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by mft_ 1y ago
Sadly, this feels like Google's approach to product management: change for the sake of change, driven behind the scenes by people chasing being noticed or their next promotion rather than by need and good sense, and (likely due to po
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by mft_ 1y ago
OFC this being HN people are jumping on the side comment about web apps. BUT the more relevant and valuable point you made was about constraints and sketches. And, related to this, true parametric design, which IMO is vital for a CAD pack
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by mft_ 1y ago
It’s that: a) NASA didn’t/doesn’t have the capacity b) The Russians did have the capacity but it was expensive and also painful to American egos to utilise this repeatedly, not to mention a risk due to geopolitical uncertainty. c) NASA
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by mft_ 1y ago
To offer a little factual background: * The fact that SpaceX is currently the only US company with an available and reliable capacity to fly astronauts to/from the ISS is the main reason for many of the contracts, and they had this bef
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by mft_ 1y ago
Funnily enuogh, this was a rabbit-hole I dived down when I was given a company Tesla for a while, and was frustrated by the last of streetview imagery available where I lived. Unfortunately, the teslausb distribution was just too unreliabl
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by mft_ 1y ago
By the by, one quirk of poor language handling that I think it probably harming YouTube is advert language. Every one of my subscriptions is an English language channel, and my language choice on all Google properties (where possible) inc
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by mft_ 1y ago
It doesn't neccessarily invalidate your overall point, but a bus driver would cost significantly more than $10/h. In Germany, the hourly rate is closer to double that, plus additional costs the employer must pay, such as taxes an
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by mft_ 1y ago
Honestly, I’m not following the full thread of your argument. But what I do take, is that you think the UNIX world is just much better organised than the alternative; and anyone who doesn’t understand that and isn’t thriving in that environ
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by mft_ 1y ago
I hear you, but I don’t think “the industry” is anything like as rational or strategic or organised as your theory suggests. What I see as a much more powerful prevailing undercurrent, in everything from Linux not making it on the desktop (
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by mft_ 1y ago
> This headline is misleading because it makes it seem like tariffs are a step function that activate below 85%, which isn't true. > The formula is a simple, linear equation: tariffs = 0.25 * MSRP * (percent foreign content - 15)
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by mft_ 1y ago
This refers to two different manufacturers, with two different approaches. To meet the overall tougher targets (95g/km average) Suzuki is discontinuing certain models which release higher levels of CO2 to reduce their average. This is
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by mft_ 1y ago
Weird; it was truncated somehow. https://www.schmidtmatthias.de/post/mercedes-benz-intends-to...
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by mft_ 1y ago
Manufacturers must hit a level of CO2 emissions on average across their whole fleet. As such, Suzuki is choosing to discontinue the Jimny because of the tougher fleet average targets starting in 2025. Overall you’re right that it’s a bit o
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by mft_ 1y ago
But why, indeed. Years ago, I met someone (through another friend) who worked in CS, and was super into digital privacy. He was the first person I knew to run a Linux phone, for privacy reasons. He tried to pay for as much as possible b
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by mft_ 2y ago
Thanks for your interesting reply. Some of this is what I was getting at with "fundamental" and "practical": > all communication must be on secure government hardware > the entire security infrastructure must be o
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by mft_ 2y ago
> …I think it's important to remember that much of the data is stored because we don't know what we will need later. This is the basic argument that every hoarder uses to justify their hoarding.
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by mft_ 2y ago
Genuine question: I get that there’s usually an expected/different process, and (obvs) the ability to add the wrong person is a problem (!) but is there a fundamental practical reason that their using Signal is/was a problem?
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by mft_ 2y ago
Nice concept, but US-centric short/slang sports teams' names is a bit misjudged as the very first puzzle when introducing your new game to an international audience. I solved them because they're (mostly) words rather than t
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by mft_ 2y ago
Indeed, but to store (let's say) half a day's energy, then (based on the previous calculation) it would presumably need ten tons dropping down a hole 0.274 miles, or 441 metres, deep?
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by mft_ 2y ago
Weird; trying exactly this, and every time I stop and play again, I get a totally different voice. One of them (if I'm not mistaken) was cod-Russian.
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by mft_ 2y ago
> working on continual learning to explain memory consolidation <how> works in mammals and why we have REM phases during sleep That's a nice model: human short-term memory is akin to the context window, and REM sleep consolid
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by mft_ 2y ago
> There is more to it than this. Humans are really complex, and something that is proven to work for many on a population scale may not work in every individual case. And the flip-side is that anecdotes to the contrary do not mean that a
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by mft_ 2y ago
Both can be bad at the same time, right? To suggest that an article can’t focus on the perceived wrongs of an individual country without also giving a fair and balanced view of similar wrongs everywhere else in the world would render report
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by mft_ 2y ago
Probably for similar reasons, I loved the handling of a Fiat 500e I hired a while back. It was basically a grown-up go-kart thanks to the weight distribution from the battery pack, plus the instant torque. Plus it wasn’t actually very fast,
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by mft_ 2y ago
Very much this. I’ve been wondering why I’ve not seen it much discussed.
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by mft_ 2y ago
Sure, but I'm imagining a situation where China ensures the ongoing operations of TSMC via negotation with TSMC and the Trump government, to the satisfaction of all parties, and then being 'allowed' to take Tiawan as a result
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by mft_ 2y ago
You must be being deliberately obtuse at this stage. He's not saying the Crimea incursion should have been fought again more. He's saying that allowing the annexation of Crimea to be relatively peacful didn't prevent the su
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by mft_ 2y ago
Fair point. "Let us take Tiawan and we'll give you TSMC for the next n years" would probably be a pretty strong offering.
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by mft_ 2y ago
I get that Trump is unpredictable from one moment to the next, and also that (at best) is strongly influenced when he speaks to Putin, but he's been consistently spoken and (just about) acted from anti-war and pro-peace-deal positions.
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by mft_ 2y ago
The closest I've seen to a class consciousness in America in recent times was the brief unity shown in response to the killing of Brian Thompson. People from both sides of the politcal spectrum who had suffered due to the Health Insur

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