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by eru 23d ago
Historically, Go was also really weird in having a very arrogant design: the language designers allowed themselves a lot of generic operators and structures (like arrays, map, channel, the 'make' function etc), but they were consi
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by eru 23d ago
Have you ever tried Starbucks coffee? I'm sure they are complying with all relevant regulations.
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by eru 23d ago
It might be possible, I don't know. Singapore is a fairly small market, so we don't really get any bespoke stuff. Transport shouldn't really be worse: once you put anything on a container ship, it doesn't really matter
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by eru 23d ago
The world economy has never done better in absolute terms. I'm not sure where all those hard times are that I keep hearing about year after year, virtually independent of how well the economies are actually doing.
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by eru 23d ago
You can be free to disregard warranties that are solely policed by the company that offers them. And companies are free to give you warranties guaranteed by third parties. > The company might also go bankrupt with much of its profits ha
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by eru 23d ago
Sorry, I was talking about the guys who make cabinets and tables, not the guys who build a wooden house. I suspect carpenter was the wrong term. I don't think anyone is required to insure a table or a wardrobe for decades, even in Fra
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by eru 23d ago
> The purpose of regulation is to impose a minimum baseline of quality. Quality has more than one dimension. Food regulation is mostly concerned with "don't poison the customer". It doesn't otherwise care about thin
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by eru 23d ago
Claude was just an example. You can use an open source model or even run it locally.
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by eru 23d ago
> In English, for example, NGSS is such a massive attractor, discussing nearby topics often yields NGSS "slop". For that particular attractor, even German or Spanish or so might help avoid it? Or perhaps even just using Britis
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by eru 24d ago
We are happy with our Miele appliances (washing machine, dryer, dish washer.) But we also have plenty of Chinese stuff that works well. I've recently had kids, and I'm actually impressed at how much toys have improved in quality
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by eru 24d ago
Regulation doesn't have much to do with quality. For example, there's plenty of regulation to make food safe, but almost nothing about making your food high quality in the sense of taste and texture. You get quality from competit
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by eru 24d ago
I never bought Vimes Boots Theory. Yes, it can be expensive to be poor, but the rich really do consumer more dollars-of-boot per day, because they can afford it. > There’s some amount of gradient between use-once and fully bespoke clothi
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by eru 24d ago
My local coffee shop makes excellent coffee. They don't need get a third party certification for me to to believe that. Similarly for eg a local carpenter. Or my tailor. The bar exam merely tells you that someone is legally allowed t
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by eru 24d ago
Where are you going to shop? And how do you know something is the 'Chinese version'? It's not like for example Apple advertises where they assemble their products. For a concrete example, we get very good rice varieties spe
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by eru 24d ago
You can look for reviewer that care about the same things you care about? > Besides, who has time to wade through reviews for every purchase? Claude does! And most purchases I make are repeat purchases, so I don't have to read the
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by eru 24d ago
I don't buy your list. For example, higher quality doesn't require third part certification. Reputation (and warranties) can work without third parties. I do agree that third party certification is one possible avenue.
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by eru 24d ago
People in poor countries have gotten massively richer over the last few decades. Especially those that participate in global trade, ie those that you could even call 'your slaves'. After all, some poor soul in North Korea who do
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by eru 24d ago
You can go to a tailor and get custom stuff, if you want to. In fact, thanks to the internet it has never been easier.
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by eru 24d ago
There's lots of high quality Chinese stuff, too. Why do you say it as if quality and Chinese don't go together?
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by eru 24d ago
Things with 'new' in the name tend to age quite rapidly. See also Oxford's New College.
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by eru 24d ago
> Nuclear was not stopped by the environmentalists, it was stopped by the fact that it cost 4X more than coal at the time. A big part of that is the insane culture of safety around nuclear. In a sane field like highway engineering or he
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by eru 24d ago
Other industries optimise for profit just as much, ie they are just as greedy, but we don't see the same effects in all of them. So I don't think (differences in) greed explains what we are seeing.
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by eru 24d ago
When you send a message in Erlang, nothing the recipient does with the message impacts anything on the sender side. That's good! In principle, they could have used something like copy-on-write for this, but in practice they really jus
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by eru 24d ago
We are not running out of land (or sea area) for putting solar anytime soon. Electricity transports really well. Data centres don't need reliable power. Of course, all else being equal, they would like their power to be reliable, but
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by eru 25d ago
> Don't worry about IT support, just burn the VM and replace whenever something gets weird You don't need VMs for that. You can reset to a known good state on your bare metal disk drive just as well.
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by eru 25d ago
Solar power is currently the cheapest power anyone can add to the grid in most places.
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by eru 25d ago
Can that myth about data centres using so much water die already, please?
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by eru 25d ago
> or talking with my wife (I have a tub big enough for two - takes a lot of water to fill) Taking your wife into the tub with you is just good economics then. Saves on water necessary to fill the thing p.
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by eru 25d ago
Don't you get all wrinkly?
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by eru 25d ago
> I think a lot of European houses have floor drains in the bath, you can basically hose the bathroom down. Weirdly, in the UK it's common to have carpet in the bathrooms.

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