jmyeet

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by jmyeet 10mo ago
Nuclear is never getting cheap [1]. Nuclear reactors need to be large to scale [2]. As for why SMR persists? Because someone makes money selling the idea. That's it. And SMRs get sold is the very idea you state because it sounds compe
902.
by jmyeet 10mo ago
This is a purely political move. It will take a decade or longer if ever to ever get power from this. And yes it says "as early as 2032" but we know how that goes. Why nuclear? Because it's cleaner than fossil fuelds but appe
903.
by jmyeet 10mo ago
One thing I'm curious about is I hear stories about people getting hacked and losing their FB/IG/Tiktok accouts then fighting to get them back. You never hear details but I can only assume they're reusing passwords or th
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
You read things like this and, first, you're reminded of Sideshow Bob [1] and it puts Rust concepts in context, namely: 1. Move semantics are to handle ownership. Ownership is a first-class concept in Rust. This is why; 2. C++ smart po
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
This kind of comment scares me because it's an example of people substituring professional advice for an LLM where LLMs are known to hallucinate or otherwise simply make stuff up. I see this all the time when I write queries and get th
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
You do have that right. You just can't use banking apps in Vietnam on such devices. This is really no different to the antivaxxer arguments in the peak pandemic era. Some people didn't want vaccines. Fine. Well, not fine. None of
907.
by jmyeet 10mo ago
Have you ever listened to any scammers operate? People are, for lack of a better word, stupid. They're far too trusting. Anything from Nigerian prince scams to buying Walmart gift cards and giving some random person the number to whate
908.
by jmyeet 10mo ago
How about The unreasonable effectiveness title considered harmful ?
909.
by jmyeet 10mo ago
In the US you can often buy houses with no money down. Also, if you're taking the equity out of your $2M house, how are you servicing that debt? My point is that it's an awful lot easier to buy 6 $100k houses than it is to buy 6 $
910.
by jmyeet 10mo ago
The lesson here is that people have an unrealistic view of how complex it is to write correct and safe multithreaded code on multi-core, multi-thread, assymmetric core, out-of-order processors. This is no shade to kernel developers. Rather,
911.
by jmyeet 10mo ago
> In Australia we've treated the family home as an investment That's true of most of the Western world, unfortunately. > a primary mechanism for wealth creation I don't disagree but this needs to be correctly framed pub
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
So there are (at least) six important aspects to the housing crisis. 1. Politically, this issue is a winner and it's crazy that the Democratic Party has refused to bang the drum on this, basically because it potentially upsets corporat
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
Owning your family home through an LLC, depending on your state, is often a bad idea. There are generous protections in most states for your personal home that you lose if it's owned by an LLC. This includes things like a homestead exe
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
This article reads like propaganda to keep the worker bees slaving away until they die. But I have a few things to say about this and Sergey Brin in particular. In the early days, many considered Sergey Brin to be the soul or the conscience
915.
by jmyeet 10mo ago
My interest in literature lies at the intersection with politics and society. I resonate with the principle that art asks questions. In decades and centuries past, art was particularly important to the masses to question society at a time w
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
That's a distinction without a difference. If the president oversteps their supposed authority and those polices or executive orders get enforced without a legal basis and the courts and the legislature decline or fail to rein in the p
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
The current Iranian regime is a direct result of US involvement in Iran. We are largely responsible for it, for two reasons: 1. By overthrowing a democratic government in the first place to make the Shah a dictator, creating the seeds of re
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
This is not accurate. Mosaddeq sought fairer royalties for oil from what is now BP but what was then the AIOC after decades of tension and a decrease in Iran's royalties (with increasing British revenues) in the 1940s, ultimately culmi
919.
by jmyeet 10mo ago
Tell that to the Chileans who endured Pinochet, Iranians who endured the Shah and the Ayatollah and likewise for Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya, Guatemala, etc. All a puppet would've done was be a brutal dictator who suppressed and disappear
920.
by jmyeet 10mo ago
Because that worked out so well for the people of Chile (under Pinochet). And Libya (post-Gaddafi). And Iran (1953 onwards). And Iraq (post-Saddam). Whatever your (valid) criticisms of Maduro, it's important to remember that: 1. The US
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
> A lot of Venezuelans are happy about it. Which Venezuelans? I ask because this exact same argument was used to justify the many failed assassination attempts, the Bay of Pigs debacle and sanctions on Cuba where many Cuban Americans wer
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
The one part of this I will agree with is that US foreign policy is uniparty. The disastrous War on Terror spanned 4 presidential administrations, 2 Democrat and 2 Republican. Middle East policy differences between the two parties are somew
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
I'm old enough that I grew up (well) before 9/11. Many in my age bracket will describe the 90s as the last great decade. I feel sad for those who are younger who never experienced that world, the world between the Cold War and the
924.
by jmyeet 10mo ago
I haven't yet seen what the legal cover for this use of military action was but there's a lot of guessing it will be the same Authorization of the Use of Military Force that was passed in response to 9/11 [1]. Yes, seriously.
925.
by jmyeet 10mo ago
> It's definitely not the density of major Chinese cities, but all major cities in Australia have plenty of EV chargwrs and public transport. I'm sorry but if you think ANY Australian city has good public transit, it's bec
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
> We've had BYDs and other EVs for many years in Australia, and EVs are still a luxury item. Australia is much closer to the US than China in terms of public transit and EV infrastructure. In China, now the majority of new car sales
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
> it's been a great car. It's not really that great of a car. I mean it's driving an iPad, basically. Also, they've been plagued with reliability issues eg limiting how much you can adjust your seat because they'
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
IPv6 is the poster child for the second system effect (or solution) [1]. IPv4 really only had 3 problems that anybody cared about: 1. Address space size; 2. Roaming; and 3. Reliable connectionless delivery; and 4. The problems created by th
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by jmyeet 10mo ago
Ok, so you're a "autism is overdiagnosed" Andy, in your own words. That likely puts you in the NT camp so you should probably sit this one out as you have absolutely no idea what impact autism has on people's lives. I do
930.
by jmyeet 10mo ago
I can look at a politician or a CEO or just someone I encounter in life and see autism (or not), narcissism, sociopathy or any number of other conditions. Is this a diagnosis? No. But it's part of my mental model for dealing with such

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