dehrmann

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by dehrmann 7mo ago
All sorts of industries are capital intensive where labor is relatively cheap. A fancy roller coaster costs $50M, but you pay college students $15 per hour to run it. Airlines spend a few thousand per day on pilots for a $300M plane.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
This is a little like how congress feels differently about things like email privacy when they're the ones under the microscope. These ideas seem fine in a world of honest actors, but when there's an adversarial element in the mix
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
> impacted by objects Well that's a way of phrasing it. I assume these were missiles.
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by dehrmann 7mo ago
I've worked places that actively acknowledged they were paying a productivity tax for people to have unexpected encounters, and they'd recover the losses at a higher level.
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
The sense was that it got a lot better late last year. There hasn't been enough time to make this call holistically, from development to market reaction to turndown. It also doesn't address the Jevons paradox take that with more p
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
If AI makes people twice as productive and you're a mature software company chasing marginal value, if the marginal value people added was worth it before AI, surely more marginal value at the same cost is better. It's also the wr
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
Mattermost is FOSS. Why aren't companies running their own servers to avoid Slack? Prior to OneDrive and web integration, LibreOffice was 95% as good as MS Office, better than VibeOffice will likely be, and it still failed to gain much
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
The bZ4X? 10+ years after the Nissan Leaf?
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
It's got the EV problem, but 100x worse. No only do you have to worry about where to find a place to refuel, there are far fewer of them, and level 1 charging isn't a fallback. It also doesn't have the EV upsides.
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
> Hydrogen is such a terrible idea it was never getting off the ground. It's coming from Toyota because Toyota can't wrap its head around not making engines. Ironically, the place hydrogen might work is airplanes where the ener
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
If a Japanese spy knew this would happen, they could waste enormous amounts of time by spreading unused keys around San Diego.
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
You pay taxes with the proceeds from the sale? You sell all the losers in your portfolio to offset what gain you can?
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
> that doesn't help at the individual level if you fall on the unlucky side of those statistics As GP stated, there's the other unlucky side of the statistics with false positives.
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
Isn't he playing Chess960 because he started finding standard chess boring? And wasn't that why Fischer worked on it in the first place? Experts might get bored of it by the time they're 50.
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
All sorts of movie trailers used Don LaFontaine knockoffs.
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
I think a lot of sport announcers sound the same. There might just be classes of voices where you expect a faceless voice in some scenario to sound a certain way.
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
> Rather than outright defeating the SEO... SEO is a slippery slope on both sides because a little bit is good for everyone. Google wanted pages it could easily extract meaning from, publishers wanted traffic, and users wanted relevant s
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
dvdisaster might already be able to do this analysis.
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
> Such a shame the disk format is dying. On one hand, yes, it's dying. On the other, a PS5 can play DVDs, so there's one class of popular, modern hardware where it's alive and well.
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
DVDs use Reed–Solomon coding, so they effectively store a hash and recovery data for you. When a sector is irrecoverable, reading that sector fails.
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
Maybe this would be the nudge people need, but there are a handful of well-researched, reputable newspapers out there that you can subscribe to and support quality journalism. For the most part, people don't. They'd rather have en
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
> In the short run, the market is a voting machine but in the long run, it is a weighing machine And we vote on vibes.
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
> PC gamers There's a pretty deep back catalog of PC games that will run on integrated GPUs. > The swaths of folks who made freelance or commission artistry... Those are people turning their hobby into a side hustle. If it's
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
Does anyone know the high-level breakdown of where the money's going and how long that part (energy production, energy transmission, network, datacenter, servers/GPUs) lasts?
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
She was (or is) at Facebook, and "clowntown" and "clowny" are words you see there.
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
I wonder if the future in ~5 years is almost all local models? High-end computers and GPUs can already do it for decent models, but not sota models. 5 years is enough time to ramp up memory production, consumers to level-up their hardware,
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
I found this looking for a more secure knot (I did; Ian's Secure Shoelace Knot). What I wasn't expecting was how strange it would be to be as skilled at tying my shoelaces as a four-year-old.
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
Another popular project I can think of to look out for is PuTTY. I'm fond of 2006 vibe, but Github probably has stronger security protections.
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
> I must say, this copy protection mechanism seems a bit… simplistic? A hardware dongle that just passes back a constant number? Seems like it was an appropriate amount of engineering. Looks like this took between an afternoon and a week
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by dehrmann 8mo ago
This is a very sound take: > Will AI replace my job? > If you consider your job to be “typing code into an editor”, AI will replace it (in some senses, it already has). On the other hand, if you consider your job to be “to use softwar

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