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by com2kid 2y ago
Hibernate worked amazing on Windows XP. Back then of course it was simple, closing the lid instantly wrote RAM out to the HDD and shut everything down. In the name of copying the iPad's instant on, we've killed countless batteries
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by com2kid 2y ago
> What I uncovered was a radical Christian cult with implicit aspirations to cover the globe with a simple tree-like recruiting algorithm with despots at the top. A fun game to play is trying to guess which organization you are talking a
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by com2kid 2y ago
Having worked at Microsoft for almost a decade, I remember chatting with their security people plenty after meetings. One interesting thing I learned is that Microsoft (and all the other top tech companies presumably) are under constant Adv
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by com2kid 2y ago
It isn't just the barrier to entry, Microsoft famously paid the cost to enter the smartphone market. It is how many platform ecosystems a market can support problem. Creating a platform ecosystem creates higher costs and lowers profits
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by com2kid 2y ago
That kind of blanket statement is not only factually wrong, it does no one any good. Almost all food consumed in the world is mass produced, and most staple foods (rice, grain) have been mass produced for centuries now. While we've inc
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Unfortunately due to their market dominance and muddling of (hardware, OS, software distribution, and platform ecosystem), it's almost impossible to disentangle. I think it is more complicated, and nuanced, than this. I have a the
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by com2kid 2y ago
This is a solved problem on some platforms (Zoom and Teams), which alter your eyes so they look like they are staring into the camera. Basically you drop your monitor down low (so the camera is more centered on your head) and let software f
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by com2kid 2y ago
Or half the battery size that came with the iPhone 4s. It could be made to work if software wasn't so violently inefficient (both CPU and data usage) and screens weren't so large.
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by com2kid 2y ago
But under the current system, banks also lose. Banks need to realize they are better off earning 80% now and helping the economy recover so they can earn 120% later, then earn 100% now and earn zilch later. However I'm willing to bet t
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by com2kid 2y ago
Wouldn't matter, money is not the deciding factor. Builders already pay the city money to build, then property taxes go up and the city makes more money, and when the finished house is sold the city makes money from the sale. The probl
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by com2kid 2y ago
> but only one city would have to break ranks. A very large % of voters object to dense housing. I see a lot of "too many people keep moving here, we need to stop building more houses!" comments on neighborhood forums. That is
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by com2kid 2y ago
> So my question is: why does no single city seem to break ranks? Because city councils don't follow the laws of economics, at all! City council members only side benefit from economic growth. Heck during the early 2000s housing boo
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by com2kid 2y ago
> It wouldn't matter; you'd still be free to sell it as an unregulated supplement. Patent protections on supplements are very weak compared to the protections afforded to FDA approved drugs. That alone limits research into su
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by com2kid 2y ago
Studies won't be done on long term risks in young adults taking it. Do you want to take a drug that rewires your brain but has had exactly 0 studies done on what happens to users after 20 years? Alzeimer's drugs don't need 20
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by com2kid 2y ago
> The whole point is that you can either you can let your real estate developers run wild and make lots of profit (and thus pay lots of taxes) building houses upon houses upon houses without any price drops from over-supply. I think we a
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Now my question is: why does it look like all cities in the area are colluding against this? What keeps even one city from breaking ranks and allowing massive amounts of building? The problem is that until all unmet demand at the upper
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by com2kid 2y ago
The Chinese government ran a huge research effort to try and determine the genes for intelligence. From what I understand it was a failure, as the genetic causes of intelligence are too spread out and varied to be easily isolated. I'm
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by com2kid 2y ago
You can only make drugs to treat medical problems of some sort. I think the argument is that the cost/benefit is never positive for drugs that aren't attempting to just bring you back to baseline. Basically imagine you are perfect
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by com2kid 2y ago
From my layman's understanding, in the US, it is almost impossible to get FDA approval for drugs that "improve" or "enhance" human biology. The tl;dr is if you invented a drug tomorrow that stopped human aging, you
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by com2kid 2y ago
> But AI code generation is garbage, "create an express server that uses CORS to only accept requests from <mydomain> that has 3 async endpoints defined, 2 GET endpoints titled <a, b> and 1 POST enndpoint titled <c&gt
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by com2kid 2y ago
To be clear > $28.5 billion versus expectations of $28.7 billion. At the scale of MS, that is a dozen or so missed large contracts out of thousands they likely signed. It is hardly the end of the world. I am more curious about how they
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by com2kid 2y ago
> I'm pretty sure that it is Turing-complete. Because JS code can arbitrarily modify a type, any language trying to specify what the outputs of a function can be also has to be Turing complete. There are of course still plenty of t
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by com2kid 2y ago
Ecmascript 4 was an attempt to add better types to the language, which sadly failed a long time ago. It'd be nice of TS at least allowed for specifying types like integer, allowing some of the newer TS aware runtimes could take advanta
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by com2kid 2y ago
TypeScript was really really easy to get started with back in the day. It allows for incremental correctness, has good docs, and good tooling. On top of that a lot of beginner React tutorials started out with TypeScript, which onboarded a
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by com2kid 2y ago
One big advantage Claude artifacts have is that they maintain conversation context, versus when I am working with Cursor I have to basically repeat a bunch of information for each prompt, there is no continuity between requests for code edi
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by com2kid 2y ago
> Autonomous vehicles will also have extremely high utilization rates since they can run 24 hours a day, versus a cab or Uber vehicle which sits idle, losing money. Math doesn't work out there. You need N number of vehicles to give
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by com2kid 2y ago
Ugh. Government distorting undeveloped markets that have a lot of room for competition to increase efficiencies is a bad thing. Government agencies running programs that should not be profitable, or where the only profit to be left comes at
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by com2kid 2y ago
> and you can't replace half a city block's worth of two- and three-flat dwellings It is funny because here in the Puget Sound, if we had two and three flat dwellings that would be a major improvement over the bullshit we hav
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by com2kid 2y ago
> As it pertains to food and drink I don’t agree with or understand repeatedly trying something I don’t like Let me give an example. My wife used to hate lamb. An American style lamb roast[1] was atrocious to her. Then one day at a fri
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by com2kid 2y ago
Historically that is what people did. When tenure at a job was 20+ years, and a house could be paid off in 10 years, it made a ton of sense. The fact that such an idea is absurd now is not because the idea itself is absurd, but because how

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