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by klooney 1y ago
Something that China is doing, that seems like a very valuable bit of industrial policy, is investing in electricity generation. They have some of the lowest kwh rates in the world. Germany also had good results, locking in those super long
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by klooney 1y ago
Eh, it's not Matt Yglesias money. The real competition is Substack, not the Post and the NY Times.
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> Now he sees an even more serious danger if the US loses the race for advanced manufacturing. "Non-advanced" manufacturing is probably necessary to foster an ecosystem for advanced manufacturing. Custom bolts are cheaper with
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by klooney 1y ago
> “In the U.S., you could have a meeting of tooling engineers and I’m not sure we could fill the room,” Cook said on stage. “In China you could fill multiple football fields.” From 2005-2022 it became silly to not switch from any random
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by klooney 1y ago
https://www.consumerreports.org/cars/best-cars-of-the-year-1... this is not a terrible list.
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by klooney 1y ago
The other side of the coin is, if there's nothing that differentiates a Ford from anything else, why buy the Ford? Being a Bosch catalog assembler is a low margin business.
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by klooney 1y ago
One reason to not work at Roblox is all their user peaks are when you want to be with your family- after school, after dinner, the weekend, Christmas morning. Seems like it could be frustrating after a while.
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by klooney 1y ago
ASML has a significant US research presence too. It's not just a bunch of dudes in Amsterdam.
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by klooney 1y ago
> Hydrofoils, according to the team, aren't suitable for this gig, since the low-pressure zone caused by these underwater wings causes water to boil into vapor at high speeds in a process called cavitation, causing dangerous levels
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by klooney 1y ago
You need moderation for more than legality though, otherwise you can't have open forums like this, that aren't total cesspits.
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by klooney 1y ago
> models trying to sabotage their own "shutdown". I wonder if you excluded science fiction about fighting with AIs from the training set, if the reaction would be different.
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by klooney 1y ago
> 'hey, fsck is asking me if I want to repair this: it usually doesn't, maybe I should run this in dry run mode and check what's going on?'. Man... How many people are going to be know enough about bcachefs internals
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by klooney 1y ago
> supply chain for drones requires the stability and resource extraction on the scale of a state It's all about China. They have the ability to cut off drone production for the rest of the world.
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by klooney 1y ago
I feel like our culture has a strong anti-golf bias. Now that I'm older, any reason to spend a couple hours outside with my friends sounds amazing.
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They have some awesome digs though.
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by klooney 1y ago
Terraform does look cool. Too bad all I know how to do is schlep bits around :/
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by klooney 1y ago
https://shewantstheisrd.myshopify.com/products/clean-on-opse... I found the sticker
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by klooney 1y ago
Heap dumps on the Internet. Java ecosystem has some criminal defaults.
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> But it is struggling in some areas, particularly military leadership and decision making. “This is an enormously complex kind of operation . . . and they just have not demonstrated the ability to adapt to modern warfare.” This is cope.
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by klooney 1y ago
All industry everywhere is government subsidized. Germany has always had auto tariffs, and all of German industry heavily benefited from the long term, very cheap piped natural gas deals with Russia. America's remaining industries are
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by klooney 1y ago
The gruesome twosome are very helpful, if controversial: - get enough sleep - get regular exercise (most days of the week)
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by klooney 1y ago
AMD is going to be off the beaten path, you're likely to have more success/less boring plumbing trouble with nVidia.
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by klooney 1y ago
> Roose revealed that ChatGPT would accuse him of being “dishonest or self-righteous” while Google's Gemini described his work as focusing on 'sensationalism.' Most dramatically, Meta's Llama 3—an AI model with no con
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by klooney 1y ago
The air force does the offense. We do probably need to have some conversation about "what is the Navy for", too- its not clear how useful it would actually be in anything approaching a peer conflict. If it's just for pirates
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by klooney 1y ago
> only because of social stigma and classism. Also low density makes public transit less accessible, requires mode shifts, and, of course, the time cost of public transit vs cars.
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They're cheap, if spending an extra two hours a day on the bus is cheap.
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by klooney 1y ago
Something that's worth noting is that the funding for accessibility went away. Sun did a ton, but they're gone, and Red Hat has scaled back their desktop ambitions, as has Ubuntu.
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> the idea of a podcaster hosting a policy panel at Y Combinator last year would have been bonkers. What?
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by klooney 1y ago
> dotenv is unmaintained. How much maintenance could you possibly need to load secrets from .env into the environment.
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by klooney 1y ago
Sure, but where does the LLM get its answers?

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