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by phkahler 1y ago
Let Intel fail. Other companies will buy state of the art(ish) EUV fabs at a fraction of the normal cost when they're liquidated in bankruptcy. Then we might have several companies on the leading edge.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> could you imagine the audacity of actually not driving into an intersection when the light is yellow and you know you're going to block the crossing traffic? I wonder how many Waymos following the rules would be needed to red
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by phkahler 1y ago
We all complain about big brother, new surveillance tech, and the easy sharing of personal data with government. And yet, some of the biggest problems seem to be untouched. Is this incompetence, beuacracy, complicity?
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Sure, if you want one child. But that's not what business is often doing, now is it? Your designing one thing. You're building one plant. Yes, you'll make and sell millions of widgets in the end but the system that p
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by phkahler 1y ago
So the movie quote says the character was a pumpkin, but definitely not a jerk. Isn't that movie from the late 70s? So the shift took place by then. Or did the movie somehow redefine it?
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by phkahler 1y ago
I have to agree. I liked XSLT and would have done much more with just a few additions to it. Converting a simple manually edited xml database of things to html was awesome. What I mostly wanted the ability to pass in a selected item to disp
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by phkahler 1y ago
Disagree. The first example the author seem to want something more like imperative programming, so the "loop" construct would come first. But then the assignment should come last. With the python syntax you get the thing you'
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by phkahler 1y ago
But the GTK-rs stuff has already abandoned GTK3. Wait... I guess if the GTK-rs API doesn't change and it just uses GTK4 that's a good way to go? Everyone can install both 3 and 4 on their system and the rust apps will just migrate
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Well Qt license is not annoying. Qt is a hodgepodge of many different components which have different licenses. This is made worse by Qt being an application development framework and not just a GUI toolkit. It includes much more t
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by phkahler 1y ago
I don't care about that. By premium I just mean a popular movie. Sometimes all the Clint Eastwood films are free for example, but one or two big titles are $9. Give me $2 or $3 movies with a huge catalog and I'll watch several.
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by phkahler 1y ago
At some point I'm willing to just pay a few dollars for a movie. But even then you cant get them all in one place! And they like to charge a premium for some. Im not paying a premium for anything I've already seen a while back.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> having a big catalog from Disney at X/month is more worth more for Disney than sublicensing to Netflix at Y/month. But sometimes that leads to really stupid things. At one time all Star Trek TV shows were on Paramount whi
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by phkahler 1y ago
I thought whisper and others took large chunks (20-30 seconds) of speech, or a complete wave file as input. How do you get real-time transcription? What size chunks do you feed it? To me, STT should take a continuous audio stream and output
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by phkahler 1y ago
Except the market is a bubble. It's going to pop within 10 years as the boomers retire and die. Thats assuming low inflation. With significant inflation the younger folks might afford to prop it up.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> Have you ever tried to run a model from huggingface on an AMD GPU? Yes. I'd never touched any of that stuff and then one day decided to give it a shot. Some how-to told me how to run something on Linux which had a choice of a
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> What does debt have to do with the calculation of inflation? Debt isn't a component of inflation calculation but they are related. During Covid the US government increased the deficit (not debt, the derivative of debt) by a
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by phkahler 1y ago
The cold hard truth is by definition devoid of emotion or concern for how people feel.
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by phkahler 1y ago
If they could extend it to rational Beziers it might be useful for CAD applications. We have a subset of these in C++ as the core of Solvespace. This is one of my favorite source files: https://github.com/solvespace/sol
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by phkahler 1y ago
You might like the spline tool in Solvespace: https://solvespace.com/ If you just do a start/end point it will create a cubic with 2 endpoints and 2 control points. But if you drop a whole series of points (up to 12 I
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by phkahler 1y ago
You got my attention, so why didn't you provide a link?
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by phkahler 1y ago
I think the question is how one recoups the cost of crashing a plane. I know youtubers who make 5 to 6 figures, but they have to keep posting content that gets watched. One "crash my plane" video doesn't seem like a big money
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> “a portion of proceeds goes to charity”! Right! How much does this world tour cost vs how much he brings in vs how much goes to cancer research?
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> of course a dictionary program will include code to talk to dictionary-providing web sites. Maybe to download a dictionary, but not to provide the same services that the dictionary program provides locally.
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by phkahler 1y ago
I like this large slow bullet with gravity idea.
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by phkahler 1y ago
Yes, I think people create more internal documentation then they read.
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> but turning cars into cells on wheels made everyone way too eager to not ship finished product. I knew a former manager of OTA (over the air updates) at one manufacturer. I said that needed to be used for emergency updates only and
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by phkahler 1y ago
>> but I will "vote against" using the word "literally" to mean "figuratively" as long as I can. Can we have also declare war on using "exponentially" in place of "significantly"?
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by phkahler 1y ago
Yes, I was joking. I'm not up on all the options and I'm an engineer who read HN. What chance does Joe public have of making sense of all these things?
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by phkahler 1y ago
Right, so a good consultant won't report an individual vent, but will report if there is a general sentiment among a large number of people.
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by phkahler 1y ago
Sounds like he doesn't want non-citizens to be counted. I'd rather they get counted, but maybe not used for determining seats in congress. It's kind of important to know how many people are present in an area and how that cha

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