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by cowsandmilk 9mo ago
Apple doesn’t operate the fab, TSMC does. Apple doesn’t shove anyone out of the way, TSMC makes those decisions. It is weird to blame Apple.
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by cowsandmilk 9mo ago
A 1984 Ford Ranger with a bed cap would compare favorably to the C15.
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by cowsandmilk 9mo ago
Which is definitely the case for flock and likely for other companies.
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by cowsandmilk 9mo ago
“The Emperor Has No Clothes” squarely fits in the definition of sycophants.
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by cowsandmilk 9mo ago
Works fine on my iPhone…
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by cowsandmilk 9mo ago
You hit the nail on the head. The separate “power user” interface is the web app on a desktop.
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by cowsandmilk 9mo ago
What fixed costs of the grid? In Northern Virginia, we’re constantly adding substations and transmission lines because the grid isn’t a fixed cost when you’re building data centers constantly; it quickly becomes a variable cost.
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
I like this quote from Dan Wang's 2025 letter: > Part of the reason that China’s stock market trends sideways is that everyone’s profits are competed away. Big Tech might enjoy the monopolistic success smiled upon by Peter Thiel, co
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
In part, you’re right, but there’s a practical difference between mocking and a good dummy version of a service. Take DynamoDB local as an example: you can insert items and they persist, delete items, delete tables, etc. Or in the Ruby on R
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
Major damage tends to cause a much larger immune response than a vaccination. That said, they do have therapeutic cancer vaccines that present proteins from cancer (sometimes patient-specific) with adjuvants to help stimulate the immune res
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
?? HistoSonics first target was the liver, second was kidney. Pancreas is the third organ they’ve targeted.
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
HistoSonics has studies published with 50 patients. Their upcoming study with 5000 liver patients obviously will give more information, but we already have some. And with that said, these studies are more relevant than the top of thread lin
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
Horrid advice at the end about logging every error, exception, slow request, etc if you are sampling healthy requests. Taking slow requests as an example, a dependency gets slower and now your log volume suddenly goes up 100x. Can your serv
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
He said the same thing four months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44972151
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
What do you view as the generations between Slashdot/Digg and HN?
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
How horridly inefficient, he should have just flipped a Boolean on each iteration.
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
Please don’t do this. If you want to remove the function, remove it and insist on its removal when people complain. Don’t gradually break people.
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
Title is confusing given https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bag-of-words_model But even more than that, today’s AI chats are far more sophisticated than probabilistically producing the next word. Mixture of experts routes t
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
Real developers don’t use a graphical desktop /s
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
If you look at many of his recent blog entries, it is clear he has felt the need to quantify his impact to prove he isn’t less effective as a remote employee in Australia working for a company in the US.
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
Definitely feels like someplace with GPUs that will let him work remotely.
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
Beyond sharing a first name, they don’t share much in common. And Frank Lloyd Wright died about the time Frank Gehry started.
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
> Rollouts likely take much longer Cloudflare’s own post says the configuration change that resulted in the outage rolled out in seconds.
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by cowsandmilk 10mo ago
Cloudflare had already decided this was a rule that could be rolled out using their gradual deployment system. They did not view it as being so urgent that it required immediate global roll out.
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by cowsandmilk 11mo ago
I’m sick of people saying this. The truth at every cloud provider: 1. There were outages under the old guard. 2. The new guard is operating systems that are larger than what the old guard operated.
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by cowsandmilk 11mo ago
https://github.com/ejpir/CVE-2025-55182-poc
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by cowsandmilk 11mo ago
?? I got very confused from the start of this article because it is clear that Kohler is one end of the communication from how the product is described and marketed. They’re just stating the data is encrypted between the device and them.
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by cowsandmilk 11mo ago
What makes them think they can license Clippy out under the GPL?
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by cowsandmilk 11mo ago
CO2 isn’t particulate matter. But more importantly, larger percentages of our electricity is being made without burning things.
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by cowsandmilk 11mo ago
In January 2024, I saw it for free at the British Museum and all indications are it is still in the same spot free to view

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