klooney

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   by klooney 2y ago

   The small hatch EVs have generally had ~200 mile ranges, which is a little tough
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   by klooney 2y ago

   Which is good, we don't want electric cars to become a culture war issue
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   by klooney 2y ago

   You puff up the local market when you're giving a speech in that market.
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   by klooney 2y ago

   Clarity of purpose and long term focus. They want to be the indispensable industrial nation, and they are willing to make sacrifices to make that happen. They have kept this focus for decades. They have the lions share of capacity in multip
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   by klooney 2y ago

   > finalised more than $11bn in grants and loans to support the company’s US chipmaking plans, as the White House pushes to distribute subsidies before Donald Trump takes office. This is why I figure China wins this cold war.
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   by klooney 2y ago

   This unvirtuous cycle is my fear for California, what with mandated installation and PG&E's travails.
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   American Singapore(s): Taking Inventory of Competent City Governance(population.fyi)

   26 points by klooney 2y ago|10 comments
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   by klooney 2y ago

   > Does it just mean a single version-controlled repository of code? Yeah- they idea is that all of your projects share a common repo. This has advantages and drawbacks. Google is most famous for this approach, although I think they tech
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   by klooney 2y ago

   After WWII, it was imperative that the US support free trade, especially if it meant taking a loss- all of their allies had had their industrial bases bombed out. Pressing the advantage forever would have been churlish, shortsighted, and di
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    by klooney 2y ago

    I had a friend who worked on the ramp at SFO. Saw him real shook up after work, said he saw a coworker drive one of their carts under a plane while looking elsewhere- and got his head cut off. It's a very physical job with a lot of pow
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    by klooney 2y ago

    Alon Levy over at Pedestrian Observations has a pretty well developed theory on this. The Anglosphere countries perform worse than Spain, Korea, etc., for a few reasons, some legal- the lawsuit bonanza up thread- and some more specific to t
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    by klooney 2y ago

    It's also a class divide- the slurs are more serious for fancier people.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    I think Kagi uses Google's APIs as a part of their mix of search results.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    https://search.marginalia.nu/ check out Marginalia
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    by klooney 2y ago

    Absolutely unhinged.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    How's the performance of Gmail on the Celeron? That's always my sticking point for older computers. The fancy web applications really drag.
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    Wild billboards call attention to free-loading off open source projects(sf.gazetteer.co)

    2 points by klooney 2y ago|1 comments
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    by klooney 2y ago

    Different tax status, same principal agent problem
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    by klooney 2y ago

    Everything local on my 2015 laptop is fine, but the web, it's super laggy.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    A lot of it is in ASM, for just that reason.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    Microsoft Teams, Jitsi
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    Failure Mode: Welchification(roblh.substack.com)

    4 points by klooney 2y ago|0 comments
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    by klooney 2y ago

    http://population.fyi/ is a good roundup of research into this, if you're interested
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    by klooney 2y ago

    Yes- systemd will let you do that, as well docker/containerd/podman.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    Studying pre agriculture societies doesn't say anything about agriculture labor in the 1940s, which is what the grandparent comment was about. That said, modern farmworkers in my town are mostly overweight, for the same reasons as ever
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    by klooney 2y ago

    Maybe an old on-site plaque?
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    by klooney 2y ago

    I mean, turning it off sort of ruins the point of the exciting new interface.
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    by klooney 2y ago

    > Operating a robotaxi fleet is much more profitable than selling robotaxis I'm a little skeptical- taxi companies and ride share companies both have a reputation for sloughing off a ton of maintenance costs on drivers. If you own e
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    by klooney 2y ago

    Has the security situation improved?
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    by klooney 2y ago

    Reminds me of Astral and their efforts in Python. Not sure how the companies makes sense other than as a loss leader for the rest of the VC's portfolios though. Devtools are hard to monetize.