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by drob518 5mo ago
Right. But why does everyone assume that a billionaire continues to work for the money? Besides, he doesn’t “work” for the money. He’s the primary shareholder in companies that he founded and funded. He gets another billion and another bill
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Why trust is a big question at the Elon Musk-OpenAI trial(techcrunch.com)
4 points by drob518 5mo ago|0 comments
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U.S. creates $1.7B 'lawfare' fund in exchange for Trump dropping $10B IRS suit(cnbc.com)
15 points by drob518 5mo ago|0 comments
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Companies start getting tariff refunds after Supreme Court decision(cnbc.com)
1 points by drob518 5mo ago|0 comments
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by drob518 5mo ago
Yep, and I’m totally looking forward to it.
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by drob518 5mo ago
Further, in Java, there are so many separate files. The interface has a file. The abstract class has a file. The concrete class has a file. So many bits of interface and logic spread out all over the place. It’s harder to see it all and kee
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Meta layoffs stress harsh AI reality inside Zuckerberg's company(cnbc.com)
2 points by drob518 5mo ago|0 comments
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by drob518 5mo ago
Yea, that was my thought too. I can’t think of any reason you would reach for those two planes to assign to an airshow. And even if you did, why would you have two? And why would you have them flying anywhere near each other?
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by drob518 5mo ago
I would think that when the two planes struck each other both of the pilots would have realized that something had gone seriously wrong and things were not going to be recoverable with a checklist. But yea, in other situations where it isn’
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by drob518 5mo ago
Needless to say, crashing jets at an air show is not going to help anyone’s career.
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by drob518 5mo ago
Indeed. Most of the hate is due to slow start-up time, but once it gets warmed up, the modern JVM has state of the art dynamic compilation and GC. Thousands of man years have been spent getting it to that point.
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by drob518 5mo ago
Clojure, baby!
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by drob518 5mo ago
You’re not dumb.
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by drob518 5mo ago
Yep, me too. I’m annoyed that proper punctuation and even grammar have been co-opted by LLMs and now serve as a “tell.”
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by drob518 5mo ago
It’s a particularly hard problem in Texas. We get torrential rains and the landscape is relatively flat. Couple that with shallow soil over lots of limestone and it means flooding is really common. We also have roads that have a “low water
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by drob518 5mo ago
My dad worked for HP from the mid-1970s through the mid-1990s. Needless to say, I used HP calculators in high school and college. The best things about having an HP calculator were the solid physical construction (the buttons on the 11C and
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Waymo updates 3,800 robotaxis after they 'drive into standing water'(cnbc.com)
220 points by drob518 5mo ago|214 comments
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by drob518 6mo ago
They were never going to compete with Microsoft even if MS hadn’t screwed them (which MS definitely did). At the time, MS was invincible in the enterprise market. Be’s only path to success was with Apple. Jean-Louis Gassée was negotiating t
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by drob518 6mo ago
True story. I used to work for a company that developed both mainframe software as well as “enterprise” software (based on Unix systems). The two sides of the house were pretty separate. While I was on the enterprise side, through a fluke o
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by drob518 6mo ago
I thought Apple Silicon also has some extra hardware support for handling x86 flags emulation for Rosetta. But perhaps I’m remembering that incorrectly.
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by drob518 6mo ago
I’m curious what the performance of this implementation is versus a server written in C, C++, or Rust. How much performance can a human still squeeze out at the assembly level versus today’s state of the art compilers?
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by drob518 6mo ago
Yea, gotta be honest here; I’m struggling to see many use cases here other than 3d graphs. I really don’t need a spinning 3d rat cursor.
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by drob518 6mo ago
I don’t think the idea of generating HTML is a novelty. Anyone using an LLM to create a web app has done that. Any “novelty” here is the idea of favoring HTML rather than Markdown for internal docs like specs, design docs, etc. Maybe you we
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by drob518 6mo ago
I never really thought about this use case before, and I feel a bit dumb because of that. It’s so obvious that it would be useful. My focus with LLMs so far has been on The App, not all the ancillary stuff around The App. All that ancillary
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Modula-2 and Oberon [pdf](people.inf.ethz.ch)
8 points by drob518 6mo ago|1 comments
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by drob518 6mo ago
Favorite highlight: > The entire Oberon System, including its compiler, text editor and window system occupied less than 200K bytes of main memory, and compiled itself in less than 40 seconds on a computer with a clock frequency of 25 MH
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by drob518 6mo ago
This is the way. Sure, the line is gray, but the more you can do on the server, the better off you are, IMO.
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by drob518 6mo ago
For instance?
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by drob518 6mo ago
This is pretty much true for all applications.
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by drob518 6mo ago
Which means what, exactly.

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