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by kyboren 4mo ago
Please explain what you think it means. I said CS PhD students have been doing this forever, and you dismissed that as techbros patting themselves on the back. But once I pointed out that LaTeX was created by Serious People, apparently CS P
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by kyboren 4mo ago
Your situation is a good argument against the equity-focused LCFF. It's such a HCOL area that despite having high property tax revenue vs. the rest of the state, your district really should be funded at a higher level. Unfortunately I
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by kyboren 5mo ago
> the reality in California is that the state level funding is poor No, it really isn't. Again, just mandated Prop 98 state spending on K-12 is $127.1B for next year, with this year's enrollment at just about 5.8 million stud
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by kyboren 5mo ago
I agree with everything you wrote about maladministration of California's math curricula, but: > since Prop 13 in the 1970s, California has been 49th or 50th in per-pupil funding for public education (excluding college, I think). T
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by kyboren 5mo ago
But were those folks members of politically desirable racial groups? Or were they Asian?
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by kyboren 5mo ago
> copy [the] educational plan California used back in the 1970's I think that would go a long way. > more than make up for the Prop 13 funding disaster Wrong funding disaster. The real funding disaster is Prop 98, which mandates
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by kyboren 5mo ago
Considering LaTeX came from legendary CS PhD and Turing award winner Leslie Lamport's need to typeset a book, and was built on the shoulders of legendary CS PhD and Turing award winner Donald Knuth's work on TeX, I think "tec
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by kyboren 5mo ago
AKA what CS PhD students have been doing ~forever. I guess this is like medical researchers "discovering" basic calculus or an office worker discovering that SFTP, sshfs, and git work fine and they don't need Dropbox after al
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by kyboren 5mo ago
> 1) I'm not aware of such a declaration coming from Cuba. Please give a link. > A speech by Raul at the University of Havana on 20 April [1959], however, attacked the United States as an "enemy of the Cuban revolution,&quot
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by kyboren 5mo ago
I believe "dark triad" personality traits are significantly over-represented among CEOs vs. the general population. IMO it's likely that these traits are positively selected by shareholder capitalism and traditional corporate
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by kyboren 5mo ago
> If they can make the EUV machines [...] They can't. The EUV light source is produced by Cymer, an American subsidiary of ASML.
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by kyboren 5mo ago
> my browsing traffic doesn't hit the NSA - only my encrypted VPN traffic does I mean, let's be real. All known US VPN servers and Tor exit nodes--and probably all US Tor relays regardless of exit policy--are going to be consid
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by kyboren 5mo ago
But the US also limits their patronage of other businesses whose owners shop at the store. And because the US is such a rich and great customer, while Cuba is broke and their shop has empty shelves, other business owners generally avoid goi
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by kyboren 5mo ago
OK, then forget the sermons; how 'bout this? The USA, like all serious countries, seeks to defend and advance its interests. Those interests include the suppression of self-declared enemies like Cuba and Iran, or seeking regime change
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by kyboren 5mo ago
Any way you slice it, such an exodus is never the sign of a well-managed country.
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by kyboren 5mo ago
> I can't help but feel I'm offsetting the people "down south" with their more expensive property that is literally underwater. I am not sure about Louisiana, but you very well may be. State insurance commissions some
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by kyboren 5mo ago
The alternative is to price their product transparently. If there is too much demand and supply is limited: Charge more. Anthropic wants to have their lunch (low apparent prices, increased market share) and eat it too (controlled costs, ade
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by kyboren 6mo ago
I agree with you, generally speaking. I was being descriptive, not prescriptive. > LFP batteries don't contain rare earths. No, but good motors do. And probably GaN FETs to handle megawatt-class charging currents.
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by kyboren 6mo ago
Because that doesn't play to Germany's industrial and economic strengths (precision machining, metallurgy, basically the whole ICE automobile supply chain). EVs are just mechanically much simpler, with a shorter BOM that largely c
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by kyboren 7mo ago
Yes, but bigger models are still more capable. Models shrinking (iso-performance) just means that people will train and use more capable models with a longer context.
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by kyboren 7mo ago
Well, to be fair, the authors propose this thesis: "Although the vectorization of Verilog designs does not change the hardware they describe, it reduces their symbolic complexity, enabling faster and more scalable analysis and verifica
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by kyboren 7mo ago
> Hierarchical physical design tends to be worse than flat PD because there are many variables to optimize (placement density, congestion, IR drop, thermal, parasitics, signal integrity, di/dt, ...) and even if you have some solutio
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by kyboren 7mo ago
I know this is an unfathomable concept, but to actually "leave fossil fuels [...] in the ground" you have to stop using fossil fuels . Burning fossil fuels someone else refused to leave in the ground means--surprisingly--that fos
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by kyboren 7mo ago
> they're planning on launching another radar constellation They have been launching, continue to launch, and are planning to launch that and much more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Starshield https:&#
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by kyboren 7mo ago
Everything is a holocaust or genocide to pro-Islamist lefties. Y'all've so discredited those terms that if at some point Israel actually does start a genocide, people will just shrug. "There's a genocide going on in Ga
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by kyboren 7mo ago
Who cares what the mullahs want? The US feels threatened by Iran's nuclear and ballistic missile programs and has the military force to stop them, probably. Diplomatic avenues bore no fruit. Military force is now being used to--hopeful
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by kyboren 7mo ago
It's constant deflection with you people. You can never actually address the facts head on; just deflect with "there's no evidence", pivot to "there's no proof", then cast aspersions on the most disagreeab
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by kyboren 7mo ago
It looks like you saved yourself the clicks. "The Human Rights Activists News Agency says it confirmed more than 7,000 deaths and that it is investigating thousands more. The government has acknowledged more than 3,000 killed, though i
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by kyboren 7mo ago
Nice segue. We've gone from, "The amazing Islamic Republic of Iran isn't even capable of building deliverable nuclear weapons and they have lots of peaceful reasons to do enrichment to 60%!" to "Yeah OK, they are ca
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by kyboren 7mo ago
What you said is a pathetic lie. The regime itself claims they killed over 3000. https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-memorials-chehelom-... https://apnews.com/article/iran-protests-crackdown-h

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