davidw

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   by davidw 4mo ago

   Hah - I was going to mention all the other types of things the fire people seem to be blocking, but decided to stay focused. But yeah, it seemed like 'aversion to change'. "Firefighters might trip over solar panels on balconi
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   by davidw 4mo ago

   Utah passed a balcony solar bill; I think they're the only ones so far. Oregon tried in the short session last year, but it got shut down by fire marshall type people, sadly.
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   by davidw 4mo ago

   [Old man voice] Back in my day these kinds of articles loved pointing out that, well, the email address could be a UUCP address and that's a whole different parsing situation. Of course, even then in the mid 90ies, UUCP was not somet
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   by davidw 4mo ago

   On the subject of crime and that web site, I thought this story was quite fascinating: https://magazine.atavist.com/2019/outlaw-country-klamath-cou... There are a lot of those bits of land throughout the west that have
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   by davidw 4mo ago

   Or scientists know how to count and see that one number is larger than another; and understand that that's an important factor in many political systems.
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   by davidw 4mo ago

   archive site seems to be working now: https://archive.is/WnoiH
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   by davidw 4mo ago

   See also: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48363245 "The SpaceX Squeeze"
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   The SpaceX Squeeze(bloomberg.com)

   12 points by davidw 4mo ago|3 comments
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   by davidw 4mo ago

   They say a paywall.
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    by davidw 4mo ago

    Having corporations be distinct entities whose investors have limited liability is a pretty fundamental to a lot of things. But voting? That is way too far.
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    Index funds can't say no to SpaceX(bloomberg.com)

    7 points by davidw 5mo ago|1 comments
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    I'll add to the love for bicycles. I wrote this a while back about how bicycles are, for me, a "thinking machine": https://journal.dedasys.com/2015/04/20/the-bicycle-a-thinkin...
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    "Outlaw Techno Psychobitch" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rRbY3TMUcgQ
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    If it continues to be a numbers game - the more resources you throw at it, the better it is - then on-device is always going to be not as good. I guess it might be good enough for some uses? I kind of loathe the move away from a world where
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    LLMs represent a big shift of power towards capital until such time as local ones are 'good enough'.
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    "Cast My Apps" - did they, uh, use AI to make that actually work? Because it's very flaky on my Chromebook, which I am otherwise very, very pleased with (especially given the price)
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    Commenting on Hacker News?
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    He can absolutely counted on to do stupid, corrupt shit. We saw plenty of it when he had 4 years in office and was somewhat held in check by having hired some more or less 'normal' Republicans. It was entirely predictable that he
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    Yeah, the shifting with electronic components is so fast, easy and precise, but I don't love how many batteries are all over some of my bikes. I kind of enjoy bikes in order to get away from screens and tech and all that.
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    That's pretty interesting; I've always wondered about the internals of those things, as I stared at mine while pedaling up some steep grade. I'm also curious about what the electronic derailleurs and shifters run.
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    Yeah, where I live, one guy was like "You know what, I've had it". He then started organizing within the community and got a big crowd to show up at a city council meeting, and we ended up getting rid of the Flock cameras. Ya
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    I remember when I first started dreaming in Italian... it was pretty cool though.
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    Location: Bend, Oregon Remote: If not in Bend then yes Willing to relocate: very unlikely unless it's super amazing Technologies: a lot, over the years, including Erlang, Ruby on Rails, C, Postgres, Tcl, Python, Java, PHP LinkedIn: ht
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    Also isn't it an advantage for LLM coding to use an existing language that has a lot of code that LLM's have already stol... I mean ingested?
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    Emacs has had this feature forever, and it works pretty well. https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Re...
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    Portland gets very occasional snow. But they'll probably just shut the Waymos down along with everything else that shuts when there's snow and ice.
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    by davidw 5mo ago

    The 90ies weren't perfect, but it felt more idealistic to me, with the rise of open source software. People thought about ethics a bit more. It felt like the ultimate tide rising to empower people locally on their own computers, and th
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    by davidw 6mo ago

    > Can't find a Waymo article about this, but Lyft and Uber (let alone trad taxis) also do this. I'm not sure that this is a particularly autonomous-car-shaped sin. Yeah I think it'd probably actually be easier to prevent W
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    by davidw 6mo ago

    There's one of those sites near where I live. The numbers would be amazing if true, but feel a lot like "to good to be true" to me https://www.opb.org/article/2025/10/06/super-hot-rocks-geo
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    by davidw 6mo ago

    Most of the best places I've worked have had the least process.