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by jacknews 2y ago
It depends what kind of UI you want. To just get a functional website, the backend frameworks are just way more productive than having to mess around with a frontend/backend solution, so rails, django, elixir, etc all excel, are cohesi
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by jacknews 2y ago
This is going to be impossible to police, and we haven't seen anything yet: All knowledge workers (at least) are going to end up with real Bossware, in the form of a an AI chatbot boss. Of course they will be called AI assistants, co-w
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by jacknews 2y ago
Interesting, do you have any links to share, it seems like direct-propane synthesis (3-carbon chain) is less likely than methane. Is it some kind of sweet spot, or does direct butane work too? Something like direct butanol synthesis and fue
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by jacknews 2y ago
Exactly. The typical day-day is always something like 'munge the data from this input stream so it can be processed by this analysis service and then uploaded to snowflake' or whatever. Very rare you need any DSA (other than being
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by jacknews 2y ago
Other companies are quite willing to expend the effort to make apple-compatible parts, which are in any case often just off-the-shelf parts, sometimes with a few mods. That's exactly why apply are tagging their parts crypto-graphically
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by jacknews 2y ago
" It possesses the potential to enhance its own capabilities at a speed that outpaces our own evolutionary timelines without AI." Does it? And there may be a limit to intelligence anyway. In humans extreme intelligence often seems
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by jacknews 2y ago
It seems to me there's a lot more 'mass production' efficiency still to be found for small reactors. The whole article is just comparing historical costs. Large reactors are highly bespoke, and therefore increasingly expensiv
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by jacknews 2y ago
I doubt DARPA were passive. But how much of google do they now own? Or should that be 'we' if you're a US citizen. In any case 'investment' doesn't build anything, it just an enabler for others to build. Just l
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by jacknews 2y ago
Certainly not the (passive) shareholders.
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by jacknews 2y ago
It would be fine, and also serve your purpose, if apple merely flagged non-apple parts as such, with warnings and so on. Rather than refusing to use them, or to even boot, or degrading the quality with software, or otherwise f*ing around wi
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by jacknews 2y ago
People can only buy what the industry produces, and they tend to desire whatever the industry markets most heavily. The real culprit, or danger, as the article mentions, is not so much the change in materials and so on, but weaker standardi
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by jacknews 2y ago
I do laud the effort here, but personally I will not buy apple again, even with linux. The software is not the only problem with apple's closed system - the hardware is all but irreparable, locked to approved parts and so on.
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by jacknews 2y ago
For an entire family, maybe so, but let's not confuse fast food for that rare gourmet meal experience. It's niche is good value convenience food for those on-the-go, and cheap enough for kids parties etc. If it's now premium
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by jacknews 2y ago
For such young kids, unless they're prodigies, it should be very much hands-on rather than anything too abstract.
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by jacknews 2y ago
I get a sense this whole "ultra-processed foods" meme is a giant distraction from some actual culprit. No doubt it's unhealthy to eat an unbalanced diet represented by UPFs, with lots of carbs, fat, sugar and additives, etc,
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by jacknews 2y ago
do you have any data supporting that their success derives from quantifying everything, rather than just being in the right place at the right time? anecdotally they seem to have had quite a few failures resulting from 'blind measureme
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by jacknews 2y ago
even so, was it optional, or no?
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by jacknews 2y ago
"It's the way you tell 'em"
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by jacknews 2y ago
"turns out" It turns out that 'leadership' are often just a bunch of clueless 'bullies', as in just the top of a dominance hierarchy. Summoned to the CEO's house to discuss the issue, seriously? An obvious
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by jacknews 2y ago
Isn't this exactly what the article is saying, the problem is when people don't get the respect they think they deserve in some incident.
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by jacknews 2y ago
It's also what's wrong with the 'self esteem' movement. If everyone is taught how special they are, it sets them up for humiliation, shame, and possible violence or radical identity politics when they find out they are n
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by jacknews 2y ago
Yes, snap is great. Unfortunately it's far more daunting than Scratch, if only just in the number of blocks and the way they are presented, using a smaller font, etc, so it's not so good for younger kids just starting out. But it
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by jacknews 2y ago
Well there's quite a big jump in complexity moving to python or whatever. It's complex to even decide what to jump to, then there's setting up the environment, learning text editing and syntax, usually much more complex (and
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by jacknews 2y ago
It is deeper, of course it's turing-complete, and I do applaud how easy it is just to get started, and make something, which is absolutely the key to getting kids interested and keeping them so. But I take huge issue with some of the &
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by jacknews 3y ago
There's always some food boogyman, but UPF is about as indistinct as you can get. Food-processing itself is quite unlikely to the problem, it'll be some common additive, or the general balance of fats (and fat types), proteins, ca
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by jacknews 3y ago
There's also this: http://opensourcemachinetools.org/concrete-lathe/
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by jacknews 3y ago
This seems like the only ethical choice. It's a question of who benefits from these tests. Clearly, the company is in the driving seat, and should therefore be the one committing resources, or at least committing an equal amount of eff
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by jacknews 3y ago
They really are not because of the asymetric effort. It takes minutes for a company to assign a week of work. A fair system would be a test-employment contract of some kind, where it's understood there are no rights beyond payment for
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by jacknews 3y ago
Woah these are around $5k. Not sure that's a fit for home network enthusiasts, and for business, just pay the bucks to be able to pass the buck - ie get a packaged solution not homebrew.
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by jacknews 3y ago
"Now our company wants to rework this device into "smart", add display with touchscreen and stuff." please don't do that. Add some kind of interface, eg bluetooth, and an open-source app, or open-source/documen

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