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by ralfd 5y ago
Old, but gold: https://ridiculousfish.com/blog/posts/array.html
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by ralfd 5y ago
What is the proposal?
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by ralfd 5y ago
I want to see that movie. Are there professional documentaries?
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by ralfd 5y ago
> Or that Apple stores a copy of every message I have sent to a loved one with my phone on their servers. AFAIK 'Messages in iCloud' is enabled when iCloud backup is enabled and can be switched off easily if one only wants to h
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by ralfd 5y ago
OP is also 18 years old! I find that an insane project for a teenager. I certainly couldn't have pulled it of.
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by ralfd 5y ago
Something with a carbon string cutting heads off was the solution, right? (Why though, I don't recall the setup for this magical solution).
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by ralfd 5y ago
An iPhone is a physical thing. All kinds of different metals were mined/recycled and manufactured and shipped around the world. A bitcoin transaction is virtual. Some bits have to be flipped. That it is such an energy intensive and env
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by ralfd 6y ago
The famous "mind the gap" is from a man. British Siri was always a male voice. The automatic-semi-recored voice in German trains is male. This 10 year old CNN article is way more informing: https://edition.cnn.com/
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by ralfd 6y ago
> 135,000 more people left California than moved in last year. If two rich Californians move out of the state and one poor starry-eyed college graduate moves in, the view that only one net-person moved out is too simplified.
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by ralfd 6y ago
Which is reasonableto assume if she was a trap so that Epstein could get blackmail material. RMS argued she would present herself as older than 17 and seduce her targets. What is most unclear to me in that whole kermuffle is that this stron
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by ralfd 6y ago
Off topic: The draw-an-iceberg game posted recently here taught me that icebergs do not look like that. That thing would float sideways!
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by ralfd 6y ago
The twist of Rokos Basilisk is that it is an info hazard: it only is dangerous if one knows about it. Like a dark cult of Cthulhu who only conjures the elder god so they have the mercy to be eaten first. I think it is silly, but there are p
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by ralfd 6y ago
Apple has at best 10% market share in personal computers. Microsoft has a monopoly; a move into Microsoft Silicon would invite anti-trust scrutiny.
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by ralfd 6y ago
> > From day one, the 2019 trip was very different from the 2018 one. The three leaders — who were with the students for a week before I joined — were different from the more apolitical “adventure tourism” leaders of the 2018 trip. Th
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by ralfd 6y ago
Because of this: > Measured by value, Apple’s acquisitions are actually far more restrained than those of many of its tech rivals. Microsoft paid $26bn for LinkedIn, Amazon paid $13.7bn for Whole Foods and Facebook paid $19bn for WhatsAp
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by ralfd 6y ago
Relevant: The rant of David Mitchell about the Phrase 'Rape and Pillage' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJqEKYbh-LU
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by ralfd 6y ago
I read your comment first and then checked if the submission was from the NewYorker.com domain ...
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by ralfd 6y ago
We are talking about games though. And it is the case for games on Nintendo. For Playstation. Xbox. I don't see a category difference here. A producer should decide what kind of product they want to make and the market will decide if i
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by ralfd 6y ago
The strange thing is that no one will be surprised. If that would have happened with Macs the dissing about Apple would be endless, but Dell will get a pass because expectations are low.
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by ralfd 6y ago
Maybe the limit is not function, but being competitive. Insects don’t have lungs and an open instead of closed circulatory system, with a tubular “heart” sloshing around hemolymph instead of blood. At this small size this should have advant
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by ralfd 6y ago
Wiki: > According to the etymological dictionaries, the tee- in teetotal is the letter ‹t›, so it is actually t-total, though it was never spelled that way.[4] The word is first recorded in 1832 in a general sense in an American source,
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by ralfd 6y ago
For me, it is easier to fix or tweak something (trial and error?) than to come up with something from the ground up new.
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by ralfd 6y ago
Can I subscribe to your newsletter? What is the next trend in your opinion?
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by ralfd 6y ago
Elon Musks reply on twitter: > To my surprise, Tesla has better AI hardware & software than Waymo (money) https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1353564655088619520
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by ralfd 6y ago
It can work for Uber, because this is Ubers core business. It can work for Tesla, because they have a market share of <0.5%. Toyota, Volkswagen or General Motors would maybe have less revenue with shared cars utopia.
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by ralfd 6y ago
Then take quarks. They are a fundamental particle with no known substructure. They are a single unit and they are countable.
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by ralfd 6y ago
I believe we could reach a tipping point soon. The worst time to own an electric car was when almost none were sold, with zero infrastructure. But soon electric infrastructure will be mainstream. While time is counting against combustion ca
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by ralfd 6y ago
But you can do that already with a plug-in hybrid!
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by ralfd 6y ago
You are in for a treat: https://www.slatestarcodexabridged.com/ https://guzey.com/favorite/slate-star-codex/ https://danwahl.net/blog/slate-star-codex
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by ralfd 6y ago
Hu? Are you saying Trump had a bias in pardoning black (rappers)?

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