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by ip26 3y ago
Planned obsolescence can be a good thing. Cans from the fifties and sixties still work. Nobody wants to use them; they are heavy, uncomfortable, have poor performance, need an amp to drive, and use huge old school connectors. They are from
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by ip26 3y ago
The irony is that you’ll have better luck finding quality 3rd party replacements for popular, widely sold “non-repairable” models (Sony, Bose, etc) than boutique “repairable” cans.
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by ip26 3y ago
I have yet to see a proposal for compute-in-memory that isn’t actually compute-near-memory and keeps the density of memory arrays. If you’re still doing row-column access, it’s just another Von Neumann machine. If you have compute hardware
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by ip26 3y ago
$200 to go to the theater when tickets are $10? Just how many people are in your family?
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by ip26 3y ago
Honestly, the clerk didn’t put that screen in, they may be just as abashed as we are furious. I don’t envy their position. I doubt point of sale tips even go to the clerk.
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by ip26 3y ago
I’m even starting to see 17, 21, 30 in some places I’m hopeful this kind of naked greed will finally push it all over the edge.
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by ip26 3y ago
If you have access to AGI capable of enabling you to realistically build out your utopian vision, then it matters not what other groups are doing - short of coming to try to actively destroy you I guarantee you there will be someone else
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by ip26 3y ago
Air conditioning peak load is 2-7pm, 5.5kW. EV peak load is like 7pm-1am, 6-12kW (and can be dialed back). Frankly they are complimentary. If you have the service to run AC, you already have the service for an EV.
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by ip26 3y ago
Utah had a similar outcome; house the homeless, and improve 80% of cases. I still bristle at the description “virtually end homelessness” - you buy them free housing and 20% still remain unhoused, is that “solved”? What happens next? What m
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by ip26 3y ago
Yeah, but maybe they can reflect enough back into the sky to be a net win. Ultimately you need something simple with the highest possible net energy rejection, whether by radiation or reflection or both.
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by ip26 3y ago
This part of the world needs something cheap and low tech. No one who is at risk has the money for cutting edge building materials. Mirrors on every roof? Polished steel? Brick or concrete walls? At a city level, low tech could still make a
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by ip26 3y ago
Step by step. John Deere is allegedly one of the most flagrant abusers of repairability, so it’s the right place to start.
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by ip26 3y ago
We cannot allow a chip-melt gap!
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by ip26 3y ago
It’s idempotent. He pulled the greatest ruse, convincing you of his exploits as a con artist when in fact he wasn’t the great con he said he was ;)
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by ip26 3y ago
Are you talking about this? managers are expected to have 20+ person teams and spend at least 20% of their time coding https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/cruel-changes-at-twitter/...
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by ip26 3y ago
Ah yes, you can only call it “Open Source” if the source code is certified by the D.O.P. as written in Manila. All other source may go by names such as “Permissive Source” or “Unclosed Source”. “Free Software” is prohibited; a small donut s
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by ip26 3y ago
I believe the reason being, accurate high resistance components were difficult to make for decades, so you’d be working with 10 ohm resistors for your dividers to have sufficient control of the reference voltage. Although suddenly I wonder
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by ip26 3y ago
America has a lot of land with no ocean or nearby significant body of water. Meanwhile, the UK is an island and the British Empire was built on naval power. Swimming is a cultural imperative.
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by ip26 4y ago
They never claimed Americans are the only ambitious people, or even the most ambitious. Just “very ambitious”, in a list of factors that (put together) allegedly combined to explain the notable outcome. There are other countries that can’
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by ip26 4y ago
What is exceptionalism and what is cultural values? Is it equally revolting if Europeans are proud of a culture of having & taking long parental leave? It resonates with me because it describes me. It’s not uniquely American, but it sti
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by ip26 4y ago
Millions of dollars of product (e.g. gross revenue) is a statement about scale and impact, not personal profit.
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by ip26 4y ago
I am constitutionally incapable of lowering my expectations My heart swells at this part and I want to cheer.
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by ip26 4y ago
Finance is default not trusted. If documents are missing, fraud is presumed. Tech doesn’t seem to have reached that point just yet.
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by ip26 4y ago
I'm the opposite. I am selective, but it's work to decide what's worth keeping, especially if you are prolific with your camera. However, two years later I have more emotional distance and have grown as a photographer, and it
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by ip26 4y ago
1-10µm is a size, not a mass or chemical property. Maybe tire PM2.5 stays aloft the same amount of time as smoke PM2.5, but I don't see why that is a given. The press on the subject also annoyingly sidesteps a direct comparison. For ex
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by ip26 4y ago
Are the two issues directly comparable? A large volume of tire particles settle near the road, going into the soil or washing into waterways for us to drink. Exhaust particles stay suspended in the air for a long time & blow far and wid
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by ip26 4y ago
That isn’t just motivated by greed. In a competitive industry, if you take your foot off the gas, a hungrier competitor who is willing to go home at 5pm or 6pm will eat your lunch. It’s partly a product of capitalism within a nation, but al
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by ip26 4y ago
As a mild procrastinator who used to be a severe procrastinator, I think the higher gear comes from the fear of consequences (e.g. missing the deadline). The closer you get to missing the deadline, the more the adrenal system activates &amp
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by ip26 4y ago
That’s pretty great. I have noticed the self-professed “brutally honest” tend brutal even when perfectly ordinary honesty would have served just fine.
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by ip26 4y ago
First, I’m sure it’s hard to imagine, but California could lose said showdown and find themselves obstructed from protecting even only California. Second, it’s not just some lone politician that would care. The whole Roe v. Wade thing shoul

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