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by jandrese 1y ago
Oh it was reckless. That was the era when built quality was rock bottom. People were getting cars that were missing parts, or where things were attached completely wrong.[1] He was expanding production so fast that it caused a serious li
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by jandrese 1y ago
What is most amazing it to see what Elon retweets, often with just a single word followup. It's the most batshit stuff you've ever seen. Or just blatantly obvious propaganda. And people call him a genius. It's like the wo
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by jandrese 1y ago
It was enough info that people who professionally post on X/Twitter can play the algorithm like a fiddle. They can get anything they want to the top, and often can even get Elon to re-tweet it.
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by jandrese 1y ago
Typically this means someone who claims that Israel's policies towards the Palestinian population is causing a humanitarian crisis that is counterproductive to long term stability in the region is labeled as anti Jew and a Holocaust de
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by jandrese 1y ago
> News is/was paid vast sums by the government to tell a certain story. In the US it is not the government paying these sums, it is the billionaires who bought the media outlets. When you look for editorial bias in the US it's
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by jandrese 1y ago
> r/redditminusmods used to track this. Every 12 hours they'd take a snapshot of the top 50 posts and then check ones from the previous 12 hour snapshot to see what percentage had been deleted. When it started, it was averaging
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by jandrese 1y ago
I like the community notes as a concept, but they're often a day late and a dollar short. By the time the community note appears the post has been squeezed of all of its juice and was already on the way out. It's better than not
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by jandrese 1y ago
Many years ago I was really rooting for Tesla and Elon as they dragged the auto industry kicking and screaming towards electrification. How they focused on the underserved whole home battery market. He even kept his manufacturing domestic
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by jandrese 1y ago
It's hard to see how this wasn't by design. Elon loudly released the source code to the algorithm so SEO engineers could optimize their systems to have total control over the narrative. Sure "anybody can read it", but
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by jandrese 1y ago
Yeah, but who gives a shit about YouTube comments? They've always been useless at best.
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by jandrese 1y ago
iCal feeds don't bring you into the site. The whole point of Facebook is to be a walled garden that discourages you from going elsewhere. You're lucky they are not like X and deprioritize external links. Or maybe they do, I hav
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by jandrese 1y ago
Yes. I also got fake airplanes and way too long Wikipedia summaries of random things. It seems to me that there are really only a handful of outfits that really have the Facebook algorithm over their knee. It seems like the sort of thing
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by jandrese 1y ago
Facebook is probably the worst social media company at combating AI bot spam, although it is a tight race with Twitter/X. Even with aggressive pruning of AI generated "content" it's impossible to get ahead. No matter h
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by jandrese 2y ago
The compiler has no way of knowing that the memory would be undefined, not unless it somehow can verify the data file. The most I think it can do is flag the program for not checking the return value of scanf, but even that is unlikely to
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by jandrese 2y ago
> Not ignore the compilation warnings – this code most likely threw a warning in the original code that was either ignored or disabled! What compiler error would you expect here? Maybe not checking the return value from scanf to make su
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by jandrese 2y ago
Is this why Cygwin is such a dog at disk access? It seems like anytime a Cygwin binary needs to open a file it suffers from 100ms of stall.
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by jandrese 2y ago
It has been awhile, but from what I remember Nintendo was extremely skimpy with the memory allocated to the TCP stack on the Wii meaning it couldn't open the window up hardly at all and had a tiny bandwidth delay product. This is why
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by jandrese 2y ago
It is still subsidized, to the tune of 30%. However, that subsidy is mostly because rooftop installs have very high labor costs in the US. Solar farms pay far less per watt. The actual hardware, especially the panels, have dropped so much
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by jandrese 2y ago
One of the ironies in the US is that some of the more conservative states with supposedly renewable energy hostile governments are actually deploying more solar than many liberal states. When people want to oppose a solar install for whate
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by jandrese 2y ago
Nobody includes "clean coal" because it is a myth the fossil fuel industry made up to try to keep their business alive and to give politicians cover. There are around three tiny "clean coal" plants in the world, all toge
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by jandrese 2y ago
Economies of scale. That's how you win.
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by jandrese 2y ago
If you could figure out a way to do this economically you could have a real winner. Ground source heat pumps already exist, but they're so expensive to install that they basically never make their cost back vs. air source heat pumps.
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by jandrese 2y ago
If you want to change the world you need to align the incentives.
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by jandrese 2y ago
Or Australia. For some reason Aussie installers are able to install systems for incredibly affordable prices. I'm always jealous when I see a quote from down under that is like a third of what I paid per watt in the US.
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by jandrese 2y ago
The Obama administration tried, but it was too little too late and they were raked over the coals by Republicans for "choosing winners". But fundamentally solar cell production was (is?) pretty dirty and US environmental regulatio
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by jandrese 2y ago
You would have to burn a cart that contained the webpage and TCP stack, as well as having the ethernet hardware, but there are tricks you can do to reduce the memory requirements. It's not going to be able to handle more than a packet
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by jandrese 2y ago
Performance is not bad. It's clear they aren't using Nintendo's TCP stack, as it was notoriously terrible on the Wii.
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by jandrese 2y ago
I have a feeling that people who got bogged down in step 3 were the kind of people who write a lot of wordy corporate boilerplate with multiple levels of abstraction for every single thing. AKA "best practices" type coding. For m
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by jandrese 2y ago
Human suck at driving. Almost 2 million people are killed by vehicles on roads every year. While not all of this is due to limitations of vision, it's certainly a contributing factor. Tesla tries to handwave this saying that their s
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by jandrese 2y ago
The title is still clickbait given the reason nobody has heard of it is that it barely exists and is not useful yet. Also, it smelled a bit like wishful thinking to assume the high precision clock would not be driven by GPS on real world de

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