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by dchftcs 1y ago
Historically, in order to get support for one of the Asian languages, you typically had to buy the watch in the exact right country, not anywhere else.
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by dchftcs 1y ago
How much better is it now? I hate Garmin with a passion because their watches are effectively region-locked by language support, an insanely consumer-hostile move in this day. I was unable to use any features related to text or whatsapp mes
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by dchftcs 1y ago
I suspect the lack of success of the teams resulted from overfitting for the more standard pattern that is solving a max flow, and I also suspect the organizers are deliberately using this to trick the contestants. Spending time to practice
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by dchftcs 1y ago
People obviously turning out LLM code uncritically should be investigated and depending on the findings made redundant. It's a good thing that it allows teams to filter out these people earlier. In my career I have found that a big pre
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by dchftcs 1y ago
Also one way Chinese EVs combat their efficiency disadvantage is fast charging and large batteries, and the charging cost is so negligible anyway that largely the user experience has been the same. Tesla has very little first mover advantag
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by dchftcs 1y ago
One drawback cited consistently about Tesla cars is poor suspension. They may or may not have better design overall, and have better EV manufacturing than US competitors, but I don't see an "immense advantage" when they fail
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by dchftcs 1y ago
Over a time frame of multiple decades, it's been volatile but overall kept pace with money supply. Timing is always tricky, even with SP500 which has given higher return. Maybe "good at" was stretching it, but there are thing
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by dchftcs 1y ago
Democrats brought EV credits and renewable energy subsidies, this government ended them.
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by dchftcs 1y ago
The price of gold is not immediately responsive to goods inflation, it can be lagging or leading and the correlation can also fluctuate. Long term it's been good at tracking money supply but short term it doesn't necessarily give
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by dchftcs 1y ago
Wozniak was indispensible in the early days. They had to survive first, and then Jobs could have a chance to thrive, and having someone like Wozniak greatly increased his chance of survival - it's not easy to find someone like that. Th
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by dchftcs 1y ago
The AI needs to be able to lookup data and facts and weigh them properly. Which is not easy for humans either; once you're indoctrinated in something, and you trust a bad data source over another, it's evidently very hard to corre
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by dchftcs 1y ago
Yeah, by his standards the author did not write his blog post.
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by dchftcs 1y ago
FSD itself is not a failed bet as a driver-assist system. When it started Tesla was cash poor and often on the verge of collapse, so cutting costs made sense. They will never do as well as a mature Lidar-based solution, but over the years F
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by dchftcs 1y ago
I'd argue the first one is not a smaller WTF than the latter. It's a silent failure that also mutates state, arguably worse than getting a crash. With that said, a = b = [1,2] itself is a bit of a code smell, but I don't take
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by dchftcs 1y ago
Maintainable software is also more maintainable by AI. The required standards may be a bit different, for example there may be less emphasis on white space styling, but, for example, complexity in the form of subtle connections between diff
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by dchftcs 1y ago
The error margins will be huge, and for small enough force (like the skinning part or handling fine mechanical stuff) there's basically almost zero signal.
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by dchftcs 1y ago
The tasks you do to recover from the failure is often different from the happy path. For example, the happy path of dumping garbage is carrying a garbage bag to a collection bin. The non-happy path is that the bin is overflowing and you hav
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by dchftcs 1y ago
Pure vision will never be enough because it does not contain information about the physical feedback like pressure and touch, or the strength required to perform a task. For example, so that you don't crush a human when doing massage (
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by dchftcs 1y ago
I guess Mark Zuckerberg likes Alexandr Wang a lot. They have a lot in common. They both value intensity and are willing to engage in morally dubious tactics. The culture of Scale sounded quite a bit like Meta these days (and not Meta in mid
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by dchftcs 1y ago
For a long time iOS did not have features to limit data usage on WiFi. They did introduce an option more recently for iPhone, but it seems such an option is not available to MacOS. Windows supported it as far as I could remember using it wi
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by dchftcs 1y ago
To make fspeech's point more obvious, while the rare earth materials may only be worth billions to China over multiple years, they could destroy entire industries worth trillions of dollars over the world, and in particular US. This is
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by dchftcs 2y ago
One interesting thing about working on numbers so large is that it becomes harder to assume that memory access is constant time. It's already not that easy now (cache miss vs hit, and external memory), but when you operate on data size
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by dchftcs 2y ago
I have found that vibrating alarms on wrist watches to be very effective. For over 5 years I've been setting a vibration alarm on my watch and another backup alarm on my phone. I never slept through the vibration alarm. Granted YMMV
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by dchftcs 2y ago
You don't need an HDMI port, you just need a driver to support running the right graphics calculations and producing image to funnel to another output port. The GPU may lack some features, may have an architecture that is bad for rende
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by dchftcs 2y ago
I'd argue chronic conditions that are debilitating should have at least the same priority as cancer, assuming their prevalence in the general population is similar. Long covid is more like to affect productive age people compared to ca
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by dchftcs 2y ago
There are secrets like passwords, but there are also secrets like "these are the parameters for running a server for our assembly line for X big corp".
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by dchftcs 2y ago
For much of SP500, the largest shareholders are the passive investors. It's common that an activist hedge fund can influence decisions with a mere 3% or so stake because the likes of BlackRock and Vanguard support them or abstain.
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by dchftcs 2y ago
It's possible to treat software close to a first-class citizen even technically as a cost center. Probably the key is to have a lean team that is effective and management trusts, in a business whose profit margin or stability can be gr
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by dchftcs 2y ago
You can learn to take good risks and handle hardship without taking stupid unnecessary risks. One important life lesson is that the only risks worth taking are those that offer corresponding upside - else the expected outcome is ruin. Educa
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by dchftcs 2y ago
In some cases the retail store just doesn't list the price and the store owner may just come up with a highly marked-up price when asked. 10x would be very rare though indeed.

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