quintushoratius

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by quintushoratius 3mo ago
Generating code is not, and never was, a bottleneck to projects. Understanding the problem, designing a solution, organizing resources, testing, and customer buy-in and moving targets have always represented the real issues. Now, with LLMs
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by quintushoratius 3mo ago
> Supposedly 70% of software projects failed even before AI. Given the way LLMs are marketed, we should expect a vastly more favorable project success rate, not simply a close parity, and definitely not a decreased rate. Even if we consi
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by quintushoratius 4mo ago
> It's a job, not a relationship. It's best not to confuse the two. A relationship is defined as two parties that interact. It's not friends, it's not romantic, and it's definitely not family, but a job _is_ a re
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by quintushoratius 9mo ago
> A CEO will set the grand vision, long term goals, and direction for the company I thought determining vision/goals/direction was the responsibility of the board. The Chief Executive Officer is supposed to execute the boar
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by quintushoratius 10mo ago
Nope, it's not. From your own link: > In 1991, scientists at Bell Labs published a paper demonstrating the possibility of using a wavelength of 13.8 nm for the so-called soft X-ray projection lithography.[4] > To address the cha
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by quintushoratius 2y ago
Are you sure it's the caffeine and not another substance in coffee?
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by quintushoratius 2y ago
It's a mixed bag. During pregnancy the mothers immune system is muted, which prevents "rejection" of the fetus. However, in an almost "parting gift" fashion, the departing fetus actually leaves behind immune cells t
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by quintushoratius 2y ago
As if presidential elections are the only elections, or even the only ones that matter . What the prior commenter meant is that in some jurisdictions it's pointless to vote against one of the parties because they win so overwhelmingly
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by quintushoratius 2y ago
Two possibilities come to mind: 1. They're not properly licensed for other markets. Something equivalent to selling a radio transmitter in the US that's not registered with the FCC. 2. They price units outside of Asian markets muc
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by quintushoratius 2y ago
The problem with giving people choices is that sometimes they make the wrong choice.
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by quintushoratius 2y ago
I don't think I'm overstating anything. My wife and I have owned an EV since 2019. We also still have a couple of ICEs for me and my daughter. I'm not going to throw a car away just because. I see the cost savings of an EV up
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by quintushoratius 2y ago
> In my experience the maintenance costs is usually more tyres, suspension, breaks, and other similar things that would equally need to be maintained on EVs. You'll go through tires _slightly_ faster because the cars are heavier. Wi
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by quintushoratius 2y ago
>> Automotive batteries have been demonstrated as >90% recyclable, far better than most materials we consider "recyclable" today such as plastic > Citation needed It shouldn't be hard to believe. The components o
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by quintushoratius 2y ago
Not every region of the continental US respects DST.
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by quintushoratius 2y ago
The real magic is not putting all the cells in one place. It's distributing them over the land mass. A single solar power station can be taken out by a cloudy day. A million little solar power stations spread across an continent aver
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by quintushoratius 2y ago
You might be interested in Qubes OS, which runs every application in a virtual machine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qubes_OS
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by quintushoratius 2y ago
> 99.9% of the time, the way to make more money is to make a product that saves or cures more people. If your product saves fewer people, People would by the old thing instead of the new thing for 2x the price. This is a naive statement.
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by quintushoratius 3y ago
Marilu Henner is somewhat known as a prodigy. She's a member of Mensa, things like that. The clip shown in the video was chosen poorly because it doesn't really convey her abilities. I just checked her Wikipedia page, and besides
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by quintushoratius 3y ago
Doubtful. Almost any other wallet seems possible, but Satoshi's wallet isn't one that you would randomly have copied moments before making a million dollar transaction.
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by quintushoratius 3y ago
Clearly they mixed up cause and effect. "A gentleman's hands are never dirty" should have meant that he keeps them clean, not that his gentlemanliness somehow keeps them from being dirty.
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by quintushoratius 3y ago
> This positions Tesla as an energy provider like Shell/Chevron. No, this positions Tesla to be an energy middleman. They're not finding and distributing energy, just reselling it at a markup.
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by quintushoratius 3y ago
> Why not live eccentrically and take risks? Maybe because there are dependents that needed that money for school, shelter, clothing, or food. There was a story in the news recently about a guy who spontaneously gave away $200k by throwi
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by quintushoratius 3y ago
That's just like how shampoo companies advise you to "lather, rinse, repeat". It's a great way to boost sales, but besides being unnecessary it's terrible for your hair, your water bill, fish living downstream, and
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by quintushoratius 3y ago
> Perl 5 is an old language. Period. That's an odd way of looking at it. C is an old language. C++ is an old language. Java is an old language. Nobody is arguing against them because they're "old". Moreover, just
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
Your comparison is poor. A more accurate comparison would be firing the whole team for inserting intentional backdoors and collecting fractional pennies from each transaction and depositing them in personal accounts. Accidents happen to eve
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
How about we try healthcare and housing? No need to sleep on the bus when you can sleep at home.
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
Our Leaf has a small solar panel, but it's for maintaining the 12v battery. It's much too small (it might be a 1/2 square foot IIRC) to the generate significant amounts of voltage and power needed to charge the main battery.
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
I think you jumped to a conclusion. COVID still kills vaccinated individuals, just at a lower rate than unvaccinated.
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
It all depends on which side of the sale you're on. The interesting thing about short sellers is, we only focus on the short sellers, not the people or companies that are loaning the stocks to them. When the short seller loses, they st
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by quintushoratius 4y ago
IME (I'm not the person you replied to) a good manager does a few things: - understands the business requirements for the project(s) you're working on; - helps coordinate the non-technical parts of projects, e.g. facilitator, find

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