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by jmb99 2y ago
This is not common, at least from my experience (in western companies). Even if devs have root (not a given), the policy is generally that employees cannot use paid software that the company hasn’t licensed
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Fortunately (by some definition of fortunately), most countries don’t agree on exactly how the web should be “locked down.” This benefits at least some people (like me) who live in countries who make also no effort to restrict what can be s
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by jmb99 2y ago
At the moment, IA stores everything, and I imagine that most people are picturing a scenario where the decentralized data is in addition to IA's current servers. At least, that's the easiest bootstrapping path. >What happens
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> decentralized storage isn't as fast as having central servers. Depending on scale that’s not necessarily true. I find even today there are many services that cannot keep up with my residential fiber connection (3Gbps symmetrical),
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by jmb99 2y ago
Tweeters are small to allow them to change direction more quickly, since they have a much smaller mass. Changing direction more quickly means being able to reproduce higher frequencies with less distortion. (If you have a very massive drive
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by jmb99 2y ago
I’m not an expert, but I don’t believe there are that many motors that spin at 600k RPM (= 10kHz), and definitely no large ones. That is absurdly fast. Modern turbochargers are some of the fastest-spinning off-the-shelf things your average
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Back in the olden days (10 years ago), when you bought software, you could actually keep using it indefinitely. Doesn’t matter if the company went bankrupt, if you like using Logic Pro 7 and it works with your equipment you can kept using i
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by jmb99 2y ago
In this case though, the “discrimination” is against people who don’t want to work for the company by offering them 6 months’ salary to no longer work for the company. I don’t really see how that really falls under discrimination.
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> The degradation of road surfaces is caused almost entirely by automobiles. This should read: The degradation of road surfaces is caused almost entirely by heavy trucks. Road wear is proportional to the fourth power of axle weight. A fu
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I want to preface this by saying that my favourite mode of transportation has been NS rail in the Netherlands, but that I do 99% of my travel (where I live, in Canada) by car since I live outside of the city. >the cases I've just be
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I would argue the opposite is true. I would much prefer some faceless stranger to trash talk me over the internet, who will disappear from existence in 30-40 minutes, than have the same happen from someone I actually know and have to intera
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by jmb99 2y ago
Many cars do have “stop-and-go” assist, including lane centring, meaning the car will maintain distance to the car in front down to 0 while maintaining its position in the centre of the lane, and then accelerate from 0 when traffic starts m
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by jmb99 2y ago
Part of the problem with analyzing the general capabilities/safety of drivers over time is that cars have gotten way safer, and smarter. Frontal pre-collision brake assist, automatic lane centering, radar-assisted cruise control, 9+ ai
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by jmb99 2y ago
Doubtful, the 350W threadripper parts don’t run particularly hot with normal desktop cooling. I’ve overclocked a 7975WX with an unrestricted power limit, and could dissipate over 800W while keeping it below 90C (admittedly, with water cooli
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$400 billion was spent on advertising alone in the US in 2023. In 1970, that number was $19 billion ($150 billion in 2023 dollars). Relative to GDP, that’s and 0.014% and 0.018% respectively. Depending on how you want to argue, there is eit
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by jmb99 2y ago
It was well known even to the general public in the 1940s that the mechanism behind the nuclear bomb could generate vast amounts of cheap energy. It was known by nuclear scientists in the late 1930s that massive amounts of energy were relea
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by jmb99 2y ago
Truly unique email addresses and passwords per service is the strongest approach, but there may be alternatives. For instance, Gmail allows address+tag@gmail.com, which will save you from the lowest hanging fruit (block the +tag when it’s c
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For the “least painful” self-hosted email setup, you can’t be hosting on an IP in a subnet that’s ever sent spam, if you want to avoid being blackholed occasionally. This means you can’t have an IP allocated to you by a hosting provider, or
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I used ali@domain for aliexpress, which was accepted.
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Kind of... but the atomic bomb required progressing multiple fields substantially and resulted in some very important technological improvements that are genuinely good (the most stable non-carbon power generation). What is the possible soc
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> They're spending their money rather than your money. Ok, and from whom did their money come? They didn’t magic it into existence. Google spending money that came from advertisers who got it from people buying their products isn’t
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by jmb99 2y ago
Removing the spare tire shaves 20-40lbs off the weight of the car. Manufacturers are more strongly incentivized to lower fleet average fuel economy and emissions, which reducing weight does, and more so than they are incentivized to provide
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That's what I'm currently in the planning phases for. Break-even is still the better part of a decade on parts alone, unless you get very creative (for instance, where I live, I can choose to have a special time-of-use electrical
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I can buy a used diesel/propane/gas/pick your fuel generator today for a few hundred bucks that could power most of the essentials in my house. I bought a brand new one during an extended power outage due to storms last year
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> I don't use social media for a reason. Do you not consider HN social media?
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>Still, it's surprising that they can't even conceive of doing anything without profit motive as an incentive. Realistically, what percentage of the workforce in any field would continue working if they stopped getting paid (or
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> I find it ironic that on a technology forum people are so quick to jump to “agents aren’t worth it” with so many people think the same thing about software developers and/or their quotes for building software. This isn't exac
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RockAuto is my favourite website. Incredibly simple and utilitarian, but also quite powerful. You can easily drill down or search for parts, depending on what is more intuitive to you. Price comparison is automatic, and grouped into useful
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No, we have cars that can drive themselves quite well in good weather, but fail completely in heavy snow/poor visibility. Which is actually a great analogy to LLMs - they work great in the simple cases (80% of the time), it’s that last
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> OLED uses PWM to modulate brightness, which makes some people uncomfortable due to eye sensitivity. I saw a couple mentions of this today that I’d never heard of before. Do you know if there have been any studies (preferably double-bli

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