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541.
by jefftk 3y ago
I'm confused; aren't "Java, C#, Python, Ruby, Lua, and Javascript" examples of "memory-safe interpreted and bytecode languages"?
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by jefftk 3y ago
No, that's stronger than I'd say and I suspect than you think? For example, I think almost anyone would say the nutritional value of 100 calories of whole wheat flour is greater than 100 calories of enriched white flour, is great
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by jefftk 3y ago
That is from the USDA, which in addition to not being a 3-letter agency wasn't involved in any of the pandemic response you were unhappy with.
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by jefftk 3y ago
If there was a 10% increase in one area and an 80% decrease in two others I would still be okay saying half as much. And then there is some wiggle room in how you weight the categories. (But that's not what's going on here)
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by jefftk 3y ago
If you can't get anything out of it then it doesn't have nutritional value.
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by jefftk 3y ago
9/10; fun game!
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by jefftk 3y ago
> ads are the primary way to get the lower economic classes to give their money to the rich This seems very implausible. People's largest expenses are things like housing, healthcare, childcare, and groceries, which are mostly no
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by jefftk 3y ago
> immediately bought an essentially unrelated service At least the way it works here (Boston area's Bluebikes) is that the same infrastructure supports both the bike sharing and the ad space. There are ads on the bikes and their
549.
by jefftk 3y ago
I worked at Google from 2012 to 2022 and this didn't match my experience, for what it's worth. There were some people who coasted, but it was not common. There were a lot of people who got much less done than you might expect
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by jefftk 3y ago
Sony shouldn't have sold shows to their customers without first negotiating contracts with the rightsholders ensuring Sony wouldn't have to renege.
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by jefftk 3y ago
What modern car has this to the extent that the original VW Bus did? My impression is that there's been power inflation, where things considered "underpowered" today would have been better than average 60 years ago.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Wasn't the A100 a full-size van, replaced by the B-series (Ram Van)? I wouldn't consider the Ford E-series a minivan either.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Right, which is why I put the term in quotes. But Apple got that for free, since they didn't open up manufacturing.
554.
by jefftk 3y ago
Right, which is not something Apple "needed" to do because they didn't allow competition in the iOS phone manufacturing business.
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by jefftk 3y ago
Do you apply this logic to alcohol? (And if no to alcohol, then what about marijuana?)
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by jefftk 3y ago
Yes, but in a weird way: Apple doesn't allow competition for phone manufacturing for their ecosystem, so the equivalent of "deals with manufacturers" are entirely internal. Fostering a phone ecosystem that overall has more c
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by jefftk 3y ago
That's pretty extreme: I don't think random bloggers that host comment sections need to be laying out terms of service. Instead, they can handle things as they come up, and the community is small enough, and stakes are low enough,
558.
by jefftk 3y ago
When I integrated something similar into my site I did the fetching server side, which dramatically reduces the load on HN. You might want to do something similar? (I'm a big fan of pulling comments back to the original post, as long
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by jefftk 3y ago
If you're being silly you don't need a lot of that: $ cat tmp.c main() { printf("%d\n", 3+4); } $ gcc -w -o tmp.out tmp.c && ./tmp.out 7 You can even do away with types entire
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by jefftk 3y ago
I think it goes beyond what you'd expect just from the increased scale putting more lives at risk. Compare our regulatory system for buses and cars, two transportation options that are probably as close as possible to differing only in
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by jefftk 3y ago
See section 5.2, "Can’t people transfer the bacterium among themselves without paying Lantern?"
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by jefftk 3y ago
I think this is an interesting idea, and people inclined towards veganism might be able to better achieve their goals by going for a suffering-minimizing diet, but the studies this is based on aren't very good. For example: > 33 f
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by jefftk 3y ago
The disclaimer in the description is "For the purposes of this demo, latency has been reduced and Gemini outputs have been shortened for brevity." That's different from "Gemini was shown selected still images and not vid
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by jefftk 3y ago
It's very active today: 50+ trades in the last hour. When I checked it was 69%, but it's gone up and down since then. Click on the "trades" tab to see.
565.
by jefftk 3y ago
Perhaps they're being cautious after https://www.reuters.com/technology/canada-launch-probe-into-... ?
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by jefftk 3y ago
Manifold has this at 69%, so here's an opportunity to take some people's internet points: https://manifold.markets/brubsby/will-googles-gemini-beat-gp...
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by jefftk 3y ago
Waymo has been running fully driverless commercial vehicles in Phoenix since 2020, and more recently in other cities. And they have competitors: https://www.jefftk.com/p/state-of-generally-available-self-d... Tesla mak
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by jefftk 3y ago
He didn't coin it: the movement's use of that name goes back to the Oxford group in 2011: https://forum.effectivealtruism.org/posts/9a7xMXoSiQs3EYPA2/... (He did use it once before then in a 2007 blog po
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by jefftk 3y ago
YouTube, Android, and DoubleClick seem to have done pretty well.
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by jefftk 3y ago
> Unless you’re on a Mac, or iPhone. Where you can choose between Firefox and Safari. On iPhone it's all WebKit. Apple doesn't (yet!) allow Firefox to use Gecko.

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