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by fnord77 2y ago
Disruption doesn't come from "experts". Computer science experts could have never built facebook or twitter.
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by fnord77 2y ago
I did Rust full time in a senior position around 2020 for a year. It's interesting at first and then it gets tedious. I have no interest in going back to Rust.
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by fnord77 2y ago
> A truly large-scale introduction of solid-state batteries could possibly only take place after 2030, Sun is quoted in the reports So they're a bit behind Toyota
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by fnord77 2y ago
1st gen iPad airs are 40 bucks on fleabay. I have one, still works great, will probably work great indefinitely.
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by fnord77 2y ago
Many public libraries have tools to lend. At least in California.
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by fnord77 2y ago
there's a massive block under "German Language" that's almost entirely english https://i.imgur.com/LKDuTJP.png
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by fnord77 2y ago
They claim this was the first 100% civil aircraft to go supersonic. The Concorde wasn't a civil aircraft? Also in the 60s a DC-8 was made to go faster than Mach 1
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by fnord77 2y ago
Many of the houses in the PP are already worth 7 or 8 figures.
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by fnord77 2y ago
> You can have conversations about science and technology without weird angry people/bots popping up in the replies and shouting at you. If the conversation is about climate science, no you cannot unless your POV is the oceans are g
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by fnord77 2y ago
couldn't houses be clad with something like Space Shuttle heat tiles?
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by fnord77 2y ago
nice site. one suggestion - it took me too long to realize I needed to scroll down to see your stuff. maybe a little ghost arrow pointing down might help others
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Prehistorically, as many as 19M acres burned in California [pdf](waterboards.ca.gov)
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by fnord77 2y ago
I known at least one mainstream LLM that can write unit tests and run them right in the chat environment.
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by fnord77 2y ago
Amazon already has this but as a 2nd audio track noticed this when watching Stargate SG1 the other day
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by fnord77 2y ago
Isn't composition is superior to mixins for a few reasons, particularly the "Single-responsibility principle" ?
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by fnord77 2y ago
hope this ends up in a museum
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by fnord77 2y ago
"Sherwood asked a baker’s dozen of writers to make their best case for what’ll happen to the most important company of 2024: OpenAI."
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by fnord77 2y ago
Nvidia is 6.73% of the S&P 500
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by fnord77 2y ago
if something is true everywhere except the edge cases, it is not true everywhere.
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by fnord77 2y ago
Those smiley, shifty eyed evangelist types give me scammer vibes
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by fnord77 2y ago
> people who are introverts can be social not if they have social anxiety or are not NT > but only for limited amounts of time. but yes, this is true. And it is not something you can build up like a muscle or long distance running.
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by fnord77 2y ago
I know this is serious, but this trope is kinda hilarious to me. Someone needs to prove themselves right so badly that they risk prison time by posting classified docs.
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by fnord77 2y ago
capex vs opex
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by fnord77 2y ago
it has been getting better. Records and lambdas cut down on a lot. still seems too verbose though even though it is my preferred language
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by fnord77 2y ago
yup, a company I worked at allowed Scala and Clojure to make different developers happy
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by fnord77 2y ago
Where is it written that intelligent beings must create the means for interstellar communication, or any technology at all? Imagine a planet with highly intelligent whales who have no way to manipulate their environment (hands) and no need
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by fnord77 2y ago
go is such a clumsy, inelegant language
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by fnord77 2y ago
They need a proof-reader. There's several grammar problems in that paper that seem like common ESL errors.
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by fnord77 2y ago
I'm convinced titanium is a pretty optimal bike material. I hate aluminum frames, too stiff, some amount of flex makes a bike so much nicer. Hate carbon, too. Steel is nice. I've have a lite ghisallo frame which I think was un
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by fnord77 2y ago
Being a high-stakes criminal is too difficult. One slip-up and you're compromised. There's a million opportunities for slip ups and there's a million opportunities for investigators to get lucky.

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