jeffbee

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by jeffbee 6mo ago
New level of glazing Elon Musk unlocked. xAI has a vertical integration advantage because Tesla once moved into an old Toyota factory and because once they paid Panasonic to put a Tesla sign outside a Panasonic battery factory. Incredible c
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
You're saying that crime leads to longevity? Big if true.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
How do we know it can't be explained by self-selecting driver population? That sounds like the most likely explanation, and it's the only explanation advanced by the article you provided.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Those field accessors take and return string_view but they still copy. The official C++ library always owns the data internally and never aliases except in one niche use case: the field type is Cord, the input is large and meets some other
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
"zero copy" in this context just means that the contents of the input buffer are aliased to string fields in the decoded representation. This is a language-level feature and has nothing to do with the wire format.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Honestly yes. What's your threat model here? You don't want your systems held hostage by ransomware gangs. At local levels of government this is the main problem.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
You wouldn't end up contracting with some weird local nerds for critical systems?
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
OK, also pretty wild to just say "typical Swiss high school" without mentioning the selective system that steers people into and, overwhelmingly, away from the collèges.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Well, without advocating that municipalities would be compelled to use it, isn't there at least some national service that they could opt into? I am sure that most of the red on this map is because it's a cinch to get Microsoft or
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
TBQH it's crazy to have 2,100 distinct choices. Why isn't there a national-level host that frees municipalities from having to think about it?
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Yeah it's basically nothing despite the fact that xAI seemed to intentionally crank up the carbon intensity for no reason. Also, hilarious to select 2 major models from 2025 and they're both Grok, almost certainly the least useful
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
This is such a Boomer way of looking at this. First of all, hardly anyone pays that much. Secondly, the more correct way of viewing such a situation is that you make a shitload of money.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Exactly. The tax platform that we need the most is that dentists are not paying their share. Penny-ante local landlords are not paying their fair share. There is too much focus on the ultra rich, you can and should take all their stuff but
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Unfortunately the slopulist wing of the Democratic party now mostly favors magical tax-cut-and-programs electoral platforms. For example, all but two of the candidates for governor of California from the Democratic party have tax platforms
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
With Democrats like these...
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
They lock in things like tax rates and insulate their investment against political risks for the duration of its economic life.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
That's the opposite of a subsidy. KC stakes nothing of value and gets a defined revenue for the next 25 years.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
The other categorical error is that the American people paid the railroads a monumental subsidy to get the job done. We gave them almost 10% of the territory.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
This isn't true and you can easily prove it to yourself by renting a Sandy Bridge CPU or a TPUv2 from Google today.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
This is great. The presentation of #1 is a little awkward because it reflects the scope of their project, but gives the impression of geographic concentration.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
This is what we call "an opinion".
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Have you always had similar things to say about the paper industry?
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Can anyone name any other industry that is as open and transparent about power and water usage as the IT industry? How much energy does your local oil refinery, metal smelter, borax plant use? Large data center operators are already far mor
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
The homevoter hypothesis is mostly nonsense. There isn't a coordinated, conscious effort to restrict the supply of homes based on rational expectations of excess returns. People restrict the supply of homes due to misguided aesthetic r
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Why? There are loads of people who can afford to rent a house but can't afford to rent a million dollars. I genuinely cannot understand where this hatred of people who rent out houses comes from.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
People did think of many of these core concepts decades ago, but they did not have the resources to put them into practice.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
You can't send high volume through new accounts. Usually when a gmail account is being used for real spamming, it's an established one that's been taken over and the spammers are just discharging the accumulated reputation of
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
No normal person believes that systems delivering and classifying messages amounts to "gmail team reads my emails".
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
I don't know why you think I did not read it. My remark is an application of the 3-point test in the decision to another system.
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by jeffbee 6mo ago
Gmail users (correctly and reasonably) do not expect the "gmail team" to read their emails, except using glass-breaking incident response privileges that leave audit trails and trigger review. Users expect that email is private. A

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