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by phkahler 1y ago
>> My willingness to “go along” with an FSF CLA is much, much greater than for a random company who wants to trade on and benefit from the goodwill of the “we’re open-source!!” banner and yet be able to rug-pull later. FSF is the onl
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by phkahler 1y ago
It would be cool IF. I said if. I also included busses which do operate autonomously from a safety perspective. If air traffic control can fall back to pen and paper in a pinch, I think it would be cool IF trains had a decent fallback. ;
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> This animation explains how Product Intelligence (Linear’s feature) works. We could have used a static asset, but the animated version helps the user understand what this feature does, straight in the initial viewport of the page.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> There is no causal link here. One already exists. Sitting vs hovering is already known to cause hemorrhoids. Using your phone probably increases sitting time.
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by phkahler 1y ago
It'd be pretty cool if busses and trains were local-first.
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by phkahler 1y ago
In that Basic 80 link (number 2) I would have expected another variant to be listed: Microsoft Basic for the Interact Home Computer which used an 8080 processor. BTW I still have my Interact in its box and the MS Basic on tape and some oth
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> The issue is that American media/discourse paints a very distorted view of what life under authoritarian rule is like. The truth is in many countries, unless you’re some kind of minority, politically active, or in legal troubl
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by phkahler 1y ago
At the drive thru, the order was displayed on a large screen as you added items. You could plainly see if it got something wrong, and you could verbally have it make some corrections. If it got totally f-ed up you could just ask for a human
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by phkahler 1y ago
The Apache license is IMO ok in isolation. But its good to minimize the number of licenses used to enable sharing of code between programs. I also have a serious dislike of the Apache Foundation for their continued "support" of th
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by phkahler 1y ago
And IIRC you can convert from MPL to GPL?
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Until we have affordable photolithography.... If that comes to pass we will want software that run on earlier nodes and 32bit hardware.
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by phkahler 1y ago
Naive. Guy picks a license that allow anyone to do anything they want with his code. Later realizes that was not appropriate when he's trying make money. Changes to an obscure license that on the surface seems to fix the problem. Your
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by phkahler 1y ago
100k LoC vs 1M LoC to do the same thing is a big deal. Most likely the 1M code has a lot of redundancy and indirecting. It's just one measure but quantity is often bad.
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by phkahler 1y ago
That has me shaking my head. He fired the BLS person claiming they were reporting inaccurate stats to make him look bad. A claim of partisan bias - could maybe be some truth to that. But to fire them and replace them? Then it will certainl
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by phkahler 1y ago
McDonalds was testing a system like that with one at a location near me. I found it quite useful and good at taking my order. When it messed up there was a backup person to take over and get it right. Normally McDonalds has one person doing
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> I keep trying to get it to review my personal credit card statements. I have my own budget tracking app that I made, and sometimes there's discrepancies. Resolving this by hand is annoying, and an LM should be able to do it: s
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Swap out PE for another profit-seeking structure and you’ll tend towards the same outcome, as the bad outcompetes the good. The optimum might be an employee-owned facility, but even there you'd have incentives to increase prof
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> not sure if you are saying otherwise but for those who might get confused this crash was with “Autopilot” not FSD And the distinction is what? I'm not serious of course. There are huge swaths of the public whose eyes would gla
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Tesla has sole access to the data All vehicle manufacturers have sole access to data. There isn't a standard for logging data, nor a standard for retrieving it. Some components log data and it only the supplier has the means
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> You don't think it's unusual that the software is designed to delete crash data from the crashed car? After it confirmed upload to the server? What if it was a minor collision? The car may be back on the road the same day
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> That's 100% wrong. In standard practice, collision files are to be "locked", prevented from local deletion. I worked a year in airbag control, and they recorded a bit of information if the bags were deployed - seatbe
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by phkahler 1y ago
Most the stuff on github is something one person wrote, stuck on there, and nobody uses. Then there's a bunch of things that are one person, but some small number of people use or have used it. Most big OSS programs have more than one
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by phkahler 1y ago
I wonder if the Intel drivers are going be written in Rust.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Crazy in my mind to think about the system moving unimaginable amounts of energy around the planet and now we're changing it on a time scale shorter than what the planet usually sees. The inter-glacial periods are 10K to 20K y
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> any Standard ML influenced type system Which languages are those?
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by phkahler 1y ago
Maybe this is contributing to the insect decline. More time when both birds and bugs are out.
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by phkahler 1y ago
This sounds like it's straight-up non HIPPA compliant.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Only thing that keeps me off Linux is Lightroom and Photoshop. Try Darktable or Ansel instead of Lightroom. I'm not gonna tell you Gimp is a good photoshop replacement though ;-)
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> x86 is now six-wide, eight-wide, or nine-wide (with asterisks) for decode width on all major Intel & AMD cores. The myth of x86 being stuck on four-wide has been long disproven. From the AMD side it was 4 wide until Zen 5. And
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by phkahler 1y ago
IMHO Let Intel fail. Their fabs can be bought in bankruptcy by other chip companies that may be better run. Granted, a lot of those companies are currently fabless, but how many would change that with equipment bought at a fraction of the c

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