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by resters 2y ago
A well chosen abstraction dramatically simplifies code and understanding, and a poorly chosen abstraction has the opposite effect. When building a system some choices about abstractions can be made early, before the problem domain is fully
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by resters 2y ago
The main cause of Nvidia's crazy valuation is AMD's unwillingness to invest in making its GPUs as useful as Nvidia's for ML. Maybe AMD fears antitrust action, or maybe there is something about its underlying hardware approach
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by resters 2y ago
> It was supposed to be sovereign. It gave up its nuclear weapons in exchange for guaranties of never being attacked... Russia can't be trusted. The US was the first to violate the agreement, unfortunately. > It's not "
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by resters 2y ago
After the breakup of the Soviet Union, Ukraine was supposed to be neutral. Within the United States post cold war, there has been a faction that has wanted to push NATO boundaries east and make Ukraine non-neutral. This is what happened. En
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by resters 2y ago
I am open to being shown errors in my thinking. So far you have used the tactic of name calling but haven't offered anything that indicates critical thinking. FWIW I have never heard Putin mention any of the points I've mentioned.
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by resters 2y ago
US fighter jets flying formations around Lviv in 2016 was a clearly offensive move and was part of the strategy of trying to push the line further East and pressure Russia by removing Ukraine's neutrality. The US will fight Russia this
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by resters 2y ago
I hesitate to engage with your comment as it indicates a low level of openness to ideas. But I'll take a chance. Consider the following: - Michael Flynn founded the Flynn Intel group in 2014 and was hired by Turkish interests, Russia
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by resters 2y ago
check out John Mearshimer's recent content about the Ukraine / Russia conflict. In my view: Putin is a patient, reasonable strategist who is trying to defend his country against significant aggression by US Neocons. US Neocons do
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by resters 2y ago
Neither of these is true. WL had a process of verifying leaks and would only publish those that it was assured were provided with full context. Typical news reporting will publish a leaked sentence or paragraph and add its own significant i
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by resters 2y ago
One does not have to believe that the state is entirely corrupt to believe that Assange's treatment by the USG in the past decades has been highly inappropriate. The upcoming 2024 elections in the US find both parties trying to court s
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by resters 2y ago
The Iraq and Afghanistan war logs were a highly significant piece of journalism that revealed significand (and in my opinion treasonous) misconduct by US Government officials. See my description in another thread: https://news.y
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by resters 2y ago
The Iraq and Afghanistan war logs revealed significant crimes. In my view, the worst was the significant misrepresentation of civilian casualties, the level of involvement of Iran in the conflict, torture and abuse tolerated by the US. In g
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by resters 2y ago
Indeed. Though it is still inspiring that there are people like Assange who are willing to face personal hardship in the name of democratic values such as press freedom and government accountability / transparency. None of the US leade
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by resters 2y ago
In that argument, Pinker is playing the role of court academic.
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by resters 2y ago
He helped reveal far more serious crimes committed by US officials -- none of whom faced any consequences.
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by resters 2y ago
Is there documentation (is it possible?) on how to upload a PDF to gpt-4o using the API?
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by resters 2y ago
Surely the line is viewed by China as increasing security and the chance of peace. When there were multiple superpowers the US had areas of ocean that it was most concerned about the security of vs areas that it was less concerned about. As
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by resters 2y ago
Can individual photons be measured for polarization and phase or is there a similar limit that requires more than one photon to do so? I suppose both are relative to some previous polarization or phase?
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by resters 2y ago
this is called the Shannon limit. To discern signal from noise, a minimum sample rate of 2x the frequency of the signal is required. A signal is something that can be turned on or off to send a bit. Higher frequencies can carry more data
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by resters 2y ago
Isn't sending more than one photon always "repetition" in that sense? Classical systems probably don't do that because of the engineering complexity of sending a single photon at a time -- we had oscillators and switche
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by resters 2y ago
Soon enough gas stations and charging stations will be in the same location. It’s surprising that gas stations haven’t put in a few super chargers already since they already have the good locations. Your point seems to me to be about a smal
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by resters 2y ago
> What routes are people routinely driving You are assuming that people like stopping to charge and waiting 45 minutes at a supercharger station (currently the best possible situation with a Tesla) It's not terrible, but it is curr
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by resters 2y ago
> Say China floods the US market You mean if China produces vehicles that offer tremendous value and consumers love them? Lots of happy consumers who can spend money on other things they want. > and the US players go out of business
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by resters 2y ago
Some may recall before the fall of the Soviet union when Soviet citizens were forced to buy Soviet-made cars that were laughably unreliable compared to vehicles manufactured elsewhere. The US is entering this territory of absurd protectioni
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by resters 2y ago
This combined with the news that Tesla is shrinking its supercharger team is a tremendous competitive advantage. Maybe US automakers will need a 200% tariff on Chinese EVs to compete.
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by resters 2y ago
20 hours over the course of how many days? Don't assume everyone has a charger at home. Considering that in many places there are not superchargers nearby, having additional capacity/range is a major benefit.
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by resters 2y ago
So refreshing to see this kind of wisdom in a concise blog post! My take: In beginners, over-emphasis on DRY is a mistake made because they don't yet understand why DRY is considered a best practice. In more senior developers, over-emp
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by resters 2y ago
Is there a futures market where I can bet that this will not be utilized in the United States in the next 20 years?
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by resters 2y ago
Why not just set up a rule to auto-format the code before it is committed so that nobody wastes time discussing formatting trivialities and the repo stays consistent?
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by resters 2y ago
Right. The point of my comment was not about how the accounting is (or should be) done, but on how little of the dollars paid overall in taxes are able to be used to improve infrastructure. That doesn't mean that none of the existing u

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