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by fwlr 4y ago
I wonder if there’s space in the self-driving field for a self-driving-only company. Like, your product is a sensor and software package, and car manufacturers install it in their cars. They get to skip the R&D investment (I imagine the
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by fwlr 4y ago
Replika, speaking to you using ElevenLabs for voice synthesis and hearing you using Whisper for transcription. Damn, you’re right, it’s literally off the shelf commercial tech to have the tech of Her right now.
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by fwlr 4y ago
As an Australian who visited Iceland and drove a lot there, I was very impressed with Iceland’s roads. They face some similar challenges to Australia: geographic distribution requires a lot of road for not many people. ( https://w
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by fwlr 4y ago
I believe the author when he says he feels gaslit into accepting JS SPA as the Only Way to Make Web Apps These Days. I have noticed a similar trend (though my particular neurodivergences have likely shielded me from most of the impact those
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by fwlr 4y ago
So there’s these three sets of cells in the eye, each tuned to a different wavelength of light, and the difference in relative activations of each cell type in response to a given light is what provides color information. Which wavelength e
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by fwlr 4y ago
A 40 billion dollar fine if you don’t do as the EU says… at some point tech companies are just going to pull out of the EU, right? For most (but not all!), GDPR was worth complying with (and had benefits for citizens). This is likely to als
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by fwlr 4y ago
It’s likely that the gigagram of ejecta is in some sense the “easiest” 1M kgs to knock out. I doubt it’s boulders and loosely compacted gravel all the way down.
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by fwlr 4y ago
Xerox Alto, the PayPal Mafia. Any other groups figure importantly in the history of tech? I love reading about this stuff.
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by fwlr 4y ago
It’s actually a testament to the effectiveness of the dynamic island software. It’s some real genius, the fact that it changes in size so intelligently gives me the psychological perception that it could change to no size at all and thus it
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by fwlr 4y ago
I completely agree with your take on what makes for a good shorthand property, I would also have pointed to border: as a good shorthand and flex: as a bad shorthand. I think place-self: is a good shorthand, though - the fact that it’s a red
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by fwlr 4y ago
I also used to be annoyed by how long it took to get “basic useful functionality” for some use case in CSS. Over the years I have mellowed as I recognized it simply takes a long time to converge on what functionality is actually desired, an
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by fwlr 4y ago
Fundamentally the anchoring problem requires you specify 1. the target you want to anchor to, and 2. where in relation to the target you want your content to appear (above, below, justified to a particular edge, etc…). “anchor: below ——my—t
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by fwlr 4y ago
CSS has several long-standing problems in a similar vein to this one, most famous being the “center a div” problem. A simple-to-specify end result (“I just want to center this content within its parent”) is desired, a series of arcane CSS m
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by fwlr 4y ago
IKEA was originally a Swedish company and still does their design in Sweden, so perhaps it’s not surprising that a homemade Swedish desk looks a lot like an IKEA desk.
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by fwlr 4y ago
The few people that know the actual nitty gritty details are probably not inclined, incentivized, or permitted to reveal them, so speculation is all we have. The 10,000ft view: they are capped profit at 100x investment; Microsoft has invest
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by fwlr 4y ago
I have had experiences that contradict this! At the same company there was a ~30kloc frontend built by one developer and a ~20kloc backend built by four developers and the second was much harder to maintain and improve. Multiplying develope
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by fwlr 4y ago
Another type of change to consider is flipping shift for an individual key: semicolon/colon (if your language isn’t semicolon terminated, you probably type colon way more) hyphen/underscore (if your language doesn’t have arrow fun
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by fwlr 4y ago
It’s extremely common for games to have dozens of different quality settings to support being played on hardware with different capabilities. On top of these quality settings they often offer a “high / medium / low” preset so user
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by fwlr 4y ago
Don’t swap to a new layout, it’s too much work to learn. Instead, swap your K and E keys. E being common but not being in your home row is responsible for a significant chunk of the inefficiency of the QWERTY layout and even if you stop her
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by fwlr 4y ago
If the author is looking to satirize this when it comes to monetization they should offer an SLA with price discrimination on number of 9s of uptime
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by fwlr 4y ago
“…a flight with 25 passengers who require [wheelchairs] to board turns into an arriving flight in which only five need the service. In the airline industry, we call these ‘Jesus flights’ because so many passengers seem to be ‘healed’ during
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by fwlr 4y ago
“Does the Javascript language inherently result in a bloat runtime?“ No “Are the runtimes accidentally bloat?” Not accidentally “Is it all the browser stuff and not the JS runtime per se?” Basically, yes “Or maybe just bad programming on th
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by fwlr 4y ago
Scott Adams is a smart guy who’s been going in this direction for years (not just since Trump). His comic centered on seeing through bullshit and you can’t write a comic like that for as long and as successfully as he has without seeing thr
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by fwlr 4y ago
Tactically, I doubt this attempt at outrage will be very effective. There is a widespread implicit understanding that equitability and meritability compete for the same resources, so X positions are distributed on equity and (1-X) positions
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by fwlr 4y ago
You have to follow a few links to get to a definition of what masonry heaters actually are, but it ends up at https://www.mha-net.org/docs/def-mha.htm Specifically the important parts: “a mass of at least 800 kg. (1760
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by fwlr 4y ago
I don’t mean to be reductive or try to absolve the individuals of responsibility; ultimately, responsibility must bottom out with the individual, there’s nowhere else for it to go. Regarding the casino comparison: casinos are an established
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by fwlr 4y ago
There is a lot of desire for an amazing cup of coffee, and this desire pays for a LOT of ritual and effort, which is reflected in the kinds of information you can find out there for making coffee well. If you’re okay with “just” a really go
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by fwlr 4y ago
Applying the same reasoning to casinos: “Casinos may make gamblers more impulsive. It’s still their responsibility to recognize that bias and work against it. If they truly want to financially secure, at least.” It seems a little heartless
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by fwlr 4y ago
On some level, the author recognizes that whole set of preferences is completely unreasonable - that’s the point of listing them all out like that. But you can also see that whole set of preferences is necessary and functional to survive a
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by fwlr 4y ago
The last paragraph: “How many [men] over six feet tall with graduate degrees who don’t smoke and drink only socially or not at all and either already have kids or don’t want kids and live within fifty miles of you who aren’t polyamorous and

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