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by huijzer 3y ago
Unless you're Donald Knuth, then please do so that people can format their math with your system for the next half a century (TeX was released in 1978).
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by huijzer 3y ago
Not any work? You are probably required to join at least 4 mandatory meeting per year! It’s a lot of work to get on shore from your yacht and into a board room. And that 4 times a year.
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by huijzer 3y ago
Ah so traction control plus surface grip estimation via cameras? Current traction control is already pretty good though.
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by huijzer 3y ago
I once compared Linus Torvalds' net worth to Warren Buffett's net worth. I think they are both extremely capable individuals in their fields. Torvalds earns about 10 million per year. With that income, it would take Torvalds 12k y
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by huijzer 3y ago
> Even if Ukraine prevails (far from certain), the country may never be the same. You can also say: Yes it has never before been as pro-West as it is today. I agree completely with you that China has enough weight to do plenty of damage
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by huijzer 3y ago
> I do worry a lot about Western domination declining, and China taking its place. What gives me hope is that we’re not driving in North Korean or Russian cars, nor use their chips, or airplanes. The Soviet Union tried to be a leader in
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by huijzer 3y ago
If you assume that a tool like ChatGPT can add 30 minutes per day in office worker productivity and then estimate how many office workers there are worldwide and how much they get paid on average and assume Microsoft can maybe capture 10% o
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by huijzer 3y ago
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39106634
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by huijzer 3y ago
dup: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39106634
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by huijzer 3y ago
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39106634
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by huijzer 3y ago
> The findings broadly challenge the optimistic cost-of-ownership assessments frequently touted by EV enthusiasts. The researchers found that while small and low-range EVs capable of traveling around 200 miles are indeed less expensive t
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by huijzer 3y ago
Good point. What would you suggest? I wouldn’t know. Lowering taxes on beer in pubs? Raising taxes on social media accounts?
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by huijzer 3y ago
> just sell to the civil government. From what I've seen, governments and startups typically don't go well together. By the time the government bureaucracy has finally approved the contract, most startups would already have bee
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by huijzer 3y ago
I really wonder whether we at some point are gonna get physical switches to disable camera’s and microphones. My iPhone camera is also pointing at me while I type this and the microphone can record the room. Also interesting: people keep ra
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by huijzer 3y ago
By "new game" you mean what they have been doing for 30 years?
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by huijzer 3y ago
Microsoft's mission is to "empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more." Maybe not having tons of distractions in the form of advertisements on the search homepage allows people to achieve more.
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by huijzer 3y ago
> on the contrary I'm really disappointed in how long its taking anything to get into production. I agree. I was thinking about making a Jarvis like bot which should be pretty easy at this point. The main problem was that my iPhone
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by huijzer 3y ago
I think there is one fundamental problem with those: duplication. Instead of one system, you need two. Hybrids by the way are not new at all. They have been used in shipping for ages in situations where the electric load was about the same
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by huijzer 3y ago
> In Canada, Mark Bohaichuk made a widely read observation on hellsite X after meeting a Tesla driver stranded in -45°C (-49°F): On X (formerly Twitter), conspiracy theories go around that journalists are out to get X because X is taking
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by huijzer 3y ago
I threw some German medical handwriting images into ChatGPT a while back and asked it to transcribe it and it worked pretty well. ChatGPT knows a lot about language so that helped in filling in the gaps.
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by huijzer 3y ago
I suspect many people are also lured into increasing this escape velocity by keeping up with the Joneses together with easy debt. It’s much easier to get rich if your assets earn, say, 10% (average index return) instead of losing 10% annual
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by huijzer 3y ago
I have talked a lot with military people and actually have much confidence in their morals. Yes they will make many mistakes but in general there are lots of checks and balances and they‘re not evil people. Also note that they are ran by th
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by huijzer 3y ago
Like our PhD project for example, we're doing machine learning on special forces selection in the Netherlands (for details, see [1]). The aim is basically just to reduce costs for the military and disappointment for the recruits. Furth
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by huijzer 3y ago
I'm probably gonna get downvoted for this, but I find allowing the technology to be used for all kinds of different things more "open" than arbitrary restrictions. Yes, even "military and warfare" are pretty arbitra
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by huijzer 3y ago
I think Buffett has a very great counter to this which he learned from his father: inner scorecard. By judging yourself on your inner checklist, you’re less likely to be pulled into the latest fads. Your goal is follow your own path instead
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by huijzer 3y ago
I‘ve read a few dosen value investing books and would advise to read Richer, Wiser, Happier by William Green. It has a bit of a sketchy title but is actually a very good summary. The takeaway is: if you are as dedicated as these value inves
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by huijzer 3y ago
I would hope that the judicial system fixes the government intervention. I haven’t heard of similar cases in Canada or other liberal democracies.
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by huijzer 3y ago
Apart from some edge cases, Western democracies have quite solid property rights upheld also by the judicial system. But yes if you’re in Russia or China then this argument is moot. They have much less property rights. However, Bitcoin is a
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X/Twitter still supports anonymous accounts right?
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I hope that the 2024 word of the year has a more can-do attitude. Awareness doesn’t automatically lead to problem solving. Problem solving does. Maybe the 2024 word can be something like nichization . In which more and more people and orga

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