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by oivey 2y ago
It’s not. We use synthetic rubber because natural rubber is expensive and can’t be cultivated easily in the US.
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by oivey 2y ago
That’s not a scam, either. They’re not being dishonest about what the hardware really is. They’re probably at least being unrealistically optimistic about the future software, though.
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by oivey 2y ago
> I don’t understand the resistance to acknowledging that inflation is the predictable effect of money printing. Because it only tells a fraction of the story, if any. Again: why didn’t inflation explode between 2008 and the pandemic whe
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by oivey 2y ago
An even bigger irony is that one of major community moderators who is mad is an “ethical software engineer” working at Google.
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by oivey 2y ago
Why do you think the longer running money printing program, quantitative easing, didn’t increase inflation?
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by oivey 2y ago
Putting this another way, people use Python because it makes it way easier to compose together the underlying C++ code. Composition and polymorphism in C++’s static type system is rather weak. Of course there is also the relative succintnes
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by oivey 2y ago
JAX kind of did take this route, no? The main issue is that it’s going to be hard/impossible to compile Python loops to GPU kernels. It’s also maybe not the most ergonomic solution, which is why there is shorthand like einsum. Einsum c
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by oivey 2y ago
More or less of a conflict of interest than members of Congress lowering their own taxes?
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by oivey 2y ago
Surely the system will be better if we make it so only the wealthy have roles in government.
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by oivey 2y ago
Pretty cool story of the National Lab system and the closest thing the US has to “government scientists” massively shaping the future.
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by oivey 2y ago
It almost certainly would require more than 20x servers because setting up horizontal scaling will have some sort of overhead. Not only that, there is the significant engineering effort to develop and maintain the code to scale. If your pro
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by oivey 2y ago
It’s hilarious that the article alleges that this has anything to do with customer satisfaction. The self checkouts were added to reduce staffing costs for cashiers. They’re being removed to reduce shoplifting. These companies do not give a
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by oivey 2y ago
Unfortunately, Walmart wins either way. Self checkout will be replaced with employees whose wages are heavily subsidized by food stamps and other welfare. It’s remarkable how dependent Walmart’s business is on free stuff from the government
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by oivey 2y ago
Have you been in a Costco, or is your primary interaction the gas lines? I guess the receipt line every once in a while takes more than 30 seconds? I can’t think of anything else inside that at all is a tax on my time compared to a normal g
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by oivey 2y ago
Yeah. Avoiding templates almost certainly leads to losing run time performance. The compile time is a drop in the bucket.
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by oivey 3y ago
It finds the most trivial mistake. It isn’t infinitely better because static typing is far from free.
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by oivey 3y ago
I’m not entirely sure that’s true, and I’m not sure it makes sense to extrapolate all dynamic languages from Python. Huge amounts of effort are expended on Linux distros ensuring that all the packages work together. Much of and maybe most o
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by oivey 3y ago
It makes me pretty mad and sad that people think static languages solve this problem pretty much at all. If you do, I have a version of liblzma for you to install. If you do, do you release versions of your libraries without version numbers
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by oivey 3y ago
Go is a terrible point of comparison. Python’s type system should not pointlessly match what other languages have chosen due to some myopic dogma. Python is a dynamic language where one of its major features is structural subtyping, aka duc
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by oivey 3y ago
The current situation is worse, IMO. Lots of code that could be checked cannot, and lots of code that could have a more clearly defined interface does not.
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by oivey 3y ago
TypedDicts are a really disappointing feature. Typing fails if you pass it a dictionary with extra keys, so you can’t use it for many structural typing use cases. It’s even more disappointing because this isn’t just an oversight. The author
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by oivey 3y ago
My claim was that labor was not the primary cost, and I guessed that land was the biggest driver. You have confirmed it basically is, although as a function of things like zoning. That’s trivially obvious. That was what I meant when I wrote
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by oivey 3y ago
The premise here is flawed. Due to zoning, most housing in SF / the Bay is not dense. The post I originally replied to blamed union labor for the price of housing. For non-dense housing, land is a huge portion of the price. Yes, as a t
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by oivey 3y ago
Do you have any numbers showing labor driving the price of housing in cities like San Francisco? It seems like almost certainly the #1 cost is the price of the land by a wide margin.
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by oivey 3y ago
Over regulation: the government’s fault. Under regulation: the government’s fault. Airlines run the planes, and it is their duty not to kill their passengers. It’s their fault. If they kill people, that’s their fault, and they should go to
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by oivey 3y ago
Have you tried it? The claim that they haven’t fixed any of the core issues is legitimately strange. The screens inside as a significant jump in image quality, to the point that for a single TV/movie watcher, the Vision Pro is probably
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by oivey 3y ago
Depending on what you’re doing, that really isn’t a low bar. Saying you can get decent performance on any hardware is the first step.
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by oivey 3y ago
It is in general never possible because if your load can scale infinitely, then there won’t ever be enough compute to satisfy it. In practice, you may be able to apply some assumptions to bound the amount of compute necessary. It is still a
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by oivey 3y ago
I agree. The author has interpreted “backpressure” to mean pressure from behind, but my understanding of the term is the other direction, like water pooling up at a partially blocked drain. Water is prevented from entering the pipe because
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by oivey 3y ago
It has become a parasitic way to make money. Technology has made it very little work with limited utility for consumers. Realtors gained wealth at the expense of consumers.

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