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by qzw 1y ago
Well, one man's junk is another man's treasure. In any case, none of the requirements you listed seem that exotic. There are computer cases with hot-swap ready drive cages, and status lights (or even LCDs) are easy to find. The so
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by qzw 1y ago
Doesn’t that name make it confusing for your users? A tribute maybe shouldn’t be identical ?
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by qzw 1y ago
> in short, the ARM systems boot Windows and only Windows. I’ve not tried it myself, but a quick google seems to indicate people are running Linux on existing ARM64 laptops and there’s active development to try to achieve full support. F
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by qzw 1y ago
I abhor the general trend of governments outsourcing everything to private companies, but in this case, a technologically advanced country’s central government couldn’t even muster up the most basic of IT practices, and as you said, account
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by qzw 1y ago
Shit (meaning “how true”), shit is veritably the aladeen of words. It can basically mean anything depending on usage, context, attitude, or tone of voice.
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by qzw 1y ago
Appreciate the real numbers. Would be interesting to see what percentage of data structures contain Arc, but that's a lot more work.
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by qzw 1y ago
> They're actually spending a shit-ton of money on designer-hours and developer-hours in order to have everything custom, but still with a subpar experience. Are they though? My impression is that most companies are just using frame
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by qzw 1y ago
Remember when Microsoft invested in Apple when Apple was down in the dumps? This is giving similar vibes. That deal was arguably what saved Apple near its nadir. I’m not a fan of Intel’s past monopolistic practices, but for the sake of sust
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by qzw 1y ago
Your best moat against low effort copycats? Stamina. Keep your app in the store, update it regularly, add support for new devices, add new features if appropriate, keep marketing and selling it, and keep polishing it. The copycats don'
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by qzw 1y ago
This is a very naive view of what goes on in China. Not saying China doesn’t do anything right, but it’s far from the utopia you seem to think it is. There’s pretty rampant corruption at all levels of government and business, even to the po
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by qzw 1y ago
Western Capitalists didn’t and don’t give two shits about a liberal China. The investments were made and technologies transferred because the Chinese government required them in order for Western companies to access China’s enormous pool of
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by qzw 1y ago
A lot of state universities (not just in the Midwest) have become professional football teams with an educational institution attached. And I say this as a fan of one of those teams.
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by qzw 1y ago
Some part of American students’ education, yes, but a large number of colleges have also used the extra money to inflate spending in other non-academic areas such as administrator salaries, athletics, resort style dorms, etc. Of course when
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by qzw 1y ago
I’m with you here. No way these companies are labeling all the AI code as such. They must all be commingled with human code and copyrighted.
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by qzw 1y ago
Or will they miss it like they missed self-driving cars? It remains to be seen.
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by qzw 1y ago
You might be right, but somehow GP’s comment didn’t come across that way to me. Does it take more than $10M in wealth before someone can build a school in rural Nepal? It just seemed like a convenient rationale for wanting to accumulate a l
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by qzw 1y ago
Some people read a story like LotR and think, “If I were Sauron, I would do such and such, and I would’ve won.” A few of these people have the means to actually live out that scenario.
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by qzw 1y ago
Isn’t that backwards? Most people need to build a business to make the $10M+ in the first place. Are you talking about a nonprofit or an airplane/movie business (both famous for turning large fortunes into small ones). Otherwise you pr
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by qzw 1y ago
What’s crazy is that of all the fudgeable numbers in economics, consumer inflation is the one they should try to be the most honest about. It’s something that consumers can more or less directly observe, so having an official number that’s
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by qzw 1y ago
Employment aladeen, inflation aladeen. Chances of stagflation looking very aladeen indeed.
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by qzw 1y ago
Samsung is still in the game at the STOA level, but a distant second. But maybe it’s the nature of the industry that one winner takes all for a number of years at the top end. After all, Intel was the only game in town for decades.
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by qzw 1y ago
Cooked in the short/medium term, yes, but remains to be seen in the longer term. I feel like they’re ironically in the same position AMD was in before AMD spun off Global Foundries: not being able to keep up with the new nodes on the m
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by qzw 1y ago
Maybe not, but if the entire country doesn’t have the ability to manufacture it, then it’s still going to be a strategic weakness when push comes to shove. The entire exercise of doing more chip manufacturing in the U.S. is about maintainin
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by qzw 1y ago
Western medicine “can’t treat stress” but Eastern medicine definitely claims to be able to. But then so do various nebulous “alternative medicines”. Another comment mentioned deep meditation as being effective, and I believe there are a num
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by qzw 1y ago
> I think it kinda pisses them off not know, tbh Oh definitely. Some doctors are physically incapable of uttering the words “I/We don’t know.” I know a few doctors, and have asked a couple of them about this. In private, they’re ver
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by qzw 1y ago
Report: Adding ass makes stuff explode. Dumb is on the uptake. Resolution: Behaving as expected. Won't fix.
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by qzw 1y ago
No, but it'll become a hobby or artistic pursuit, just like running, playing chess, or blacksmithing. But I personally think it's going to take longer than 30 years.
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by qzw 1y ago
I knew someone who reached the final stage of one of these science fairs. Project was done at a lab in an Ivy League university over a couple of summers. Relative was a senior scientist at the lab and guided them every step of the way. Not
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by qzw 1y ago
Ok I actually went and read the article by Allen, and I think LessWrong's paraphrasing is a bit sloppy. Allen's actual argument is that because all Royal Navy captains (not just those on half pay) are not permanent employees, they
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by qzw 1y ago
Yes, it was old growth southern live oak, which is harder and denser than the oak the British used in their warships. Hence the Constitution's apt nickname of "Old Ironsides".

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