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by dublin 2y ago
Regulatory certification is a shakedown racket that makes the Ticketmaster monopoly discussed a few items down look like a friendly environment. Do you wonder why all of your new electronics are made in China? One big reason is that China
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by dublin 2y ago
LLMs fundamental flaw is that unlike many other forms of AI, they have NO understanding of the material they were trained on or its relations ships to anything at all int he real world. (viz, the recent bizarre answers to goat/river
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by dublin 2y ago
Make your life easy. Assume 7-bit ASCII. No one needs all those other characters, anyway...
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by dublin 3y ago
I don't think I've ever before been party to any conversation where the words "toaster mogul" ever appeared in the exchange, and yet, here they are, in all their golden brown and delicious glory!
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by dublin 3y ago
Obesity may be a factor, but it's stupid to think that it has anything like the impact that boneheaded government policy has on healthcare costs. Obamacare was, and is, a disaster, driving up costs while producing worse outcomes. (I&
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by dublin 3y ago
No, it has little to no value at all until something really catastrophic happens to you. Paying thousands of dollars a year for a "free" annual checkup is NOT delivering "a lot of value". It's been much more of ju
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by dublin 3y ago
This famous "granddaddy of them all" story about knowing where to make a chalk mark was validated in a 1965 letter to the editor of Life magazine. Although most Internet sources act as though this story is apocryphal, it has some
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by dublin 3y ago
About 15 years ago, I developed an unfortunate reaction to drinking beer: heartburn that made me wish I was dead. Kinda ruined Mexican and BBQ dinners, both of which are not just tasty, but cultural events here in Texas. The condition go
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by dublin 3y ago
To be fair, I bought a Razr+ just before Thanksgiving, finally switching to Android, and I have no idea what Google assistant is for or how to use it. There's a gesture that's supposed to launch it that doesn't work, so I&#x
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by dublin 3y ago
If microplastics are a huge problem (and they likely are), then tires are perhaps the largest source: Recent studies reveal that tire dust is actually responsible for 100x more pollution than the engine of an ICE car, and EVs (due to their
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by dublin 3y ago
Yes. Yes it is. The Lada's engine compartment isn't choked to death with hundreds of vacuum lines trying to reduce/control emissions...
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by dublin 3y ago
Most (actually almost all) IoT systems are not well-thought-out in this regard. It requires a bit of paranoiac foresight. Designers far too often think it's really, really important that remote devices stay connected to the mothershi
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by dublin 3y ago
It's not like this is a new problem, and it's been solved for decades - it's just good network design. One example: This is exactly why randomness is required by Ethernet's ARP protocol: to avoid ARP storms when the powe
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by dublin 3y ago
Probably not. In general, this sort of thing is buried in the often unchangeable microcode of an RF ASIC. (Which makes sense, after all, the vendor is selling an RF modem for a specific band/modulation capability - they don't ex
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by dublin 3y ago
Do we even have the kind of engineers that could design, develop, and produce something like the SX-70 today? It really was a marvel of insanely clever design - the mechanisms, optics, batteries, film, flash, etc., all produced at a price
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by dublin 3y ago
Due to their vastly greater mass and torque, EVs produce far more tire pollution than ICE vehicles do. In addition to that, tire dust is a far larger part of the overall pollution from operating a car than even the emissions from an ICE
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by dublin 3y ago
How it can look so good? ROFL!! It just created a guy with a hand coming off his left ankle in place of a foot, and toes or fingers or something poking out the end of the show on his right foot! https://generated.photos/hu
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by dublin 3y ago
Given what WeWork charged, you can't convince me there was much subsidy there, nor much social benefit. "Cool offices" are something that should never even be talked about by a founding team until they have several spare mill
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by dublin 3y ago
I'd take a solid cash cow producing producing value for customers at an A-round size over growing it to D-round size any day. Maybe because I've just been through enough of this crap to know that yes, you want to make money with
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by dublin 3y ago
THIS! I have been a founder and/or CTO for around a dozen startups. Two exited successfully by M&A, but they made only enough money to offset the others I lost my ass on. (One of those was due to being 20 years too early - that
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by dublin 3y ago
ELDs have been a predictably miserable failure - as the article points out, their very rigidity in draconian enforcement of "safety" rules actually creates perverse incentives to do unsafe things (like ignoring needed maintenance,
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by dublin 3y ago
While heat provides the energy for hurricanes, crap in the air prevents the convection required for storms to develop and organize. The Saharan Dust Layer has been brutal this year, blowing massive amounts of dust across the Atlantic and th
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by dublin 3y ago
Oh, and CreativeCreek's excellent MathU RPN on the iPhone, which feels insanely HP-like as it mashes together the functionality of several HP calculators in a very useful way. (It does the work of the 12C, 15C, and 16C quite well -
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by dublin 3y ago
An RPN calculator is a must for almost everything I do, from real engineering, to startup finances and expenses, to making/3D printing, to home/landscape improvement. I keep a real HP emulator* pinned to the taskbar at all times,
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by dublin 3y ago
AI will kill a lot of graphic designer jobs. Top-level graphic designers (those who bring real innovation and creativity to their work) will still be needed and in demand. Those graphic designers who are less creative and survive by imi
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by dublin 3y ago
And now that tipping at ridiculous rates is effectively mandatory, they've priced themselves right out of the market. Interestingly, there is a pattern here with most "sharing" services - far more than just rides: AirBNB and
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by dublin 3y ago
Utter Bullshit! Today's refrigerators are no more efficient than those from decades ago. In fact, the older, banned refrigerants are often more efficient, since their refrigerants were optimally designed and selected for maximum pe
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by dublin 3y ago
There is no product from China that I can name that is viewed as "quality" or "reliable" There is a reason that "Chinese shit" has effectively become a single word - it's a well-earned association. And de
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by dublin 3y ago
Not as much as you think - the people selling them want you to think the old ones were awful and need replacing, but they were designed for both reasonable efficiency and decades-long life. (You really need to factor in a literal 6-10x lif
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by dublin 3y ago
ALL older appliances were way more reliable than any you can buy today. I'm just old enough that all our appliances are from the 1980s, plus a huge chest freezer from the 60s or 70s bought secondhand on Craigslist for $45. They are

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