nerdsniper

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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Profitable or not, this sounds a lot like excusing someone who stole $150 million from others by not following the law - that, even if he did steal it by breaking the law, this $150M is not the source of his wealth. It appears to the judge
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Noted, but you do glorify Elon Musk: > Keep in mind that Mush created 4000 millionaires the day SPCX was IPO'd. while also asserting that: > I am not talking about people who steal wealth, which is illegal. I'm not celebr
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Indeed, it appears I was miseducated to believe there was more of a consensus that "free market" assumes approximately "perfect competition", when in reality there is a less of a consensus than I was taught -- e.g. moder
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
From Wikipedia: > For classical economists such as Adam Smith, the term free market refers to a market free from all forms of economic privilege, monopolies and artificial scarcities. They say this implies that economic rents, which they
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
I respect WalterBright. I think his accomplishments are admirable. We’ve agreed on some fascinating issues in the past. We disagree sometimes. I’ve seen him thoughtfully consider new viewpoints occasionally.
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
I’m just not convinced that value creation and value extraction are well-linked when examining outlier cases. The nature of outliers makes it far more likely that value extraction would be much more likely to exceed net value creation.
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
When analyzing an optimization problem, the optimal values for the input variables are often found to lie somewhere between min and max. It’s not clear that the person you replied to was advocating for one extreme, but even given that your
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Non-competes are awful. But enforceable protections for trade secrets makes perfectly good sense. Two very different things!
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Oh wow, that would pretty limiting. Thank you for that heads up! I see that from the 400 miles altitude they filed with the FCC, you'd expect them to be able to provide maybe an extra 2 hours before + after sunrise/sunset near the
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
I’m pretty sure the plan is to have tens of thousands of them so that they can hand off from one satellite to the next. I know this tech would have been fantastic when I used to work on oil rigs in super remote locations.
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
It works fantastically well for construction and military applications.
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
More like, “the unmeasurable” or “unmodelable”. Examples could be the “A” in the Arrhenius equation or the “k” in Fourier’s law of conduction. “A” is described as being derived from the collision frequency of molecules in that specific reac
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
As a chemical engineer, one of the signs of maturity was myself and each of my classmates individually coming to accept and embrace the inevitable “magic coefficient”. The curious always wanted to know why some magic coefficient was there.
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Not really. ShowHN’s are for interactive things and are supposed to be free and generally shouldn’t require account creation. “Reading material” is specifically called out as being off topic! https://news.ycombinator.com/sho
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Curious why would someone prefer HFS+ over APFS?
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Domestically it would seem difficult to balance "anti-involution" and "anti-trust". I think American consumers might enjoy some additional worker protections, but would also likely complain about paying artificially high
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Right. Okay - so you have no idea if it does or not. Thank you.
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Why would GitHub want to restrict this?
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Ah indeed, I misremembered. That is also a very similar compound, identical structure but more saturated carbon bonds (non-aromatic ring). It's always delightfully silly to get your own correction corrected! https://www.vumc
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Only historically. No Vick's brand product has contained it since 2016. The only "brand" name I'm aware of currently is Benzedrex.
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
The left enantiomer of methamphetamine (exact same chemical formula and structure, just mirror symmetry) is also an OTC decongestant.
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Experienced humans can do basic high speed layout without expensive simulation using rules of thumb that worked for them in the past. It’ll be overconstrained and overbuilt, but it will work. I’m curious if AI’s know enough to do some usefu
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
For hobby stuff, I'd like to create some boards that involve a bit more than the usual MCU. Things like PCIe or USB4 or HDMI. If AI can't do those things for <$2,000 it doesn't make a difference to my life. At some point t
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
> Hook it up so it can experiment away by itself with tools, provide a end goal and ask it to iterate until it reached it Those "tools" you throw out so cavalierly cost around $50,000 to $300,000 per annual seat license with al
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
What confidence would you have in AI's ability to do 20-40GHz signal routing with good integrity? HDMI + USB4 + USB-C DP AltMode and a bunch of USB4 routing/switching fabric stuff?
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
You'd probably need some basic custom lens (not crazy $$) that would distort the heck out of the image, but you could correct the shape in software. Given that GP wanted this to be the "low quality / high speed" secondar
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
I added several quality-of-life features / UX improvements to a very old game, “Deadlock: Planetary Conquest”[0] I had no idea how to do any of this. I let GPT-5.5 download Ghidra + MCP connectors, start the project, and do all the wor
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Sure. Fentanyl should neither be completely banned from the nation nor easily obtained OTC by anyone. We should keep it available for things like epidurals. Moderation in fentanyl.
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Right but that’s a government service and it should be totally fine for them to deliver mail below cost using taxpayer money to make up the deficit. Like every other government service - highways, defense, etc. They’re profitable to the sys
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by nerdsniper 3mo ago
Leet code competitions will be as relevant as sailing regattas.

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