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by jfim 6y ago
> Nobody in the autonomous car industry had produced anything yet. Tesla has the best system of those actually in use. Waymo is actually operating a driverless paid service in Arizona [0] with point to point pick up and drop off. Does Te
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by jfim 6y ago
> How do you reconcile that belief with the fact that Tesla's embedded developers did not understand the extremely simple concept of write endurance? That sounds more like the kind of situation where the software department said &qu
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by jfim 6y ago
> there's no reason Kafka's starting experience couldn't be the same if someone cared enough to put the time and effort in There's always a perverse incentive when the software provider's model is to monetize thr
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by jfim 6y ago
I'd be quite the opposite, honestly. Cropland area in the US covers 367 million acres in the US [0]. Even assuming that vertical farming is 10x more land efficient, the amount of resources (steel, power, plastics, etc.) needed to conve
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by jfim 6y ago
They do though. If one has paid for Prime, they might not even think about shopping elsewhere because they get Free n day shipping, for whatever value of n Amazon has nowadays.
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by jfim 6y ago
That's California Proposition 47 [0] from 2014. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_California_Proposition_47
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by jfim 6y ago
I'm not sure I'd call varints a stunningly bad decision. It seems more like the kind of tradeoff one would make if storage and network transfer costs are considered to be more important than the serialization/deserialization
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by jfim 6y ago
They ask you if you were running them for more than three hours a day on average during the warranty process.
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by jfim 6y ago
> I just had a receiver die. It was 8.5 years old, not really outdated... But those kinds of things should last a lot longer! If it's just a capacitor that failed, it might be repairable for a few dollars. Electrolytic capacitors un
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by jfim 6y ago
> Tesla has single-handedly doubled the value of the automobile industry in a year when overall volumes and sales shrank. [...] It could be that half the assets (all the other automakers) are worthless. Maybe by just looking at the marke
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by jfim 6y ago
Out of curiosity, what would be the use for cycling?
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by jfim 6y ago
The same ambient temperature can feel different if the sun is shining on you or not.
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by jfim 6y ago
That regulation already exists, at least for international trade. The act of selling items at less than nominal cost is forbidden by anti dumping treaties. See https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dumping_(pricing_policy)
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by jfim 6y ago
> I am not sure what is the point of impeaching a president after he left office Impeachment may prevent him from running again: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-trump-impeachment-exp...
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by jfim 6y ago
There's an 80/20 rule in the ACA [0] where at least 80 percent of the premiums paid must be spent on healthcare costs, otherwise the difference between 80 percent and the actual amount paid must be returned. Sounds great, until th
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by jfim 6y ago
It makes it easy to crawl. If you're trying to get all of the user profiles for a given website and all of the URLs look like foo.com/user/123 it's easy to download all of them, whereas foo.com/user/1234-abcdef
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by jfim 6y ago
There's two versions of barkeeper's friend, a powder one and a liquid one. The powder one is the one to use to remove caked on residue.
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by jfim 6y ago
> some startups have been experimenting with built-in thermometers, so I can imagine this classic design being different 10yr from now T-fal has had the thermo spot in their regular nonstick pans for at least a decade, if not two or thre
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by jfim 6y ago
These shortcuts have been a thing for quite a while too, they come from the IBM CUA guidelines [0]. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Common_User_Access
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by jfim 6y ago
> To me it seems obvious the feedback works in the opposite direction. Deplatforming disrupts the feedback bubbles that radicalize these people. I'm not too sure about that. For people who are already radicalized and believe that th
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by jfim 6y ago
You can use "the author" or refer to the article or paper. [name of paper] mentions that X is faster than Y. The author suggests the cause of the speed up is Z, while we believe it is W.
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by jfim 6y ago
Probably this one, over four hundred years ago: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_East_India_Company
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by jfim 6y ago
The picture still helps to disambiguate which of the three John Smiths that went to University of Foobar was the one that you met at the mixer yesterday.
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by jfim 6y ago
You can actually combine error diffusion with your probability-based approach, which helps reduce patterns if I remember correctly (it's been a very long time).
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by jfim 6y ago
How much of the electronics in Teslas are made in the USA though?
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by jfim 6y ago
> Why should it go into the shareholder's pockets instead of the people who actually do the work and create the value? Proponents of the shareholder value model would argue that the point of a business is to maximize that value, and
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by jfim 6y ago
I'd argue that most of their capital comes from their employees, not their hardware. Any company can buy hardware that's functionally equivalent to Google's. Even with a massive pile of cash and being able to buy the same amo
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by jfim 6y ago
That's profit per employee, not revenue per employee. Revenue per employee is much larger, at least according to this website [0]: > Alphabet Inc's revenue per employee grew on trailing twelve months basis to a new company high
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by jfim 6y ago
You're right, rereading the parent post with that angle makes it clearer that they were complaining about the unavailability of memory and other hardware. It would definitely be great to have more reliable hardware generally available
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by jfim 6y ago
> Now if we can get ECC at the retail level You can actually, most AMD consumer chips (except the ones with integrated graphics) have ECC support, even though it's not officially supported. See this Reddit thread for more details:

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