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by dehrmann 1y ago
It's a tradeoff. Having two general purpose limbs is useful for all sorts of things, but not escaping scary things, so endurance can somewhat make up for that.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> There was a giant scare that this Chinese company was going to destroy ThinkPad It's been long enough to say that Lenovo really did right by the Thinkpad name. I recently switched from an X1 Carbon to a Macbook Pro because of Wind
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by dehrmann 1y ago
A general takeaway from this is that there were a number of innovations that made sense at the time, but as the landscape changed, they lost their utility. The butterfly keyboard wasn't needed once screens got larger. The switch to wid
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I wonder how much longer Microsoft stays committed to Windows as a whole. Windows is less than 10% of the company, users are migrating to phones, tablets, and Chromebooks (all of which can run Office), and with .NET on Linux, Windows server
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Onavo Protect Android app, which had over 10 million Android installations, contained code to prompt the user to install a CA (certificate authority) certificate issued by "Facebook Research" in the user trust store of the de
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Rates don't affect prices they way people think they do. People buy the mortgage they can afford, so low rates can raise home prices. This is 5x-10x leveraged, so it really moves prices. Home builders borrow to build, so higher rates h
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> No sufficiently large software system that interacts with the real world is provable to be correct like a mathematical statement is. People who work in formal verification will either vehemently disagree with you or secretly know you&#
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Or is it a bullwhip effect?
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by dehrmann 1y ago
My dad recently told me it's broadly like that where he works, but at the IC level. It's mostly boomers and millennials, but the boomers actively retiring.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
In 2015? That seems low for an entry-level job at a startup, then. $60k is more like 2010.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I assume consumers have moved to Google for files and still reuse passwords or use their browser's password manager. Companies have moved passwords to something like Okta, and probably Microsoft, Google, or possibly Box for files.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
This also happened during the tsunami last year. Does anyone know of a map app that works offline and can save overlays like this?
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Does anyone have experience with aftermarket add-on lenses? Theoretically, they can help with the focal length.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Rhino There was a time when Java shipped with a JS interpreter, but not a JSON parser... unless you use the JS interpreter.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Bureaucracies like to grow, and they're very resistant to cuts, so they become inefficient entities poorly suited to current needs. Private companies have competition as a force that forces some amount of accountability, but I have yet
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by dehrmann 1y ago
You can also use the resulting CO2 to do CO2 things. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n0wvDwSnzcw
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by dehrmann 1y ago
This doesn't actually answer what went wrong for Yahoo!. The main insight is that Yahoo! saw that it made money from traffic, so it bought traffic generators without regard for if the traffic could be profitable. I buy this argument, b
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by dehrmann 1y ago
LLMs.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> unregulated news For all of unregulated news's flaws, government controlled news would be worse.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
The story also mentioned Yahoo!'s best investment: Alibaba. What was different was Yahoo! was just an investor, not a buyer.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
There are subduction zones outside oceanic plates: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subduction#/media/File:Global_...
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by dehrmann 1y ago
I won't go that far, but it's a distraction from larger problems, and it makes housing more expensive. These are the same cities charging $0.10 for paper bags at grocery stores because marginal environmental benefit?
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> we just choose not to use it to benefit travelers The Northeast Corridor is the only viable rail corridor in the US. It could be better, but we absolutely use it. Comparing the US to Europe is a mistake because cities aren't dense
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> Area doesn't just disappear Land area does in a subduction zone.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
It's one way of modelling the broad notion an algorithm, but it isn't the only one, and it's odd to treat it as the one true expression of computer science when essentially all modern computing follows a different model.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
At some point, aren't the C Suite and directors failing their fiduciary responsibility? I know they have broad freedoms, but when you're reducing an a minority shareholder's equity by 95%, it's well past "fiduciary
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by dehrmann 1y ago
> This is probably an unpopular opinion, but I don't think money is such a large factor in determining elections. Remember the time Michael Bloomberg ran for president? It was the most expensive primary campaign in history, as the f
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by dehrmann 1y ago
This hurts my eyes and throws off my sense of white balance.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
Not as well. This is especially true for iPhones where there are fewer SKUs and aggressively pushed updates.
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by dehrmann 1y ago
It depends if they hash the data points or send them unprocessed. If they're unprocessed, they can associate two fingerprints where only the browser has changed.

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