donny2018

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by donny2018 7mo ago
>BYD has already proven <10min BYD needs to be heavily liquid cooled/thermally managed to achieve that. The Donut battery only had metal heat sink on two or even one side - and its performance was even higher at high temperatures
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by donny2018 8mo ago
I'd assume datacenters built for space would have different reliability standards. I mean, if a communication satellite (which already has a lot of electronic and computing components) can work unattended, then a satellite working as a
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by donny2018 9mo ago
I hear people say that, but I’m yet to see what’s unreliable about Windows. I’m running Windows 11 with latest updates on my ThinkPad X1 Carbon, and it hasn’t ever failed me, not even once. It has been solid as a rock for me. Windows laptop
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by donny2018 9mo ago
Lenovo ThinkPad laptop.
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by donny2018 9mo ago
Most people are fine with Windows, including myself. I find it a good business workhorse with excellent productivity features that I can rely upon, knowing that it will handle pretty much any task I throw at it. Another factor vs Mac (for m
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by donny2018 9mo ago
This, and apparently they don’t have a track record of producing bluffware before. They already have some interesting know-how heavy products, and previously they have fully delivered on them.
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by donny2018 10mo ago
>I would have had a much easier time getting to where I am today if diagnostic criteria and awareness among clinical staff were better when I was younger. When I have thoughts like this, I like to theorize about causality. If I had had a
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by donny2018 10mo ago
I'm a former AI-hater and sceptic. I do B2B consultancy/development work for my clients. I understand why people are irritated by this. However, recently I tried the GitHub Copilot agent with VS Code using Claude Opus 4.5. It lite
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by donny2018 11mo ago
Maybe, but with all the modern .NET tooling I feel at least 2x productive in .NET than in Spring Boot. There are a lot of quality of life stuff in .NET/C# that really does add up and makes a substantial difference (DX-wise) in the long
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by donny2018 1y ago
Your sample are tech people using Copilot, which is very small population sample. Hundreds of millions of casual users around the world default to ChatGPT, and for example in my country, it's basically household name at this point. The
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by donny2018 1y ago
Where is that guy who coded RollerCoaster Tycoon in Assembly?
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by donny2018 1y ago
The best Reddit was the one the users from Digg were migrating to.
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by donny2018 1y ago
They were well positioned for cloud business long before AWS and Azure, but they still managed to lose this battle. Google can be good on the technological side of things, but we saw time and time again that, other than ads, Google is just
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by donny2018 1y ago
AI startups were easy cash grabs until very recently. But I think the wave is settling down - doing real AI startup turned out to be VERY hard, and the rest of the "startups" are mostly just wrappers for OpenAI/Anthropic APIs
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by donny2018 1y ago
Redis, Akka, Hashicorp, CockroachDB, etc. Seems to be a common occurrence everywhere.
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by donny2018 2y ago
Technologically they may have caught up, but market wise they may have lost forever. In my country (and I think in many others), ChatGPT is already a household name, and nobody has even heard about Gemini. This looks like the Google+ vs Fac
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by donny2018 2y ago
You are missing a lot of stuff Microsoft is doing. Azure, .NET, server tools, databases, VS Code, TypeScript, GitHub, (yes, OpenAI), gaming, XBox, desktop, business tools, Surface, Microsoft 365, Teams and lots more. I'd say much of th
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by donny2018 2y ago
>C# is a nice language, but it has a huge surface area in terms of syntax. If you compare it to something like Java, yes, it has much richer syntax. But having to process some extra unfamiliar syntax is compensated by removing a lot of b
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by donny2018 2y ago
I clicked Copilot button in Bing with this search term and it said the exact answer I was looking for, in plain English: "Yes, *Monday, January 27th* is a public holiday in Auckland. It's the *Auckland Anniversary Day*, which is c
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by donny2018 2y ago
The article says it will be in rocky grounds, and deep enough to be below any water tables.
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by donny2018 2y ago
Well, I think nobody can argue that Apple's tech is still better, but this is the first time someone was able to offer some competition that doesn't look like a joke in comparison to Apple's M series.
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by donny2018 2y ago
I feel like not only Copilot, but Bing’s general search has been better than Google’s for the last year or so. I haven’t had a need to go to google for a very long time.
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by donny2018 2y ago
Another issue is round trip efficiency. Iron-air, I believe, is somewhere at 50-60% (you lose almost half of the energy that you pump in). While LFP and the Sodium battery mentioned in the title, is 95-97%.
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by donny2018 2y ago
To take advantage of that charging speed, you have to supply 10x of charging power though. 10x of charging speed of Li-ion would be in megawatts per single charging device.
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by donny2018 2y ago
You are talking a different (nickel-cobalt-manganese, or NCM) battery chemistry. This is also a type of a Li-ion battery but has a number of advantages and disadvantages compared to LFP battery chemistry (which is just another type of Li-io
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by donny2018 2y ago
A proper dictator will immediately remove all potential power from army generals, police chiefs, political party leaders and so on. He will not even remotely allow any potential challengers that are capable of consolidating enough resources
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by donny2018 3y ago
>Apple being allowed to dictate what businesses will and will not succeed by either locking them out of 1/2 of the major mobile OS, or by taking a 30% tax from their revenue and then competing against them All app stores (and most r
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by donny2018 3y ago
>People like this walled garden since apple promises that it's safe and they deal with all of the problems for you. I get the "safety" argument, but it's also about the user experience. What if now Microsoft makes me
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by donny2018 3y ago
As an iPhone user, if I wanted a phone with Samsung, Amazon, Epic and Huawei stores, 3 different preinstalled browsers and my workflows depended on sideloading some obscure app for a website in Turkey, I'd go with Android. Such an opti
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by donny2018 3y ago
If your stat and premise is correct, 100+ million people need to be prompting ChatGPT to render copies of NYT articles specifically, for 0.01% of them to have a chance to get a meaningful result.

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