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by fsloth 1y ago
If you take Musk for his word massive expansion of EV automotive was his main goal all the time regardless who makes the cars. In that narrative BYD expansion is a win - validation&healthy competition. Ofc the impact to Tesla-as-a-busin
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by fsloth 1y ago
Totally agreed. And do note this is an opinion coming from EU. We really, really, really don’t understand _anyhting_ about US internal politics and most people here in EU countries who _think_ they do really don’t. And vice versa - europoli
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by fsloth 1y ago
This is very much YMMV thing. There is no objectively best platform. There are different users and requirements. I’ve been a software developer for 20 years and in _my_ opinion Windows is the best platform for professional software developm
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by fsloth 1y ago
Geomagnetically induced currents generally become a problem over hundreds of kilometers. Long range electricity transmission lines are the main worry I believe and solar storm events have knocked off large grids occasionally. I have no idea
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by fsloth 1y ago
I don’t think abundance vs speed is the right lens. No user actually wants abundance. They use few programs and would benwfit if those programs were optimized. Established apps could be optimized to the hilt. But they seldom are.
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by fsloth 1y ago
The problem is 1000xers are a rarity. The software desktop users have to put up with is slow .
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by fsloth 1y ago
My algorithm was ”plan a budget. See what options are available and compare reviews.”. I think the critical thing is that you specify a) what your amplifier is b) how many speakers c) music, movies or both.
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by fsloth 1y ago
Can agree used speakers offer incredible value. Having an 4k oled TV bundled into $400 package _is_ surprisingly cheap even then imho!
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by fsloth 1y ago
”Transpiles to c” - how do you generally optimize single line performance hotspots in that case?
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by fsloth 1y ago
”If the practitioners haven’t adopted what you’re offering for 50+ years, that thing can’t be good.” I don’t think what features are popular in C++ is good indication of anything. The language is good only due to the insane amounts of inves
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by fsloth 1y ago
I think embedded is one of the specific buckets. You target the compiler your client uses for their platform. There is very little choice there.
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by fsloth 1y ago
The crazy complexity is stupid. It’s mostly lasagna engineering where the effort is spent to fix the design mistakes in earlier levels. Practically at this point it’s configuring a Skia render context. This gives a known api to target for t
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by fsloth 1y ago
The web browser is an ugly mongrel that in a “sane” world would never exist. The only reason it is a platform is due to the immense wealth funneled to ductaping and reinforcing it to hold. It’s basically a statue of liberty made of ductape
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by fsloth 1y ago
Sure, different countries have different norms. In Finland 16 olds are not allowed to drink and access to alcohol is state controlled. IMHO learning foreign languages, math, history, biology and physics is not child care. This is in prepara
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by fsloth 1y ago
There is a huge variation in education outcomes in different countries. I guess you should first define which countrys curriculum in your opinion fails to deliver an education.
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by fsloth 1y ago
Apps are the result of darwinian competition for engagement in a user base of billions. It’s a horrible way to optimize technology for addictiveness. Not sure if there is a fix for that.
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by fsloth 1y ago
Child care? This is legally required school attendance for under 18 year olds. Most school days are way shorter than that. The curriculum seems to keep my kids intellectually engaged. Commenting as a finn.
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by fsloth 1y ago
No copyright alone afaik stops anyone from abusing said rights unless you tell them to stop. Would be happy to have counterexamples.
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by fsloth 1y ago
I guess we can agree that books that are too dangerous in general don’t exist then?
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by fsloth 1y ago
Well, I think you should give a concrete example of such a dangerous book or we veer off into pointless whataboutism. Considering Nazi propaganda, it used newspapers, radio and TV to a great effect. Mein Kampf alone did not turn Germans - a
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by fsloth 1y ago
That’s not how companies see it. From MS point of view it’s Cursor doing it to them . The way copyright and other rights to your IP you claim to have work in practice, is you need to enforce those claims or loose the rights.
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by fsloth 1y ago
The only harm books cause is they stimulate thinking and erode powerbase of societies whose political structure is based on unquestioned deference.
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by fsloth 1y ago
I would say yes. In my standards that still accounts for interesting-life-choices-but-safe-and-sane. But I grew up in an alcoholic family so realize my standards are likely slightly low-bar for what accounts for 'admirable'.
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by fsloth 1y ago
Spot on. I think the author did not think through their argument: ""One of the oddest aspects of the Moomin phenomenon is how these complex tales of apocalypse, breakdown and disfunction have been consistently misread as cutesy ce
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by fsloth 2y ago
I’m not sure what you mean by ‘good’. May I suggest you may have meant ‘there are probably people who in the deepest of their heart disagree with state policy’. If the state can execute your family on a whim because somebody stepped out of
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by fsloth 2y ago
Being doing toy-examples of non-trivial complexity. Architecting the code so context is obvious and there are clear breadcrumbs everywhere is the key. And the LLM can do most of this. Prototype-> refactor/cleanup -> more features
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by fsloth 2y ago
Agree, excellent for commodity boilerplate where there is basically just a bunch of 1:1 mappings that need to be filled. Terrible for novelties and problems in a large solution space. The more degrees of freedom there is to fail, the worse
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by fsloth 2y ago
> What you meant to say is you disagree. No, I meant what I wrote. In general there are 8+ billion people on the planet, of which some number are trying to autodidact through MSc physics equivalent. It’s possible you are in a circumstanc
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by fsloth 2y ago
”but I have to see anyone do it” This is a strange take. Why or how would you ever see someone do it? It is very unlikely you would be aware of them. I do concur most ppl I’ve seen lacking formal education in physics - no matter how smart -
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by fsloth 2y ago
"The chapters on edge detection, for example, only have historic value at this point" Are there simpler, faster and better edge detection algorithms that are not using neural nets?

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