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by dmix 11mo ago
X as a whole became more profitable than Twitter last year thanks to a huge surge in US Election traffic and reduction in operating costs. > Its 2024 adjusted EBITDA nearly doubled Twitter’s best year Revenue is up 20% in 2025 but profit
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by dmix 11mo ago
It's not clear if the data is fake. Retraction Watch said it was retracted because: > authors didn’t fully disclose their ties to Monsanto and > He also called out the authors’ reliance on unpublished studies from Monsanto for t
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by dmix 11mo ago
> The 2026 Leaf takes many of the Ariya’s good qualities and one ups them at one of the lowest price points in the industry. Still costs $30k+ USD for base trim. Chinese cars are going for sub-$20k. Few governments want a repeat of the J
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It's also how they got a lot of things very early in the game like radars. They had adaptive cruise control in 1999 (similar to Mercedes).
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by dmix 11mo ago
China is also copying SpaceX's Starship https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/11/chinas-long-term-lunar... Which is kind of exciting if you don't care about IP law. Likewise their CR series/Fuxing
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by dmix 11mo ago
> Prompt and voluntary cooperation with law enforcement on child safety issues, including UK law enforcement, is what really matters for children’s safety online. That work happens quietly and non-publicly with officials who are tasked w
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by dmix 11mo ago
> ehh, timezones handles just with some basic parsing logic... I hope so. In my experience it's never that simple with dynamic data. Even with predictable data timezones cause issues. You're putting a lot of value in order in y
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> If the number of questions online about “Go vs. Rust” or “Rust vs. Zig” is a reliable metric The human brain demands "vs" articles
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Mandatory expiry dates or renewal cycles. You can bypass the expiry/renewal process with a large majority.
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> Because uh, nobody's paying for this, and when people are gambling with trillions of dollars... I pay for 3 different AI products and every person on my team is paying for at least one. Just because some enterprise sales teams rus
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by dmix 11mo ago
I'd much rather be in a country where the odd temporary shortage happens due to a massive new market appearing than one where supply/demand is always fixed and static because nothing new gets built without extreme careful planning
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by dmix 11mo ago
I appreciate how the author compares it to writing Stimulus components and it sounds like there's little real benefit for the day-to-day dev, unless you're doing something fancy and highly reusable in JS.
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by dmix 11mo ago
Either everyone uses HAML or no one does IMO. Developers like to copy/paste UI component example HTML from Tailwind/Bootstrap documentation, they like predictability/portability. They don't want a project that's hal
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by dmix 11mo ago
How do you handle time zone issues with the dates? I’ve been curious how much news starts from social media. So many news stories today are “someone said x on twitter”.
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Right, there was clearly much more capacity for advanced education with the rise of technology (farming advancements, medicine, electronics etc) that started before WW2 There is something to the point about needing a correction in post seco
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by dmix 11mo ago
It was 10% of the US population who went to college before the GI bill, which then doubled to 20% over a decade following the war. Now >50% have post secondary. 70% attempt post-secondary after high school Before WW2 only about 40% of pe
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by dmix 11mo ago
I've used all 3 browsers (chrome/safari/ff) daily doing web dev for years now and I'm convinced Safari just feels faster as a cohesive Mac app, with the animations and what not, but isn't in general when using the i
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Ilya also said AI may already be "slightly conscious" in 2022 https://futurism.com/the-byte/openai-already-sentient
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by dmix 11mo ago
The system prompt for Grok on Twitter is open source AFAIK. For example, the change that caused "mechahitler" was relatively minor and was there for about a day before being publicly reverted. https://github.com/xa
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Sounds like they put zero effort into simplifying those rules the first time around. Now in the new project they put together a committee to attempt it > The main objective of this committee also includes simplifying the pay rules for pu
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by dmix 11mo ago
So in the 1990s Canada failed to do a payroll system where they paid Accenture Canada $70M Then in 2010s they spent $185M on a customized version of IBM's PeopleSoft that was managed directly by a government agency https://e
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by dmix 11mo ago
> There are a number of countries being run far better than the US or the EU It will be funny if China is what convinces the US to be more open to free industry. Opposite day vs the 1970s
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It also apparently provides a way to make reactors that don’t depend as much on water so they don’t all have to be near the coast. This would allow Western China to also develop reactors to help underpin their renewable and coal energy. &gt
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> the soaring cost of gas and electricity were the firm’s largest and most worrying expense Difficult to have factories when basic utilities are expensive. China has a big advantage there as well, not just in labour costs. They invested
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Definitely looks like something you’d see in a 1970s movie or your grandma’s old cupboard.
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Not sure how old you are but I spent half my adult life dealing with a government regulated Taxi medallion system and the other half using Uber in multiple countries and I’d 100% take “post-VC” Uber over old taxis every single time. FWIW th
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Life is not about checking off boxes on how much free stuff you can hypothetically get from the government either. That has tons of costs and risks just like everything else in life. It’s all relative.
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America is #3 in the world in per capita public education spending (Luxumberg being #1). Which is the education system I always see Europeans maligned as producing “dumb Americans”. US also ranks #1 in public healthcare funding both as per
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> “If you love video games, like I do, working on FEX with Valve is a dream come true,” said Paulo Matos, an engineer with Igalia’s Compilers Team Life is great sometimes. Particularly when your nerd hobbies like contributing to open sou
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> For a while, VC subsidies meant Uber and Lyft could pretend they were fundamentally different somehow You must have very rosy glasses because calling a tired/rude Taxi operator at 1am and not knowing whether your cab was coming i

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