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by cyberax 7mo ago
Copilot in Notepad.
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> NYC is also an incredible economic (and cultural and ...) engine without which, most of those suburbs and the jobs of the suburbanites wouldn't exist. (Also, the MTA runs to the suburbs.) I was speaking more in general. In other c
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> Is it possible to calculate how much free at time of use roads are? It actually is! It's a statistic that is tracked by the Census. It turns out, that the majority of road maintenance is paid directly by user fees: https:/&#
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> The subway is $3 It's a lie. The true cost is around $20, and with capital expenses of new construction, it's closer to $30. Although pricing the capital construction cost is always tricky. You just don't see the true co
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> But much cheaper per capita than everyone owning a car No, it's not. One ride on MTA costs around $20. The average US commute is 40 miles (both ways), so that $20 is actually more expensive than the IRS value for car depreciation.
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by cyberax 8mo ago
There's nothing wrong with an "agentic OS" if it's built on top of a regular good OS. There's everything wrong when "agentic" means that the regular bread-and-butter functionality of the OS becomes unusabl
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> Those big spikes you see in the center? They cost very little for the city to maintain, and generate oodles of tax money. May I introduce you to the budget for the MTA that is larger than the GDP of several countries? Cities are _expen
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by cyberax 8mo ago
One problem that happened here is the _voltage_ spikes as the synchronous generation went away. Voltage _spikes_ on generation going away seem insane, but it's a real phenomenon. The problem is that the line itself is a giant capacitor
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by cyberax 8mo ago
Azure Entra is an example of making a system so complex that nobody can understand it entirely. I'm fairly experienced in access control systems, OIDC, crypto, etc. but I was not able to understand how it all fits together. Google Clou
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by cyberax 8mo ago
That's correct. They are _far_ less capable than human eyes.
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by cyberax 8mo ago
I worked at a company that made a product just for this purpose: making estimates for solar panels for door-to-door sales. It was pretty popular.
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by cyberax 8mo ago
First, even if we assume that the number is correct, it's a very slight increase over the 2019 levels. Just around 2% growth within 5 years. Second, I made a prediction that this number was simply incorrect, and we'll see it going
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> This is subjective and loaded. I don't see any concrete point you are making. Forced (by economy) in-migration into cities is a net negative for the country with stable or shrinking populations. It leads to objectively worse quali
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by cyberax 8mo ago
Sorry, misclicked on this one: 2024 (ACSDP5Y2024.DP05): 979539. The 1Y series is indeed https://data.census.gov/table/ACSDP1Y2024.DP05?q=Austin,+TX at 993771. I believe this is a statistical outlier, and is not reflect
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> Yeah that’s induced demand and it’s a good thing for the economy. No, it's not good. It leads to nothing but urban decay. That's how you get Tokyo with a crazy price bubble, while beautiful traditional houses decay into dust
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by cyberax 8mo ago
Come on, think about it. You got more people into the place. Now more employers move in, as they have access to a bigger pool of employees. What's next? Put yourself into the shoes of a real estate developer.
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> The population numbers you have reported are misleading because they use 5 year estimated numbers. I specifically chose consistent data series. While each one of them can't represent the true population, they absolutely do illustr
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> ... Your examples seem to undercut your point if I'm understanding what you're trying to say. That perhaps you shouldn't assume that kindergarten-level theories always correctly describe complex markets? > In your fir
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> When there’s more of a thing, it costs less. Yeah, and when we add lanes to roads, the average speeds increase and commutes get shorter. Right? Also, if the government gives me $1 billion, then I'll be rich. But what happens if th
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by cyberax 8mo ago
That's because it's not a vulnerability per se. They found a way to use `rm` as a gadget for their privilege escalation. The core problem is that there's a world-writable directory that is processed by a program running as ro
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> You could do this whole plan without needing to do the assassination part Not really. Putin will not deal with Europe honestly.
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by cyberax 8mo ago
Nope. Putin _is_ a mad dictator completely disconnected from the realities of Russia. Just like Maduro in Venezuela. So if he's killed, nobody is going to be bothered by this except a few dozen of his closest allies. Putin's regim
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> A terrible idea, you think the Russians are going to appreciate you killing their leader? As a Russian? Absolutely yes. We had a dry run 3 years ago, during Prigozhin's mutiny. He was advancing towards Moscow at freeway speeds, an
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> until they make the body of the car harness the sun's rays. The surface area of a car usable for solar panels is about 3 square meters. At the absolute best, when the stars align just right, you're going to get about 1 kW of
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by cyberax 8mo ago
I have not driven the Wuling myself, only traveled as a passenger. On Xingguan it's "normal", just like on Tesla or anywhere else. The Geely did not come to a complete stop on regen braking, I had to use the brake pedal for t
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by cyberax 8mo ago
Geely Xingyuan is $10000. Wuling Mini is $5600. You're saying?
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> the car is cheaper than the same class ICE, To give you some perspective, the most popular EV in China costs $6000 (Wuling Mini). New. The second most popular costs $10000 (Geely Xingyuan). I tried both, and they are far less crappy th
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by cyberax 8mo ago
Android was not 100% compatible with Java, but mostly because it had a specialized environment. It did not support things like dynamic bytecode generation, but it faithfully reproduced pretty much everything else that made sense. And yeah,
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by cyberax 8mo ago
I made several Webstart corporate apps back in the day! The infrastructure was pretty neat, when it worked. And it was a whole lot better than JS back then, still in the IE6 times.
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by cyberax 8mo ago
> Google basically played a J++ with Android Java No, they didn't. Google happily used regular Java until Oracle played Oracle. Then Google stopped updating the supported Java language version and started diversifying away from Java

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