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by perardi 6y ago
As a clarification: they are only using this for EVs. https://www.thedrive.com/news/39984/vw-says-its-officially-d... Which is still…a choice.
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by perardi 6y ago
Taiwan is currently our 10th largest goods trading partner with $85.5 billion in total (two-way) goods trade during 2019. Goods exports totaled $31.3 billion; goods imports totaled $54.3 billion. The U.S. goods trade deficit with Taiwan wa
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by perardi 6y ago
I have to think WWDC was costly for Apple to do in person, and they may not go back. Not in terms of money—Apple is not rate-limited by money. But in terms of attention. Getting everyone on site for this, namely the engineers, while they ar
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by perardi 6y ago
This is fantastic, and I'd suggest making a gist or something to store this permanently. Good, useful write-up of the actual standards, and now whatever AT&T decides is “5G”.
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by perardi 6y ago
I would argue Consider Phlebus suffered from “early installment weirdness”, and feels not very Culture-y. As someone else said below, I truly enjoyed Excession , but it’s perhaps too Culture-y. Lots of Minds, and then humans that are kin
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by perardi 6y ago
… Minds very much have minds of their own (no pun intended) in the book (can't remember the title) … Possibly Excession, which featured Minds at their most…well, I’d argue human. Their desire for [space McGuffin] does not end up being
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by perardi 6y ago
1. Way to make me feel old. 2. It was, by far, the dominant reader. Nobody other big corporation† decided to make a top-level project that surfaced feed reading like this. So people remember it fondly, because it was the heyday of RSS, befo
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by perardi 6y ago
The sun is shining, the vaccines are flowing, I can eat inside now, I am feeling optimistic today. But on my grey days: I wonder how long the mental health trauma of all this will last. Besides school-age depression, there was a noticeable
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by perardi 6y ago
I think photography has always been about artistry. You are taking a 2-dimensional slice of a 4-dimensional world. Interpretation is inherent. Ansel Adams was surely no stranger to post-processing. https://photofocus.com/pho
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by perardi 6y ago
As the author of the parent comment… …yes, I am aware Telegram does not use the absolute best practices, and at the very least, I imagine it can be cracked wide open by a nation-state intelligence agency. Which is why, for my occasional sup
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by perardi 6y ago
“designed to work in low-bandwidth environments” And I have actually experienced this, fairly frequently. T-Mobile international roaming, at least on my provided corporate plan, is throttled to 128kbps. And Telegram works. Messages come thr
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by perardi 6y ago
I quite like Telegram, because I am apparently an old man at the age of 37, and I greatly prefer typing on my real physical keyboard, and not on my phone. Telegram’s desktop client for Mac is great—it’s fast, it has feature parity with mobi
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by perardi 6y ago
And from that era: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Connectix_Virtual_Game_Station Courts also decided in favor of Connectix, which made a PlayStation emulator that ran games on the Mac at nearly full speed. Mainly bringi
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by perardi 6y ago
On the one hand: caveat emptor , you should study the manual and docs before you engage the limited automatic driving system on your car. On the other hand: calling something “Full Self-Driving”, when it is in fact definitely not fully sel
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by perardi 6y ago
Not a bad idea. Though, N=1, malls have pivoted (sorry) into that sort of live event space mode. When I was visiting family, the local mall had replaced a former anchor store with a really quite nice arcade.
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by perardi 6y ago
OK, what does that even mean? They are a physical store that sells physical games. Physical stores are in dire straits. Some new game consoles don’t even use physical games , namely the base PlayStation and Xbox. What do you even transform
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by perardi 6y ago
Mind you, the vast majority of my retirement money is in index funds and other boring investment vehicles. The AMD trade was (reasonable) fun money.
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by perardi 6y ago
AMD was not a meme. If anything it was a proxy for TSMC doing well. The business case was apparent, and it happened: Intel apparently decided to get to their next node using, I don’t know, a magnifying glass and a flashlight, they fell badl
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by perardi 6y ago
I give myself one good hard slap to the face every morning, because I bought AMD in the ~$5/share range, and then sold when it managed to get to ~$7/share because I didn’t think it was going anywhere. And then I go stand at the wi
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by perardi 6y ago
That’s…a supposition more than an argument.
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by perardi 6y ago
I…don’t even know what TSLAQ is, but, where’s that Hyperloop, battery swapping, and robotaxi?
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by perardi 6y ago
Something I’ve been curious about with computer-vision-only versus LIDAR: snow. Now, I am naïve about the real intricacies of computer vision. But won’t snow be quite nasty for camera-only systems? It’s almost the physical definition of noi
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by perardi 6y ago
Musk’s reality distortion field must visibly bend light. He manages to accomplish so much, but also manages to peddle a lot of absolute monorail-level bullshit. https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a35350331/checking-
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by perardi 6y ago
Which let me tell you, as someone who plays a sport (rugby) that’s obscure for Americans, is an impressive feat of writing and characterization.
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by perardi 6y ago
Just want to chime in for Ted Lasso here. You need to know almost nothing about soccer to enjoy the show. I mean, I sure don’t. There is almost no action on the pitch—it is very much a workplace comedy, and not an in-the-weeds sports show
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by perardi 6y ago
And it’s not like everyone in the past was some gentleman philosopher. Is Survivor pablum? Arguably. But I would certainly say it’s more edifying than… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bear-baiting
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by perardi 6y ago
“In all things I yearn for the past. Modern fashions seem to keep on growing more and more debased. I find that even among the splendid pieces of furniture built by our master cabinetmakers, those in the old forms are the most pleasing.”
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by perardi 6y ago
Might be worth noting that the top-of-the-line iMac was, at least in terms of semi-real world benchmarks, was beating the iMac Pro. https://barefeats.com/2020-iMac-5K-8core-versus-2017-iMac-Pr... And at quite the discount.
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by perardi 6y ago
So these benchmarks are a bit out of date, as at least some of the Adobe apps have gone M1-native, but the iMac Pro does wallop the MacBook Pro in several cases. https://barefeats.com/m1-versus-imac-pro.html - “…bespoke ac
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by perardi 6y ago
I too agree that the display limitations are non-obvious. I’m not sure if it’s a typical use case to run 2 displays on an Air, but that is a way more obvious set of affairs on a Mac mini, especially for a developer porting/testing soft

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