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by com2kid 2y ago
I remember how proud I felt to work at Microsoft when that video was unveiled. The company had made something so beautiful, and then done an amazing job showing it to the world. An amazing marketing video in every way that counts, except ap
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> Small anecdote: I visited a GM dealership this week and the salesperson told me Super Cruise was not enabled for test drives. The excuse was pretty weak, like the dealership would have to pay for the service or something. GM might have
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Oops, yeah. MB.
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I've run plenty of microservices with 256 or 512 GB of RAM, and they were handling large loads. So long as each request is short lived, and using a runtime with low per request overhead (e.g. Node), memory is not really a problem for m
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It is also why a lot of people in the fitness industry don't like CrossFit. The rate of injuries is absurdly high. For the longest time (maybe still) CrossFit had very minimal certification requirements for their coaches, so while some
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> You get the idea. From São Paulo to Riga to Seoul, people in the 2020s pretty much dress the same way. This is incorrect. Even within the US there are differences between cities, people in Miami dress differently than people in Seattle
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> No city in the PNW has had anything resembling a conservative anything for many decades. Up until a year or two ago Kirkland had a long standing (and well respected) republican on its city council. Small r republicans used to hold mult
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> So you want to live in what would be an extremely desirable area but also have the cost of living be very low, and feel like you have a high quality of life while you have a tendency to exaggerate the negative aspects of your community
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IMHO Humans will still create the overarching stories, what LLMs will do is help fill in the expensive blanks that make adding stories to a world hard. For example, right now if you save an entire village from an attacking tribe of orcs, on
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by com2kid 2y ago
Medians mean nothing in a society that has a bimodal distribution of wealth. America is full of people who are working a job and a half (with a good chance both are 30hr a week jobs that offer no benefits, and may have "flexible"
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I'm not in the bay area! I'm in Seattle, which used to be the cheap west coast alternative to the bay area! I'm third generation here. Although I'm remote, my wife's job is tied to a location here. We both want to l
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> In Europe (including the UK), we have seen an enormous surge in asylum seekers and they're housed, fed, etc, with tax money. I believe the latest annual figure is around £5bn, which is not insignificant. That number sounds big, bu
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Daycare in my city in the US is around 30k a year. The city just dismantled its gifted program for schools, so if your kid is a high achiever plan on another 40k a year for schooling. Even swim classes have a huge waitlist and are expensive
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by com2kid 2y ago
> This particular article points to housing supply. Again, this is a simple choice. For example, my city of Portland, which is very high on this list, makes it impossible to build anything (tree planting requirements, years long waits fo
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In Seattle it is over 400/100k, by some estimates higher than 500/100k. 45/100k would be an incredible improvement. Though looking up Paris, it is ~200/100k, which is still half of Seattle's rate!
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by com2kid 2y ago
The difficulties around webhooks, and pub/sub in general on the web, is a great example of how decentralized architectures can make things much harder. I wonder about an alternate timeline where someone had cornered the market on pub
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I still believe technology can be used for good. Diseases get cured every day, more people are able to make art of all kinds than ever before, families can keep in touch all around the world, people with disabilities can use technology to o
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The problem regarding news orgs is that they have previously sounded the alarm about bloggers, insisting that the sky was going to fall down now that any random person was allowed to just say anything they wanted and have other people read
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Technology has lifted a lot of people out of poverty. Telemedicine reaching remote villages, drone deliveries of medical supplies, mobile phones giving farmers weather forecasts, and even allowing those farmers to find more competitive bu
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Why not? It is mostly correct. One on one most people are reasonable. In large groups, or when posting online with the need to show in-group behavior, or when posting publicly where everyone in one's social group can later judge, peopl
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This was 2012. There was still hope and optimism in the tech space. The Internet had helped overturn powerful regimes and given voice to the disenfranchised. There was the idea that person to person public discourse could resolve many socie
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Night vision is one of the things I miss most about being really young. Driving at night used to be fun! And I was easily able to walk around in near pitch black. Plenty other things can be maintained with good health and exercise, but nigh
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It started out on slashdot, the forum that invented the entire concept back in the late 90s.
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> I've seen them. And dissected my own. Still, at the price that modern LED bulbs are being made, I'm surprised they're built as well as they are. Brand name Sylvania bulbs are $0.79/ea in a bulk Amazon right now. LED
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Doing this manually was part of my first job out of college on a C/C++ compiler team. Kind of amazing that there is automation that can accomplish the same thing!
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> If anything, the lifespan of a ~$1.50 household LED bulb is quite incredible. I'm not sure exactly how anyone would be able to increase the lifespan at that price point and keep the traditional Edison form factor. I don't thi
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A friend of mine came across an x86 Rhapsody machine, but it was password protected and he wasn't able to ever login. Sadly I believe he wiped it. Cool alternative history that kinda-sorta ended up coming true.
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Don't write every pixel by hand to the screen. At high resolutions that just won't work. No modern UI does that anymore, they all use acceleration of some type. I ran into this trap when I tried to write a simple canvas game engin
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People were happy with the included wired iPhone earbuds for years, even though they were terrible. Listening on a laptop speaker Sumo sounds fine. Listening on my wireless earbuds it is... ok. I am too lazy anymore to pull out any of my hi
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> Literally every study, from rats to humans and from obesity to cancer to gut microbiome to mood to oral health to chronic inflammation shows that dietary sugar is harmful. Modern Americans eat unprecedented amounts of refined sugar com

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