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by kibwen 7mo ago
The question is whether those markets are not already adequately served by Falcon 9. Once again, just because you have a jumbo jet that can fly 500 people from New York to London does not mean that everyone flying out of New York wants to g
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by kibwen 7mo ago
That's not how this works. The JWST was limited by the size of its faring, but increasing the size of the faring doesn't mean they'd ship a less complex telescope with the same functionality; they'd ship an equally-compl
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by kibwen 7mo ago
> There's already a large market for ride-sharing and it's only going to get bigger. Except that at some point this stops being true. Induced demand is not infinite. There's no telling when we'll reach that point,
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by kibwen 7mo ago
The question is not even whether or not Starship works. Starship is, in theory, designed with the idea of getting many, many payloads to Mars. However, getting payloads to Mars is not currently something that anyone is paying for; even NASA
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by kibwen 7mo ago
This is moving the goalposts. The commenter above is talking about the enthusiast-populated internet of the late 80s/early 90s, at which point it still wasn't even clear if it was legal to use the internet for commercial purpose
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by kibwen 7mo ago
China would have no need to wait for the US to exhaust its cruise missile supply before attacking Taiwan. The amount of firepower that China can muster from the mainland is enough to completely overwhelm any amount of conventional firepower
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by kibwen 7mo ago
We can hypothesize that there may exist some for-profit companies that deserve the benefit of the doubt. Microsoft is not one of them.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
No. The internet was not a commercial enterprise, it was first and foremost a military enterprise, just like GPS.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
No, this is false. For Rust codebases that aren't doing high-peformance data structures, C interop, or bare-metal stuff, it's typical to write no unsafe code at all. I'm not sure who told you otherwise, but they have no idea
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Honest question, why would they care? The rancher does not care about the morale of the cattle as they're being led to slaughter.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Lobster and crab are both just as much a bug as a tarantula is, so the same reason that the seafood industry pushed lobster and crab into mainstream acceptance: profit.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Let's focus on the real issue here, which is that HN has apparently normalized the double hyphen in the title to an en dash--yes, an en dash, not even an em dash.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
> The fact that it knows to look for lib.rs or main.rs in src and then recursively find all my other modules without me needing to specify targets or anything like that is a killer feature on its own IMO. In the interest of pedantry, l
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by kibwen 7mo ago
Telescopes aren't magic, and space is big. There are 100 billion+ stars in the galaxy. Within a 100 light-year radius, there are 27 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_star_systems_within_95... ). Nobody'
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by kibwen 7mo ago
I wouldn't characterize it as "moving". Any excursion outside of the solar system will not be done by anything resembling a modern human, full stop. It may be plausible to send some sort of robot with some sort of nanomachine
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by kibwen 7mo ago
No, we don't. If you're talking about SETI, that's looking at radio signals. If you're talking about killer asteroid early-warning detection, we generally don't have the capacity to reliably detect voyager-sized ast
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by kibwen 7mo ago
No, the meme is that the average therapist can be boiled down to "well, what do you think?" or "and how does that make you feel?" (of which ELIZA, the original bot that passed the Turing test, was perhaps an unintentiona
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by kibwen 7mo ago
You're absolutely right!
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by kibwen 7mo ago
> Maybe it's not so sensible to offload the responsibility of clear thinking to AI companies? Markets don't optimize for what is sensible, they optimize for what is profitable.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
The title of this post is currently "Brave Browser unable to block certain ads due to Rust language limitations", which is ludicrous editorialization. Rust doesn't have regex in the language. Rust doesn't even have regex
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by kibwen 7mo ago
In other words, MacOS is fine as long as you're undiscerning and not at all detail-oriented. Imagine telling Steve Jobs that this was the prevailing attitude needed to make using a Mac bearable.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
It's not that it's idiosyncratically opinionated, it's that its idiosyncratic opinion is insane, user-hostile, and flies in the face of decades of experience crafting user interfaces.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
According to the docs there, it was stabilized in 1.0, then stabilized in const contexts in 1.32. Were you testing this in 2012?
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by kibwen 7mo ago
> But for decades, the American market has not been free. The grand, boneheaded naivete to fail to understand that middlemen are an emergent and intrinsic property of free markets in practice.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
> I tested it was working by counting the bits and someone critizised it for not using popcount PSA: Rust exposes the popcnt intrinsic via the `count_ones` method on integer types: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/pri
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by kibwen 7mo ago
I would expect a CRC to add a negligible number of lines of code. The reason that production-grade decompressors are tens of thousands of LOC is likely attributable to extreme manual optimization. For example, I wouldn't be surprised i
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by kibwen 7mo ago
The mere existence of proof-of-work cryptocurrencies means that it is impossible to ever have electricity that is "too cheap to meter". Any time electricity prices would fall below the price of mining, that creates a market opport
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by kibwen 7mo ago
I'm not trying to outlaw anything. I'm trying to make gambling addicts stop delusionally coping when it comes to "predictions markets" and just admit that they're gambling.
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by kibwen 7mo ago
The Rosenbergs weren't spies, they were entrepreneurs providing an essential service to the nuclear proliferation industry!
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by kibwen 7mo ago
> I prefer prediction markets to gambling because the platform isn't the bookmaker. Just because you prefer poker to slots, that doesn't suddenly mean that poker isn't gambling.

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