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by jahewson 3y ago
I’ll drive to my garden shed if I want to!
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by jahewson 3y ago
Qanon is too hairbrained to have been conceived by such people.
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by jahewson 3y ago
This is a Google Docs alternative in the way that a pair of shoes is a car alternative.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Finger jointed hardwood is not a nice material. It’s short bits of knotty new-growth wood chopped up and glued back together.
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by jahewson 3y ago
a) What major population center does not have distorted (high) housing costs relative to income? b) Does the answer to a) have slums?
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by jahewson 3y ago
Ok… but how does it work? Too much magic.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Some fair points but you’re really downplaying the inhospitality of much of sub-Saharan Africa wrt productive agriculture. The tsetse fly lays waste to livestock and the thin soils make ploughs useless. > Colonial holdings in Africa ofte
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by jahewson 3y ago
Because it’s trivial?
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by jahewson 3y ago
Are the incentives not coming from the people paying the creators, rather than Google?
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by jahewson 3y ago
Rectilinear fan blades are shaped very similarly to aircraft wings. And it does only move laterally until the ailerons are moved away from being parallel with the ground.
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by jahewson 3y ago
It works by reducing the amount of CSS the plane needs to carry.
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by jahewson 3y ago
That’s protectionism and it makes us all poorer.
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by jahewson 3y ago
The leader of the Republican Party, Ronna McDaniel?
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by jahewson 3y ago
Design = thinking things through. If that’s not a competitive advantage, I don’t what is. You must see the irony in advocating for 4 things that the market has proven it doesn’t particularly value as being some kind of advantage?
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by jahewson 3y ago
This early in the game? No. If LLMs become vastly cheaper and faster then adoption (and model size) will increase in line with that.
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by jahewson 3y ago
‘class’ also prevents the constructor from returning a different class/object.
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by jahewson 3y ago
If you hear it in a bar it’s already public.
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by jahewson 3y ago
No, a bar is a public place so this counts as a public disclosure. The people having the conversation would be in trouble with the SEC for making a disclosure in this manner.
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by jahewson 3y ago
I’m trying to figure out how you think that the “capital class” lives off the debt of “the poor” when the bottom 50% of US households account for just 2.6% of total income.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Isn’t that logic backwards? It’s only higher-density areas that have significant numbers of people living on the streets.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Not even top 25 in the US. Median household income in Berkeley, CA is $97,834.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Indeed they are not true Scotsmen.
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by jahewson 3y ago
I know what you're getting at but you’ll need to define “bright”, “good”, and “bad” first. The whole undertaking seems ill-conceived.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Ok so you’re partly right and partly wrong. In California it’s flat-out illegal (Tit. 2, § 11071) and attempts to perform more diluted assessments have been found to infringe upon California’s right to privacy. As for other states, the ADA
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by jahewson 3y ago
Not op but “write hello world to the DOM” and “make an http request” are questions I’ve seen go unanswered many times.
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by jahewson 3y ago
This is an ollllllld myth amongst bikers. #1 killer of bikers is drink-riding.
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by jahewson 3y ago
I spent my PhD working on one of the most pressing problems facing big cloud companies at the time: downtime. The big problem being faced was… configuration.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Unfortunately not, because wisdom of the crowds requires not only a lack of bias but independence which, let’s face it, is usually impossible achieve.
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by jahewson 3y ago
C-suite is too busy migrating to yet another database to worry about frontend.
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by jahewson 3y ago
Everyone feels this way about Xcode, right? It’s a relic of the 90’s.

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