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by neolefty 4y ago
And for those on a phone outdoors!
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by neolefty 4y ago
I find the Google Pixel line fits that description pretty well, but very differently. I prefer the software over iOS, and hardware is good enough, although not nearly on the same level as an iPhone.
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by neolefty 5y ago
Yes! Plus, great partnerships are a wonder to behold. The article quotes Woz: > [Jobs] wasn’t really capable, engineering wise, you know, computer hardware, software That's (almost) like Hawking saying you aren't a great physic
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by neolefty 5y ago
I would guess that cognitive biases are in play, in part. People want to believe that their country is doing something good, and that their suffering is for a good cause. So if a news source reinforces that (such as "Special Operatio
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by neolefty 5y ago
Taken to certain extremes, yes it is a bad thing. In moderation — for example if you take a wholistic view that incorporates benefit to the society at large as well, then it can be very good.
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by neolefty 5y ago
I agree that throwing out what we have is a recipe for disaster and reconstitution in the same or worse form. But I think we can build anew from within, constructively. I like the Baha'i view that breaks it down into 3 components: the
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by neolefty 5y ago
Thank you! There are high-res versions of the images from the article embedded in the PDF (linked in the article) as well. (You can use pdfimages to extract them.)
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by neolefty 5y ago
That would be nice. However, a big problem is the opacity of engineering, especially software engineering. It can be hard to tell the quality of code from the outside, and the less technical you are, the harder it is to see. There are signs
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by neolefty 5y ago
Excellent point! As you imply, bad code compounds the need for job openings: * bad code requires more maintainers than good code * it's hard to find people to work on it — partly because the code is bad, and partly because whatever pro
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by neolefty 5y ago
Good point from a global view. I'd like to see a little more international cooperation, leading towards a global standard, but we have many hurdles between here and there, especially involving trust between nations.
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by neolefty 5y ago
Is this about market fundamentals? One way to think about ARM is as a vehicle for R&D, shared amongs competitors such as Apple, Qualcomm, Samsung, and Huawei. * Do they each benefit from the R&D done by ARM? * Is that benefit enough
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by neolefty 5y ago
Great historical perspective. I'm curious how international intellectual "piracy" looks when one thinks of the world as a single place and humanity as a single people.
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by neolefty 5y ago
Thank you, this is very encouraging. I've felt guilty about a new part-time project not going well, but it's my first one in my current pattern. So to consider "start a new part-time project" to be itself a project makes
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by neolefty 5y ago
Interesting! Thanks especially for the link to the Wikipedia page. So in the demo, the black (uncolored) shape _kind of_ represents the commitment. Although as you pointed out, it doesn't explain how it is verified! Instead of a black
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by neolefty 5y ago
For medium-sized state — for example a single-level object — I usually use useReducer, with the "reduce" function a simple destructure merge. The reducer looks like this: const shallowMergeReducer = <T extends {}>(stat
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by neolefty 5y ago
The material quality of the competitors has certainly improved! We bought some knockoffs while living in China that were pretty darn good. We learned which were better than others for sure.
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by neolefty 5y ago
Not relevant to this, which is about physically placing antennae at a location, to provide a local service.
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by neolefty 5y ago
I think that is a fine question to ask in this forum. Maybe not a question that people in the situation described can handle of course! Related may be "Too broken to imagine (myself) being fixed." Which is probably more of a failu
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by neolefty 5y ago
I wonder if, at the same level of technology, quantum and classical computers end up performing similarly — do you need exponentially less noise for more qubits? If so, it seems similar to me to requiring exponentially more classical comput
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by neolefty 5y ago
Are the bugs something you've personally experienced?
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by neolefty 5y ago
Would their competitors be Microsoft (Windows, Office, etc) and Android?
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by neolefty 5y ago
My understanding is that it was a loss of institutional knowledge that came from the passage of time and from arrogance. The engineers who knew why the additive was required were fired or ignored or both. Could also be a lack of documentati
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by neolefty 5y ago
Location: US / Midwest Remote: Yes, last 3 years 95% remote, with lots of communication Willing to relocate: Fractional — up to two weeks per quarter on-site Technologies: Developer generalist & hands-on trainer — Full stack React
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by neolefty 5y ago
That's true for some explanations — for example the various proofs of the Pythagorean Theorem — but you still have to watch out for explanations that are flat-out wrong, and can even be harmful because they obscure the real explanation
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by neolefty 5y ago
I like this explanation that likens the search for principles to compression: The natural human urge to look for simple explanations is a compression problem. If you can find a simple mechanism for operating in a complex universe, you can t
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by neolefty 5y ago
Nuclear power sources are still mighty expensive too. Solar is hard past Mars, and near impossible past Jupiter, AFAIK.
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by neolefty 5y ago
That's an herbicide, best not to conflate, if only because people will use it as evidence of ignorance. The article mentions pesticides: > States with the most significant dip in bee numbers have the largest increase in the use of p
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by neolefty 5y ago
How much of that success depends on having such a large audience already using the platform?
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by neolefty 5y ago
I played around with a perceptual color space and made an interactive doodle that you can see here: https://hexpansion.io/ → click on "Colors". The blobs attempt to spread out in a perceptual color space. You can
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by neolefty 5y ago
> This chip is not Tesla designing something that is better than everyone else all by themselves. We are not at the liberty to reveal the name of their partner(s), but the astute readers will know exactly who we are talking about when we

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