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by nojvek 2y ago
Banning is pretty dumb. I like the WA law of 8c per single use bag. High enough that it makes you think whether you need yet another bag. But low enough that if you need it, it’s there. I also love Aldi and Costco not having bags. Slight in
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I’m glad you acknowledged pre-Trump. Republican Party definitely ain’t pro-freedom or pro-life.
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Manhattan is dense. The city is still a wide area with many low density apartments and single family homes.
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by nojvek 2y ago
My bet for 21st century. Mars is a planet of robots and will continue to be. Optimisus’s descendants will first step on Mars before humans will. We will figure out general artificial intelligence embedded in robots before humans step on Mar
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by nojvek 2y ago
Adding diet cola causes weight gain the same as normal cola? Where are you getting that info from? The chemistry doesn’t add up.
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I assume it’s mostly because it’s way easier to debug json over websockets and http with browser devtools instead of custom protocols. Custom protocol would be binary. They could make a custom extension but it wouldn’t be that easy. I worke
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That’s really cool. Skin is our largest organ. It’s like another vision system with high bandwidth signal but we don’t have anything close in digital world. Even putting snow gloves heavily impairs dexterity since we can’t feel as much.
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Perplexity
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I must say browser extensions are a god send. The browser and web being a fairly open platform. With ublock origin I can block specific parts of a site. Can't do any of it with locked down mobile apps. Youtube is now at late stage capi
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by nojvek 2y ago
Hats off to TSMC. They had big culture clash and US has a lot of red tape and high labor costs. They did it! Also kudos to CHIPS act. I'd rather have Boeing and Intel wither off, for them to be replaced by new players who bring highly
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by nojvek 2y ago
There are three fundamentally contradictory paradigms. 1. human lifespan has doubled in last 100 years. Lifespan is still increasing but healthspan isn’t at the same rate. This means in the later years, we are spending a fortune on healthca
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by nojvek 2y ago
Great article. This is why am not too excited about elections. Both side promise a lot but execution is lax. While credit is due to Biden admin for infrastructure and Chips bill, his handling on forgiving student loan was a mess. It was a o
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by nojvek 2y ago
I was surprised to learn Aussie WA (Western Australia) has 40% higher electricity prices compared to Murican WA (Washington). Aussie WA could be having the dirt cheap electricity with utility-scale solar + batteries but they don't. Sam
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Apple had iPod which was almost an iPhone already and they had decades of hardware and UX experience. They needed the cellular bits which they didn’t all build inhouse. Qualcomm is still the modem giant and Apple still uses them.
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A big part of diamonds is marketing. That if you are not putting one month’s salary away for that special stone then you are not strongly committed to marriage. My wife was pragmatic. I said we could put $5k on a stone that has no intrinsic
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by nojvek 2y ago
If you say in schema that a field is int, SQLite will ingest text happily. Even blobs on the field. No ability to rename columns. Compared to PG DML, it’s quite restrictive. Not a toy, but plenty of gotchas
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by nojvek 2y ago
Australia has a similar issue to US. It makes most of its export dollars from coal/gas/iron/aluminium. Western Australia is the mining powerhouse. But because they make so much money from coal and gas, that influences politic
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by nojvek 2y ago
Now try a Tesla Cybertruck. American obsession of multi-ton metal chunks on wheels has it's 2nd order effects.
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After seeing the Diamond article, I kinda want Apple to make a diamond glass indestructible scratch-proof shell. That would be a flex.
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> Defense Department were more sympathetic to high-risk proposals, ‘especially if they included, “The Russians are doing it”’. It’s amazing how much science and technology has progressed due to adversarial competitive pressure. With Puti
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Welcome to AI hyperbole claims, just like Crypto hyperbole claims of 2020.
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Zyzz died of cardiac arrest and took plenty of anabolic steroids. You are natural and alive to see wonders of the only planet that hosts life.
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Texas still continues to be Red. If the people hated it, it’d be blue.
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Tesla is worth $650B. #11 largest US company. They’re making profits, selling more cars every year. I get it’s fashionable to dish Elon, but their fundamentals say its unlikely they’ll fall out of S&P500
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It would only make sense if Ballmer writes the number he is originally guessing on a piece of paper and fold it before game begins. And win/loss is checked with what is written on the paper. Otherwise it is a hidden mutable information
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We are going to be fine. We exploded 10X in a century. A bit of population correction is going to be a bit rough but fine in long term. Fewer healthier wealthier people living sustainably with the planet harnessing vast amounts of energy an
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by nojvek 2y ago
At some point it seems like folks working on CSS have a “we need to be paid so let’s add more features”. Seems pretty gibberish. Theres already CSS vars and a bazillion less/sass/css-in-js preprocessors. Who really needs this? Why
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Do you have any plans to open source / license the core rendering engine. Seems very useful for rendering in other contexts like textures for animations.
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At my current workplace, we deal with this via postgres schema per tenant. We have a script that ensures every schema has the same tables, indices and permissions. Scales pretty well. I just wish postgres on AWS had better ability to separa
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Microsoft under Ballmer, and Microsoft under Nadella is a night and day difference. They removed the moonlighting line in hiring contract AFAIK. I.e you can make hour own open source project in your non-employment hours with your hardware w

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