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by kbenson 2y ago
I think what was being asked is if there's something like Brave that doesn't use a webkit derived back-end. Good defaults and a good stance on privacy is one reason to use Brave and historically Firefox, but another is that it ke
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by kbenson 2y ago
Hey, Meta has something like 67k employees for those 3.35 billion users (for simple stats I could find), and thats. That's 50k users to an employee. I think this dev is doing quite well by those standards. :)
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by kbenson 2y ago
Strong Peggle[1] vibes from the video on the store page, which is a good thing IMO, since I enjoyed Peggle quite a bit. Maybe I'll take a look at this. 1: https://store.steampowered.com/app/3480/Peggle_Deluxe
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by kbenson 2y ago
> Lending and selling are both zero-sum Why? Lending is just giving people money they value more now than you do, so much so they agree to pay back more later. The utility at the current time of that money is better than the utility la
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by kbenson 2y ago
Different people value resources differently overall and also differently over time. Trading a resource you don't value as much to someone who does value it for something you value leads you both to be better off. In a very simple for
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by kbenson 2y ago
You lack imagination. Broadcom brings a whole slew of problems you may not have thought possible. We couldn't bet them to actually give us a quote to purchase VMware licenses for a new cluster (to replace the current one, as we're
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by kbenson 2y ago
The wildest thing about this take is that it seems fairly plausible at this point.
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by kbenson 2y ago
It's less that it's the best way to approach a problem, but that it optimizes for a different goal. Building on existing knowledge is how you find the local maxima for a problem by moving along the slop you have. Starting from s
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by kbenson 2y ago
I thought this sounded familiar, and yeah it was covered here in the past https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13226725 and https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7631091
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by kbenson 2y ago
I was tempted to write much the same, then read yours, so I'll just say "me too, for everything you said" and leave it at that. :)
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by kbenson 2y ago
Ah, because that's what was said that I was responding to? See, this is the problem. I can't even point out that the way this is being communicated is counterproductive without you assuming I have some allegiance I'm expressi
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by kbenson 2y ago
I'm horrible with names, so didn't recognize Mickens at first, but when I saw his picture on the paper I realized that I went through a binge of his public talks a few years back because he's such a great speaker. If you enjo
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by kbenson 2y ago
I can think of many understandable reasons that might happen, so those facts without additional context don't mean much to someone that hasn't already had their mind made up, which is the problem with reporting them and expecting
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by kbenson 2y ago
> This sounds like a perpetual motion machine or what we heard over and over in the 3d printing fad. Except that it is actually what humanity and these 8 billion people are doing, making each successive generation "better", for
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by kbenson 2y ago
It seems like you are assuming quite a bit about 2. I think what GP was getting at is that is something along the lines of if you were accused of misconduct, and in being called into your manager's office for them to ask you about it y
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by kbenson 2y ago
Maybe the silver lining is that billionaires and large corporations might look less favorably at owning newspapers when it's seen as a net negative and a lever for someone to use against them. If Bezos didn't own WaPo, it wouldn&#
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by kbenson 2y ago
Different people have different levels of understanding. If the person you ask is an astrophysicist, their answer will be grounded in a lot more understanding than if you ask a small child. An LLM is like a congress of all the children voti
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by kbenson 2y ago
Do you have info, anecdotal or otherwise, on how much you think you save per ride in total and relative amounts? That might sound like a lot, but really I'm just wondering if you can estimate "I think I save about $X dollars on a
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by kbenson 2y ago
I assume that's because even if they aren't the original rights holder, they still have standing because they (as the public) were given rights under the GPL implicitly by anyone using the GPL, for the GPL covered items. Since th
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by kbenson 2y ago
I mean if you are held accountable for using copyrighted code by the owner, you should then in turn be able to hold the consultant accountable for being the source of it, and the blame and responsibility may be shifted in part or in whole.
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by kbenson 2y ago
Depends on whether you have a service relationship with a third party and they are providing a service or you rolled your own. If, for example, I paid a third party company for consultants to write some code for me but they provided source
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by kbenson 2y ago
> a deadbeat trying to game the system. The problem with putting a value judgement on this is that it will precondition people to assume good faith or bad faith on the validity of the assessment based on how they interpret the fairness o
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by kbenson 2y ago
Mine were incorrect drainage outside, causing water to pool high enough inthe back yard that it came through the slider into the converted garage, soaking the pad and carpet there (in a few different locations actually), and the much worse
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by kbenson 2y ago
One of the prior houses I lived at had so much flooding and water leakage problems from poor construction (prior additions that weren't strictly legal) that lead to carpet and padding having to be removed from concrete floored rooms an
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by kbenson 2y ago
I think maybe the judges can tell how important cases are based on the charges. I don't think the implication is that someone is somehow reviewing the case prior to it being heard and using some judgement based on some (likely unknown
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by kbenson 2y ago
I don't know where you get that expectation from. These are arbitrary engineering constraints informed by business decisions. If they decided that people could deal with up to 30 minutes of service interruption and set that as a goal,
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by kbenson 2y ago
I'm not sure I made a blanket statement, except with respect to my understanding, and I can assure you that I was factually correct in my assessment of my own understanding. ;) I was careful to phrase my comment in a way that I thought
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by kbenson 2y ago
Took me a while, but I tracked down the conversation. Turns out it wasn't a research paper, and I wasn't linked to it but found it on my own in researching the discussion I was having[1]. It was an a video about engineering and c
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by kbenson 2y ago
My understanding is that most current metal 3d printing yields items with significantly worse properties with respect to shear forces, because of how the molecules align compared to when it's melted together as a whole and cooled (or s
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by kbenson 2y ago
Won't Nvidia, and Intel, and Qualcomm, and Falanx (who make the ARM Mali GPUs from what I can see), and Imagination Technologies (PowerVR) do the same? They each make a GPU, and if you pay them enough money I have a hard time beleivin

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