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by e63f67dd-065b 4mo ago
The original impetus was more about banning robotaxis in Boston/MA than it is about the actual bargaining, from what I've heard. Just as the teamsters tried to ban cars to protect horse carriage drivers (that's what teamsters
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by e63f67dd-065b 1y ago
Don't we just call these out-of-tree patches? Lots of those for Linux lying about, it's not a new idea. I guess the difference is that they have multiple upstreams, so really they're more of a new project that consists of: -
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by e63f67dd-065b 1y ago
This kind of talent is ... not rare at all? And pretty easy to find too, just wander around the hallways at a major academic systems conference or hang around the kernel mailing lists, you'll meet most of the people working at the cutt
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by e63f67dd-065b 1y ago
Engineering is about tradeoffs -- are the resources invested in improving a system worth the return of said improvement? We know full well how to build bridges that will last a thousand years, we just choose not to because it's not an
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
> Besides the option to pay in naira, these companies allow Nigerians to store their data within the country — an advantage most of their Western rivals lack. Local servers give businesses the benefits of low latency and data localizatio
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Zebra mussels and a pump station spurred Texas to redraw border with Oklahoma(tpr.org)
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
Character meshes were taking up 1GB? I wonder what surprising (to me, a non-gamedev) things are hiding in modern 100GB+ games...
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Fast, Flexible, and Practical Kernel Extensions [pdf](rs3lab.github.io)
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
"I would never buy a $200 ticket, therefore there does not exist a taylor swift ticket worth $200" As you point out, different people have different price elasticities. Is it so hard to believe that some people really are willin
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
> MacBook Air with M2 and M3 comes standard with 16GB of unified memory, and is available in midnight, starlight, silver, and space gray, starting at $999 (U.S.) and $899 (U.S.) for education. At long last, I can safely recommend the bas
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
I don't work in networking, but seeing as most traffic is encrypted these days, does passing through unfriendly hardware matter as much as back in the days of plaintext everything? Sure they can drop packets, but they can't tamper
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
With educational pricing this thing starts as $500, and at 16GB of RAM (finally) I think this easily beats any sort of desktop PC you can buy at that price (let's exclude custom builds, they're not the same market). I think this j
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
Smartwatches are poor estimators of energy expenditure of exercise: https://www.strongerbyscience.com/research-spotlight-wearabl... The same authors publish regular research reviews on nutrition and health at https:/&
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
There's 200k weekly downloads of node on npm. A million flutter devs means that there's a comparable amount of node devs to flutter. I'm not sure how else to estimate it, but there's 170k github stars of flutter compared
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
> For the group of seven metal detectorists who discovered the 2,584 silver pennies in the Chew Valley area, about 11 miles south of the city of Bristol, it marks a lucrative windfall since they will pocket half that sum. The landowner o
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
I think a helpful analogy here for the non-chinese is recalling the names of pieces of music from hearing a short part and vice versa. I'm classically trained, and in my circles I can probably hum out a short piece of music that'l
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
> I assume you can draw a few strokes to "get someone started" on a character and they'll pick it up In my experience this is not actually the case; I can usually remember a few parts of the character but draw a blank on t
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
The interesting thing here is that nobody writes chinese one character at a time with pinyin; you almost always type out an entire phrase in pinyin, and usually there's only one meaningfully correct combination of those sounds in terms
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
I'm not familiar with UI development at all, but I'm kind of amazed that the old solution of a giant async bridge where the renderer enqueued native function calls worked at all. What was the initial reasoning behind this architec
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
Former employee here; the interesting (horrifying?) fact is that you can set some of these internal headers (I remember a notable bug with cf-cache-status) in workers (the serverless offering) and cause all kinds of bad things to happen :
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
The state of the art these days is https://github.com/MCHPR/MCHPRS It's an implementation of the minecraft server that compiles redstone into a graph representation, and then does optimisations like constant foldi
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
The thing that got me into CS was building a CPU in Minecraft redstone, which is surprisingly good at being a logic simulator. You only got (back in my day) NOT (the torch) and OR gates (wiring next to each other), and everything was built
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
Many government websites use Entrust, and that didn’t stop this from happening. So I don’t think that this is a good theory.
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
Sharpe ratios are not equal across different opportunities for the simple reason that actors are irrational. Many people write books even when the expected return is negative, which drives down returns for everyone.
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
My understanding is that eink only uses power on refresh; if you don’t change the image, the pigments remain where they are and draw no power.
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
> Only one out of every ten prospective customers ends up taking out a mortgage, so higher prices fronted by mortgage bankers add up I read this as for every ten customers who get to a point where they get their credit pulled, only one o
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
The article mentions that one in ten pulls actually convert into a mortgage, so actually each borrower is paying $1500.
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
SARs are reported to FinCEN, which is part of the Treasury, not Fed.
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
Claims of electromagnetic sensitivity have been debunked. They show symptoms to fake EM devices, and don’t show symptoms to real but hidden EM devices, so it’s all in their head. It’s the nocebo effect.
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by e63f67dd-065b 2y ago
I'm primarily a C++ developer these days, and if the C++ interop is actually good then I'm very excited for the future. For app-dev type stuff it really does seem like it's better than Rust, and I can definitely see a world w

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