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by lucianbr 2y ago
I'm sure your point is great and all, but with Europe having about 50 countries, most of them can not be in the top five for a given subject no matter what.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
There are plenty battery-based lights that simply have multiple operating modes, some of them being strobe. This is by far the majority of the issue. I haven't seen someone using a dynamo for more than a decade. People choose the strob
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by lucianbr 2y ago
The examples were not honest at the time. They only seem so to you through the lens of history. You think the banana companies plainly said "we want to change the government, kill any opposition if necessary, just to make more money&qu
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by lucianbr 2y ago
So you write regulations for software development, but software companies run by MBAs instead of engineers can still cause disasters. I guess as long as disasters are rare, it's a win. Is Fujitsu run by engineers?
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Were there actual bad consequences for the upper management and politicians involved? I think the risk assessment you teach your children does not apply to british politicians. I heard some convictions of innocent people have been overturne
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by lucianbr 2y ago
The way it works for aircraft is that now it's getting prohibitively expensive to design new planes. But new planes are still needed, so Boeing found a solution, and made the 737-MAX which is in theory an upgrade that does not require
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by lucianbr 2y ago
I think if you're CEO of Intel, some foresight might be in order. Or else the ability to find a solution fast when things turn impredictibly sour. What did he get a $16mil salary for?
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Who knows. The same reply could have been written to someone opining that Kodak should pivot to digital cameras. We can't see the future, but neither can CEOs, no matter how well paid and respected they are. After all the current CEO i
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by lucianbr 2y ago
If vacuum runs at least once per day, seems pretty GDPR compliant to me. Even if it runs once every two or three days. Now if your database runs vacuum once every 6 months, yeah, DELETE might not actually be a delete. But is it really a GDP
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Effectiveness of an employee measured by how much space he needs / occupies? If you send an employee to sit alone in a warehouse, you've increased his effectiveness by orders of magnitude by your logic.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Everything you wrote applies equally to western countries, and yet the results are different as we all well know. Whatever the reason is why trucks and other equipment stand around doing nothing, a reason clearly exists, and is clearly miss
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by lucianbr 2y ago
So it's a $2.4B investment, announced as $4B. Significantly less, still a huge investment. I look forward to the moment the sunk cost fallacy shows up. "We've invested $20B into this, and nothing yet. Shall we invest $4B more
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Well. If you're using AI instead of a search engine, they could make the AI respond with product placement more or less subtle. But if you're using AI for example to generate code as an aid in programming, how's that going to
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by lucianbr 2y ago
A lot of mobile has happened. I don't think it "ate the world" - that would mean everything would be mobile now, and it is not. What's all the discussion I read on HN about rewriting everything in rust, LLMs, Postgres re
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by lucianbr 2y ago
I've decided to not read the article/slides because the title, in conjuction with the other titles on the page, sounded stupid to me. My time is not free, sorry.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Lower on the page, there are links to his "Mobile is eating the world" presentation, 2015-ish. How does this work? Is AI eating Mobile now? Is there a new world to be eaten every decade or so? Ah, wait. It's just meaningless
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by lucianbr 2y ago
If some catastrophic event is required to define instability, then by definition any country will be stable right until one second before catastrophe. This may work fine for certain analyses, but for predicting if or when that event may hap
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Generic data structures in memory, grab bag of structures and algorithms... sounds more like a programming language or library than an external tool. C++ STL for example would fit these descriptions perfectly. Doing everything is a recipe f
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Java 8 is 10 years old. If you had a project with a Java version that was recent 4 years ago (11 - 14), you could run it without any problems or changes.
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by lucianbr 2y ago
The meaning of a word or expression is not a matter of persuasive logic. It just means what people think it means. (Otherwise using it would not work to communicate.) That is why a dictionary is not a collection of theorems. Can you provide
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> Russia is absolutely in a full war time economy at the moment. So it would seem. > There's nothing left to squeeze out of it and they're headed for a meltdown in 2025/2026. Promises, promises. By the time 2026 rolls a
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by lucianbr 2y ago
> You have to look at it and see. And your vision is perfect, while everyone else's is flawed? How lucky for you. No need to present arguments, just let us know what you see, and that what you see is the "very hard obvious trut
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by lucianbr 2y ago
You first said it is your right to protect people from themselves. This new different position is more reasonable. Sure, go ahead, protect yourself from others. Be aware they will protect themselves from you too, on the exact same arguments
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by lucianbr 2y ago
Which one is NK? It's hereditary rule on the third generation, and as such I guess it fits what you mean by "ruler chosen at random".
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Homo sapiens is irrational. At least he is not rational all the time. People wanting to have their cake and eat it too, or to impose rules on others but themselves be excepted from it is nearly universal. In any case it's extremely com
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I am certain Xi and Putin and Trump think it is their right and prerogative to "protect people from themselves". Just like you. This is for example the justification used to ban books. Certain books, when read, give people incorre
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Clearly not everyone agrees with your opinion. Calling it "very hard obvious fact" changes nothing. Maybe add some caps, see if that helps. Are you not worried in any way about needing to answer everything with "no"? Is
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by lucianbr 2y ago
What's the difference between "protect people from themselves" and "take away people's freedom and decide for them anything important"? IMHO, freedom must contain the freedom to choose "bad", or make
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by lucianbr 2y ago
I think people who say education is the solution to democracy, or in particular to the people voting someone the spearker does not like, mean "educate more people to believe what I believe". It's clearly a good solution from
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Thank you for sharing these. So many people talk in superlative terms about the stuff they did with AI and give no details. It's very hard to gauge what they actually achieved.

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