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by conradev 2y ago
That is very cool! I would imagine that even if they didn’t implement explicit cloning, APFS would still clone the files. `nix-store --optimize` is a little different because it looks for duplicates and hardlinks those files across all of t
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by conradev 2y ago
This from above: > I just used find to locate as many libtorch_cpu.dylib files as possible on my laptop and deleted 5.5GB of them but maybe it wasn’t actually 5.5 GB!
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by conradev 2y ago
uv should hard link files if they’re identical like Nix does If a package manager stores more than it needs to, it is a package manager problem.
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by conradev 2y ago
On Strava specifically it is hard to differentiate between "gravel bike" and "full suspension mountain bike"
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by conradev 2y ago
Interconnection is a separate issue from deregulation and they're considering it: https://www.houstonchronicle.com/projects/2025/southern-spir... The Griddy incident wasn't quite "price gouging&quot
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by conradev 2y ago
Solar panels are a commodity and they are getting cheaper. That will continue regardless of which political party is in charge. Moving the solar supply chain to be domestic is a massive undertaking. First Solar, one of the stronger US compa
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by conradev 2y ago
It's unfortunate that Texas gets a bad rap. The actual thing they did is deregulate their (residential) electricity market, which only Massachusetts followed suit with. By separating what you pay for transmission (monopoly) from genera
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by conradev 2y ago
It was the first handheld device I had with a web browser, years before I got my iPod touch
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by conradev 2y ago
> These are finanical systems, they need to add/subtract and multiply/divide lots of transactional data. AI not needed. The IRS gets 125 million paper forms every year: https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/29&#
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by conradev 2y ago
I feel like fly.io prioritizes a great developer experience and I think that appeals to engineers who both do and don't like magic. But the real reason I like fly.io is because it is a new thing that allows for new capabilities. It all
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by conradev 2y ago
Yep, very reasonable
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by conradev 2y ago
Oh, yes, I misread. 6-18 weeks still is a high enough barrier to drive a lot of people away.
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by conradev 2y ago
California can permit standard residential installations same-day with SolarAPP+
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by conradev 2y ago
> After ComEd receives confirmation that the project has passed municipal inspection, it can take anywhere from 6 to 18 weeks to complete the permanent residential electric service and up to 6 months for a permanent industrial electric s
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by conradev 2y ago
and SQLite is waiting on Postgres: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41385005
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by conradev 2y ago
“Notably, the views among DOGE supporters differ when it comes to where to draw the line: The first of the three people with knowledge of its work told Semafor the “entire federal government” is up for grabs. The second person suggested the
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by conradev 2y ago
I feel like “using automation to make manufacturing more efficient” and “using automation to respond to customer support” are very different things
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by conradev 2y ago
Fascinating: https://www.cbc.ca/amp/1.6184083
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by conradev 2y ago
A surprisingly large amount of the United States' crop yield comes from rain falling on non-irrigated fields (85%). Our biggest crop is corn, and corn is very water-sensitive at specific points in its growth. There is no infrastructure
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by conradev 2y ago
“Ziz seems to go out of her way to target transgender people.” https://zizians.info/
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by conradev 2y ago
The iPhone has settings for physical button click speed for this reason. It's not just the elderly, but really any sort of motor difficulty. It takes a lot of force!
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by conradev 2y ago
Yeah, I agree. It makes sense and I'm glad that Drop is in no way guaranteed. I am excited for allocator-api to eventually stabilize, too!
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by conradev 2y ago
The copyright office is actively figuring it out. From yesterday: https://www.copyright.gov/ai/Copyright-and-Artificial-Intell...
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by conradev 2y ago
> Poor performance. Usually, it is significantly more efficient to allocate and free resources in batches. This one is big. It is a lot of accounting work to individually allocate and deallocate a lot of objects. The Zig approach is to f
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by conradev 2y ago
The Mechanics’ Institute in SF is a “historic membership library”, for one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanics%27_Institute,_San_Fr... A lovely place
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by conradev 2y ago
Gold is an economic sink, too. It is primarily used to preserve capital, even though it has unique atomic properties. Mining gold also takes real inherent value. Gold as a store of capital isn’t accessible to a lot of people, though, becau
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by conradev 2y ago
To buy or sell things that cost more than $10K EUR, like a car or a boat at an auction. The government only needs to be aware of taxable income, not every financial transaction you make. If you purchase a car in cash with post-tax money, it
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by conradev 2y ago
We already have Ignition Interlock Devices which tell you how aligned you are and whether or not you need to improve your alignment score before starting the car. The EU is also making good progress on financial transactions – they're
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by conradev 2y ago
> it doesn’t seem defensible for a major company with tons of lawyers, money, and talent to knowingly use stolen work to build something that they then turn around and sell. I thought they give it away for free?
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by conradev 2y ago
My favorite example of this was how folks fingerprinted the active probes of the Great Firewall of China. It has a large pool of IP addresses to work with (i.e. all ISPs in China), but the TCP timestamps were shared across a small number of

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