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by petilon 4mo ago
If you want to know why you shouldn't choose Windows it makes sense to get Steve Jobs' opinion and then evaluate the opinion.
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by petilon 4mo ago
Other than co-founding one of the most successful tech companies, that is.
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by petilon 4mo ago
Stephen Colbert, 60 Minutes, now 'The View' is being silenced.
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'The View' Asks Its Audience for Help in Battle with FCC(nytimes.com)
3 points by petilon 4mo ago|1 comments
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by petilon 4mo ago
Previously: A Florida jury found that flaws in Tesla's self-driving software were partly to blame for a crash that killed a 22-year-old woman in 2019 and severely injured her boyfriend. The jury verdict requires Tesla to pay $243 milli
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by petilon 4mo ago
Neocloud is a low margin business. SpaceX has no advantage over competitors such as Oracle, Microsoft, AWS and others. Renting out hardware purchased from Nvidia will give them 15% profit margin. Terafab does not have any advantage over TSM
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by petilon 4mo ago
Those naive retail investors can stay irrational longer than I can stay solvent.
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by petilon 4mo ago
SpaceX is being valued as an AI company and yet they don't have a frontier AI model. Goldman Sachs is predicting 100x growth in 4 years for xAI, but it is a failed company with no frontier model. Top employees have left, and the compan
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by petilon 4mo ago
If that's true then it is a significant improvement over structs in C#. But the distinction still matters. Value-vs-reference semantics affect equality, identity, nullability, arrays, collections, boxing, and performance. So this is no
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by petilon 4mo ago
I understand the rationale for value classes, but the implementation is flawed. What will this code print: Point a = new Point(10, 10); Point b = a; a.x = 100; System.out.println(b.x); Until now the answer was obvious. Now
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by petilon 4mo ago
Threat of imminent violence clearly falls on one side of the line. There are other cases that are on the border and you can't judge so easily.
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by petilon 4mo ago
Agree, it is hard to delineate, especially when the government is run by people that are thin-skinned and retaliatory. That's what makes this issue so challenging. But is it fair to curtail speech because someone might perceive it as a
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by petilon 4mo ago
There is an important difference between government persuasion and government coercion. The government should not be allowed to threaten platforms with punishment unless they remove lawful speech. But public-health officials should be allow
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by petilon 4mo ago
I think "government pressure" needs to be defined. If vaccination misinformation is spreading like wildfire on social media, and measles and other deadly diseases are getting out of control, and the government urges social media t
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by petilon 4mo ago
Noam Shazeer was one of the lead authors of the seminal paper "Attention Is All You Need", which introduced the transformer architecture. (From Wikipedia)
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by petilon 4mo ago
Amiga workbench may have been available in 1985, but I think the bevels were introduced around 1990, in which case they copied NeXTSTEP.
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by petilon 4mo ago
It doesn't really matter if they haven't used the original physical artifacts. If it looks physical you can figure out how to use it based on your knowledge of other physical objects you have used in your life. Of course if you di
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by petilon 4mo ago
Hold on, don't give cred it to Windows 95. The beveled 3D look was the invention of NeXT. Windows 95 copied everything from them. https://guidebookgallery.org/screenshots/openstep42
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by petilon 4mo ago
Why are designers not understanding this these days? I think one reason is that flat UI is super easy. Skeuomorphic is extremely hard to get right, and if you don't get it right it looks super tacky. Most people who have the word &quot
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by petilon 4mo ago
The title bar of windows in Windows XP was Fisher-Price. But I thought the rest was OK.
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by petilon 4mo ago
Michael Burry, a hedge fund investor featured in the book “The Big Short” for his predictions on the 2008 financial crisis, said in a Substack discussion last month that any increase in SpaceX’s stock after its I.P.O. would “be on hype and
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by petilon 4mo ago
Rising inflation at home forced Trump's hand.
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by petilon 4mo ago
Iran hasn't agreed to that. United States agrees to allow Iran to dilute its stockpile of highly enriched uranium on Iranian soil under a future comprehensive agreement .
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by petilon 4mo ago
Details here: https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/iran-says-draft-us-d... Key bullets: What Iran gets: * The U.S. agrees to release $25 billion of Iran’s frozen assets, including via direct cash transfers, c
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by petilon 4mo ago
How so? Trump Claims Strait Will be ‘Permanently Toll Free’ Under Agreement With Iran (NYT headline).
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by petilon 4mo ago
Trump says "The Deal with the Islamic Republic of Iran is now complete." The deal opens the Strait of Hormuz to all, while leaving the thorniest nuclear issues for another day. So basically the same as when the war started.
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by petilon 4mo ago
It is not lies if Mr. Kennedy actually believes vaccines are harmful. Idiot, yes. Liar, no.
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by petilon 4mo ago
Nice, but there is no LICENSE file in the github: https://github.com/royalbhati/sqltoerdiagram
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by petilon 4mo ago
The chatgpt link doesn't work.
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by petilon 4mo ago
Religion is just an example. Don't dwell on it.

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