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by fsloth 3y ago
Without Tesla German incumbents would have lobbied EU just to mandate biofuels and there would be fever EV:s. Tesla did drag an industry kicking and screaming to EVs.
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by fsloth 3y ago
This is quite bonkers. Civilization may or may not collapse but stating such a thing as necessary future scenario puts this into the ’crank’ category. Especially the end ” enjoy the time we have left.” - ending of civilization does not mean
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by fsloth 3y ago
Can someone tldr why Figma is so important? I’m not familiar with their offering.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Approaching your work as contracting (even if you are regular employee) helps to think about the job more rationally. You exchange x hours of time for y amount of money. Also helps to keep in mind to check you value in the job market. There
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by fsloth 3y ago
I guess it’s about the ”different markets”. I know the nordic art scene a bit and it looks like it’s hard market for ”good artists” trying to sell quality art as in order to ”qualify” for the scene there is a limited amount of gatekeepers a
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by fsloth 3y ago
Why would anybody think that’s a bad idea? Religions construct houses of worship, it’s sort of what they’ve done for thousands of years.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Brutalism-as-an-aesthetic-choice is cool, as-mandated-dogma just god awful.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Well, technically, at the scale to house urban populations - no, because a) it’s expensive b) the talent is super scarce c) it’s so much cheaper and easier to source concrete buildings I’m sure one could source enough talent for few baroqu
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by fsloth 3y ago
This is super awesome! Thanks for sharing.
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by fsloth 3y ago
That sentiment is strongly waning, imo. Chess was similarly dismissed at one point when it became a fad. Gaming is fairly mainstream nowadays. But probably depends who you ask.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Not sure what you mean. People like me (40+ male) are a huge segment and plausibly spend much more time in games than movies and music. By revenue games are possibly bigger than movies and music combined (global revenue). Not everyone needs
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by fsloth 3y ago
Games have reached IP prestige parity with movies, music & books. Before they were perceived as some combination of ’geeky waste of time’ and ’unhealthy obsession’.
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by fsloth 3y ago
”Your blue isn’t my blue.” Is there actually sufficient understanding of qualia to state this concretely? Brain neurology is unknown territory for me.
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by fsloth 3y ago
Yeah, computational photography is actually closer to Terry Pratchet’s Discworld version of a camera - a box with an imp who paints the picture. Artistic interpretation of a scene is often very nice. But we would really need to be able to d
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by fsloth 3y ago
Sentient AI driven extinction is absolute fiction at the current state of the art. We don’t know what sentience is and are unable to approach such facets of our cognition such as how qualia emerge with any level of precision. ”What if we
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by fsloth 3y ago
I love this quote so much: ” We’ve done a cool $50 million of R & D on the Apple Human Interface. We discovered, among other things, two pertinent facts: Test subjects consistently report that keyboarding is faster than mousing. The sto
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by fsloth 3y ago
Geopolitical jokes are fun only if they are cleverly silly and not just uninformed. It’s open secret Sweden has had secret security guarantees from US for decades (probably part of agreement that Sweden will not develop their own nuclear st
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by fsloth 3y ago
”Sweden is Tesla's fifth largest market” Wtf, seriously?!
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by fsloth 3y ago
Yup, not aware of any US company that would have exited nordics because of unions. Nordics are politically very integrated societies and large scale actors are all perceived to ”play on the same side” including unions etc. So Tesla is not j
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by fsloth 3y ago
That’s sort of general problem with people regardless of industry who’ve drunk the startup coolaid … wrong way around, let’s say. The point of innovation is not to reinvent the wheel. Saying you are startuppy does not excuse you from actu
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by fsloth 3y ago
Yes you need to have n versions you support in parallel in the wild. One per released incompatible binary API (so in semver 1.x, 2.x etc). We support about 30 libraries with 5 ppl spread around a fortune 1000 org here and there. It’s quite
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by fsloth 3y ago
For example: Two guys come in, say "Give us the godbox or your company seizes to exist. Here is a list of companies that seized to exist because the did not do as told". Pretty much the same method was used to shut down Rauma-Repo
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by fsloth 3y ago
I’m not an expert, just my gut talking. If they had god in a box, US state would be much more hands on. Now it looks more like an attempt at regulatory capture to stifle competition. ”Think of the safety”! ”Lock this away”! If they actually
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by fsloth 3y ago
War or power production?:) Those are different things. Nuclear war is exactly the kind of thing for which we do have excellent expertise. Unlike for AI safety which seems more like bogus cult atm. Nuclear power would be the best form
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by fsloth 3y ago
Exactly this. The ’safety’ people sound like delusional quacks. ”But they are so smart…” argument is bs. Nobody can be presumed to be super good outside their own specific niche. Linus Pauling and vitamin C. Until we have at least a hint
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by fsloth 3y ago
Interesting. Crete has the stupendously ancient olive tree of vouves [0]. It’s as public as trees get. Otoh it’s on the yard of a building complex. You can walk to it, hug it, go hide inside it’s hollow trunk. I don’t know how much tourism
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by fsloth 3y ago
That’s an excellent example why AI doomerism is bogus completely unlike nuclear war fears weren’t. Nuclear war had very simple mechanistic concept behind it. Both sides develop nukes (proven tech), put them on ballistic missiles (proven t
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by fsloth 3y ago
I’ve always in my mind compared Apple 2 to the likes of Commodore 64, ZX Spectrum etc - 8 bit home computers. Apple 2 predates these several years ofc. You could most certainly create an 8 bit home computer without Woz. I haven’t really gee
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by fsloth 3y ago
This time around they’ve actually come up with a real productizable piece of tech, though. I don’t care what it’s called, but I enjoy better automation to automate as much of the boring shit away. And chip in in coding when it’s bloody obvi
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by fsloth 3y ago
The milieu in which Apple came to fruitition was full of young small microcomputer shops. So it's not like Woz invented the microcomputer for the masses - his contribution was critical for early Apple for sure, but the market had tons

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