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by sagarm 10mo ago
Massive depreciation means cheap used EVs. I don't see the issue. Luxury ICE vehicles also depreciate rapidly, and yet they're quite popular. Plus EVs are likely to have longer usable lifetimes -- though with different issues -- t
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by sagarm 10mo ago
I've mostly heard FAFO used to describe something obviously stupid. Building on the same thing people use for code doesn't seem stupid to me, at least initially. You might have to migrate later if you're successful enough, bu
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by sagarm 10mo ago
Aluminum and magnesium non-Apple laptops are just as stiff. There's just a wider spectrum of options, including $200 plastic ARM Chromebooks available.
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by sagarm 10mo ago
Why would you be charging one battery while discharging another? That would just be wasting energy.
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by sagarm 10mo ago
They don't. They're just documentation.
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by sagarm 10mo ago
I think you're right that it won't matter for most companies. But having been at a company with persistent DB performance issues with UUIDv4 keys as a contributing factor, it sucks.
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by sagarm 10mo ago
It's not really feasible to rekey your UUIDv4 keyed database to int64s after the fact, imo. Sure your new tables could be integer-keyed, but the bulk of your storage will be UUID (and UUIDv4, if that's what you started with) for a
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by sagarm 10mo ago
Most common database indexes are ordered, so if you are using UUIDv4 you will not only bloat the index you will also have poor locality. If you try to use composite keys to fix locality, you'll end up with an even more bloated index.
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by sagarm 10mo ago
Do our current elected leaders understand discounted cash flows or opportunity cost? I'm not seeing evidence our current process results in people skill, knowledge, and expertise, especially given the over representation of people from
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by sagarm 10mo ago
The most impressive thing about this wave of AI is the speed of the goal posts.
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by sagarm 11mo ago
I had the impression that liberal arts students were highly profitable for universities, because they had no expensive labs.
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by sagarm 11mo ago
The job of the C-suite is generating plausible human text, which LLMs are very good at.
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by sagarm 11mo ago
This already happens! We just call it schmoozing.
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by sagarm 11mo ago
Sodium batteries have significantly lower round-trip efficiency, so they have to be cheaper to win against LFP.
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by sagarm 11mo ago
> AI ... profits Citation needed. But the vertical integration is likely valuable right now, especially with NVidia being supply constrained.
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by sagarm 11mo ago
I think it's quite clear to anyone paying attention right now that sharing a polity does not mean sharing values and culture.
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by sagarm 11mo ago
Marginal cost of driving is much higher than people think, because they don't count depreciation, maintenance, and insurance. There's a reason the IRS reimbursement rate is $0.70/mi.
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by sagarm 11mo ago
A common misconception; usage fees only covered about 50% of highway-related expenses a few years ago. Feel free to find the latest numbers. This is less than the fare box recovery ratio of many transit systems, though not all. And that, of
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by sagarm 11mo ago
Same here -- except for roads. I'm opposed to all road funding until all drivers follow the letter of the law.
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by sagarm 11mo ago
> extremely ephemeral query workers Reading data from S3 can really add up, so this isn't as straightforward as it seems.
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by sagarm 11mo ago
Did you first ingest/convert this data to some other format, or did you operate directly on the JSON?
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by sagarm 11mo ago
Waymos do seem to have gotten a lot more aggressive.
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by sagarm 11mo ago
Drivers hate enforcement, and they vote.
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by sagarm 11mo ago
Mostly white probably means rural. These are undesirable hospital jobs. There are incentives for doctors to work in underserved areas, like rural hospitals, and those incentives are disproportionately used by J1s. I'd like to point out
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by sagarm 11mo ago
Republicans don't want to remove the filibuster because they want to keep it as a tool when they're in the minority and use it to blame Dems for not doing things while in the majority. Fundamentally, Republicans just want tax brea
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by sagarm 1y ago
Then let Republicans remove the filibuster. They can do it with a simple majority.
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by sagarm 1y ago
There's plenty of room for creativity, and therefore taste, when developing software that meets functional requirements.
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by sagarm 1y ago
You're only taxed on capital gains. For it to be a six figure "loss" implies a minimum of $1M in gains alone. It really is ludicrous how entitled property owners act about their unearned windfalls. Requiring data centers to b
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by sagarm 1y ago
If you want to make an argument, make it here and cite some primary sources.
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by sagarm 1y ago
Eh for a hobbyist it's simpler and more robust to just put a connector on the board or use a test clip. I use clips like these: https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005007622121847.html You can choose your spacing: 1,

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