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by kakwa_ 3y ago
> We have had fully autonomous airplanes and trains for decades now. On the surface, yes. Looking more closely, kind-of-but-not-really. A plane auto-pilot is not really meant to fly the plane from gate to gate. It's more a series of
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
> LTS kernels are no longer supported for 6 years because it turns out no one used them. Looking quickly at Debian, old old stable (10) uses 4.19, old stable (11) 5.10, and stable (12) 6.1. All these versions are LTS kernels. I don'
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Given the bug went unnoticed for a year by millions of customers, I doubt 'the most banale Q&A testing' would have caught it.
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Don't attribute to malice what could be attributed to stupidity. Most or War Thunder leaks were basically "the in game stats are wrong, here is the proof: [CLASSIFIED DOC]". And in other cases (like the Ukraine War leaks on D
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
It's more the case drones have not meet their counter yet. It's kind of logical to see expensive AA systems designed to shoot down expensive planes struggling to answer swarm of cheap drones cost effectively. But the good performa
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Given the project will probably take 10 to 15 years to be completed, honestly, they are probably not wrong. By the time it's ready for production, the latest Raspberry Pi will probably be about as powerful as the fancy cluster.
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Is it legit profits? Iirc Uber had some creative accounting practices in the past offsetting loses from one quarter to another, and making a single quarter look good.
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Honestly, just find yourself a project and just Go for it (sorry for the pun). The syntax is easy enough you can start coding just after having looked at basic examples. Personally I actually like Go because it's so boring. I tend to s
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Have been doing the secondhand laptop+Linux for 15 years and I have never felt like I was missing out on OS features. And while true circa 2006 (these Broadcom wifi cards...), I have not experienced compatibility/lack of drivers in age
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
I kind of did that with PowerBooks back in the days. The hard truth was that used Thinkpads were a better option. For the same price you could get 3 years old ThinkPads which were more powerful and in better condition than 6 years old Power
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
It seems Godot is getting quite a lot of traction these days (I see a lot of "Godot introduction for Unity devs" videos these days). The Godot engine might be less complete than Unity, but calling it immature is a bit strong IMHO.
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
> Roads may have problems but the alternative you're proposing is far worse. Sorry, but "far worse" is simply excessive. Living in a large European city, namely Paris, and having experienced both car and mass transit, I pr
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Pre-war, it was more a case of "Penny wise and Pound foolish" partly due to budget limitation (they did things like testing only with foam warheads to recover test torpedoes). But after Perl Harbor, a somewhat biased BuOrd was rel
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
In France, during the late 90ies/early 00ies, we got a bunch of "quite direct" Road Safety ads. The one that traumatized me the most as a child was: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gpNMrcgiAdw
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Indeed, this effect is not a given, specially if the resource is scarce to begin with. But regarding your example, personally, I'm actually kind of "keep adding light bulbs" thanks to LEDs. I'm no longer using one centra
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
The Mark 14 ended-up being a really good torpedo by the end of WWII. It even remained in service until the 80ies. In truth, and going back to this subject, the Mark 14 debacle highlights the need for a good and unbiased QA. This also holds
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Efficiency gains can even very well be detrimental to resource consumption. Efficiency gains generally lead to lower cost, which in turn lead to higher demand. And this increased demand can very well be in excess of the efficiency gain. Thi
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
For the "can" part, looking at the numbers, it looks possible. If I take TSMC, they have: * $73b revenue * $32b income * 73000 employees (2022 numbers from wikipedia) That's a really high margin, and a really high revenue per
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Indeed, Iran got their F14s during the Shah era. But what is fascinating is how Islamic Iran managed to keep these planes flying, including through an 8 years long war, despite the embargo and the lack of parts. Through back-channel deals w
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Iran (Iran Air and Mahan Air) is flying mostly Airbus and Boeing, but really, really, really old planes. Given these are rather old planes, with a wide international distribution, I'm kind of expecting it's not too hard to find se
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
> Getting stuff out there to be noticed is difficult, a lot of work, and going the the last 10% does not guarantee any more success. If your benchmark is number of stars on Github, then yes, things might get depressing when "JS toy
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Yes, that's what's happened. I was using this example to illustrate the disconnect between the market (which was trading oil like some immaterial stuff) and reality (oil is definitely a product you need to store properly, plus oil
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
To extend, interesting read on the subject of the soviet economy: https://chris-said.io/2016/05/11/optimizing-things-in-the-us... HN discussions: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14515225
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Vast topic. Markets definitely have their issues. Here are a few: * The most obvious one is the fact it's an overhead, it doesn't produce goods or services by itself. That's not a major issue, but for example in the US ~5% (~
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Yes, I know :) My comment was ironic, solution like that are not practicable for common users. The rise of alternative chat platforms (discord, matrix, slack) really demonstrates IRC was too limited. I will remember it foundly but the era w
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
This was not a really issue... as long as you had access to a shell on a reliable server to screen+irssi (or tmux+weechat if you felt fancy).
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
So, not killing dwm suckless? (sorry, dwm (X11) having served me well for years, I had to make that joke).
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
In Europe at least, developers having a Master's degree (~5 years of tertiary education) or equivalent is fairly common. From the stats I could find, that's roughly 50% of developers.
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
> I'm not going to name names, but if you are thinking about the "outsourcing nations", then I don't know about you, but I think most of us here have experienced the poor quality coding output from those developers. I
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by kakwa_ 3y ago
Honestly when I see the extremely high power consumption of Nvidia cards, I feel there are some inefficiencies and consequently an opportunity for Intel. It remains to be seen if Intel can deliver reasonably affordable GPUs with enough hard

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