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by kibwen 2mo ago
> and soon chip making factory To say that I somewhat doubt this would be an understatement.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
> The Model 3 and Model Y became the highest selling EVs of all time because they were the first below $50K to have long-range and be worth buying. And then Musk totally abandoned Tesla's original brilliant game plan of using the
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by kibwen 2mo ago
To be clear, reducing the friction to becoming mentally enslaved to notifications is not a good thing.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
> Occam’s razor requires us to consider the possibility they just had a really good, well timed dosage of performance enhancing drugs for Secretariat back in the day. No, Occam's Razor suggests the simplest possible explanation. T
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by kibwen 2mo ago
> you will never be able to store a "true" irrational number in a computer. Joke's on you, in my programming language all numbers are written in phinary: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_ratio_ba
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by kibwen 2mo ago
The US's infrastructure was built out with gas in mind. Having a gas stove is a status symbol, where having a resistive electric stove was for the longest time considered the domain of the poor, hence why people are so romantically att
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by kibwen 2mo ago
Induction also dumps way less waste heat into your house, making it tolerable to exist in a kitchen even with four burners going at once. It also barely heats the cooking surface at all (just whatever heat flows back from the pan), so it&#x
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by kibwen 2mo ago
They've had wok-compatible induction burners since the very beginning. Induction is huge in China.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
I know someone who just bought a brand-new consumer-grade convection oven with induction cooktop. Knobs for the stovetop, buttons for the oven.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
> The solution is clear: yes we use AI, and we're okay with it. Except that some portion of D'addario's customers--presumably those that actually buy their guitar strings to create music via real guitars--aren't oka
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by kibwen 2mo ago
Makes sense here, then. Apple is primarily a luxury fashion company.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
> Rust also has this feature, with conditional impls. Rust's approach seems more similar to the approach described in the section on extension methods, which the author admits solves the problem but doesn't like the implicati
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by kibwen 2mo ago
The US continues to cede the energy revolution to China.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
I'm not sure it's any more objectively gross than normal textile materials. Imagine you lived in a hairless, furless world where nothing like wool was a thing, and then suddenly we discovered a weird fluffy mammal that extruded lo
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by kibwen 2mo ago
I'm not referring to the verb form, I'm referring to the people who call themselves things like "prompt engineer" or "software engineer" with a straight face, draping themselves in a false legitimacy stolen fro
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by kibwen 2mo ago
I hope that the people doing real engineering work out there have started thinking about a new term to describe themselves as a result of the irreparable harm the tech industry has done to the word "engineer".
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by kibwen 2mo ago
Shades of "KENNEDY SLAIN BY CIA, MAFIA, CASTRO, LBJ, TEAMSTERS, FREEMASONS ": https://theonion.com/november-22-1963-1819587981/
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by kibwen 2mo ago
Slapping ads on a tool doesn't improve the functionality of the tool.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
Yes, they know what ar and nm do. Whether these things are relevant for day-to-day compiling of C code is watching the goalposts sail over the horizon; the original statement being mocked here is "we don't need to learn ASM becaus
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by kibwen 2mo ago
It's not. The majority of people regularly using GCC to develop C code (IOW, the primary use case of GCC) are familiar with assembly.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
The great sleight-of-hand of the 20th century is that it never went away, we all just collectively decided to stop thinking about the fact that at every given moment for the rest of human history we'll never be more than thirty minutes
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by kibwen 2mo ago
I want to believe this is sarcasm, but it's so hard to tell these days.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
No, it's clear that you haven't actually read the article. You appear to be laboring under a sort of delusion, which I advise you to do your best to remedy.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
Fall how? Please be specific. The people will rise up to take down their evil leaders? With what weapons will the people be armed? With what weapons will their evil leaders oppose them?
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by kibwen 2mo ago
The belief that autocracies will inevitably fall (or perhaps that "the arc of history bends towards justice") is hopelessly naive. Technology is a force multiplier with the power to entrench autocracy, forever.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
Surely you realize that this article is, in fact, about the ongoing decay of the West.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
To be clear, this is absolutely not adding any sort of C++-style overrideable implicit move or copy constructor to Rust. There's not really any relationship to C++ in this proposal, it's just a step towards opt-in linear types.
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by kibwen 2mo ago
For fiber, the main costs were not the fiber itself, but acquiring the rights to lay the fiber and the labor to do so. The equipment at either end has a lifespan of somewhat less that 50 years, but that's a minor cost. Conversely, for
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by kibwen 2mo ago
All robotic home appliances will feature cameras with which people will be watching you and microphones with which people will be listening to you, all the time, forever.
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by kibwen 3mo ago
I think seeing subtext here is an error. This reads like a historian who wanted to talk about a cool book they knew about, and who knew that drawing a tenuous connection to AI in the title would trick people (in the most benign sense) into

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