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by efitz 3y ago
I used to have a sloop (J/109) and once I got it up to 17 knots surfing* downwind. It was exhilarating but terrifying. There’s no way I would ride on a sailboat going 60kts+. * even displacement hull boats can surf - you let a wave c
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by efitz 3y ago
Bullshit. EVs do not stay plugged in all the time. So the idea that they will be free capacity is a pipe dream. But let’s say that they do. My EV has a 100kwh battery (when brand new). The average household power usage in Florida where
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by efitz 3y ago
I am very worried that the article is true. Like everyone, I want clean energy. I am fortunate enough to be able to afford an EV (I’m on my third Tesla; happy owner since 2015). BUT I am extremely concerned that we are destroying the resil
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by efitz 3y ago
Former M1 Abrams crewman (19K). It has an automatic transmission.
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by efitz 3y ago
It’s too bad that HN doesn’t allow multimedia responses; I’m imagining a bunch of memes of farmers busing passengers wearing peasant garb to the plane in a hay trailer behind a tractor, or passengers boarding via a grain elevator hehehe
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by efitz 3y ago
I am sorry for your loss. I hope that you have many happy memories of your time with your dad that can provide you some comfort as you grieve.
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by efitz 3y ago
That's way too subjective. Here's Microsoft's definition: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/security/int...
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by efitz 3y ago
Yes [1]. In this case, the issue was that the AM software itself contained security bugs, but depriving you of use of your computer would probably be actionable. IANAL and have no idea if you could win that. The software does have disclai
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by efitz 3y ago
How are they supposed to discover every new binary for every application as soon as it is released, correctly classify them as known good, and add them to the QA testing, in a time frame that you would not classify as “incompetence”? If it’
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by efitz 3y ago
I used to work on an anti malware team. There were two controversial issues that related to that work that I want to bring up here. First, what is malware? It’s actually very hard to define in such a way that makes everyone happy. The li
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by efitz 3y ago
Maybe I’m old and set in my ways but I don’t see where the monadic example provided is easier to read or interpret than the traditional example.
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by efitz 3y ago
Encoding meaning in whitespace not only makes it difficult to verify correctness by eye (for nontrivial cases), but also is very fragile. You're lucky if it survives a cut and paste across tools. Almost every tool ever written treats w
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by efitz 3y ago
GenX: “Here’s XML, it can be used as a data exchange format and here’s a tool ecosystem to ensure structure and correctness” Millennials: “That is way too much text, it’s like way longer than an SMS message. And everything’s on the interne
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by efitz 3y ago
I hate it when someone answers a yes/no question with something other than yes or no. Here’s my proposed edit: Q: "Does Raspberry Pi 5 need active cooling? Original A: "Raspberry Pi 5 is faster and more powerful than prior-ge
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by efitz 3y ago
I really wish they would have just built in PoE+ rather than requiring a hat; the hat dramatically reduces the choice of case hardware. Now I want to see what they do with the RPi Zero.
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by efitz 3y ago
The situation you describe is really contrived. What happens in real life is that in emergencies, the legislature passes some “sentencing enhancement” that adds on a decade or three of prison time in the circumstance. Or they create a new
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by efitz 3y ago
Courts already have processes in place to challenge evidence; I’m not worried about them. The problem with deepfakes is the instant amplification they’ll get from media and well-intentioned responses from people of good faith. So there will
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by efitz 3y ago
I’ve been a PillPack customer for years and love the service. If you take multiple medicines, and/or have a complex medication schedule, it’s super convenient. It self audits whether you took your meds already and avoids spending a lo
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by efitz 3y ago
In a casino, you know what you’re there for and what you’re up against. Gaming commissions have curbed many of the worst abuses with inspections, posted odds, etc. With mobile gaming you have a free for all that is intentionally exploiting
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by efitz 3y ago
>something like aesthetic loot crates are a sideshow No, they are very much a part of the experience. The anticipation of the reward and the tension build while the opening animation plays is an addiction mechanism. This is why we wrap
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by efitz 3y ago
Lately i have been wondering about the weird projects that people make- the “I built a web application framework in brainfuck” or “I built a text based bitmap image editor” or “I loaded an LLM on a Speak’n’Spell” kind of projects (I made up
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by efitz 3y ago
Exactly this. So many people have the opinion that private research must be flawed because of the profit motive, but the profit motive ensures that someone will be motivated to take oversight seriously, and have the power to punish misbehav
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by efitz 3y ago
Then let’s change the law. It’s obvious over the past few years that companies can’t be trusted with freedom of association or freedom of speech. Let’s strip them of both. If you are incorporated (and therefore benefit from government-pro
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by efitz 3y ago
The article doesn’t mention a number of contributing problems such as monopoly power. I want to highlight growth as such a problem. Perhaps Ycombinator is the wrong place to bring up such a point, but the idea of constant growth in user bas
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by efitz 3y ago
In the US military, particularly during initial training, collective punishment is often used in addition to or even in lieu of individual punishment. For example, if one soldier misbehaves, the whole unit has to do extra pushups or gets t
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by efitz 3y ago
It boggles my mind that the federal government of the United States pays bureaucrats to write non-safety-related standards for home appliances (or anything else).
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by efitz 3y ago
I think that determinism is not a useful theory, and I think that is what Hawking was getting at in his wry comment. Even if the universe is deterministic, it doesn’t feel deterministic, and determinism doesn’t help me with ethics or mo
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by efitz 3y ago
I feel like my eyes were just assaulted trying to read that white-on-gold mobile page. I was unable to read the article due to the accessibility-hostile theme that disables reader mode on mobile Safari.
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by efitz 3y ago
It’s hard to tell what will work well and what won’t. I asked it to create me a python library for the GT1151 touch screen controller and it came up with working code on the first try. Then I asked it to add support for that chip’s gesture
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by efitz 3y ago
That was a fantastic article and some amazing sleuthing! Thank you for tracking it down. A quarter of the way into the article I needed to know why that bridge was there, and I’ve never been to Minnesota and have no relatives there :-)

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