up the mailboxes in a single mailroom on the ground floor. I wouldn’t be surprised if it
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by chongli 1y ago
I'm Canadian so I can't speak to the issues surrounding the USPS. However, in Canada we remain in the midst of a long work-to-rule strike by the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) against Canada Post (CP). The biggest issue i
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by chongli 1y ago
Canadian here. I have no plans to visit the US for the foreseeable future. This is upsetting to me since I have multiple long-term friends who live there that I'd like to visit. I don't feel safe so I'm not going!
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by chongli 1y ago
Gotta control for age. Even if air pollution is a major cause of dementia, the disease takes decades to appear. Utah has the highest birth rate and therefore the youngest population of the 50 states (median age 31.5 years). Florida is not t
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by chongli 1y ago
The answer is simple: the set of weights and biases comprise a mathematical function which has been specifically built to approximate the training set. The methods of building such a function are very old and well-known (from calculus). The
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by chongli 1y ago
Racism and tribalism were still present when we socialized more as a society. We still did all of the bad things. It’s just that we also socialized and formed kinships and families and institutions. We were connected in a social web. Now we
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by chongli 1y ago
I use iNaturalist. I do not make monetary donations. I use their tools to make observations and contribute them to the open data set. How am I a free-rider? Without the data contributions from the community, all that money buys you is a bun
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by chongli 1y ago
A little bit disappointed that there was no mention of the Frame Problem [1], a major challenge with world models. The issue arises when you're building an AI agent with the ability to move through and act in the real world, updating i

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