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by qzw 4y ago
Isn’t a world record also relative? I mean, it’s literally “the lowest time (greatest height, longest distance, highest score, etc) that’s ever been achieved, compared to other human beings in the same event ”. 2900 for Carlson is basicall
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by qzw 4y ago
You can get that today with a high-end VR headset and a full motion rig. The human eye (or rather, brain) will never be completely fooled by a 2D image placed a few feet away. But when you’re have a 3D image that fills your entire FOV, your
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by qzw 4y ago
Stackoverflow is probably just going to be filled with "What prompt do I need to write to get my AI to output the code I want?" questions instead.
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by qzw 4y ago
It would be ironic indeed, but the whole thing with "taxi and truck drivers will soon be made obsolete by AI" was also based on extrapolating from 80% to 100% (IIRC, Uber was saying they'd be completely driverless by 2025).
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by qzw 4y ago
> Human absolutely bring negative value… I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people?
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by qzw 4y ago
Wait, the Germans, of all people, don’t have a standard government design system? Next you’re going to say the Swiss also don’t have one, and I’ll have to throw out my entire set of national stereotypes!
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by qzw 4y ago
100 years ago people sat in rotting whale carcasses to cure their ailments[0]. People have actually always taken weird crap for whatever ailed them because we’re pretty fragile creatures with many afflictions. I’ll gladly trade dying of si
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by qzw 4y ago
Of course it’s wasteful. The entire modern lifestyle is ecologically unsustainable at our current technological level. But who is going to be the first to cut back on their own standard of living? Nobody (in meaningful numbers) is willing t
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by qzw 4y ago
How many pieces of fast fashion is equal to one of those 10-minute private jet flights? How about when 400-ft yachts get “repositioned” across thousands of miles. Why should millionaires and billionaires be the only ones with wasteful lifes
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by qzw 4y ago
This is a somewhat poorly worded title. At first glance it sounds like git is the bad technology that’s being rebranded, which made absolutely no sense. I had to read the article to realize that some blockchain people are claiming git as a
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by qzw 4y ago
I would love to see them add an AMD (and even ARM) option, but right now I applaud them for being tight-lipped about any future developments. What would they gain by acknowledging that they’re entertaining such ideas? People postponing thei
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by qzw 4y ago
Intel should realize at this point that their existential threat comes from TSMC, not AMD. AMD is one competitor, but TSMC is giving a huge boost to all of their competitors, particularly the ARM vendors who won’t just take some x86 marke
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by qzw 4y ago
That and Microsoft has had an exclusivity agreement with Qualcomm for Windows on ARM. Once that agreement expires, I expect AMD to suddenly have some very interesting offerings.
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by qzw 4y ago
Anyone that's using PQC as more than a curiosity would presumably take a belt-and-suspenders approach by using multiple rounds of different PQC as well as classical cryptographic algorithms, hopefully carefully selected so that they re
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by qzw 4y ago
I’ve tried using the same SSID for 2.4Ghz and 5Ghz but find that some devices (my kids’ Fire tablets, for example) end up hanging on to a weak 5Ghz connection when they would’ve been better off switching to 2.4Ghz. But if the bands have dif
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by qzw 4y ago
Just for giggles, here's what it would cost to upgrade a 256GB MBA to a 200TB one in today's prices, if such an option existed. Currently prices are: 256GB $0 512GB $200 1TB $380 2TB $740 So the equation seems to b
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by qzw 4y ago
Yeah, it sad to think we have 100 f*cking think tanks endowed by billionaires that serve mainly to drive wedges into our democracies, yet nothing like that for PL geniuses that I'm aware of.
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by qzw 4y ago
Heck, why not go with lab grown sapphire like they oringinally planned to with the Apple Watch.
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by qzw 4y ago
The new AMD 6000 mobile chips are also getting very good reviews and seem to be the equal of Intel 12th gen. I'm actually really excited to see what Intel, AMD, and all the other non-Apple ARM chip vendors bring to the table in the nex
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by qzw 4y ago
I think part of the issue with Zero Trust (ZT) is that it's been applied too broadly in too many contexts. For example, a number of cloud services advertise as ZT, but they probably would actually prefer the nomenclature Zero Knowledge
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by qzw 4y ago
I agree with your overall point, but GM was already widely seen as a has-been for years, maybe even decades, before 2008. They still had a lot of sales volume but apart from their trucks and a few SUVs, most of their products had been well
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by qzw 4y ago
You're of course correct about the percentile v. percentage difference, but it's worth highlighting that the article is only talking about landed wealth, which presumably distinguished the old money from the nouveau riche. So a
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by qzw 4y ago
Then just use C? Heck, if you really don't give a fuck about defects, you can just have all your code in main(). You really can't beat that in terms of simplicity to explore/experiment quickly, ease of use, and time to market
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Poly Keyboard Project – tiny OLED display in each keycap(kbd.news)
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by qzw 4y ago
The comment I was responding to was referring to actual paid celebrity endorsements. Matt Damon got a reported $80M for his crypto.com ad.
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by qzw 4y ago
Celebrities are used to being mouthpieces for various questionable products all the time. Their job is literally to sell their name and likeness. I have a far bigger problem with the so-called tech luminaries peddling this junk in various g
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by qzw 4y ago
Congrats on fixing the job issue. Now that times are better, might want to consider working on improving communications with the wife, so that the next time you go through a rough patch it won't go as far as divorce.
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by qzw 4y ago
Subprime auto loans, most likely.
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by qzw 4y ago
Shhhh... You're ruining all the "we can have a utopia if we would only embrace more Japanese-style authoritarianism" narratives in this thread.
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by qzw 4y ago
> As someone without aggressive inclinations, I'm don't have sympathy or regard for those who display them. As a matter of primacy, I would like to live in a peaceful society. Anyone who violates this basic social contract has

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