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by maigret 3y ago
... Ultimately, Apple failed because of USB-C.
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by maigret 3y ago
Might be. For sure anyone should optimize no matter what. Of course now many developers only consider the number of feature they produce or use (“shiny new library! Will fit well on my CV!”), but there is a big satisfaction of improving exi
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by maigret 3y ago
What you say is blatantly wrong. I advise you to read the book World Wide Waste. It changed my view on that topic.
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by maigret 3y ago
I think it comes from users being deceived by the product UX. My impression is that using Firefox, I often don’t miss other browsers. Using Libre Office makes me miss Excel, Keynote et al. I can’t pinpoint it to a single thing, it just feel
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by maigret 3y ago
You’ll hate cats then https://www.statista.com/chart/15195/wind-turbines-are-not-k...
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by maigret 3y ago
So? Is using Chrome better? What is your recommendation?
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by maigret 3y ago
Wondering how long they would hold, especially because of radiations. Or micro impacts? What about material stability? 100, 1000, 10000 years, more or less?
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by maigret 3y ago
Taleb wrote well about that, changed my view on science. Not that science should be discounted, but it’s not the single source of truth. https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1419843561286160397
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by maigret 3y ago
How do you mean? With age, one can hear less and less very high frequencies (above 10kHz), but those are not that critical for music. There are lots of old conductors who can hear 100x more details that I ever had. Many studio engineers for
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by maigret 3y ago
> what specific efficiencies do you think are causing this Depends of the place... Improvements in computers & electronics (new TV uses less than half what the old one used 10 y ago), new transportation technologies, better building
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by maigret 3y ago
Exact - thanks for completing my point.
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by maigret 3y ago
Not sure if you are sarcastic... Gear ratios are needed by ICE because ICEs have a much smaller RPM range, and can't go down to 0 without stalling. There are some EVs that have gearboxes, the cost/benefit of that is still unclear.
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by maigret 3y ago
Some people have a hard time understanding the concept of efficiency.
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by maigret 3y ago
And sometimes it's the opposite https://www.worldstopexports.com/electricity-exports-country... True France's infrastructure is not resilient enough on climate, they are also a bit in denial over that. Everyone ha
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by maigret 3y ago
Biking all year is perfectly possible in most of Germany. There are enough good clothes to counter bad weather, snow and especially ice keeps getting rarer. Biking adoption depends most of the infrastructure and also whether your peers do i
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by maigret 3y ago
EVs are highly efficient so the driving conditions make a huge difference. ICEs have a constant base consumption that we have gotten used to. It's unsettling at first, but as your consumption goes high a lot in high speed, you can save
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by maigret 3y ago
I don't think so. While there are some scenarios that are better coded (where lots of different paths open up quickly, typically Excel-like), in many cases good designers are incredibly fast with Figma and I know no coder who can be th
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by maigret 3y ago
Yep so let’s not even try even if tons of experts worldwide say it’s doable.
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by maigret 3y ago
Interestingly GitHub and GitLab have captured most of that market by plugging the gaps in the developer journey. I sometimes use git standalone for personal work but wouldn't dare for a bigger project.
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by maigret 3y ago
Napkin math is an underestimated skill indeed.
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by maigret 3y ago
Exactly because the capital is quite constant (either external investors or existing profits) and competition will up their game as well, trying to use the innovation as a differentiator. We can nowadays fulfill all the needs of a person fr
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by maigret 3y ago
The sum of information I take in is way smaller (by a magnitude 8 or 9) than what the AI takes in. Partly there are clear trails of what I learn (browser history), and also partly my learnings come from the circles I am in - colleagues, fri
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by maigret 3y ago
Sounds like you describe how aviation and other critical tech work. Every single piece has to be checked and validated by the administration, and yet planes keep flying.
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by maigret 4y ago
This will be a good reason for more people to use public transport!
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by maigret 4y ago
Very true. I think many people don't realize how uncomfortable phone screens are because they are just used to it and love the portability. The day I tried HoloLens I quickly saw there is much more potential in that tech than many thin
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by maigret 4y ago
Financial Markets by Robert Shiller https://oyc.yale.edu/economics/econ-252
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by maigret 4y ago
It's running on Chrome. Google doesn't need fingerprinting. By making it harder for others to fingerprint it actually cements Google position in the ad market.
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by maigret 4y ago
You'd be surprised how many users don't understand what's behind the scenes. Very often it's knowingly obfuscated by the companies. I doubt many of the users understand their input is becoming part of the future models.
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by maigret 4y ago
- Translate this upcoming announcement in Spanish - Can you summarize that product roadmap? - Can you add comment to this piece of (proprietary) code? - Please extract the birth dates from this employee list I could go on and on and on
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by maigret 4y ago
Trees for example. City highways make everything hotter.

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