mchusma

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by mchusma 5y ago
The whole booster conversation seems like a political game. If you have a vaccine, then your risk of death is far below that of the flu (statistically). If you don't have a vaccine by now, you want covid instead and this booster conver
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by mchusma 5y ago
I actually think Elon would agree in many ways that he would like to see a viable competitor. He has said as such many times, and his actions generally back that up.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Honestly (you may not like the answer) I tell users "try a different browser".
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by mchusma 5y ago
What a crappy patent. We really need patent reform. This is basically a patent troll (or they plan to be a gatekeeper and make money from the companies that make VR). This company has about a 0% chance in the next 20 years of producing high
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by mchusma 5y ago
I love postgres, but foreign data wrappers are not really good for much production use in my experience. The query planners need more work, as sometimes they do inconsistent things. The biggest issues is not taking advantage of indices some
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by mchusma 5y ago
IMO there is only one argument for not dropping all restrictions and a complete return to normalcy, it's "what about the children?" Here is their BS response: "The FDA is undergoing a process now to evaluate a vaccine fo
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by mchusma 5y ago
I was honestly skeptical of another format beyond AVIF for images. I thought the next generation coded would be based on neural net encoding/decoding for lossy images (as we should be able to get "easy" 2x wins). However, I
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by mchusma 5y ago
It's sad to see the fall of the ACLU. I didn't always agree with them, but the days of ACLU Jewish lawyers fighting for the freedom of speech of Nazis is over.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I'm listening to this now, midway between the french revolution (the third revolution in the series). It's good, I do recommend it.
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by mchusma 5y ago
As an alternative, I bought one of these (a competitor) https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/lumina-4k-webcam-look-gre... I liked in theory that it has a better picture than my current webcam, and has "auto framing&
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by mchusma 5y ago
There are 3 things about device insurance/warranties that can make them a good deal for all parties. For example, I paid $99 to insure my Google pixel 5a for 2 years. I did the math and it made sense to me for several reasons: - histor
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by mchusma 5y ago
I agree with you generally, but people aren't exactly taking the non-mRNA alternative instead. (Some are, bit not at scale).
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by mchusma 5y ago
You are right, people who flippantly dismiss fusion just don't understand it. -Fusion has made consistent improvement, roughly in line with expectations for the level of investment (20 years away predictions were considering if we inve
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by mchusma 5y ago
But are we in a "pandemic" still? How do you define pandemic? If you go by "a disease spreading out there", then surely colds and flus qualify every year, just nobody bothers to think much of it. I think we need some qua
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by mchusma 5y ago
I don't get this city from the article. Here are a list of things I would want from a city: - no minimum parking requirements - no zoning requirements - no community involvement - no free street parking - a plan for walkability & p
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by mchusma 5y ago
It's far from clear that NASAs general conservative nature has been a good thing relative to a more risk-tolerant one. If we accepted more failure, could we accomplish a lot more? Particular with SpaceX on the scene, it's time to
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by mchusma 5y ago
That magically coincided with the a huge government program to pay people only if they decline to work? That other countries without similar programs are not seeing? The examples they give are insane. People were paid $15/hr to not wor
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by mchusma 5y ago
I agree with what you are saying. I personally have never seen something in the real world that looks much like "wage theft". I have seen hundreds of examples of basically the inverse, workers deliberately lying to employers to ea
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by mchusma 5y ago
Honestly here is what I would recommend: 1) if your app is more of an "app" - use a low code platform like bubble to develop the app. This will help you learn technical concepts and work out some of your idea. 2) if your idea is m
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by mchusma 5y ago
Its interesting that the political spectrum has shifted in the US. It used to be that the Republican party was economically liberal (by this I mean "less government") and socially conservative (by this I mean "more restrictiv
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by mchusma 5y ago
Agree with all you are saying. The thing that baffles me is how the homeless can just take over a public space and it's just supposed to be, ok? It's like some strange eminent domain situation. Seems obvious that I should not be a
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by mchusma 5y ago
Agree with this. You can want housing to be affordable or a good investment. It basically can't be both.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Stripe, Shopify, and others are contributing. They are large enough to provide some large corporate assurance, if that is what you are looking for.
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by mchusma 5y ago
Hopefully the TSA doesn't try to kill as many people as the FDA has. The big lesson from the pandemic was how poorly these agencies are run, and their complete willingness to see thousands die by implementing restrictions.
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by mchusma 5y ago
I've been very disappointed in my m1 MBA performance. I had used a 8 year old PC desktop and Chromebook before. The PC died, so I tried to get a MBA to replace both, and honestly it's just slower than either at most things. The th
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by mchusma 5y ago
Which is fine, but if you can't use it as a designated driver, to the airport, or to most locations near you, it just isn't much of a taxi service. I think the real answer here is they clearly don't really want people to use
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by mchusma 5y ago
I think I'm this case, the main advantage is controlling their own destiny when it comes to building the types of models they need. I think in 25% of cases it will not get them significantly more performance vs Nvidia. There is a 50% c
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by mchusma 5y ago
Environmental impact reports are a disease and need to be abolished or reformed dramatically. Like make it only apply to a few named categories of things.
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by mchusma 5y ago
My feedback as a father of 3 in 1st grade, kinder, and preschool is that I could not figure out what was different about this then other things out there. Good luck!
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by mchusma 5y ago
I just can't get into wind energy personally. For a green energy source, it seems worse than geo, solar, and nuclear in almost every way. They are: - intermittent - expensive (more than solar) - look bad (worst of all energy sources) -

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