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571.
by dboreham 8mo ago
This is nonsense, and the same nonsense as we heard in the insurrectionist ruling. Allowing fascism "Because it's inconvenient to do otherwise" is bonkers.
572.
by dboreham 8mo ago
There's a tarriff on sugar that means we have to use HFCS in processed foods and beverages. Oh wait...
573.
by dboreham 8mo ago
It wasn't a "rumor" it was explicit deliberate disinformation. Unfortunately many people in the US have insufficient education and accurate news feeds to realize. See also: disinformation that "other countries charge us
574.
by dboreham 8mo ago
China has 3X more people, and America has a relatively terrible education system, so they have to import talented people who were educated elsewhere.
575.
by dboreham 8mo ago
"Going through" doesn't necessarily imply store and forward. It could be tapped elsewhere and shipped to WVA. fwiw the idea of running a network in order to tap it is hardly new. The British operated largest telegraph network
576.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Curiously, LLMs seem to be the first successful use case for micropayments. Possibly this happened because a) the vendors only offered a micropayment model and b) the product was so popular that nobody pushed back. That said we can see LLM
577.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Parallel computing goes back to the 1960s (at least). I've been involved in it since the 1980s. Generally you don't create an architecture and associated tooling for some specific application. The people creating the architecture
578.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Same thing would happen if you had asked a human intern.
579.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Cloudflare DNS isn't fully functional (at least for me). Can't be used for general purpose DNS hosting imho.
580.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Mens sizes have changed over time. Go get a vintage t-shirt from the 80s, medium size, and try it on. It'll be the size of a small or xs today.
581.
by dboreham 8mo ago
It's a bit more than just his name. It's the statements he makes, that turn out to not be true.
582.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Saw lots of BYD in New Zealand recently. Probably more than I saw in Hong Kong.
583.
by dboreham 8mo ago
This isn't my experience. I see many non-software people using AI regularly. What you may be seeing is more: organizations with no incentive to do things better never did anything to do things better. AI is no different. They were neve
584.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Unrelated: just returned from a month in NZ. Amazing people.
585.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Or bacaruda.
586.
by dboreham 8mo ago
They also had a patent on map/reduce.
587.
by dboreham 8mo ago
That's fine but such a PR doesn't need to be (and actually can't) be reviewed. Or at least it can only be reviewed broadly: does it change files that shouldn't change, does it have appropriate tests, etc.
588.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Looks like the site has been hugged.
589.
by dboreham 8mo ago
They do exist, at least in some places: https://www.att.com/home-phone/landline/ Long distance plans were a regulatory invention that allowed customers to opt out of the local phone company's long distance se
590.
by dboreham 8mo ago
If you hired a person six months ago and in that time they'd produced a ton of useful code for your product, wouldn't you say with authoritative framing that their hiring was a good decision?
591.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Since we're all in a simulation, this is fine.
592.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Ugh. Someone I know made a similar statement a while back so I did look it up. The number was...approximately zero.
593.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Already browsing boat builder web sites..
594.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Is this not what has already happened over the past 10-15 years?
595.
by dboreham 8mo ago
This doesn't get anyone a bonus or a bigger boat so it won't happen, technical challenges aside.
596.
by dboreham 8mo ago
This is why the empires are accidental.
597.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Account created 17 days ago.
598.
by dboreham 8mo ago
Palm Springs from San Jose? Albeit freeway throughout but that's quite impressive.
599.
by dboreham 8mo ago
You have a much better GPU than it has.
600.
by dboreham 8mo ago
I've seen it in North Dakota fwiw, summer only obviously. Loads of them in Palm Springs also.

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